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Evening Before The Conference

19.00 – 22.00 Welcome Reception
Invitation only

 

DAY 1 (10 September)

 

7.45 – 9.00

Registration and coffee

 

Opening sessions

9.00 – 9.15

New Ukraine Welcome Speech:
Speakers: Mikheil Saakashvili – Head of Odessa State Regional Administration

9.15 – 10.30

NEW Odesa: Odesa Reform Package for the NEW Ukraine;
Moderator: Aleksand Borovyk – Advisor to Head of Odesa State Regional Administartion
Speakers: Mikheil Saakashvili - Head of Odesa State Regional Administration, Lev Partshaladze – First Deputy Head of Kyiv State Regional Administartion, Vladimir Zhmak - First Deputy Head of Odesa State Regional Administration, Iryna Grymak - Deputy Head of Lviv State Regional Administration, Igor Olekhov – Partner at Baker & McKenzie, Ihor Petrashko – Deputy CEO of ULF. 


10.30 – 10.50

Coffee Break

10.50 – 12.00

NEW Society: culture & education as the basis of NEW development
Format: lively debate + Q&A session 
Moderator: Vladimir Yeshkilev – Ukrainian novelist, poet, feature writer
Speakers: Rabbi Abraham Wolf – Chief Rabbi of Odesa and South of Ukraine, Maria Gaidar – Vice-governor of Odesa region on Cultural Affairs, Nadezhda Yashan – Deputy Head of Culture, Tourism, Religion and Nationalities Directorate of Odessa State Regional Administration, Vyacheslav Gerashenko – Vice-dean of Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.

12.00 – 13.30

WHERE TO INVEST I: Venture Tech. Are Ukraine and Odessa especially good places to invest in startups?
Format: Companies present their projects to investors
Moderator: Oleg Betekhtin – iFin, ReportBus Founder
Speakers: Aleksandr Borovyk – Advisor to Head of Odesa State Regional Administartion; Dmytro Tretiak – CEO at iFin, Oleg Matveev – expert in the field of electronic management and state electronic services (Deputy Director/Head of Key Certification of One-Stop Desk Service Cente of SFS Department), Artem Borodatyuk– CEO at Netpeak, Alex Bornyakov – Founder at WannaBiz, Julia Sulimova – Principal at IT-cluster of Odessa, Julia Holovko – CEO at Ringostat, Vladimir Safonov – Project Manager at “Moy Gorod” project, Michael Chernyshev – CEO at Miracast, Sergey Tykhonov – CEO at New Fashion Retailer

13:30 – 14:30

Luncheon

   Afternoon Sessions

14:30 – 16:00

WHERE TO INVEST II: Tourism, Hospitality, Real Estate  
Format: lively debate + Q&A session  
Moderator: Dmitry Musatov – Head of Corporate Finance at KPMG
Speakers: Nick Cotton – Managing Director at DTZ Ukraine, Alla Savchenko – President/Senior Partner at BDO, Dmitry Felixov – Founder & CEO of Virus Music(Zatoka Project), Alise Goloschapova – Head of Touristic Investment Projects at Odesa State Regional Administartion, Anatoly Makovskiy - Director AuxBridge Ukraine, Shido Zoltan – CEO of “ECOINVEST”.    

16.00 – 17.30

Panel Discussion: How to speak the language of investors?
International investors share their wisdom
Role of advisors & consultants in obtaining funding
Format: lively debate + Q&A session 
Moderator: Rodolfo Amoresano – Managing Partner & CIO of ESCP, veteran investor
Speakers: Andrey Pronchenko – Director PwC Ukraine/ Managing Partner of “PriceWaterhouseCoopers Legal” Law Union, Leslie Hawrylyshyn – Co-Managing Partner at Euroventures Ukraine Fund, Oleg Ustenko – Executive Director ta SigmaBleyzer, Arthur Valiullin – Investment Director at Da Vinci Capital, Vladimir Andrienko – Managing Partner at Siguler Guff, Olga Ivanova – representative of SES Fond in Ukraine.
 

17.30 – 17.45

 Coffee Break

17.45 – 19.00

WHERE TO INVEST III: Regional Development & Privatisation
(government projects, ppp projects and options)
Format: lively debate + Q&A session
Moderator: Aleksand Borovyk – Advisor to Head of Odesa State Regional Administartion
Speakers: Eugene Soykin - Odesa State Regional Administartion, Einar Vallbaum - Member of Estonian Parliament & President of ERAA, Yuri Piht - CEO of Green Marine, Max Scarberry – COO of TriCoastal Horizons, Andrew Zablotsky - Senior Associate at Sayenko Kharenko, Vladimir Shemayev – Head of Infrastructural Projects at Odesa State Regional Administartion, Nicolay Yevstifeev – Head of Transport and Investment Projects at Odesa State Regional Administartion.

19:00 – 19:30

Q&A session  with Odesa State Regional Administration

19.30 –
till the sun :)

SPECIAL AFTER PARTY

 DAY 2 (11 September) – Optional site visits to Odesa Port and enterprises