Agenda

Senior Vice President and Head of Front End Sales, HV Solutions,  NKT

Managing Director,  DUCAB

Construction Market Expert,  Euroconstruct

Michael Weingärtler analyses European construction market trends for over 15 years as member of the strategic group of EUROCONSTRUCT, Europe‘s leading construction market forecasting network. He is contributing to construction related magazines and is holding lectures for national and international business events. Additionally, he is consultant for public goods at ISA (Institute of Strategic Analysis).

Business Development Director,  ER-Telecom

CEO,  INCAB

Aleksandr Smilgevich was Founder and General Director of Bit-Telecom between 2002 and 2011. Between 2006-2008,  he was Innovation Director at ER-Telecom. Since 2006 he has been INCAB’s Founder and General Director. Furthermore between 2012 to 2014 Mr Smilgevich was Head of Telecom Cables Sector for the International Association “Elektrokabel”.

Industrial Analyst,  Credit Suisse

Max Yates works on the Credit Suisse Industrials Equity research team focusing specifically on the Resources, Cables, Marine and Healthcare equipment sub-segments. He has seven years of experience working as a financial analyst looking at both developed market and emerging market companies. Specifically, on the cables he has written detailed reports on consolidation trends in Cables and the Submarine cable market structure and covers related companies, Prysmian and Nexans. He graduated with a degree in History from Trinity College Dublin.”

Internet of Things and Smart City Strategist,  TDC Group
Søren Nørgaard Madsen earned an  M.Sc. Urbanism and Strategic Planning from the University of Copenhagen. 
He has a background in Urban Planning where he has worked in several ministries and municipalities. Søren Nørgaard Madsen has extensive experience in developing urban development strategies including smart city strategy. Søren has been the initiator of the capital's two largest smart city projects, Copenhagen Solutions Lab (Program Manager) and City Data Exchange platform. In TDC business, Søren continues the work with public customers and developing smart city strategies. The area has been designated as a "Must Winn Battle" by TDC's top management.
Søren is a member of TDC Erhvervs Internet of Things core team, which also works with private clients as well as private companies.

Principal Consultant,  CRU

Zaid joined Consulting’s Aluminium and Copper desk in January 2017, bringing extensive experience from the aluminium and nonferrous metals industry. Prior to CRU, Zaid spent more than six years in the Middle East working for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), where he led the market research unit and held various positions within marketing and sales, corporate strategy and finance. He previously worked in London for several years for a number of commodity-focused consultants as an analyst, where he also managed the precious and base metals research unit at Diapason Commodities Management. He began his commodities research career in 2002 as a global energy economist with AUPEC, an oil and gas consultancy firm.Zaid holds an MA with honours in Economic Science from the University of Aberdeen and an MSc in Economics from the University of Amsterdam. Zaid is fluent in Arabic and French.

Head of Department - Power Lines,  Energinet

Johannes Stentoft Clausen has been  working with Cable projects at Energinet for the last five years. For the last two years, as Head of Department, Power Lines. Prior to that, Johannes was Project Manager on  Kriegers Flak OWF Cable project as well as on the Anholt OWF Exportcable repair. He has been responsible for several cable procurement projects and has been leading the initiative on having the first 132-150 kV frame agreement at Energinet. Prior to his employment at Energinet, he has been working in a ranges of positions in the power equipment  supplier market, and in connection with this been working in the global wind market since the year 2000.

 

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European Product Manager Fire Safety,  Nexans

Dario graduated in Engineering at Politecnico of Milano.
He is involved in Marketing and Product Development of cables of leading International Companies since 1995 and participated and coordinated various Europacable WGs dealing with CPD/CPR since year 2000. He is currently the Convenor of the Europacable WG CPR Communication.

Technical Director,  BASEC

,  CRU

,  Fujikura Europe Ltd.

Managing Director,  Cablo

Managing Director,  Cablo

Managing Director,  Europejski Instytut Miedzi Sp. z o.o.

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Deputy of General Director,  Russian Cable Research and Development Institute (VNIIKP)

Vitaly Meshchanov is Deputy General Director of Russian Cable Research and Development Institute (VNIIKP), Moscow. He has over 30 years’ experience in cable industry. He started in 1987 as foreman at the cable factory Electroprovod and after 7 years working in several management positions at the company he continued his career with Nokia-Maillefer (then Nextrom), working as Project Manager, Sales Manager. He was Head of the Russian representative office of Maillefer for more than 15 years. In 2017 he joined VNIIKP as Deputy of General Director with responsibility for business development and international affairs. He holds an Engineering degree from Moscow Power University in specialization of cable and insulation engineering. During his career he graduated different courses and trainings including SDA  Bocconi (Milan).        

Manager of Statistical Analysis,  International Copper Study Group

Shairaz Ahmed is the Manager of Statistical Analysis at the International Copper Study Group in Lisbon. He has been with the Study Group since 2014. His responsibilities include the preparation of the industry-renowned Monthly Copper Bulletin, Directory of Copper Mines & Plants, World Copper Factbook and providing ICSG’s macroeconomic forecasts.

Shairaz holds more than ten years’ of experience in base metals research. Prior to joining the ICSG, he worked for commodity consultancy’s CRU and Thomson Reuters GFMS in London as a Senior Analyst.

Shairaz read Economics & Geography from Queen Mary University of London in 2007 and holds an MSc in Financial Markets & Derivatives from London Metropolitan Business School in which he achieved a Distinction.

Presentation Description

Shairaz will be giving a presentation on ICSG’s findings based on the latest Directory of Copper Mines & Plants. The Directory provides current and a five-year outlook of capacity for over 1,200 existing and planned copper mines, smelters and refineries on a country by country basis, including SX-EW plants. The Directory separates operations between Operating & Developing and Exploration & Feasibility stages.

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CEO,  INCAB

Aleksandr Smilgevich was Founder and General Director of Bit-Telecom between 2002 and 2011. Between 2006-2008,  he was Innovation Director at ER-Telecom. Since 2006 he has been INCAB’s Founder and General Director. Furthermore between 2012 to 2014 Mr Smilgevich was Head of Telecom Cables Sector for the International Association “Elektrokabel”.

Business Development Director,  ER-Telecom

European Product Manager Fire Safety,  Nexans

Dario graduated in Engineering at Politecnico of Milano.
He is involved in Marketing and Product Development of cables of leading International Companies since 1995 and participated and coordinated various Europacable WGs dealing with CPD/CPR since year 2000. He is currently the Convenor of the Europacable WG CPR Communication.

Technical Director,  BASEC