08:00 - 09:00 Registration

Location: Marina Mandarin Singapore

09:00 - 10:00 Opening Session

Speakers:

• Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
• Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security, Singapore

Chair:

• Alice Rogoff, Publisher, Alaska Dispatch; Chair of the Arctic Circle Advisory Board

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Session 1: Governance of Northern Sea Routes

Speakers:

• Mead Treadwell, President, Pt Capital, Former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska
• Else Berit Eikeland, Senior Arctic Official of Norway
• Vitaly Klyuev, Director of Maritime and River Transport, Russian Ministry of Transport

Panelists:

• Georg Lárusson, Director of the Icelandic Coast Guard
• Captain Muhammad Segar, Assistant Chief Executive, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore

Chair:

• Robert Beckman, Director, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:15 Session 2

13:30 - 14:15 Session 2 - Part I: The Future of Arctic Infrastructure

Speakers:

• Hafsteinn Helgason, Chief Representative of the Icelandic-German Finnafjörður Harbour Project; Director of Business Development, EFLA Consulting Engineers
• Cynthia Wang, Arctic Program Manager, Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre
• Thomas Mack, President, Aleut Corporation

Chair:

• Dagfinnur Sveinbjörnsson, CEO, Arctic Circle 

14:15 - 15:15 Session 2 - Part II: Public-Private Partnership and the Arctic Investment Protocol

Keynote:

• Scott Minerd, Global Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Partners

Panelists:

• Paul Arthur Berkman, Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
• Svend Hardenberg, Chairman, Greenland Invest ApS
• Tormod Cappelen Endresen, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to the Republic of Singapore

Moderator:

• Lisa Oake, Broadcaster, former CNBC Asia Anchor

15:15 - 15:45 Break

15:45 - 17:30 Session 3: Science and Research

Speakers:

• Kim Holmén, International Director, Norwegian Polar Institute
• Jun Inoue, Associate Professor of Polar Meteorology, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan
• Yoo Kyung Lee, Director of Arctic Research Center, Korean Polar Research Institute

Panelists:

• Chan Eng Soon, Vice-Provost, National University of Singapore
• Guðní Jóhannesson, Director General, The Icelandic National Energy Authority
• Adrian Law, Associate Professor, Director, DHI-NTU Centre, Nanyang Technological University
• Piotr Głowacki, Head of Polar and Marine Department, Geophysical Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Chen Xu, Research Fellow, Polar Strategic Department, Polar Research Institute of China

Chair:

• Kim Holmén, International Director, Norwegian Polar Institute

17:30 - 19:00 Break

19:00 - 21:00 Dinner Dialog: Advancing Global Cooperation on the Arctic

Speakers:

• Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Iceland
• Sam Tan Chin Siong, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
• Chan-woo Kim, Ambassador for Arctic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea

Chair:

• Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland