CONFERENCE AGENDA
12. June 2022
| 13.00h | Registration |
| 13.15h | Welcome Ingo Bleier, Member of the Management Board, Erste Group Bank AG |
| 13.20h | Keynote Hans Buysse, Administrative Board President, EFRAG Keynote - ESG is based on Megatrends and not Theory Fritz Mostböck, Head of Research, Erste Group Bank AG "ESG is based on Megatrends and not Theory" |
| 13.40 - 14.25h | Panel 1 - Impact of energy crisis on Path to Paris – short-term nuisance, accelerated or delayed transformation? Panellists Sven Gentner, Head of unit for corporate reporting, audit and credit rating agencies, DG FISMA, European Commission Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bond Initiative Szilvia Gólya,Senior Consultant ESG, OTP Bank PLC Walter Hatak, Head of Responsible Investments, Erste AM Moderator Wolfgang Wainig, Managing Partner, FREIBANKER |
| 14.30 - 15.15h | Panel 2 - Is further regulation needed or gold plating already preventing implementation? Panellists Patrick de Cambourg, Sustainability Reporting Board Chair, EFRAG Gabriel Marosi, Head of Group ESG Office, Erste Group Bank AG Harald Hagenauer, Head of Investor Relations, Corporate Sustainability & Group Auditing, Österreichische Post Kasper Hanus, PhD, Senior Sustainability Manager, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Moderator Wolfgang Wainig, Managing Partner, FREIBANKER |
| 15.15h | Break |
| 15.45 - 16.30h | Panel 3 - Regulation of ESG ratings: can harmonisation bring more clarity or limit diversity of opinions? Panellists Elisabeth Van Laere, Head of CRA Unit, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) Carmen Muñoz, Managing Director and Global Head of Resources, Sustainable Fitch René Nicolodi, Head of Equities & Themes, Zürcher Kantonalbank Moderator Wolfgang Wainig, Managing Partner, FREIBANKER |
| 16.35 - 17.20h | Panel 4 - Will non-financial disclosure become as important as financial? Will it measure tangible impact and prevent green-washing? Panellists Willem van Golstein Brouwers, Associate Director of Methodology & Product Architecture, Morningstar Sustainalytics Claire Dugan, Senior Manager of Standards, Global Reporting Initiative Werner Stockreiter, Territory Assurance Leader and member of the Management Board, PwC Austria Moderator Wolfgang Wainig, Managing Partner, FREIBANKER |
| 17.20h | Concluding remarks Wolfgang Wainig, Managing Partner, FREIBANKER in conversation with Lucas Gnehm, Debt Capital Markets, Erste Group Bank AG |
| 17.35h | Keynote - CLIMATE CHANGE – Facts versus Fake & Fiction Marcus Wadsak, Meteorologist, ORF |
| 18.15h onwards | Barbecue for participants and panellists, Garden Deck, Erste Campus |
