Conference sessions will be held at the Presidents Suite, Aviva Stadium.
| Tuesday 10 June Evening | Welcome Reception | At Herbert Park Hotel |
| Wednesday 11 June | AVIVA STADIUM | |
| 08.30-09.30 | Registration and Coffee | |
| OPENING SESSION | ||
| 09.30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Norbert Beljaars (President, EGGA) David Watkins (Chairman, Galvanizers Association) |
| 09.40 | Galvanizing Industry in Ireland | Ed Byrne, Galco Steel Ltd |
| 10.00 | Serving the galvanizing industry in UK and Ireland | William Smith, Galvanizers Association |
| 10.25 | A business perspective on EU policy developments | Neil Willoughby, EU Office, Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) |
| 11.00 | Coffee Break | |
| GALVANIZING IN ACTION | ||
| 11.30 | Galvanizing the Glucksman | Speaker to be Confirmed |
| 12.00 | Corrosion protection in the renewable energy sector | Birit Buhr, Chief Corrosion Engineer, European Energy A/S (Denmark) |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| GALVANIZING TECHNOLOGY | ||
| 13.45 | New insights in galvanizing of thermally cut steel plates | Kateřina Kreislová, SVUOM Ltd (Czech Republic) |
| 14.15 | Applications of hot dip galvanized steel in bridge overpass construction in Romania | Edward Petzek, SSF Romania Ltd & Politechnical University of Timisoara (Romania) |
| 14.45 | PANEL DEBATE: COMMUNICATING SUSTAINABILITY, CIRCULARITY AND DURABILITY Short presentations and panel | |
| 15.30 | Coffee Break | |
| GALVANIZED STEEL PRODUCTS – DECLARING PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY | ||
| 15.50 | The new CPR – what is means for galvanizers | Murray Cook & Valerio Mazzone, EGGA |
| 16.20 | Declaring environmental sustainability performance under the Construction Products Regulation: the new role and responsibilities of the Notified Bodies | Katja Vahtikari , Manager, Construction Certification, Eurofins Expert Services (Finland) |
| 16.50 | Sustainability assessment at building level | Speaker to be confirmed |
| 17.15 | Close | |
| Evening | Conference Dinner | At Guinness Storehouse |
| Thursday 12 June | ||
| 08.30-09.30 | Coffee and Networking | |
| CIRCULARITY OF ZINC | ||
| 09.30 | Primary proposal for the semi-operational implementation of bottom dross recycling | Ing. Katarína Pauerová, Institute of recycling and environmental technologies, Faculty of materials, metallurgy and recycling, Technical University of Košice (Slovakia) |
| 09.50 | Zinc recycling for a responsible & sustainable future | Dieter Stulens, Rezinal NV (Belgium) |
| 10.15 | PANEL DEBATE: DECARBONISATION IN THE GALVANIZING INDUSTRY & OTHER PROCESS TECHNOLOGY UPDATES Short presentations and panel | |
| 10.55 | Coffee Break | |
| TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT | ||
| 11.20 | Understanding additive manufacturing of steel components and future implications for galvanizing | Barbara Rossi, University of Oxford (UK) |
| 11.50 | Comparative experimental analysis of local buckling in mild and high-strength steel CHS subjected to various galvanizing techniques | Drilon Gubetini, Research Associate at the Chair of Metal Structures, Technical University of Munich (Germany) |
| 12.20 | Summary Remarks | Norbert Beljaars (President, EGGA) |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| Plant Visits Depart (Group 1, 2 and 3) | Buses depart from Aviva stadium | |
