This document provides information on an upcoming infrastructure forum conference taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands on November 22-24, 2016. The conference will focus on major infrastructure projects in the Benelux region, including renewables, maritime, public transport, and social infrastructure schemes. It will explore financing models and risk mitigation strategies for mega projects. There will also be two pre-conference workshops on November 22nd addressing project risk management lessons from Solvency II regulations and managing complex public-private partnership infrastructure projects in Belgium and the Netherlands. The main conference over the following two days will include keynote speeches, case studies, and panel discussions on topics such as energy financing, stakeholder management, funding opportunities, and future risks and mitigation

1. HIGHLIGHTS OF 2016:
• Case study updates from major projects in the region including;
renewables, maritime, public transport and social infrastructure
schemes
• Explore the different financing models and mitigate various risks
for mega projects to ensure success
• Benchmark against other major EU infrastructure projects for
best practice and optimal model
PLUS TWO INTERACTIVE HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Tuesday 22nd November 2016, Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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A: Project risk management: Risk impact
and lessons from Solvency II
Workshop Leaders:
Michiel van Klingeren, Senior Consultant Risk Finance, Aon
and Roeland van der Zee, Senior Consultant, Aon
08.30 - 12.30
B: Managing complex PPP infrastructure
projects in Belgium and the Netherlands
Workshop Leaders:
Ciska Servais, Partner and Head of Real Estate, Astrea Law
Dieter Veestraeten, Partner and Head of Banking and Finance
Department, Astrea Law
13.30 - 17.30
Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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CHAIRS FOR 2016:
• Jeroen Kies, Assistant General Manager, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Corporation, Europe Limited
• Willem Stitselaar, Managing Director, Macquarie Capital
EXPERT SPEAKER PANEL INCLUDES:
• Peter Jacobs, Head of Project Finance Western Europe,
European Investment Bank
• Giorgio Chiarion Casoni, Policy Officer, European Commission DG
Economic and Financial Affairs
• Paolo Geurtsen, Director Project Finance - Treasury and Finance,
VolkerWessels
• Remcovan Duuren, Finance Manager, Dura Vermer
• Tim De Knegt, Manager Strategic Finance and Treasury,
Port of Rotterdam
• Erik Jan Snik, Coordinator PPP Programme,
Ministry of Finance Netherlands
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Benelux Infrastructure Forum
Day One | Wednesday 23rd November 2016
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08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Jeroen Kies, Assistant General Manager, Sumitomo Mitsui
Banking Corporation, Europe Limited
OVERVIEW OF THE BENELUX MARKET
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
09.10 Major trends and current developments with the project
financing market
• Insight into the typically closed Benelux market
- Market snapshot
- Where should investment be directed?
• Looking at PPP and offshore wind
• A view into adjacent sectors and the subsequent impacts
on the project financing market
• Conclusions and future projections
Jeroen Kies, Assistant General Manager, Sumitomo Mitsui
Banking Corporation, Europe Limited
09.50 Dutch government overview: The current state of PPP
in the Netherlands
• Outline of recent developments
• An update on the PPP market in the Netherlands
• Current and future projects
• What measures have the Dutch Government taken to
ensure the best deals for all parties
Erik Jan Snik, Coordinator PPP Programme,
Dutch Ministry of Finance
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Exploring PPP in the Belgian market
• Brief overview of the most important PPP projects in
financial close or construction
• The current trends of the Belgian market
- What are the obstacles preventing new infrastructure
projects?
- How can these be overcome?
• Updates on legislation and process and evaluating their
impacts on the PPP market
Kit Van Gestel, Policy Advisor, Flemish PPP Knowledge Centre
MEGA PROJECT INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING
11.40 Energy financing: 'A look at the energy and infrastructure gap'
• Offshore wind deals:
- Emerging financing trends
- Recent case study of an offshore wind farm
• Renewables in the Benelux
- Recent projects
- Future pipeline
• Financing new technologies
- Offshore getting bigger and bigger
- Floating wind and tidal
Willem Stitselaar, Managing Director, Macquarie Capital
12.20 Networking Lunch
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:
13.20 Assessing the future role of renewables in the
Benelux market
• What do you think explains the increased level
of activity in the renewables market?
• Will the recent delays to some projects have an
effect on the upcoming pipeline?
• What do you think the advantages and potential pitfalls
of increased standardisation are?
• How long will the rise of renewables last?
- Could new areas of this sector take centre stage anytime soon?
- Is there potential in tidal infrastructure?
Nick Gardiner, Managing Director and Head of Offshore
Wind, Green Investment Bank
CASE STUDIES FROM THE FLEMMISH MARKET
14.00 Nobelwind, the second phase of the Belwind offshore park
• Overview of project
- Procurement procedures and compliance with directives
• Financing structure
- A look into the credit enhancement schemes
• Challenges faced and how they were overcome
- Insight in to the project bond solution
• Lessons learned
Francois Van Leeuw, CEO, Parkwind
CASE STUDIES FROM THE NETHERLANDS
14.40 Portfolio management and investment strategies in a world in
transition
• How to accommodate portfolio management for new
for the old and new economy
• Use portfolio management to pursue strategic goals
• Low rate environment: How we use the benefits?
Tim De Knegt, Manager Strategic Finance and Treasury,
Port of Rotterdam
15.20 Afternoon Tea
15.50 Limmel Lock PPP project and Beatrix lock PPP project:
Update of the projects, now in financial close
• Comparison of the projects
- Financing structure
- Challenges faced and how they were overcome
- Lessons learned
• The current state of PPP procurement in the Netherlands
• Tailoring in an evolving standardised approach
Philip Van Ginderachter, Head Project Finance, KBC Bank
16.30 IJmuiden sea lock expansion under PPP: Managing
stakeholders for PPP success
• Overview of project
- Financing structure
- Challenges faced and how they were overcome
- Lessons learned
• The wants and needs of the different stakeholders
• Defining success: What does this mean to each party involved
Ewout Krijger, Executive Director for Infrastructure and Project
Finance, Rabobank
17.10 Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
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3. 08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
Willem Stitselaar, Managing Director, Macquarie Capital
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
09.10 The investment plan for Europe: Update on the Juncker plan
• European Fund for Strategy Investments (EFSI) – €315 billion
of investment
• Overview of the first 18 months of the Juncker plan
• How to encourage more risk taking from investors
- assessing the opportunities available to investors
• The overall impact of the investment plan
Giorgio Chiarion Casoni, Head of Unit, DG Economic and
Financial Affairs, European Commission
09.50 EIB involvement and their role as catalyst for project funding
• Evaluating the varying success in project financing
- What’s hot and what’s not
• Assessing whether the steady market will continue:
- A look into the pipeline
- How to avoid another crisis
• Has the European funding landscape irrevocably
changed?
- Case studies: Gemini offshore wind farm and increased
capacity for Rotterdam port
Peter Jacobs, Head of Project Finance Western Europe,
European Investment Bank
10.30 Morning Coffee
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:
11.00 The various financing options available:
Is the funding market changing?
• Overview of current financing structures used
• Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of classical
PF structures, Holdco financing, bond structure etc.
• An outline of alternative funding structures to be
considered
- A focus on reducing financing costs
• What are the key impacts on the financing terms and
conditions of such alternative funding structures
- Evaluating variations in pricing and tenor
Marie de Graaf, Head Renewable Energy, ABN AMRO Bank N.V
11.40 Stakeholder management in PPP contracts
• Overview UK, Germany and the Netherlands
• Market experiences
• Added value of risk allocation
Daphne Boerse, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
12.20 Networking Lunch
13.20 Exploring the opportunities within the refinancing of PPPs
• A look into when and why refinancing can be an attractive
option for investors
• An exploration into the various structures available
• Comparing advantages and disadvantages for Sponsors
related to these structures
Laurens-Jan Sipma, Project Finance Manager, NWB Bank
14.00 Contract management: Keeping everybody happy
• The dynamics of working in a consortium
- The different wants and needs of each group
- Tendering requirements and consortium partners
• The various mechanisms in place to mitigate the risk for
each party
• Opportunities and threats of different financing structures
Bruno Erbel, Investment Director, Marguerite Fund
FUTURE RISKS AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM
14.40 Project risk management: Approach and developments
• Design, Build, Finance, Maintain and Operate (DBFMO) contracts
- Will we see an increase in these type of projects?
- How will the various risks associated with them be
managed?
• Why the role of insurance is more important than ever in the
project finance matrix within the Benelux
- The use of insurance as a source of finance and credit
enhancement
• What does The Solvency II Directive mean for the Benelux region?
Remco van Duuren, Finance Manager, Dura Vermer
15.20 Afternoon Tea
THE STRUCTURING PROCESS
15.50 The structuring process from a sponsors’ view
• Financial Institutions moving towards becoming niche
players (either long term or short term lending)
• Cherry picking, ‘I’ll have some of that…, but please play
nice with my other lenders’
• Roles of relationship banks
• Refinancing gains? Should they play a role in structuring?
Paolo Geurtsen, Director Project Finance - Treasury and
Finance, VolkerWessels
16.30 What are the global drivers for TMT assets
(such as fibre networks and data centers)
• Why we are comfortable with the stable low risk economics
of these assets on the long run?
• How these projects offer investors interesting infrastructure
risk/returns?
• What are the key risks in these projects?
- In depth case studies
• How to finance TMT projects (such as data centres, fibre
networks etc)
Eelco Holst, Director of Structured Debt, ABN AMRO Bank N.V
17.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and End of The Conference
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4. Overview:
In this interactive workshop, the participants gain
knowledge of several developments in the risk
management, insurance- and compliance area. This
includes the importance of the risk Impact perspective,
scenario analysis and a process description of risk profiling
and stress testing, based on the Solvency-II approach. This
approach, originally developed for the insurance sector,
has been transposed to the financial and project
management sector. Experience a practical approach for
determining, mitigating and reporting your high impact
project risks.
Why you should attend:
• Assess major damage events and their influence
• Explore developments in insurance industry
• Understand best practice for risk profiling and reporting
for large projects
• Perfect uniformity in risk information / risk matrices
• Gain a practical way to give insight in the high impact
project risks based on the proven approach for
Solvency II
Programme:
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Opening Remarks
09.10 Introduction project risk management approach
• Methods of risk profiling
• Different types of project
• Project risks and insurances
• Scenario analysis for high impact risks
09.50 How to make your project risk profile
• Project description
• Different stakeholders perspectives
• Impact analysis
• Risk management and insurance plan for your
project
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Solvency guidelines helpful for large projects
• Introduction
• Governance framework
• Financial plan and risk profile
• Stress testing and conclusions
11.40 How to make your Solvency-based stress test
• Risk register as basis
• Describe your stress scenarios
• Assess the prospective needs
• Governance and risk reporting
12.20 Discussion and closing remarks
12.30 Close of workshop
About the workshop leaders:
Michiel is Senior Consultant Risk Finance with focus on
Solvency II (mainly Pillar II advisory), Captive Advisory,
(Alternative) Risk Finance, Total Cost of Risk. optimization,
Solvency II, Pilar II and Actuarial and Analytics. Michiel
developed the ORSA methodology for the Netherlands,
which was approved by DNB.
Roeland works for Aon Global Risk Consulting in the
Netherlands as senior consultant, with focus on the Power
& Utilities and the Construction industry.He is consultant for
the lenders on the risk management and insurance of PPP
projects in Europe. He is consultant to construction- and
lenders consortia for (very) large DBFMO contracts. He is
consultant on risk and insurance for several large
investment projects in the (sustainable) energy sector in
both construction- and operations phase. Roeland is
involved in due diligence reporting on operational risks for
diverse projects and companies.
About the organisation:
Aon Global Risk Consulting (AGRC) is an international
consulting firm, specialized in delivering risk management
services to clients in all sectors. Without being limitative,
AGRC has expert consultants and provides solutions in the
following areas:
HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
08.30 - 12.30
A: Project Risk Management:
Risk impact
and lessons from Solvency II
Workshop Leaders:
Michiel van Klingeren, Senior Consultant Risk Finance, Aon
and Roeland van der Zee, Senior Consultant, Aon
• Enterprise Risk
Management (ERM)
• Risk Financing and Transfer
• Business Continuity
Management
• Project Risk Management
• Risk Engineering
• Crisis Management
www.aon.com

5. HALF-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
13.30 - 17.30
B: Managing complex
PPP infrastructure projects in Belgium
and the Netherlands
Workshop Leaders:
Ciska Servais, Partner and Head of Real Estate, Astrea Law
Dieter Veestraeten, Partner and Head of Banking and
Finance Department, Astrea Law
Overview:
Astrea is an independent law firm with more than 35
lawyers, each with their own area of specialization.
Together, they provide assistance in any area of law that
might be required by private companies, entrepreneurs or
public authorities.
Our firm's broad-based composition allows us to offer a
comprehensive approach. Based on the individual client's
needs and the specific issues at hand, we assign a
customised team of specialist lawyers to each case. This
enables us to consider every relevant area of law and
provide the most efficient solution.
Why you should attend:
• An invaluable opportunity to explore legal, regulatory
and institutional issues, including the role of
governmental stakeholders and differences between
Belgium and the Netherlands
• Maximise your opportunity to exchange best practice
and identify the key issues relevant for PPP projects
through interactive, small group discussion
• Utilise practical insight to navigate the difficult and
complex task of successful managing public and
private partnerships
Programme:
13.00 Registration and Coffee
13.30 Opening remarks and introductions
13.40 How to deal with governments
• Government as stakeholder
• Government as regulator
• Government as risk factor
• Financial risk
• Legal risk
• Political risk
• Organisational risk
• Guidelines for risk management
14.10 The impact of local stakeholder resistance on
infrastructure projects
• Why citizens are increasingly having the last
word on PPP projects
• How to cope with this
• How does it endanger the success of PPP projects
• What can private companies and investors do
to minimise or neutralise any resistance
• Do local governments have a greater
responsibility?
14.50 Afternoon Tea
15.20 Cultural differences - a comparison between
Belgium and the Netherlands
• Politics in Belgium and the Netherlands
• Different procedures have impact on timing of
decision making
• Communication with governments, other
stakeholders and their advisors
• Understanding differences avoids frustration
16.00 Guidelines for a successful PPP
• Project identification
• Structuring of the PPP
• Managing the tendering process
• Execution phase and management
16.40 Closing Remarks and End of Workshop
About the workshop leaders:
Ciska is a Co-founder and practising partner at Astrea since
its foundation in 2006, prior to this she has worked as a
practicing partner at Lawfort, Van Passel, Servais and
Vennoten (which later became Lexeco. Cisca is fluent in 3
languages and is a member of the Antwerp Bar and also
Guberna, the Association of Public Law Practitioners and the
International Bar Association (IBA).
Dieter completed his Masters in law in 1998 at the
University of Lueven and also possesses a masters in
business law. Dieter has been at Astrea since 2014 and
speaks 4 languages, he has also been admitted to the
Brussels Bar and is an active member of AIJA and the IBA.
About the organisation?
Astrea is an independent, dynamic law firm in Belgium
with ten partners and more than forty specialists and
experienced lawyers, spread between offices in Antwerp
and Brussels. It offers high-quality legal services to Belgian
and international companies, ranging from promising
start-ups and growth companies to long-established listed
and non-listed corporations (including more than fifteen
Fortune 500 companies). Astrea also works on a regular
basis for government departments and public bodies in
Belgium. Availability, speed and a proactive approach
are Astrea’s watchwords.

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Conference: 23rd - 24th November 2016, Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Workshops: 22nd November 2016, Netherlands
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