DGINS 2023 - Day 1 Programme (18 October)
Registration (08:00h - 08:50h)
Clayton Hotel, Lapps Quay, Cork City
Eircode: T12 RD6E
08:00h
08:15h
Pre-Conference Networking
Tea/coffee on arrival
Conference Opening Session (9h - 10:10h)
Session Chair: Georges-Simon Ulrich (Director General, Switzerland)
Introduction: Mariana Kotzeva (Director General, Eurostat)
Opening Addresses: (Video Message)
Michael McGrath, TD (Minister for Finance of Ireland) / Paolo Gentiloni (European Commissioner for Economy)
Setting the Scene: Pádraig Dalton (Director General, Ireland)
Keynote speaker: Viveka Palm (Director for the Department of Sectoral and Regional Statistics, Eurostat) – see bio
Topic: Stock-taking – Lessons from the Climate statistics review and Action plan statistics for the European Green Deal
09:00h
10:10h
Morning Break (10:10h - 10:30h)
Tea/coffee, croissants, fruit, etc.
Session 1 (10:30h - 12:15h)
Data Demands
Session Chair/Panel Moderator: Angelique Berg (Director General, Netherlands)
Keynote speaker: Jim Scheer (Head of Data and Insights SEAI) – see bio
Topic: Building a climate analysis system with statistics.
Identifying what is driving demand – Green Deal, Paris Accords, COP, SDGs. What needs are being met, what is not being met, identifying data gaps at household, commercial and industrial levels.
How do we build awareness and link demands to tangible supports for statistical production, e.g. resources, data access? Are there any good examples of where this has been achieved?
Panel Discussion. Panellists:
Francisco Lima (Director General, Portugal)
Marek Rojíček (Director General, Czechia)
Lidija Brković (Director General, Croatia)
10:30h
12:15h
Lunch (12:15h - 13:30h) incl. group photograph
The Restaurant (Clayton Hotel)
Session 2 (13:30h - 15:15h)
Data Sources
Session Chair/Panel Moderator: Etienne Caruana (Director General, Malta)
Keynote speaker: Gerry Brady (Senior Statistician, Environment and Climate, CSO Ireland) – see bio
Topic: “Feasible Transition” – how do we measure the citizen’s capacity to be able to respond?
What government subsidies are being provided to enable citizen choice? Identifying, accessing and using high value environmental data sets, in particular beyond traditional, primary, data sources. Identifying and addressing challenges such as consequences of public/private data ownership, opportunities and challenges, how to ensure comparability across countries.
Panel Discussion. Panellists:
Dominik Rozkrut (Director General, Poland)
Markus Sovala (Director General, Finland)
Deirdre Mahony (Assistant Director General, CSO, Ireland)
Patrick Lusyne (Belgium)
13:30h
15:15h
Afternoon Break (15:15h - 15:35h)
Tea/coffee, snacks, etc.
Reflections on Day 1 (15:35h - 16:45h)
Session Chair/Panel Moderator: Jean-Luc Tavernier (Data Steward, France)
Panel Discussion. Panellists:
Georges-Simon Ulrich (Director General, Switzerland)
Angelique Berg (Director General, Netherlands)
Etienne Caruana (Director General, Malta)
15:35h
16:45h