DAY 1: TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY:

11:00 Lunch / Registration 12:00 B2B event 13:30 Mayor’s welcome Rune Rafaelsen, Mayor of Sør-Varanger Opening address 13:40 , Minister of Local Government and Modernisation () Dialogue about the new region in the North 14:00 Jan Tore Sanner Ragnhild Vassvik, County Mayor of Finnmark Willy Ørnebakk, Chair of the Troms County Government 14:30 Part 1: Sustainable Resource Utilisation Aquaculture towards 2050 Anton Giæver, Deputy Director, Akvaplan Niva Norway’s new wind power master Terje Skansen, CEO, Varanger Kraft The green shift meets future mineral requirements Elisabeth Gammelsæter, Secretary-General, Norwegian Mining Industry A tourism industry with sustainable growth Tarja Manninen, General Manager Inari-Saariselke Tourist Board Balancing value creation with the environment Silje Ask Lundberg, Chair, Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature 15:20 Debate involving speakers 16:00 Short break 16:20 Part 2: Barents Sea South-East

Oil and gas activities follow the Gulf Stream eastwards Siri Espedal Kindem, Senior Vice President for Operations North, Statoil Concept development with focus on sustainability, locally and nationally

Jorunn Kvaale, HSEQ Director, AkerBP Synergies in a seamless Barents Sea Halfdan Millang, Managing Director, Rosneft Nordic Oil Managing transboundary environmental threats Kirsti Slotsvik, Director General, Norwegian Coastal Administration

Joint research, joint knowledge. An example of transboundary cooperation to be followed Geir Huse, Director of Research, Institute of Marine Research 17:10 Debate involving speakers 17:45 Summing up 19:30 Mingling dinner DAY 2: WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY:

8:30 Part 1: Logistics Hub Barents Infrastructure needs in the Barents of the future Martti Hahl, Director, Promaco Chinese interests in the Barents Region Captain Cai Meijiang, COSCO Activity and development of the Northern Sea Route Evgeniy Ambrosov, Senior Executive Vice-President, COO Sovcomflot The EU’s perspective of infrastructure and connection with the North Michael Cramer, Member of the EU Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism

10:00 Break 10:30 Part 2: Diverse Capital Economy, knowledge, technology and policy Prerequisites for economic growth in the north Øystein Dørum, Chief Economist, NHO Status and competence requirements in the Northern Cap Guillaume Lecaros de Cossio, OECD

How will we meet the challenges and needs for education in the north? Anne Husebekk, Headmaster The University of Tromsø

Technology as a prerequisite, opportunity and threat Janne Mustonen, Key Account Director, ICT Business Oulu Important regional policy areas as seen from Finnmark Ragnhild Vassvik, County Mayor of Finnmark Important regional policy areas as seen from Murmansk Aleksey Tyukavin, Vice Governor of Murmansk Oblast 12:00 Lunch 13:00 The Strategic Barents Opening Address Ine Marie Eriksen-Søreide, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway) Strategic infrastructure in the North: Barentshavn Kirkenes Ketil Solvik-Olsen, Minister of Transport and Communications (Norway) The Barents Region as a logistics hub Anne Berner, Minister of Transport and Communications (Finland) Traffic volumes of the future in the North Sergey Aristov, Deputy Minister of Transport (Russian Federation) The Barents Region is a central part of Arctic policy Marie-Anne Coninsx, EU Ambassador at Large of the Arctic The balance between international and regional High North policy Anniken Huitfeldt, Norwegian MP and Chair of Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence 15:30 Break 16:00 Political question time 17:00 Summing up 18:00 Opening Barents Spektakle

19:00 Opening concert / mingling

20:30 Anniversary dinner – 25th anniversary of The Barents Cooperation DAY 3: THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY:

8:30 Perspectives of the future Barents Cooperation

The Barents cooperation for 25 years Torvald Stoltenberg in conversation with Siri Lill Mannes

The Sami perspective of the Barents Region Gunn-Britt Retter, Head of the Arctic and Environment Unit, Saami Council Dialogue and diplomacy as a basis for development TBC The pulse in Russia Morten Jentoft, NRK’s Foreign Correspondent in Russia

10:15 Summing up