The Third International Economic Forum
"INNOVATIONS. INVESTMENTS. KHARKIV INITIATIVES!"
FORUM PROGRAM
September 30, 2011, Friday
9:00-9:50 Registration of participants (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration — 64 Sumskaya Street, 1st Floor).
9:15-9:55 Meeting of Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Mikhail Dobkin and Chairman of the Kharkiv Region Council Sergiy Chernov with heads of foreign delegations and international organizations representatives (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration – 64, Sumskaya Street, 2nd Floor, Small Conference Hall)
10:00-11:30 "The Economic Growth strategy" plenary session (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration — 64 Sumskaya Street, the 4th Floor, Grand Hall)
- Solemn opening of the Forum, Speech of welcome from the President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovich
Mikhail Dobkin, Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration - Welcoming speeches of diplomatic body representatives and heads of official delegations
- Region priority development strategy
Mikhail Dobkin, Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration - Investment Reform - a radical increase of investment attractiveness of Ukraine
Vitaliy Demyanyuk, Vice-Chairman of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects of Ukraine - The Kharkiv Sustainable Development Strategy
Gennadiy Kernes, the Mayor of Kharkiv - EBRD – investments for sustainable economic development
Andre Kuusvek, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Ukraine, Director - Direct foreign investments and national competitiveness
Howard Ockman, USAID Local investments and National Competitiveness, Chief of Party - Nestlé in Kharkiv: Investments for Economic Growth of the Region
Maurizio Patarnello, Managing Director of Nestlé Ukraine and Moldova - Inter-regional cooperation in order to enhance the investment attractiveness of regions
Boris Petrov, Chairman of the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration - Signing of the Cooperation Agreement between the Kharkiv region and the State Agency for Investment and National Projects of Ukraine
- Signing of the Cooperation Agreement between the Kharkiv Regional State Administration and the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration
11:40-11:55 Meeting of Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Mikhail Dobkin, Chairman of the Kharkiv Region Council Sergiy Chernov, Chairman of the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration Boris Petrov, Vice-Chairman of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects of Ukraine Vitaly Demyanyuk with mass media representatives (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration – 64, Sumskaya Street, 2nd Floor lobby)
11:30-12:00 Coffee break (Grand hall lobby)
12:00-13:30 "Investment attractiveness of Ukraine begins with the investment attractiveness of its regions" plenary session (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration — 64 Sumskaya Street,the 4th Floor, Grand Hall)
- Project approach to attraction of investments to the region
Yurij Sapronov, Vice-Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration; Responsible Secretary of the Kharkiv Region Committee on Economic reforms - High potential of machinery construction in the Kharkiv region
Viktor Subbotin, Turboatom JSC, Director General - Public-Private Partnership: Prospects in Ukraine
Andy Kuzich, PwC Ukraine, Business Development Director - Specific features of projects financing in the era of changes
Vadim Bodaev, SigmaBleyzer, Director, Government Affairs, Ukraine - Components of success: an effective business plan, real investments, energy of management
Oleg Shpilman, Head of the group of companies with foreign investments "Book Club "Family Leisure Club" - The role of international investors in hydrocarbon potential development of the Kharkiv region
Oleksiy Tatarenko, SHELL, Government Relations Adviser, Ukraine - Ukraine on the way to a new economy
Yaroslav Voitko, Policy Manager of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine - Corporate restructuring as a precondition for foreign investment attraction
Adrian Opaits, Senior Manager, Tax and Legal services, PwC Ukraine
13:40-13:55 Meeting of Vice-Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Yuriy Sapronov, Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Ukraine André Küüsvek, Business Development Director of PwC Ukraine Andy Kuzich, Managing Director of Nestlé Ukraine and Moldova Maurizio Patarnello with mass media representatives (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration – 64, Sumskaya Street, 2nd Floor lobby)
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 “Investment reform - the introduction of efficient mechanisms of investors assistance” panel discussion (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration — 64 Sumskaya Street, the 4th Floor, Grand Hall)
Moderators:
Vitaly Demyanyuk, Vice-chairman of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects of Ukraine
Vasiliy Fedyuk, Head of the Regional Development Department of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects of Ukraine
Key topics to discuss:
- Simplification of procedures - "Single investment window"
- Exchange of investment projects
- Fund for project documentation financing
- Regional Council of investors - incubator of success stories
Panel discussion participants:
Sergey Avershin, Head of the General Economic Department of Kharkiv Regional State Administration
Andy Kuzich, PwC Ukraine, Business Development Director
Andrey Mochenkov, Proconsul group of companies, General Director
Yuriy Gusev, Deputy Head of the Investment and Innovation Policy Department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine
Kseniya Sydorkina, USAID Local Investment and National Competitiveness Project (LINC), Investment Promotion Advisor
Alexander Dudka, Communal Enterprise “Industrial Park “Rogan”, Director
14:30-16:00 "High yielding agriculture panel discussion" (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration — 64 Sumskaya Street, 2nd Floor, Small Conference Hall)
Moderators:
Vitaliy Alekseichuk, Vice-Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration
Vadim Bodaev, SigmaBleyzer, Director, Government Affairs, Ukraine
Key topics to discuss:
- Growth in demand for agricultural products
- Agricultural potential of the Kharkiv region
- Investment in agricultural business in Ukraine
- Cancellation of the moratorium on land sales
- Wholesale markets of agricultural products
Panel discussion participants:
Mikhail Klepach, Chief of the General Department of Land Resources of the Kharkiv region
Elena Kulik, the alternate head of the General Department of Agricultural Development of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration
Victor Kyrychenko, Plant Production Institute named after V.Ya. Yuriev of Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, Director; Head of the Kharkiv region’s APP Center
Igor Kutsenko, the Charіvniy Svitanok / Agro LLC, Director
Stanislav Dvoskin, “RSP “Leleka” Ltd, Director
Adrian Opaits, Senior Manager, Tax and Legal Services, PwC Ukraine
14:30-16:00 “Investments into Innovations” panel discussion (Conference Hall of the Academic Council of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4 Svobody Sq., 4th floor)
Moderators:
Vil Bakirov, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Rector
Ivan Karnaukhov, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the National Science Center "Kharkov Physical-Technical Institute", Deputy Director General
Key topics to discuss:
- Participation of Ukraine in the international technology transfer
- Venture Investment of innovations
- Development of an innovation infrastructure in the region: science parks, technological parks, Technopolis "Pyatihatki"
- Benchmarking and Foresight
Panel discussion participants:
Leonid Tovazhnjansky, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute", Rector
Nikolay Repnikov, Belgorod State National Research University technopark, Director
Maximilian Foedinger, EU Project Joint Support Office for Enhancing Ukraine’s Integration into the European Research Area (JSO-ERA), Expert on Innovation and Technology Transfer
Nikolai Azarenkov, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Vice-Rector for scientific and pedagogical work
Vladimir Chizhov,"Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology" National Science Center, Deputy Director General
Igor Girka, The Institute of High Technologies, Director
Nikolai Zamirets, Instrument-Making Research Technological Institute state enterprise, Director
14:30-16:00 "Interragional Cooperation and Ways of the Region Competitiveness Improving" panel discussion (Conference hall of the Senate of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4 Svobody Sq., 4, 2nd floor, room 2-49)
Moderators:
Anatoly Pedeshko, Head of the General Department of Foreign Economic Relations and International Relations of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration
Irina Tikhomirova, President of the International Management Institute
Key topics to discuss:
- Competitive advantages of the region
- Marketing in the context of globalization
- Development of the international cooperation
- Leading industrial clusters in the region — prospects for competitive growth
Panel discussion participants:
Viktor Zverev, President of the Kharkiv Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Alexander Kucherenko, CIDA “Local economic development of cities in Ukraine”, Project Manager
Sergey Solomin, Deputy Trade Representative of the Russian Federation in Ukraine
Natalia Vnukova, Head of the Financial Services Management Department of the Kharkiv National University of Economics
Irina Konovalova, European Business Association, Regional Manager
Vyacheslav Paramonov, First Deputy Head of the General Department for Foreign Economic Relations and International Relations of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration
14:30-16:00 "International Initiatives for Economic Co-operation with Estonia" panel discussion (Conference hall of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Central Scientific Library, 4 Svobody Sq., 9th floor)
Moderator:
Key topics to discuss:
- Ukrainian-Estonian economic relations
- Business Environment in Estonia for foreign trade and investment activity
- Grants and services of Enterprise Estonia
- Estonian Business Association in Ukraine EBAU
- Business in Estonia after several years of work in Ukraine
- Innovations information technologies and e-government
Panel discussion participants:
Mati Murd, Temporary Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of Estonia in Ukraine
Andre Kuusvek, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Ukraine, Director
Raivo Tamkivi, TEHNOPOL Tallinn Technology Park , Executive Board Advisor
Estonian business delegation representatives
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 “Kharkiv initiatives — the energy of growth” plenary session (the Kharkiv Regional State Administration — 64 Sumskaya Street, 4th Floor, Grand Hall)
- Local self-government. Investment Partnership
Sergey Chernov, Chairman of the Kharkiv Region Council - Investments in the safe nuclear power engineering
Ivan Neklyudov, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine; "Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology" National Science Center, Director General - Region innovation infrastructure development projects
Mikhail Bondarenko, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv National University of Radio and Electronics, Rector - The path to high yields
Aleksej Zaytsev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Sady Ukrainy agricultural company LLC - The Sustainable Development Strategy of the Kharkiv region till 2020 - road map of the regional economic development
Nikolay Kizim, Industrial Development Problems Research Center, Director - Practice - the criterion of truth
Vasiiy Fedyuk, Director of the Regional Development Department of the State Agency for Investment and National Projects of Ukraine - Kharkiv region - the territory of exclusive possibilities!
Alexander Dudka, Rogan industrial park communal enterprise, Director - Summing up the Forum results
Mikhail Dobkin, Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration
18:00-18:30 The buses take Forum participants to the Albatross restaurant, placed at the Superior Golf Club (1-a, Akademika Kurchatova Ave.)
18:30-21:30 Cocktail reception for the participants of the International Economic Forum "INNOVATIONS, INVESTMENTS, KHARKIV INITIATIVES!"
Participants will be transported from the Albatross restaurant to the Kharkiv Region State Administration (64, Sumskaya Street) by buses, which run every 15 minutes: from 19:30 to 22:00.
