[Keynote] Building a Transatlantic SMR Ecosystem: Czech-UK Partnership, Industrial Opportunities, and the Future of Clean Energy

·      Roadmap: uniting UK innovation & Czech nuclear excellence

·       Local growth with global impact: Czech steel, engineering, and R&D with Rolls-Royce’s UK factories

·       Safety reviews and site works at Temelín, Dětmarovice, and Tušimice

·       A network of 10+ SMRs, alongside Dukovany’s new large-scale reactors

CEZ, Czech Republic

Chief Nuclear Officer

[Keynote] SMRs: Promise or Peril? Balancing Speed, Safety, Partnerships and Public Trust in the UK’s Nuclear Ambitions

·       UK's policy alignment, competitive selection, and transatlantic collaboration

·       GBN’s selection process, regulatory milestones, GDA streamlining, and lessons for other nations

·       RR-SMR’s UK/Czech model, supply chain synergies, and regulatory firsts

·       Tackles risks like financing, delays, community concerns head-on and risk mitigation

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), United Kingdom

·     Romania’s pioneering role, NuScale collaboration, and attracting billions in US and EU Investment

·      Coal-to-nuclear transition, job creation, and the flagship VOYGR-6 plant

·      The first and second FEED experiences and lessons learnt for Doicești Project

·      Regulatory milestones, IAEA approval, and US financial/technical support

RoPower Nuclear (RO), Romania

Chief Operating Officer, New Build SMR

Community Engagement Models & Multi-Sector SMR Applications in EU Member States During Nuclear Transition

●   Regional demand aggregation: Phasing out coal (Czech/Polish "Phoenix Initiative") & industrial energy use (data centers, hydrogen, chemicals), off-grid power, and aviation/shipping

●   UK, Romania's practice on decarbonizing AI data centers: current progress

●   Financial leverage: is the U.S. EXIM Bank’s loan model for Romania replicable?

●   Overcoming NIMBYism in SMR siting: turning opponents into stakeholders

●   Energy democratization in SMRs: how can communities, industry, and policymakers jointly develop the roadmap?

●   District heating projects: lessons from Finland and Sweden

[Keynote] Breaking the SMR Deadlock: Speed, Safety, and Funding – Where’s the Regulatory Sweet Spot?

         ·      Are current rules overly conservative for smaller, passive-safety SMR designs? How overregulation in nuclear worsens SMR financing and higher cost, and referenceable solutions

            ·       Regulation, funding, public acceptance, supply chain… What’s the biggest SMR roadblock? 

·       Canada’s "One Project, One Review" system, UK’s "Flexible Permitting", and harmonization between all the European Union countries

·       Can "first-of-a-kind" (FOAK) risk-sharing models (e.g., EU’s "Contracts for Difference") help?

·       AI-driven safety assessment (like in NuScale’s design) and other techologies to cut review times

Rolls-Royce SMR 

Group Head of Supply Chain

              ·       Current focus: Six priority sites with 600MW targeted by 2035

·       Replicable model: Industry consortia + phased regulatory approvals

·       From Site Screening to Cross-Border Supply Chains: The BWRX-300 Case Study

·      Quotes from OSGE's Kasprów and GEH's Sexstone on collaborative advantage

Mariusz Ilnicki

ORLEN Synthos Green Energy (OSGE), Poland

SMR Development Expert

Hans Gripenberg

Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK), Finland

Senior Inspector

       s  Divergent technology pathways in EU's 'Nine SMR Projects' (LFR, HTR vs. LWR)

s  How to mitigate investment risks in Europe's fragmented regulatory landscape

s Localization opportunities for European manufacturers (pressure vessels, instrumentation, etc.)

s  Case study: Poland’s OSGE model for vendor consolidation

s  Retraining traditional energy workers for nuclear

[Keynote] Digital-twin

Open for Sponsor

Keynote: Fueling Europe's SMR Ambitions: The HALEU Bottleneck

·       Timeline gaps: First EU SMRs (2028+) vs. fuel infrastructure delays

·       Urenco's limited EU enrichment capacity compares with Russia's TENEX historically supplied 30% of Western HALEU

·       Technical solutions emerging and the subsidy race

·       Harmonizing fuel approvals across ENSREG members

Urenco

Bridging the Gap: Aligning SMR Deployment with Europe's Nuclear Waste Management Realities 

●  Technology-specific waste profiles: Water-cooled SMRs, HTGRs, Fast Reactors, Molten Salt, etc.

●  Cross-border waste transport agreements and co-located storage solutions

●  Early design imperatives: Integrating waste pathways during licensing, Digital twin simulations

Juraj Václav

Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic (ÚJD SR)

Director Division of Nuclear Materials

Research Reactors Without Borders: How AMR Programs Are Shaping the Future of Nuclear Industry and Talent Pipelines

● How AMRs are revolutionizing the field: accessibility, safety & innovation, collaboration

● Bridging the nuclear talent gap: engaging students, uniting borders, and partnering for the future

● A call for investment: how public and private partnerships can accelerate mobile nuclear tech

● Bridging theory and practice: integrating AMRs into modern nuclear education

● Case studies in excellence: the NRC and IAEA blueprints for AMR success

     ● Classroom to control room: VR-Enabled AMR education

·  GIF’s role in shared R&D (13 nations, 6 reactor types)

·  Game-changing technical status: high-temp applications, fuel efficiency & waste reduction, inherent safety designs

·  Private-sector innovation

·  UK’s £160M CPF program and lessons for other countries

GIF

Laban Coblentz

ITER Organization

Managing Head of Communication