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The Complex Context of Growth DRAFT AGENDA (as of May 7, 2018)

CONFERENCE DAY ONE

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018

11:30

Arrival of guests & participants Imperial Plovdid Hotel & Spa Registration

12:30

Opening luncheon Guest of honor and Speaker H.E. Boyko Borissov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria

14:30

Ball room EU: clash of visions (plenary) Lilyana Pavlova, Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU Sophie McLoughlin, representative of President Makron’s team, France Loukas Tsoukalis, President ELIAMEP, Greece  Chair: Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

15:45

Ball room Euro area expansion (plenary) George Provopoulos, Chairman, Supervisory Board of Eurobank Bulgaria AD Dr Marek Dabrowski, Non-Resident Scholar at Bruegel, Brussels Henry Newman, Director Open Europe, UK  Chair: Dr. Georgy Ganev, Centre for Liberal Strategies

16:45

Ball room Euro banking union (plenary) Georgios Kyrtsos, Member of the European Parliament, Greece Petia Dimitrova, CEO, Postbank, Bulgaria Levon Hampartzoumian, CEO & Chairman, Board of UniCredit Bulbank Corina Stratulat, Senior Policy Analyst, EPC Chair: Nikolay Stoyanov, journalist & financial analyst, Capital weekly 2  Confirmed Speaker Working language English and Bulgarian

17:45

18:00

Break

Ball room European energy union Opening Statements Temenuzhka Petkova, Minister of Energy of Bulgaria Aleksandar Antic, Minister of Mining & Energy, Serbia Comments on oil and gas Teodora Georgieva, Executive Officer & Board Member, ICGB AD Alex Lagakos, Founding Chairman, Greek Energy Forum, Greece Erol User, President & CEO, User Danismanlik AS, Turkey Comments on electricity and renewables Olivier Marquette, President, AES Bulgaria  Slavtcho Neykov, Chairman, Energy Management Institute  Chair: Dr. Ognian Minchev, Director, Institute for Regional & International Studies, Bulgaria

18:00

Imperial Hall Western Balkans prospects Jadranka Joksimovic, Minister for EU integration, Serbia George Ciamba, State Secretary, Romania Dimitris Kourkoulas, Deputy Foreign Minister 2012-2015, Hellenic Republic Emma Hopkins, Ambassador of Great Britain to Bulgaria Dr Marek Dabrowski, Non-Resident Scholar at Bruegel, Brussels  Chair: Vessela Tcherneva, Deputy Director, ECFR, Bulgaria

3  Confirmed Speaker Working language English and Bulgarian

18:00

Panorama The Geopolitics of the Region (plenary) Eric Lebedel, Ambassador of France Konstantinos Filis, Research Director, Institute of International Relations,Greece Irit Lilian, Ambassador of Israel Roland Hauser, Ambassador of the Republic of Austria Vladimir Gligorov, Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies, Austria Chair: Antoinette Primatarova

20:00

Dinner (by invitation only) Speaker Ekaterina Zaharieva, Deputy P.M. Judicial Reform & Minister of Foreign Affairs

4  Confirmed Speaker Working language English and Bulgarian

CONFERENCE DAY TWO

09:30

10.00

FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018

Ball room In Conversation (plenary) Tomislav Donchev, Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria Ball room In Conversation (plenary) The Challenge of an inclusive Growth Dr. Arup Banerji, Regional Director for the E.U. Countries, WBG, Belgium

10.30

Ball room In Conversation (plenary) Emil Karanikolov, Minister of Economy of Bulgaria

11.00

Break

11.30

Ball room Bulgaria’s capital formation and developments in FDI Stamen Yanev, Executive Director, Investbulgaria Agency Marco Montecchi, President, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria Stamatios Theodoropoulos, Chairman, Hellenic Business Council in Bulgaria Momchil Andreev, CEO, Energo-Pro Varna EAD Speaker of US corporation based in Bulgaria, TBA Chair: Yordan Mateev, editor-in chief, Forbes Bulgaria

Imperial Hall Corruption & state capture Dr. Anna Damaskou, Chair, Board of Transparency International, Greece Kalin Slavov, Executive Director of Transparency International, Bulgaria Dr. Stefan Popov, Executive Director, RiskMonitor Dr. Ognian Minchev, Director, Institute for Regional & International Studies, Bulgaria  Chair: Dr. Georgy Ganev, Centre for Liberal Strategies

5  Confirmed Speaker Working language English and Bulgarian

13:00

Ball room Regional development and economic clusters in Bulgaria Opening Statements Nikolay Nankov, Minister of Regional Development & Public Works, Bulgaria Dr. Arup Banerji, Regional Director for the E.U. Countries, WBG, Belgium Comments Andreas Beikos, Head, European Investment Bank, Bulgaria Larisa Manastirli, Director EBRD, Sofia Resident Office, Bulgaria Tim Kurt, Chairman, Industrial Cluster Srednogorie Plamen Panchev, Chairman of the Board, TEZ Petar Ganev, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Market Economy Andrey Novakov, Member of the European Parliament European, Bulgaria Georgi Stoev, Industry Watch Chair: Dr. Krassen Stanchev, Board Chairman, Institute for Market Economy Panorama In Conversation Dr. Ivailo Kalfin, former Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria  Chair: Kaloyan Staykov, Institute for Market Economy

14:30

Light Lunch

15.30

Ball room The future is here: open data, artificial intelligence, robots Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Lord Maude of Horsham, Member, House of Lords; Minister of State, Trade and Investment (2015-2016), UK Rumiana Bachvarova, Chief of Cabinet, Prime Minister's Office Anna Diamantopoulou, President, DIKTIO, former EU Commissioner, Greece Managing Representative, Microsoft Bulgaria Chair: Sasha Bezuhanova, Initiator and Founder of MoveBG

6  Confirmed Speaker Working language English and Bulgarian

Imperial Hall Tourism in Bulgaria: a new era Nikolina Angelkova, Minister of Tourism, Bulgaria Ivan Totev, Mayor of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Chair, TBA Panorama Improving the Education output Krasimir Valchev, Minister of Education and Science, Bulgaria Dr. Giuseppe Saccone, Representative Unipegaso-Online University & Universitas Mercatorum Dr. Daniel Valchev, Professor Theory of Law, Sofia University Boyan Zahariev, Open Society Institute Sofia Latchezar Bogdanov, Industry Watch  Chair: Dr. Milla Mineva, Centre for Liberal Strategies 17.00

Break

17:15

Ball room Demography: threats and opportunities Claus Haugaard Sorensen, Special Representative at the Danish Representation to the EU Dr. Elitsa Dimitrova, Associate Professor, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences  Chair: Dr. Ruzha Smilova, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Imperial Hall Rule of Law - security of property rights & contract enforcement (plenary) Dr. Boris Velchev, Judge at the Constitutional Court of Bulgaria; Dr. Evgeni Kanev, Managing partner, Maconis LLC, Bulgaria Dr. Daniel Smilov, Program Director, Centre for Liberal Strategies Ognyan Gerdzhikov, professor in Law, Sofia University  Chair: Yonko Grozev, Judge, European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg

7  Confirmed Speaker Working language English and Bulgarian

18:45

Cocktails

20.00

(Cultural Event)

8 ď ? Confirmed Speaker Working language English and Bulgarian