42 PIPELINE TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL CONFERENCES / SEMINARS / EXHIBITIONS 13TH PIPELINE TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 12-14 MARCH 2018, ESTREL CONVENTION CENTER, BERLIN, GERMANY Pipeline T Conference 2010 Save the Date! For Europes Biggest Pipeline Conference and Exhibition ptc ADVISORY COMMITTEE / ptj EDITORIAL BOARD CHAIRMEN Heinz Watzka, Senior Advisor, EITEP Institute Dirk Strack, Technical Director, TAL - Deutsche Transalpine Oellei- tung MEMBERS Ulrich Adriany, Oil&Gas Program Management Lead Europe, ARCADIS Deutschland Muhammad Sultan Al-Qahtani, General Manager, Pipelines, Saudi Aramco Juan Arzuaga, Executive Secretary, IPLOCA Arthur Braga, Country Manager, ITF Brazil Filippo Cinelli, Senior Marketing Manager, GE Oil & Gas Dr. Hans-Georg Hillenbrand, Direc- tor Technical Service, Europipe Mark David Iden, Director, Govern- ment Relations, Floating Leaf Mike Liepe, Head Business Solution Line O&G Pipelines, Siemens Steffen Paeper, Offshore Engineer- ing, South Stream Markus Rieder, Senior Expert Pipeline Projects, TÜV SÜD Industrie Service Michael Schad, Head of Sales Inter- national, Denso Egorova, Director of the Natalya A. Centre of Innovation Programs, R&D Coordination and Industry Standard- ization, Transneft R&D Jörg Himmerich, Managing Director / Technical Expert, Dr.-Ing. Veenker Ing.-ges. Dirk Jedziny, Vice President - Head of Cluster Ruhr North, Evonik Industries Michael Lubberger, Senior Product Manager Pipeline, BU Utility Tunnel- ling, Herrenknecht Dr. Prodromos Psarropoulos, Structural & Geotechnical Engineer, National Technical University of Athens Uwe Ringel, Managing Director, ONTRAS Gastransport Jens Focke, CEO, BIL Andreas Haskamp, Pipeline Joint Venture Management, BP Europa SE Maximilian Hofmann, Managing Director, MAX STREICHER Cliff Johnson, President, PRCI - Pipe- line Research Council International Ralf Middelhauve, Head of Central Dept. Process Industrie / Plant Engineering and Operation, TÜV NORD Systems Frank Rathlev, Manager of Network Operations, Thyssengas Dr. Thomas Hüwener, Managing Director Technical Services, Open Grid Europe Dr. Gerhard Knauf, Head of Div. Mech. Eng., Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung / Secretary General, EPRG Prof. Dr. Joachim Müller-Kirchenbau- er, Lehrstuhl Energie- und Res- sourcenmanagement, Technische Universität Berlin Dr. Joachim Rau, Managing Direc- tor, DVGW CERT Dr. Klaus Ritter, President, EITEP Institute Hermann Rosen, President, ROSEN Group Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidt, Manag- ing Director, CSE Center of Safety Excellence Ulrich Schneider, Business Develop- ment Manager Continental Europe, KTN Markus Seitz, Integrity Engineer, APA Group Carlo Maria Spinelli, Technology Planner, eni gas & power Anand Kumar Tewari, Executive Director, Indian Oil Corporation Asle Venas, Global Director Pipe- lines, DNV GL Bernd Vogel, Head of Network De- partment, GASCADE Gastransport Roger Vogel, Sales Manager - EURA, PII Pipeline Solutions Paul Waanders, Int. Sales Manager, Maats Pipeline Equipment Tobias Walk, Director of Projects – Pipeline Systems, ILF Consulting Engineers Herbert Willems, Global ILI Technology Support, NDT Global