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00:08Welcome to Paris. Welcome to Paris, to the first segregation of the second century of our
00:17association. You are more than 3,700 delegates coming from 95 countries and I have to say it
00:26is a breaking record. We have never had so many countries represented on our session. So thank
00:34you for that. I would also like to thank our exhibitors. You are more than 300 exhibitors
00:43including 20 startups and I would like to thank those startups who dare joining this session for
00:51the first time and we hope you will enjoy the session and that you will become our next exhibitors.
00:58Finally, I would like to thank our members. You are more than 17,000 members of Seagree
01:07and because you have renewed your membership during the pandemics, it was possible for Seagree
01:14not only to survive but also to develop new services, new platforms. And thank you for that.
01:24Thank you to all for joining us and I hope you will enjoy the session.
01:43My guest didn't have a long journey to join us. I'm glad to receive the president of the French
01:49National Committee. Hi. Hi. You've been president for a year and a half now. How was your integration
01:57into this new world? And maybe tell us what's so special with the French Committee?
02:03First of all, Seagree is already my family since many years. I've been spending my whole career in the
02:08T&D industry supplying products and systems to utilities. So it has been really for me an honor
02:14and a pleasure to become the president of the French National Seagree. Now, the French National Seagree
02:22Committee has a drawback of being based in France, where the Seagree was actually created.
02:27So it is not as active as it should have been and it's our target to make it much more
02:32active
02:32looking forward. So this is your main job now? Yes. Your vision is also about creating a mixture
02:39within the members. What are the main projects that you've been leading since your arrival? We've
02:51the members of the French National Committee, the Seagree members. We talked about energy climate,
02:59energy transition due to the climate and also how to address these changes by cross-functional approaches.
03:06So what we tried to bring to our members was the view how to build this cross-functional expertise
03:13in order to address those challenges and looking forward at what we want to continue to do in the
03:18months and years to come. Talking about challenges, what are the main challenges that France is facing
03:25right now about energy transition? First of all, like many other countries,
03:32there will be no energy transition without a very big reinforcement of the energy transmission
03:40networks. So the French Transmission System Operator has built already a number of scenarios
03:48and within 2023, I think the final scenario should be selected and for sure it will require a full
03:56alignment of all the actors of the T&D industry, not only in France but across the world, I would
04:02say,
04:03to answer to this scenario. What are your expectations about this session?
04:09As always, it is and that very strength of Seagree together in the same forum actors from so many
04:17different origins, the utilities, the vendors, the consulting engineers, the NGOs or all other bodies so that we can
04:26exchange and contribute together to build better energy transition and ultimately a better humanity.
04:34Thanks a lot for coming by. Thank you.
04:45I'm really glad to receive the Chairman of the National Committee of Kosovo. Hi Franva. Hi.
04:51Let's talk about Women in Energy. It started because of the low number of women participants
04:59at Seagree, currently about 8%. You are leading Women in Energy in Kosovo. Why does an organization
05:06like Seagree need more women? Well, the energy sector globally was perceived and tailored for men,
05:14men working in mining, men working in generation. But now as we see more renewable energy, a project
05:20being developed. We see interest of women being, you know, involved in the sector and working on
05:27developing the renewable energy. And we call it energy transition. It does include other women who are
05:35not engineers. But women in engineering is present everywhere. And Seagree has given a platform for women
05:43engineering to try to boost their presence and try to find a better way on how to have more women
05:51in the sector and increase this number that you mentioned. And it is like a stand-down. It is changing
05:57all over the world. It's changing all over the world and depends how much countries want to invest
06:03in that. And there are some countries that want to invest more in programs for women involvement. And
06:10some countries are still waiting for the best practices to do that. So we hope with the Seagree
06:17involvement and Seagree presence, we will be in the position to show the best cases and attract them
06:23to work more on these women in energy programs. Talking about best practices, you yourself participated
06:29as a role model on a program that can be scalable all over the world. Can you tell us more
06:35about it
06:35to inspire us? It was a program that we have from the 120 women, actually girls, we have selected 26
06:46to
06:46go in a two years program in the US to study energy related programs and courses. And all of them
06:54came back
06:55after two years. And all of them are employed in the energy sector, some of them in the private sector,
07:00some in the public sector. And the project is very scalable and very measurable because we see them
07:10every day working, being employed. Exactly. And we see them on TV and we present them as the next members
07:17of Seagree National Committee. So this is the added value of Seagree being a role model for women in energy.
07:25And you are still following them. You are still in contact with them. I'm mentoring. Even I went to see
07:30them in America while they were studying. So I was very happy to be a part of the whole process.
07:36Of course. From being a role model to now mentoring and in a way taking care on how they are,
07:43you know,
07:44working, what are they doing, whether they are pursuing further studies. I do that as well.
07:48And it's not only about like young girls. We need to the young generation to join Seagree at NGN.
07:57How do you manage to attract them to become members of your national committee?
08:03Well, we are very present on LinkedIn and Facebook and we go and visit collective members and we tell
08:10them about, you know, the possibilities Seagree is giving, not only through Women in Energy but NGN,
08:17New Generation Networking. And we try to attract them and ask them to prepare papers and come to Seagree
08:24and be present. And when they are present here, then they see, you know, what is being done and they
08:30want
08:30to come. But one thing that is hindering our engineers, young engineers, is that they don't have
08:37freedom of movement. So they need visa. So this is something that, you know, at the moment we cannot
08:42help. But we hope that through their engagement, we will achieve even that. They will come and we
08:50will have them in person here in Seagree.
08:54And you will tell them all about Paris Session.
08:57I will tell them all about Seagree. When I come back here, I will organize a briefing
09:02and I'll tell them about Paris Session with all these pictures and TV interview.
09:07Yes. Thank you. Thank you for coming by.
09:09Thank you so much. Thank you so much for being here.
09:43Let's welcome a very active National Committee, Spain. Hola.
09:47Hi. You host the Seagree Days in Spain every two years, which gathers more than 400 people. You also
09:55organize more like technical conferences. Can you talk about these events and your full calendar of
10:02events? Yes, we organize a three-day event. It is very large. It involves all the study committees.
10:11That is all the technical knowledge domains in Seagree. And we also, as you said, organize smaller
10:21events like workshops, seminars and that kind of things that are more focused on specific themes.
10:29The idea is to spread the knowledge of Seagree that is generated within the working groups. The working
10:36groups are really the engine of Seagree. And it's like real to create an ecosystem of innovation.
10:43Exactly. Yes. As our former president, Dr. Stephen, used to say, Seagree gives you twice what you give.
10:53And it is a perfect ecosystem because the people can access to the learnings and the experiences worldwide.
11:02And they can apply these learnings to their particular cases and then improve them and even look at them at
11:11different angles and give feedback again to this community.
11:15So they will keep on rolling. Talking about exchange, your national committee is also part of the so-called Seagree
11:25region, together with South American and Portugal.
11:28Tell us more about that. Yeah, exactly. This is the REAC, the region of Ibero-American countries.
11:35Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, also Portugal and Spain. These are countries with similar interests and concerns.
11:49And we have almost the same language and we enable the people to access to our global community in Seagree.
12:02Brazil, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Jor Iberto, Barcelona, Colombia, Israel, for Mass No
12:02города. Your own involvement starting in 1999 and you've been president of the National Committee and member of the steering
12:09committee since 2018.
12:12What were the reasons behind becoming a CIGRE member and accepting this position, despite
12:18your own professional commitments?
12:20Yeah, but the involvement in CIGRE is also good for the companies.
12:27Yes, I've been for a long time in CIGRE, but it is good for the companies and for the individuals,
12:35both in a professional way and also in a personal way, so I recommend joining CIGRE.
12:41The message is done.
12:43Have a great session.
12:44Thank you so much, Alice.
12:55We are thrilled to welcome Michael Hayek.
12:58Hi.
12:59Hello.
13:00You are the Vice President Finance and Treasurer of CIGRE.
13:03You have served CIGRE as a U.S. National Committee President from 2011 to 2016 and then served
13:12at the steering committee and administrative council since 2016.
13:17You now sell these bodies as a CIGRE treasure.
13:21So you have witnessed the evolution of CIGRE from different perspectives.
13:26What were the most important changes for CIGRE in the last years and especially in the last
13:33couple of years during COVID?
13:36That's a great question.
13:38Everyone wants to know how we got through COVID.
13:41But we started in 2017 with a marketing campaign which created a digital platform.
13:48And it's the digital platform that kept us relevant when everyone's in their basements with COVID.
13:55So CIGRE survived and is relevant.
13:59And we also had our 100th year anniversary in the virtual Centennial session, which was an extraordinary
14:06event virtual across the world.
14:09But it was because of our digital platform.
14:11How did you manage during this session the financial loss?
14:15What actions have been put forward to maintain financial stability during this world war crisis?
14:23Treasurers before me created a cash reserves in case we did not have a Paris session.
14:31So we were ready for that.
14:34And we're a little low right now, but the 2022 Paris session is a record event.
14:42So our cash reserves are going to be replenished.
14:45And I'm very happy about that as treasurer.
14:47The number of new CIGRE members is increasing more and more over the world.
14:53What were the strategic decisions taken by CIGRE to grow membership through the pandemics and in the future, of course?
15:01Well, certainly technical relevance in the energy transition is very important.
15:08But the digital platform enabled us to open up a gateway.
15:12And that gateway allows anyone from a smartphone to join CIGRE from anywhere in the world through their national committee.
15:21So that allowed us to grow.
15:24That gateway alone just started and we got nearly a thousand members through that.
15:29So we're growing very quickly.
15:31Right now only a third international committees are on and we're going to get them aboard before the end of
15:37this session.
15:38We understand that you are convening a CIGRE task force to update the strategic plan.
15:43What will be CIGRE, what will become in the decades coming and beyond, of course?
15:52Yeah, the strategic plan, actually we had one since 2018, but we're updating it.
15:57The energy transition is important.
16:00Our technical foundation is important and we need to be very relevant.
16:05We can't be three years behind.
16:07We actually need to be three years ahead.
16:09And that is very extraordinary for our technical council.
16:13From a membership perspective, providing services, providing publications, providing articles is very important in that technical foundation.
16:22But the most important thing that we've did to enable us to scale is our digital platform.
16:29Because the digital platform only costs X and if we have more members, it's less X per member.
16:37So that is allowing us to scale very substantially.
16:41So I'm pretty pleased on what our team has done and what the administrative council has enabled for us.
16:48Thank you for coming by today and have a great session.
16:52My pleasure.
16:54Take care.
17:02Take care.
17:18Bye.
17:30Bye.
17:32Bye.