Blue Invest in the Mediterranean 2019
Malta, 24 January 2019
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Agenda
08:45 – 09:10Registration & Welcome Coffee09:10 – 09:15Opening
Spyros Kouvelis, Moderator
09:15 – 09:20Welcome Address
Helene Dalli - Maltese Minister EU Affaires and Equality
09:20 – 09:30Keynote Speech
Karmenu Vella, EU Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affaires and Fisheries
09:30 – 09:40Introductory Address
Emma Navarro, Vice President European Investment Bank
09:40 – 10:301st Pitching Session: Food from the Sea
Companies:
- Telecapeche
10:30 – 10:50Boosting financing of the Blue Economy: four perspectives
- Andrea Liverani, World Bank
- Miguel Garcia Herraiz, Union for the Mediterranean
- Darko Manakovski, RARE
- Petros Kokkalis, Blue Growth Hub Piraeus
10:50 – 11:20Coffee and Networking Breakmaking11:20 – 12:002nd Pitching Session: Green Navigation
Companies:
12:00 – 12:20Interview: two sides of the same coin
- "The investor's perpective"- Andrew Smith - Greenbackers/ Deja Blue
- "The entrepreneur's perspective" - Clara Barthelemy- Vertigo Lab/ Blue Seeds
12:20 – 13:20Lunch and Networking BreakMatchmaking13:20 – 13:30“i-Training for Blue Careers”
Ahmed Youssef, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
13:30 – 14:103rd Pitching Session: Blue Energy and Clean Waters
Companies:
14:10 – 14:20“Med Youth for Water Network”
Baya Aissaoui, INOGS Italia
14:20 – 14:504th Pitching session: Green and Smart Coasts
Companies:
14:50 – 15:00Concluding remarks by moderator15:00 – 17:00"Speed dating" slot