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Venue

Hilton Antwerp Old Town
Groenplaats 32
2000 Antwerp – Belgium

Special Fee for event participants – visit the registration website to learn more

For the Hilton special rate, the fee is pre-selected in the booking form at the link provided as “PMV”

Thursday 13 June 2019

Interpretation will be provided in DE-EN-ES-FR-IT all day long

9h00 – 10h45 – Meeting of the Board of Directors (reserved to the members of the Board)

11h00 -13h00 – Private session of the General Assembly (reserved to AECM members)

13h00 – 14h00 – Lunch

14h00 – 18h00 – Public Session of the General Assembly (open to all registered participants)

20h00 – Gala Dinner

Friday 14 June 2019

Interpretation will be provided in DE-EN-ES-FR-IT all day long

09h00 -16h30  – AECM Annual Seminar: New Technologies

Saturday 15 June 2019

Tours will be held in English

10h00 -15h30  – Antwerp Tour: Diamonds and beer

Opening

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM
• NN, PMV/z-Waarborgen nv
• NN, Secretary of State, Flemish Region

Key note address

• Othmar Karas, Member of the European Parliament – video message

“Taking stock of SME policy of the outgoing EU Commission”

• Kristin Schreiber, Director, COSME Program, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission

Presentation of the activities of AECM 2018 – 2019

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM

Networking break

Business transfers: results of a study from Germany

• Holger Wassermann, Professor for Controlling and Accounting, FOM University of Applied Science, Berlin
• Sascha Frohwerk, Professor for IT-Management, FOM University of Applied Science, Berlin

Panel on policy drivers of guarantee institutions: Best possible support of SMEs’ access to finance

• Moderator: Guy Selbherr, Chairman of the AECM working group state aid
• Pedro Pisonero Pérez, Chairman of the AECM working group digitisation
• Astrid Bartels, Deputy Head of Unit, COSME Financial Instruments, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission

  Stéphane Ouaki, Head of Unit, Investments and SMEs, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), European Commission and

  Karine Desroses, Chairwoman of the AECM working group financial instruments and structural funds

• Michael Pielke, Head of Unit, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Slovenia; Financial instruments, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development DG AGRI), European Commission – and László Tóth, Chairman of the AECM working group agriculture
• Helmut Kraemer-Eis, Head of Research & Market Analysis, Chief Economist, European Investment Fund (EIF) and  Peter Sleeckx, Chairman of the AECM working group statistics and evaluation / impact
• Enrico Gaia, Chairman of the AECM working group law and regulation

Concluding remarks and closing of the meeting

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM

20.00 

Gala Dinner

 Opening statements:

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM
• NN, PMV/z-Waarborgen nv
• NN, Flemish government / ministry

 Key note addresses        

• Peteris Zilgalvis, Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and Blockchain, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), European Commission
• Jakub Boratynski, Head of the Unit, Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Policy, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) – tbc.
• Eva Kaili, Member of the European Parliament – tbc.
• Alessandro Tappi, Chief Investment Officer at the European Investment Fund (EIF)

 Impulse statement: Insights in the FinTech evolution

• Jurgen Ingels, IT-entrepreneur and specialist in FinTechs

Networking break

Panel 1: How digitization and especially FinTechs change the financial world (pros and cons): Specific challenges for SMEs

• Moderator and introductory speaker: Lucia Cusmano, Acting Head of Division SME and Entrepreneurship, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities and Executive Secretary for the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE), OECD, Paris
• Burçak Inel, Head of Financing Growth, European Banking Federation (EBF)
• Benjamin Ledwon, Head of Brussels Office, BITKOM e.V.. German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media
• Luc Hendrickx, Enterprise Policy Director, SMEunited – tbc.
• NN, Entrepreneur promoted by SOWALFIN, Belgium – tbd.

 Panel 2: How will the partnership with FinTechs change the business of guarantee institutions: Management, infrastructure and mining of big data

• Moderator and introductory speaker: Matthew Gamser, CEO, The SME Finance Forum
• Ana García Robles, Secretary General of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA)
• Lex van Teeffelen, Professor of Finance and Firm Acquisition, Research Center Innovation and Business, HU Business School, Utrecht / The Netherlands
• Giuseppe Gramigna, Chief Economist, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) – tbc.
• NN, Fintech – tbd.

Group photo

Networking lunch

Panel 3: How will digitisation change and impact on the processes of guarantee institutions

• Moderator and introductory speaker: Marie-Claude Taillandier–Thomas, Directorate lnternational Affairs and University, Bpifrance, France
• Daniel Goupillard, President of the National Federation of the SOCAMA, France “guarantee procedure via an app”
• NN, VDB, Germany “cooperation with digital enablers” (confirmation to speak received)
• NN, Assoconfidi, Italy “guarantees for crowdlending platforms” (confirmation to speak received)
• NN, Altum (confirmation to speak received)
• Antonio Couceiro, President of CESGAR, Spain “Digitisation and technological platform for guarantees”

Closing Remarks

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM
• NN, PMV/z-Waarborgen nv

AECM annual event 2020 presentation

End of Seminar  

AECM Seminar Fee – Member

AECM Seminar Fee – Non- Member

Fashion walk Antwerp
Tour for accompanying partners
Friday 14 June 2019
14.00 – 16.00 

Antwerp is the Belgium capital of fashion,  the city where it all started for the famous internationally known Antwerp six .  
Discover all about the Antwerp six with Tanguy Ottomer, fashion expert who will guide you through the most exclusive shops and surprise you with a visit behind the scene of Essentiel.

Limited places! 

ATypical Gala dinner
Thursday 13 June 2019
20.00 

Enjoy one of Antwerp’s landmark locations in great company. Ando no, we won’t tell you more, you’ll just have to come and see what we have in store for you.

Attention: dress code casual and comfortable shoes are recommended!

A-typical Antwerp Tour
Saturday 16 June 2019
10.00 – 14.30  (short option)
10.00 – 15.30  (full option)

Discover two Antwerp specialties: diamond cutting and beer making! In the morning we will visit DIVA, Antwerp’s diamond museum, where an expert diamond cutter will give us a demonstration live. 

Lunch will be held at the Felix Pakhuis with an all Belgian menu and local beers, just to prepare you for the following visit to the Beer Museum.

The tour can be booked for the whole day or there is a short option that ends with the lunch at 14.30.