Actual program for event. Day 1
Moscow Time Zone and Italian Time Zone

10.30 - 11.00    (09.30-10.00) OPENING OF THE FORUM

- Artem Asatur, Co-chair of the Russian Aluminium Association

- Mario Conserva, President of Metef

- Pasquale Terracciano, Italian ambassador in Russia

- Sergey Razov, Russian Ambassador in Italy

- Representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

- Mario Fiorentino, Director for Industrial Policy, Innovation and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises at the Ministry of Economic Development

- Vincenzo Trani, President of the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce (CCIR)

11.00 - 12.50 (10.00-11.50) Session 1: Russia-Italy: Developing the Potential of Investment and Trade Ties in the Aluminium Industry

11.00 - 11.20 (10.00-10.20)  Prospects of the aluminium market in Europe (Cesare Pozzi, Luiss University)

11.20 - 11.30 (10.20-10.30) Current challenges in the era of Industry 4.0. The real potential of the industry for the development of the national economy (Artem Asatur, Russian Aluminium Association)

11.30 - 11.50 (10.30-10.50)  Italy's aluminium industry overview (Danilo Amigoni, President of Centroal)

11.50 - 12.10 (10.50-11.10)  Italy's aluminium foundry sector (Fabio Zanardi, Assofond, President of Zanardi Founderie and Maurizio Sala, CEO of Foundy Ecocer)

12.10 - 12.30 (11.10-11.30) Friction stir welding of aluminum (speaker to be confirmed, Sespel factory)

12.30 – 12.50 (11.30-11.50)  Preparing human capital for the aluminium industry 4.0 (Gabriele Ceselin, General Manager and CEO of AQM)

12.50 - 14.20 (11.50-13.20) Session 2: Creating Synergy

12.50 - 13.10 (11.50-12.10)  Promising aluminium-based materials and products for high-tech industries (Dmitry Ryabov, Director for Science at the Institute of Light Materials and Alloys-ILMIT (RUSAL))

13.10 - 13.30 (12.10-12.30)  New developments of aluminium automotive structural HPDC parts (Riccardo Ferrario, President of Amafond and general manager of Idra Group)

13.30 – 13.50 (12.30-12.50)  Italy-Russia relationship in field of aluminium plant (Antonello Colussi, General Director of Danieli Russia at Danieli Group)

13.50 – 14.10 (12.50-13.10)   Italian extrusions market: the importance of recycled material (Mauro Cibaldi, Member of the board of the Metallurgy Sector of the Confindustria in Brescia)

14.10 - 14.20 (13.10-13.20) Questions & Answers

Break 45 min

14.30 - 16.45 (13.30-15.45) Session 3: Expanding the role of the aluminium industry in the sustainable development

15.05 - 15.20 (14.05-14.20)  Allow - aluminium with a low carbon footprint. Advantages for the global aluminium industry (Olga Krylova, Sustainability and Marketing Manager of RUSAL)

15.20 - 15.40 (14.20-14.40)  Aluminium for circular economy: fostering aluminium consumption (Stefano Stellini, Communication Manager of CIAL - National Aluminium Packaging Consortium)

15.40 – 16.00 (14.40-15.00)  Aluminium and Food: opportunity, problems and prospects (Danilo Amigoni, COO of Baldassare Agnelli Spa)

16.00 - 16.20 (15.00-15.20)  The aluminium industry and the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Gabriele Cirieco, Founder and Managing Director of Strategic Advice)

16.20 - 16.30 (15.20-15.30) Concluding remarks (Mario Conserva, President of Metef)

16.30 - 16.45 (15.30-15.45) Questions and answers