News
Programme
- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 01, 2009
- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 02, 2009
| GALA OPENING/ WELCOME SPEECHES | |
| Mykola Kmit, Head of Lviv Regional State Administration | |
| Victor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine | |
| PLENARY SESSION І – The impact of global economic crisis on the investment climate and attracting investments into Ukrainian regions (PART 1) | Session Head – Victor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine |
| EURO-2012: from regional transformations to modernization of the whole country | Ivan Vasyunyk, Deputy to Prime Minister of Ukraine |
10 steps towards the investor despite the global economic crisis | Mykola Kmit, Head of Lviv Regional State Administration |
Ukraine’s competitive advantages in the global market place | Jorge Zukoski, President of American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine |
Trends and structural changes in the regional economies of Ukraine: the crisis implications | Prof. Igor Burakovsky, Head of the Board – Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting |
Competitiveness as the basis for regional economic development in Ukraine | Margareta D. Hanuz, director, senior economist of the World Economic Forum, Global Competitiveness Network |
| New approaches to FDI promotion in Ukraine | Vladyslav Kaskiv, MP Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, councellor to the Prime-Minister of Ukraine for foreign investments |
The shadow economy as the precondition of attracting investments to Ukraine | Vitaliy Antonov, Head of the Advisory Board, Halnaftohas Concern |
| Innovations as the base of city economy development | Andriy Sadovy, Lviv City Mayor |
Investment climate in Ukraine | Karin Rau, Delegate of German Economy in Ukraine |
| PLENARY SESSION І – The impact of global economic crisis on the investment climate and attracting investments into Ukrainian regions (Continued, PART 2) | Moderator – Jorge Zukoski, President of American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine |
| Ukraine and CEE in the economic downturn: macroeconomic perspective | Pavel Cetcovsky, Erste Bank Ukraine Deputy CEO |
| Setting the system of attracting FDI on the ground | Petro Koshukov, President of ProInvest, Ukrainian Association of Investment Promotion Professionals |
| Mechanisms of attracting investments into the regional economies of Ukraine: the example of Rivne Oblast | Viktor Matchuk, Head of Rivne State Regional Administration |
| Investment project case: Municipal Solid Wastes recovery by co-processing in cement plant | Günther Smetana, General Manager, Chairman of the Management Board OJSC Mykolayivcement, Lafarge Group |
| Working together through the crisis. EBRD view | Andre Kuusvek, Head of EBRD in Ukraine |
| PLENARY SESSION IІ – Regional development strategies as a precondition for regions’ sustainable economic growth | Moderator – Yuriy Tretyak, Executive Director of National Association of Regional Development Agencies of Ukraine |
| New state regional policy for Ukraine: the system of regional economic planning | Yevhen Fyshko, Head of the Department of regional policy of the Ministry of regional development and construction of Ukraine |
| National competitiveness of Ukraine: regional aspects | Valeriy Yuzhba, MP, Head of the Competitiveness Council of Ukraine |
| Regional level: developing & implementing the regional economic strategy for Donetsk Oblast: case study | Anatoliy Blyznyuk, Head of Donetsk Regional Council |
| Lviv economic growth via successful development of industry clusters | Yevgeniy Orlovsky, Project Lead at Monitor Group |
| Economic strategies at the municipal and regional levels: case studies of Ukrayinka and other small towns of Ukraine | Pavlo Kozyrev, Vice-President of Association of Ukrainian Cities, Head of Association of Small Towns of Ukraine, Ukrayinka City Mayor |
| Developing and implementing regional branding strategies | Steve Santangelo, Senior Director of Consulting at FutureBrand |
| Applying international standards of regional economic development planning in Ukraine | Tanja Zabukovec-Kovacic, Team Leader, Support to Sustainable Regional Development in Ukraine project |
| Analytical support needed for development of viable and sustainable regional economic strategies | Oksana Kusiakiv, Chief Executive Head of Сenter for Contemporary Society Studies of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting |
| Center – regions: how to build relations during crisis | Marina Cherenkova, Deputy of Donetsk Regional Council |
| GALA EVENING | |
| PARALLEL SESSION I – PANEL DISCUSSION Innovations as a foundation for regional competitiveness: IT and R&D (the programme being finalized) |
Moderator – Ihor Katernyak, CEO, Ukrainian Distance Learning System (UDL System). Introduction. How to integrate long-term priorities in knowledge, science, technology in short-term ‘anti-crisis’ regional policy |
| Thomas Karlsson, CEO, Munktell Science Park |
Sten Ekman, UBDC Project Owner, Doctor/ PhD. Innovation Science & Management, Mälardalen University |
| Prof. Yarema Savula, Dean of the Applied Mathematics Faculty, Lviv National Ivana Franka University |
| Oleksiy Skrypnyk, CEO, Eleks Software |
| Kiril Dmitriev, Director of the West territorial branch at MTS-Ukraine |
Discussion |
| E-governance and e-cities: the benefits for citizens and business |
| Andriy Semenchenko, Deputy Head of the State Committee for Informatization of Ukraine |
| Pavlo Kozyrev, Vice-President of Association of Ukrainian Cities, Head of Association of Small Towns of Ukraine, Ukrayinka City Mayor |
Discussion |
| PARALLEL SESSION II – PANEL DISCUSSION Ways to attract investments in regional economies. |
| Moderator – Olena Hantsyak-Kaskiv, Director of InvestUkraine, National Agency of Ukraine for Foreign Investment and Development. Investment climate on the ground: who is shaping it? What can Ukrainian regions offer to foreign investors? Key obstacles for attracting FDI: what can be mitigated at the regional and municipal levels? |
| Jorge Zukoski, President of American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine |
Alona Ponomareva, IFC Principal Investment Officer Central & Eastern Europe Department |
| Roberta Brzezinski, Partner at Abris Capital Partners |
| Volodymyr Chayka, Mykolayiv City Mayor |
| Petro Koshukov, President of ProInvest (Ukrainian Investment Promotion Professional Association) |
| International best practices of attracting FDI – how applicable can they be in Ukraine? IPAs (Investment Promotion Agencies) as the institutional tool for regions and cities: role, functions, mechanisms of set |
| Carl Gardiner, International Advisor, Scottish Development International |
| Douglas Clark, Director of Tenon Techlocate |
| Alexander Škurla, Assigned Head of International Cooperation Department of Foreign Trade Section, Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency |
| Valentyna Poltavets, Director of Agency for Communities Economic Development |
Ruslan Svirsky, Senior Consultant of ProInvest (Ukrainian Investment Promotion Professional Association) |
| PARALLEL SESSION PANEL DISCUSSION III - Mechanisms of economic regeneration of industrial regions. |
Moderator – Andriy Blinov, Chief Editor of Expert–Ukraine magazine. What are the ways to modernize Ukrainian industrial regions and mono-profile towns? How can regional industrial economies be restructured: approaches and mechanisms? How can the mechanisms of free economic zones and public & private partnerships be applied? |
| Anatoliy Blyznyuk, Head of Donetsk Regional Council |
| Yevhen Kartashov, Zaporizhzhya City Mayor |
| Oleksandr Antipov, Head of Luhansk State Regional Administration |
| Vasyl Abaimov, Deputy Head of the All-Ukrainian Association of village and rural-type settlement councils, Dobrotvir City Mayor |
Pavlo Kozyrev, Vice-President of Association of Ukrainian Cities, Head of Association of Small Towns of Ukraine, Ukrayinka City Mayor |
| Prof. Igor Burakovsky, Head of the Board – Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting |
| Oleksandr Alipov, General Manager, "Voda Donbassa Company" |
Markian Malskyy, Head of Arzinger Lviv Branch |
| Yuriy Tretyak, Executive Director of National Association of Regional Development Agencies of Ukraine |
| International experience of revamping industrial towns and districts by means of attracting strategic FDIs and implementing economic development mechanisms |
| Carl Gardiner, International Advisor, Scottish Development International |
| Douglas Clark, Director of Tenon Techlocate |
| Courtney Fingar, fDi Magazine/ Financial Times Editor |
| PARALLEL SESSION PANEL DISCUSSION IV – Marketing and mobilizing endogenous regional potential: tourism and local industries |
| Moderator – Natalya Popovych, President of PRP Group. What is destination marketing and branding? How can it help regions and cities to achieve sustainable growth? |
| Steve Santangelo, Senior Director of Consulting at FutureBrand |
| Susan Warren, Head of Tourism Sector at SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation) Balkan |
| Piotr Franaszek, Director of Tourism and Promotion Department of Lublin Region |
| Differentiation and destination marketing through tourism, hospitality and local industries |
Differentiating and marketing destinations through tourism and hospitality sector, local products and services: wine and food industry, folk crafts |
| Evely Baum, Director in Germany of Estonian Tourist Board, Enterprise Estonia |
| Michał Krawczyk, Deputy Head of Lublin City Administration on City Promotion |
Mykola Paliychuk, Head of Ivano-Frankivsk State Regional Administration |
| Andriy Khudo, Head of board, Emotions holding "!FEST" |
Yan Peklo, Executive Director, PAUCI |
| Cultural events as a tool for regions and cities promotion |
Olha Mykhaylyuk, Head of Art-pole project |
| IN PARALLEL - PRESENTATION OF INNOVATIVE PROJECTS (B2B) BY LVIV ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND RESEARCH CENTERS: Modern biotechnology and nanosystems/ ICT/ Design and innovation |
| ROUND TABLE within the Regional Leaders Club meeting featuring the participation of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko: Which tools for social and economic development of the regions of Ukraine work during the economic crisis |
| Moderator - Prof. Igor Burakovsky, Head of the Board – Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting |
| Julia Tymoshenko, Prime-Minister of Ukraine |
| Ivan Vasyunyk, Deputy to Prime Minister |
Vasyl Kuybida, Minister of regional development and construction of Ukraine |
| Myroslav Senyk, Head of Lviv Regional Council |
| Oleksandr Antipov, Head of Lugansk State Regional Administration |
| Anatoliy Blyznyuk, Head of Donetsk Regional Council |
Viktor Matchuk, Head of Rivne State Regional Administration |
| Mykola Paliychuk, Head of Ivano-Frankivsk State Regional Administration |
| Yevhen Kartashov, Zaporizhzhya City Mayor |
| Pavlo Kozyrev, Vice-President of Association of Ukrainian Cities, Head of Association of Small Towns of Ukraine, Ukrayinka City Mayor |
Viktor Anushkevychus, Ivano-Frankivsk City Mayor |
| Andriy Sadovy, Lviv City Mayor |
| Vasyl Abaimov, Deputy Head of the All-Ukrainian Association of village and rural-type settlement councils, Dobrotvir City Mayor |
| Maryna Cherenkova, Deputy to the Donetsk regional Council |
| Summary by Prof. Igor Burakovsky, round table moderator |
| CLOSING COFFEE BREAK /glass of Champagne - Concluding words from the organizers |
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Lviv Economic Week is held for the first time in 2009, and it builds on the success of the traditional annual Lviv International Economic Forum. It is a new open format for discussion and partnership, which takes over best European practices of economic festivals and sets standards for Ukrainian regions. Economics will be at the heart of public dialogue in Lviv September 28 – October 2:
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