1 Day 2023

Lviv Eco Forum'23 14.09.2023

• 8:30-9:30

  Registration of participants, morning coffee

• 9:30-10:00

  Official opening of the forum and exhibition. Opening speech

  Spokesmen:

  1. Andrii Sadovyi, Lviv City Mayor 

  2. Dmytro Vankovych, Director of the Lviv City Communal Enterprise “Lvivvodokanal”

  3. Dmytro Novytskyi, President of the Association “Ukrvodokanalekolohiia”

  4. Ulf Kämpfer, President of Verband kommunaler Unternehmen 

  5. Gunda Röstel, Chairwoman of the Management Board of the German Water Partnership e.V.

  6. Sandis Dejus, CEO of the Latvian Water and Wastewater Works Association

• 10:00-11:30

  Water utilities during the war: losses, risks and rehabilitation prospects

  Spokesmen:

  1. Oleksandr Butenko, Deputy Minister of the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine 

  2. Yevhen Pyvovarov, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Centralized Water Supply, Drainage, Heat and Heat Supply of the Committee on Energy, Housing and Utilities Services of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

  3. Ruslan Kaidash, Member of the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Public Utilities

  4. Oleh Harnyk, Expert at the Analytical Center of the All-Ukrainian Association of Local Government Bodies “Association of Ukrainian Cities”

  5. Oleh Hlandchuk, Reform Support Team of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine 

  6. Ihor Hopchak, Deputy Head of the State Water Resources Agency of Ukraine 

  7. Kostiantyn Yefremov, representative of the UNDP project “Development of the Comprehensive System for Online Monitoring of Waterways”

• 11:30-13:30

  Projects of international humanitarian organizations in the field of water supply and sewage utilities of Ukraine

  Spokesmen:

  1. Nicolas Osbert, Head of Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, UNICEF, Ukraine 

  2. Christophe Caens, Coordinator of the Engineering and Technical Department of the ICRC, Ukraine 

  3. Teshager Tefera, Program Manager (WASH) at IOM, Ukraine

  4. Yvonne Josy Mueller, Head of the WASH Reconstruction Department of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine, Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC)

  5. Eoin O’Donnell, Deputy WASH Cluster National Coordinator UNICEF 

  6. Elmar Thyen, founder of the Water4Ukrane initiative, a company of joint utility services in the city of Wuppertal (Germany)

  7. Martin Grambow, Head of the Water Management and Soil Conservation Department at the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection

  8. Matthias Worst, Manager of the Technology Transfer Water Network at the Bavarian Ministry of Environment and Consumer Protection

• 13:30-14:30

  Lunch

• 14:30-17:30

  How to initiate a system upgrade of water utilities. European experience of sustainable transformation

  Spokesmen:

  1. Pavlina Spiller, GIZ Project Advisor, International Platform for Strengthening Utility Partnerships in Water Sector

  2. Gevorg Sargsyan, Head of the World Bank Country Office in Ukraine

  3. Viktor Doroshenko, Head of the Central Project Management Unit of the Second Urban Infrastructure Development Project

  4. Oleksandr Reshetnik, Head of the Department for Municipalities and Public Utilities of JSC Ukreximbank

  5. Volodymyr Kravets, representative of the Association of Water Companies (AVS) of Slovakia

  6. Klaus Homan, CEO of Aarhus Water Utility

  7. Michael Ramlau Hansen, Danish Water Forum

  8. Oleksandr Kravchenko, Director of the “Institute of Communal Infrastructure” LLC