| 8.30– 9.30 |
Registration, welcome coffee
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| 9.30– 9.40 |
Opening ceremony (Congress Hall)
- Welcome speech of First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Vasily S. Matyushevsky |
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| 09.40– 11.00 |
Economy of tomorrow (Congress Hall) Plenary session • general trends of economic development as a capital circulation factor; • investment, technological and human resources of Belarus; • growth drivers of the Belarusian economy; • transition from a "catch-up development" strategy to a "harmonious integration into international value chains" strategy by generating an FDI flow into the country; • measures taken by the government of the Republic of Belarus to stimulate business and investment activity. Speakers: - Pavel Utsiupin, Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Belarus - Tomasz Telma, Director, Europe and Central Asia, International Finance Corporation - Satu Kahkonen, Country Director for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine (World Bank) or New Director for Belarus - Mattia Romani, Managing Director for Economics, Policy and Governance at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Moderator: Courtney Fingar, Editor-in-Chief, fDi Magazine, Financial Times Ltd. |
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| 11.30– 13.00 |
IT sector of the Republic of Belarus (Congress Hall) • overview of the IT sector; • place of Belarus in the development of artificial intelligence and Big Data technologies; • examples of successful projects in the IT sector. Speakers: - Alexander Martinkevich, Deputy Director Marketing and Business Development of the Hi-Tech Park - Vladimir Kuchinsky, Head of the Main Information - Technologies Department of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus - Alexander Chekan, Venture partner at Hakus - Yury Melnichek, IT- entrepreneur, Founder of maps.me and AIMatter projects - Anton Myakishev, Head of Microsoft Corporation in Belarus - Anna-Maria Treneva, Head of Sales, CEE & Russia Facebook Inc. Moderator: Denis Aleinikov, Lawyer, Senior Partner of Aleinikov & Partners Law Firm |
Investment in infrastructure (Hall “National”) • topical issues of the formation and implementation of the national infrastructure strategy; • effectiveness of using the PPP model as a tool to attract FDI; • opportunities and promising industries open to foreign investors; • possibility of the PPP model to attract long-term money; • factors restraining the flow of private capital into PPP projects. • successful investment projects on the development of transport infrastructure Speakers: - Pavel Utsiupin, Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Belarus - Aleksey Avramenko, First Deputy Minister of transport and commutations - Matthew Jordan-Tank, Head of the Foundation for the Preparation of Infrastructure Projects, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - Nicola R. Saporiti, Senior Investment Officer in the Public Private Partnerships Advisory group at IFC - Krzysztof Chmieliński, Senior specialist, PPP Project Support Division, Department of Public-Private Partnerships, Ministry of development, Poland - Andrey Troitskiy, Internet of Things senior expert, SAP CIS Moderator: Vitaly Maximov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC “TRANSPROEKT-Group” |
| 13:00– 14:30 |
Lunch |
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| 14.30– 16.00 |
Financial sector of the Republic of Belarus (Congress Hall) • insurance of export-import transactions; • development of the securities market; • preferential tax treatment and the impact of taxes on the investment climate; • issues of investing in government securities; • cooperation with international financial organizations; Speakers: - Maksim Yermolovich, First Deputy Finance Minister of the Republic of Belarus - Dmitry Kalechits, Deputy Chairman of the Board at National Bank of the Republic of Belarus - Sergei Tinnikov , Deputy Chairman of the Board of Belarusian Currency and Stock Exchange - Alexander Pivovarsky, Head of the Representative Office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Belarus - Ilya Sahar, Head of international cooperation department, epublican Unitary Enterprise Beleximgarant insurance Moderator: Stefanie Linhardt, Europe editor The Banker |
Great Stone Industrial Park (Hall “National”) • Great Stone Industrial Park as a ready site for new business; • advantages and benefits of Great Stone Industrial Park; • guaranteed investment protection; • new projects for development. Speakers: - Alexander Yaroshenko, Head of Great Stone Industrial Park Administration - Sergey Vaytekhovsky, Deputy Director General of the Industrial Park Development Company - Zheng Xi, Executive Director of the China-Belarus industrial investment fund - Dmitry Arkhipenko, Founder, Managing partner of AB "REVERA", Attorney at law - Roman Osipov, Director of UNITER Investment Company - Oleg Ilyin, CEO of the Agency for Strategic and Economic Development Moderator: Craig Smith, founder of the information resource EuropeProperty.com |
| 16.00– 18.00 |
Real sector of the economy of the Republic of Belarus (Congress Hall) • intensification of efforts in the field of creating promising technologies, new products and services, attracting additional resources for research and development; • integration of Belarus into global value chains; • investment potential of the real sector of Belarus; • factors affecting the competitiveness of Belarusian industry under changing conditions; • conditions necessary for the development of advanced production technologies at industrial enterprises; • priority directions in the development of the real sector of the Belarusian economy; • strategy for the development of the real sector of Belarus; • view of private investors on the economic conditions in Belarus; • presentation of promising investment proposals. Speakers: - Sergey Gynko, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Belarus - Philipp Brunner, CEO Stadler Minsk - Oleg Khusaenov, Managing Partner, Chief Executive Officer of the management company equity fund Zubr Capital - Sergei Vaganov, Acting Director of National Agency of Investment and Privatization - Illia Shulipin, Head of the representative office of SAP CIS in Belarus - Sergei Dorozhko, National focal point of UNIDO programs on resource efficiency and clean production - Success-stories from international business people who have realized investment projects in Belarus Moderator: James Shotter, Central Europe Correspondent, The Financial Times |
Green economy and energy: problems and business opportunities (Hall “National”) • role of the government in promoting green economy: global and local contexts; • strategy for energy system development: system planning, strategic challenges and opportunities for private investors; openness of the planning process, creating the right expectations for investors; • policy instruments that stimulate green growth: compliance with best international standards and practices; tax and non-tax (tightening emission limits, taxing polluting emissions, encourage innovation, energy-related research and development, tariffs, asymmetric system of quotas etc.); • solving local environmental problems by applying green technologies: -Municipal wastes – what are key challenges? -Biofuels and agricultural waste – what is the potential and how to deploy it? • foreign experience in developing and stimulating green investments: are there opportunities in Belarus? What are the key risks and barriers? What are best practices to address them? • government budget constraints and fiscal stimulus (subsidies, cross subsidies, tariffs policy); ways to use PPP framework to boost green development and potential role for IFIs • Can nuclear power be an alternative for renewables? How to design and balance the system properly? Speakers: - Vadim Zakrevsky, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Republic of Belarus - Iya Malkina, First Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of the Republic of Belarus - Torsten Merkel, CEO at Pure Energy Intelligence (Ireland-Belarus) - Vincent Duijnhouwer, Associate Director, Product & Business Development, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change team - Sergey Chizhov, First Deputy CEO VP GR & Sustainable Business Development - Olga Volchek, ENECA (Belarus) - Darya Zhuk, Managing Partner at COBALT (Belarus) Moderator: Anton Chernyshev, Project Manager for Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, ECA Power Program, International Finance Corporation Advisory Services
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| 18.10-20.00 | Gala dinner | |
29 September:
| 10.00 – 13.00 | Visit to the HTP, Great Stone Industrial Park, Minsk Free Economic Zone, other business sites |
| 14.00 – 16.00 |
Sightseeing tour around Minsk: • the Independence Square with the House of Government (1929-1933) • the "Red" Krasny Roman Catholic Church (1908) • the Victory Square with its 38 meters high grey obelisk and the eternal flame commemorating the heroes of World War II • the National Library building • Liberty Square and Minsk Town hall Sightseeing tour is conducted by appointment. Meeting point: «President hotel», Kirova st, 18. |
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