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Question: What do you get if you put the foremost minds in heavy lifting together to discuss the future?

Answer: Some extremely valuable insights into future projects, vessels and innovation

And that’s exactly what you can expect at HEAVY EUROPE 2010.

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You’ll join an impressive panel of Heads of Projects, Construction and Logistics from EPC contractors and operators in energy, oil and gas, and petrochemicals.  And you’ll have unique access to their hopes, fears and insights into the future.

How much bigger and heavier will modules get in the next 20 years? Which locations will become the hot spots for future projects?  Will procedures become smarter and greener than they are now?  What new vessels are on the horizon?

HEAVY EUROPE 2010 is the first conference to tackle these tricky questions. So who can you expect to hear from?

Be challenged to think differently by thought leaders

Here's just a taster of the leading minds who are speaking at HEAVY EUROPE 2010:

• Bill Meyer, Director Project Execution Development, Foster Wheeler USA Corporation
• Thierry Aelans, Head of Projects and Operations, RWE Innogy Cogen Gmbh *Top rated speaker at HEAVY EUROPE 2009*
• Michel van der Kreeft, Director of Construction, JACOBS
• Jens Jakob, Head of Division, Construction Management, Uhde GmbH
• John Huntington, Rigging, Transport & Logistics Manager, Doosan Babcock
• Tom McGarry, Global Logistics Manager, M.W.Kellogg Limited
• Gerhard Jansen, Director, Marketing & Sales, RICKMERS-LINIE GmbH & Cie.KG
• Willo van Berkel, Head of Construction, Operations & Maintenance Division (Belgium and The Netherlands), Fluor
• Jac Weggen, Manager Turn Arounds, Essent Energie Productie BV
• Jan de Visser, Shutdown Manager, Essent Energie Productie BV
• Stephan Bormann, Deputy Managing Director, Sales & Marketing, BARD Holdings GmbH
• Bjarne Birkeland, VP Aker Connector, Aker Solutions
• Alex West, Director Decommissioning and Business Expansion, Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd
• Philip Adkins, CEO, Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V.
• Tue Lippert, Head of DMI Maritime Service, Danish Meteorological Institute
• Steve Dunstan, CMIOSH, Independent Safety Consultant (formerly Company Safety Adviser), British Energy (part of the EDF Energy group)
• Jens Priess, Assistant Vice President, Lawyer, Skuld
• Garry Blowers, Head of Engineering Assurance, GL Noble Denton
• Peter Mackenbach, Senior Principal Surveyor, Det Norske Veritas
• Richard Jennings, Chief Commercial Officer, Euroports

Innovative approaches, future insights and impressive results

• Supersize me! What's the next step for modularisation?
  Plan your next project with the insight you'll gain from Bill Meyer, Director of Project Execution Development, Foster Wheeler USA Corporation who’ll share thoughts on what’s driving modularisation and how the industry can better prepare for what’s round the corner
• Is bigger really better?
  Some of the best brains in the business, including Tom McGarry, M.W.Kellogg Limited, discuss how heavy heavy can, and should, go
• Avoid a permitting and permissions nightmare
  Hear the valuable lessons Udhe GmbH learnt the hard way when the authorities blocked their plans – Jens Jakob will share the best ways they found work with a diverse range of authorities
• It won't fit! Solutions to heavy lifting in confined spaces
  Taking insights from the many revamps they have conducted, Fluor will share some of the best solutions they have found to working in live plants and refineries
• How to save €12m during a routine shutdown
  This case study had everything to contend with – an incident the previous year, a workforce to convince, and even more sceptical authorities – find out how they managed this feat with an entirely innovative approach, saving €12m in the process
• Find out who's got new vessels up their sleeves
  Thierry Aelans gives the latest update on the design and plans for operation of RWE Innogy’s Seabreeze vessels and Aker Solutions, Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd and BARD Holdings GmbH reveal insights in an interactive panel session
• Get the right equipment at the right time
  Discuss solutions with your fellow attendees in the interactive round table discussion addressing equipment shortages
• Designing modules to be easily transported and lifted
  Drawing on insights from work for Shell in Rotterdam, Statoil in Norway and Sabic Polyolefin in Saudi Arabia, JACOBS will share their techniques for getting heavy lift planning going at the component design phase

If this sounds attractive, then you need to block out 28th & 29th September 2010 in your diary and sign up now to get the best rate.

Take a look at the programme for HEAVY EUROPE 2010 to see the full scope of the jam-packed agenda.

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