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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