THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL EXPERT CONFERENCE
ENVIROMANAGEMENT 2026
TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN
Can we recycle our way out of the problem?
OCTOBER 12 – 13, 2026
HOTEL PATRIA****
ŠTRBSKÉ PLESO, HIGH TATRAS, SLOVAKIA
THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL EXPERT CONFERENCE
ENVIRO
MANAGEMENT
2026
TO BURN OR NOT TO BURN
Can we recycle our way out of the problem?
OCTOBER 12–13, 2026
HOTEL PATRIA****
ŠTRBSKÉ PLESO, HIGH TATRAS, SLOVAKIA
CONFERENCE SUPPORTED BY
SPEAKERS & PARTNERS Registration – MAY 31, 2026
MAIN TOPICS
WASTE-TO-ENERGY
RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES
PLASTIC WASTE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN WASTE MANAGEMENT
Case Studies and Discussion Topics
- Advancements in Waste-to-Energy and recycling – technological improvements and innovations
- Balancing Energy Recovery and Recycling – optimising outcomes and systems
- Plastic waste – energy, resource, and carbon management
- Industrial waste recycling – the contribution and role of commercial recycling
- Properties and applications of residues and recycled materials – bottom ash, metals, and other materials
- Waste logistics – collection, transport, and supply chain optimization
- Geographical accessibility and treatment capacities – access to waste treatment and recycling facilities throughout Europe
- Infrastructure development – Replacing existing infrastructure and integrating new facilities into existing waste systems
- Project preparation and implementation – planning, construction and commissioning (Case studies – lessons learnt from real-world projects)
- BAT (Best Available Techniques) – resource recovery and waste disposal
- Safety management – advancements in fire prevention, protection, and control
- AI in Waste Management – requirements, benefits, limitations, and challenges
- AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – integration into waste management infrastructure and systems
SPEAKERS & PARTNERS Registration
– MAY 31, 2026
MAIN TOPICS
WASTE-TO-ENERGY
RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES
PLASTIC WASTE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Advancements in Waste-to-Energy and recycling
– technological improvements and innovations - Balancing Energy Recovery and Recycling
– optimising outcomes and systems - Plastic waste
– energy, resource, and carbon management - Industrial waste recycling
– the contribution and role of commercial recycling - Properties and applications of residues and recycled materials
– bottom ash, metals, and other materials - Waste logistics
– collection, transport, and supply chain optimization - Geographical accessibility and treatment capacities
– access to waste treatment and recycling facilities throughout Europe - Infrastructure development
– Replacing existing Infrastructure and integrating new facilities into existing waste systems - Project preparation and implementation
– planning, construction and commissioning (Case studies – lessons learnt from real-world projects) - BAT (Best Available Techniques)
– resource recovery and waste disposal - Safety management
– advancements in fire prevention, protection, and control - AI in Waste Management
– requirements, benefits, limitations, and challenges - AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
– integration into waste management infrastructure and systems
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
(in alphabetical order)
Flávio Ascenco
Director & Co-Founder
Agile Biogas Engineering Consultants Ltd
London / Lisbon • UK / Portugal
Jakub Bator
Deputy President, Poland
CEWEP e.V.
Brussels • Belgium
Country Manager Indaver Poland
Indaver nv
Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht • Belgium
Ing. Petr Bielan
Technical Deputy Director
OZO Ostrava s.r.o.
Ostrava • Czech Republic
Mgr. Katarína Kretter
Director of Communications and Marketing
ENVI – PAK, a.s.
Bratislava • Slovakia
RNDr. Miloš Kužvart
Executive Director
The Czech Circular Economy Association (ČAObH)
Prague • Czech Republic
CONFERENCE ORGANISER
AND COORDINATOR
Gabriela Stuchlá
Managing Director
NMC spol. s r.o.
Žilina • Slovakia
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
(in alphabetical order)
Flávio Ascenco
Director & Co-Founder
Agile Biogas Engineering Consultants Ltd
London / Lisbon • UK / Portugal
Jakub Bator
Deputy President
CEWEP e.V.
Brussels • Belgium
Country Manager Indaver Poland
Indaver nv
Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht • Belgium
Ing. Petr Bielan
Technical Deputy Director
OZO Ostrava s.r.o.
Ostrava • Czech Republic
Mgr. Katarína Kretter
Director of Communications and Marketing
ENVI – PAK, a.s.
Bratislava • Slovakia
RNDr. Miloš Kužvart
Executive Director
The Czech Circular Economy Association (ČAObH)
Prague • Czech Republic
CONFERENCE ORGANISER
AND COORDINATOR
Gabriela Stuchlá
Managing Director
NMC spol. s r.o.
Žilina • Slovakia
CONFERENCE PARTNER
ENVI – PAK, a.s.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Member of the international producer responsibility organisations PRO EUROPE and EXPRA.
MEDIA PARTNERS
Association of Entrepreneurs in Waste Management (A.P.O.H.)
Bratislava, Slovakia
The Czech Circular Economy Association (ČAObH)
Prague, Czech Republic
Ekologie v praxi, z.s.
Prague, Czech Republic
Hungarian Waste Management Federation (HOSZ)
Budapest, Hungary
odpady-portal.sk and the journal Waste Management
Bratislava, Slovakia
Profi Press s.r.o. and the portal odpady-online.cz
Prague, Czech Republic
INVITED ARE
Representatives of:
•
Significant waste originators and processors, waste collecting companies (top management, heads of departments: technology, economy, production, and management processes, R&D)
•
Extended producer responsibility organisations
•
Waste processing technology suppliers
•
Public institutions, cities, and municipalities responsible for environment and waste management
•
Scientific and research organizations, independent experts and specialists participating in significant waste management projects
•
Institutions participating in financing of waste management projects
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
October 12, 2026 – Monday
8:30
Participant registration
9:30
Conference opening
Gabriela Stuchlá
Conference Manager
NMC spol. s r.o.
Žilina • Slovakia
9:35
Session I – 1
To Burn or Not to Burn?
The Ongoing Debate.
Roman Vandák
Director of the Commodity Department
ENVI – PAK, a. s.
Bratislava • Slovakia
Waste-to-Energy from the Perspective of a Producer Responsibility Organisation.
Miloš Kužvart
Executive Director
Czech Association of Circular Economy (ČAObH)
Prague • Czech Republic
ČAObH: Achievability of the European Union’s Goals and the Economic Context of the Waste-to-Energy Concept.
Peter Pajerchin
Sales Director – Strategy & Inovation
BRANTNER Slovakia s.r.o.
Bratislava • Slovakia
Where we are today. Where we should be. Where we can be.
The future of recycling and modern waste management.
Martin Boháč
Operating Director
OZO Ostrava s.r.o.
Ostrava • Czech Republic
Technical, Economic and Social Aspects of Municipal Waste Management in Ostrava.
11:15
Coffee Break
11:30
Session I – 2
Energy-from-Waste versus Recycling:
A Difficult Balancing Act.
Dimitris Zikopoulos
Technical Officer
European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology (ESWET)
Brussels • Belgium
The Role of Waste-to-Energy in Advancing Current European Circular Economy Policies.
Marek Horváth
CTO and BofD member
Odvoz a likvidácia odpadu a.s.
Bratislava • Slovakia
The Entire Waste Stream Under Control:
OLO’s Strategic Projects for Bratislava, the Capital of the Slovak Republic.
12:45
Business Lunch
14:00
Session I – 3
Maximising the Efficiency and Benefits of EfW.
Juraj Mydliar
Production Director
MH Teplárenský holding, a.s.
Bratislava • Slovakia
Energy Utilization of Waste in Slovakia:
Capacities, Off-take Options, and Synergies with “Efficient” DHS (District Heating Systems) in MHTH Practice.
Miroslav Zajíček
Director for Strategy and Regulatory Affairs
Veolia Energie Czech Republic
Prague • Czech Republic
Utilizing RDF for District Heating in the Czech Republic: Lessons Learned
Jakub Čespiva
Researcher
VSB – Technical University of Ostrava
Ostrava • Czech Republic
AI-WASTE:
Waste-to-Energy Assisted by Artificial Intelligence.
15:15
Coffee Break
15:40
Session I – 4
Promoting a More Circular Economy
Jakub Bator
Country Manager Indaver Poland
Indaver nv
Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht • Belgium
Deputy President, Poland
CEWEP e.V.
Brussels • Belgium
From Ash to Asset:
IBA (Incineration Bottom Ash) in the Circular Economy.
Michaela Hletková Ploszeková
Chairman of the Environmental Legislation Commission
Slovak Automotive Association
Head of Environment and Sustainability Strategy Leader
Volkswagen Slovakia, a.s.
Bratislava • Slovakia
From Waste to Circular Value:
Transformation of Waste Management in Automotive and Strategic Balancing of Material, Chemical and Energy Recovery – Partnership in Shaping the National and European Regulatory Framework.
Michal Kříž
Senior Consultant
Mevra EcoWaste s.r.o.
Ostrava • Czech Republic
CITEM – Chemical Recycling Project in the Czech Republic – Status 2026
Martin Gajdoš
Sales & Business Development Director
Mevra EcoWaste s.r.o.
Ostrava • Czech Republic
17:00
End of Day 1
Closing Remarks
19:30
Reception
Chalet Patria
Friendly evening with speakers and participants
October 13, 2026 – Tuesday
9:00
Session II – 1
Fire Risk & Biogas
Jan Průdek
Area Sales Manager
Firefly AB
Stockholm • Sweden
Moisture in Waste:
The Hidden Catalyst of Decay and Fire Risk.
Flávio Ascenco
Director ABEC
Agile Biogas Engineering Consultants Ltd
London • UK & Lisbon • Portugal
The Agile Biogas Approach:
From Past Lessons to Future-Ready Solutions.
Michael Ware
Senior Director
Green Giraffe
London • UK
Using project finance to fund biogas plants.
10:15
Coffee Break
10:40
Session II – 2
Crisis management & resilient waste infrastructure
Gerfried Cebrat
Owner
effiziente.st Energie- und Umweltconsulting e.U.
Graz • Austria
Ecological PV Harvesting on Existing Buildings:
An LCA Case for Wood-Glass-Silicon-Glass Window Shutters.
Gabriela Stuchlá
Conference Manager
NMC spol. s r.o.
Žilina • Slovakia
Conference closing remarks and thanks
11:40
End of the conference program
11:45
Business Lunch
Programme is subject to change.
CONFERENCE FEE
BASIC
May 21 - June 30, 2026
467,40 € incl. VAT
SUMMER
July 1 – Aug. 28, 2026
485,85 € incl. VAT
AFTER VACATION
Aug. 29 – Sept. 25, 2026
516,60 € incl. VAT
LAST CHANCE
Sept. 26, 2026 and later
553,50 € incl. VAT
Conference fee does not apply to lecturers with expert non-commercial presentation.
Kindly pay the conference fee according to the document sent to you from the organizers after the registration of your application. The document for tax purposes will be issued on the day of payment.
Conference fee covers access to the conference venue, working materials, refreshments, working lunch, reception.
VAT 23% is not included. Place of delivery: Slovak Republic.
Accommodation and transport is not covered by the conference fee.
The conference fee is non-refundable. In case of absence working materials will be delivered via email. It is possible to appoint a substitute participant.
ACCOMMODATION
Hotel Patria****
Štrbské Pleso 33
059 85 Vysoké Tatry
Slovakia
GPS: 49° 7′ 28.5″ N. 20° 3′ 40.94″ E
www.hotelpatria.sk/en
Reception
Tel.: +421 -52 7848 999
recepcia@hotelpatria.sk
PRICES FOR ACCOMMODATION
Room (1 person)
(Lux)
room/night
Room (2 persons)
(Lux)
room/night
Apartment
(Lux)
apartment/night
Accommodation reservations are made through the conference organiser.
The accommodation price includes breakfast, access to Patria Aqua Paradise, internet, and hotel parking.
The accommodation prices include VAT, excluding local tax.
Check in: 14:00
Check out: 12:00
Hotel garage: 20 €/day
Local tax: 3.00 € / person / night
Local tax is not included in the accommodation price.
Please indicate your required accommodation in your registration form.
Accommodation capacity is limited and will be allocated according to the date of registration.
Booked accommodation is payable at the hotel reception.
ACCOMMODATION
Hotel Patria****
Štrbské Pleso 33
059 85 Vysoké Tatry
Slovakia
GPS: 49° 7′ 28.5″ N. 20° 3′ 40.94″ E
www.hotelpatria.sk/en
Reception
Tel.: +421 -52 7848 999
recepcia@hotelpatria.sk
PRICES FOR ACCOMMODATION
Room (1 person)
(Lux)
room/night
Room (2 persons)
(Lux)
room/night
Apartment
(Lux)
apartment/night
Accommodation reservations are made through the conference organiser.
The accommodation price includes accommodation, breakfast, access to Patria Aqua Paradise, internet, and hotel parking.
The accommodation prices include VAT, excluding local tax.
Check in: 14:00
Check out: 12:00
Hotel garage: 20 €/day
Local tax: 3.00 € / person / night
Local tax is not included in the accommodation price.
Please indicate your required accommodation in your registration form.
Accommodation capacity is limited and will be allocated according to the date of registration.
Booked accommodation is payable at the hotel reception.
ORGANIZED BY
NMC spol. s r.o.
Makovického 10
010 01 Žilina, Slovakia
Tel.: +421-903-340539
Tel.: +421-41-5166661
Fax: +421-41-5006977
E-mail: nmc@nmc.sk
Web: www.nmc.sk
Company ID: 31639135
VAT ID: SK2020446890
Company registered in: Commercial Register of the District Court Žilina,
Section: Sro, File no.: 2953/L
APPLICATIONS REGISTRATION
EARLY BIRD Application Deadline – May 20, 2026
Papers Registration Deadline – May 31, 2026
Announce interest in commercial cooperation and presentation – May 31, 2026
Please send your registration form to the organiser by e-mail, fax or post.
Your registration will be confirmed immediately, together with a proforma invoice for the conference fee.
ORGANIZED BY
NMC spol. s r.o.
Makovického 10
010 01 Žilina, Slovakia
Tel.: +421-903-340539
Tel.: +421-41-5166661
Fax: +421-41-5006977
E-mail: nmc@nmc.sk
Web: www.nmc.sk
Company ID: 31639135
VAT ID: SK2020446890
Company registered in: Commercial Register of the District Court Žilina,
Section: Sro, File no.: 2953/L
APPLICATIONS REGISTRATION
EARLY BIRD Application Deadline – May 20, 2026
Papers Registration Deadline – May 31, 2026
Announce interest in commercial cooperation and presentation – May 31, 2026
Please send your registration form to the organiser by e-mail, fax or post.
Your registration will be confirmed immediately, together with a proforma invoice for the conference fee.
VENUE
Hotel Patria****, Štrbské Pleso, High Tatras, Slovakia
GPS: 49° 7′ 28.5″ N. 20° 3′ 40.94″ E
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES
English, Slovak, Czech
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION
English → Slovak
Slovak / Czech → English
VENUE
Hotel Patria****, Štrbské Pleso, High Tatras, Slovakia
GPS: 49° 7′ 28.5″ N. 20° 3′ 40.94″ E
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES
English, Slovak, Czech
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION
English → Slovak
Slovak / Czech → English