Thursday
6 June 2024
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| 08:45 – 09:15 |
Registration
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| 09:15 – 12:30 |
Meeting of the Board of Directors and of the ordinary General Assembly
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| 09:15 – 09:45 |
Board of Directors meeting (part 1)
– for AECM members of the Board only
registration and documents via member area of AECM’s website
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| 09:45 – 10:00 |
Networking break
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| 10:00 – 11:30 |
Meeting of the internal ordinary General Assembly – i. a. election of the Board of Directors
– for AECM members only
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| 11:30 – 11:45 |
Networking break
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| 11:45 – 12:30 |
Board of Directors meeting (part 2) – constitutive meeting – i. a. election of the President of AECM
– for AECM members of the Board only
registration and documents via member area of AECM’s website
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00– 18:15 |
Public session of the General Assembly
Interpretation: EN, FR
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| 14:00 – 14:30 |
Welcome & Opening
- NN, President of the Management Board, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), Poland (tbd)
- NN, President of AECM (tbd)
- Andrzej Domański, Minister of Finance, Poland (tbc)
- Tadeusz Białek, President, Polish Bank Association (ZBP) (tbc)
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| 14:30 – 14:45 |
Introductory speech “Supporting SMEs: from the current to the next European Commission”
Merete Clausen, Director Investment, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission
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| 14:45 – 15:45 |
Panel 1: Financial ecosystems and key crosscutting issues for SMEs
Moderator: Gerhard Huemer, Director Economic Policy, SMEunited
- Milena Angelova, Member at European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and SME Envoy, Bulgaria
- Sébastien de Brouwer, Deputy CEO, European Banking Federation (EBF)
- Simona Grobelnik, Head of Department, Department for Strategic Development and Legal Affairs, Slovene Enterprise Fund (SEF), Slovenia
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| 15:45 – 16:00 |
Networking break
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| 16:00 – 16:15 |
Introductory speech “EU financial instruments – the EIF’s experiences”
Roger Havenith, Deputy Chief Executive, European Investment Fund (EIF)
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| 16:15 – 17:15 |
Panel 2: Implementing InvestEU – lessons learnt?
Moderator: Elias Jokinen, EU Finance Manager, Finnvera, Finland
- Antongiulio Marin, Head of Unit, InvestEU implementation, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission
- Astrid Bartels, Head of Unit, Access to Finance, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission
- Ana Vizcaíno Ochoa, Managing Director, Compañía Española de Reafianzamiento (CERSA), member of CESGAR, Spain
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| 17:15 – 18:15 |
Panel 3: Monitoring and Reporting
Moderator and introductory speaker: Viviane Mol, Senior Investment Manager, Wallonie Entreprendre, Belgium (tbc)
- Koen Dierckx, Head of Unit, Budgetary guarantees and risk analysis, Directorate-General for Budget (DG BUDG), European Commission
- Dorota Denning, Principal Adviser, Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB), Secretariat-General, European Commission
- NN (tbd)
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| 18:15 |
End of the public session
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| 19:15 – 19:45 |
Transport services to the venue of the Gala Dinner
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| 20:00 – 02:00 |
Gala Dinner
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Friday
7 June 2024
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| 08:45 – 09:00 |
Registration
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| 09:00 – 15:30 |
Annual seminar on “Twin Transition (green and digital)”
Interpretation: EN, FR
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| 09:00– 09:15 |
Welcome & Opening
- NN, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), Poland (tbd)
- Krzysztof Hetman, Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Poland (tbc)
- NN, President of AECM (tbd)
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| 09:15 – 9:30 |
Keynote speech: title tbd
- Hans Koning, Chief Industry Specialist Digital Finance, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
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| 9:30 – 10:30 |
Panel 1: Sustainable development – how can the digital and green transition be combined
Moderator and introductory speaker: Przemysław Kulik, Director of CSR and Sustainability Reporting Office, BGK (tbc)
- Andrea Bomhoff, Head of Unit, State aid — Financial institutions I, Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), European Commission
- Nikolaos Tritaris, Senior Advisor Green Gateway and Climate and Urban Finance Advisory, European Investment Bank (EIB)
- Giovanni Zazzerini, Secretary General, INSME – The International Network for SMEs
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| 10:30 –10:40 |
Keynote speech: Navigating the Path to Growth & Sustainability for SMEs
Ismini Papakirillou, Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), Greece
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| 10:40 – 11:10 |
Networking break
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| 11:10 – 11:20 |
Keynote speech: “The twin transition (digital and green) within the SMEs”
Mateusz Walewski, Director of Research and Analysis Department, BGK
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| 11:20 – 11:30 |
Keynote speech: a green and digital transition for SMEs
Jun Young Park, Vice President, Korea Federation of Credit Guarantee Foundations (KOREG), Korea
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| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Panel 2: Digitalisation: from global to company level
Moderator: José Fernando Figueiredo, Special Honorary President of AECM with the special mandate for international relations and Founding President of the Global Network of Guarantee Institutions (GNGI)
- Lucia Cusmano, Acting Head SMEs and Entrepreneurship Division, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD
- Seok Kyun (Jason) Park, Senior Deputy Director, Global Cooperation Center, Korea Technology Finance Corporation (KOTEC/KIBO), Korea
- Christopher Laut, CEO and Founder, Stylefy, Germany and Poland and Philip Reibel, Managing Founder of Frontier Kapital, Germany, of Frontier Fund, Germany, and of FK D8, Indonesia
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| 12:30 – 13:00 |
100th BGK Anniversary
- Show
- Video: About BGK
- Speech: History versus present day of BGK – Radosław Milczarski, BGK’s history promotion expert (tbc)
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| 13:00 – 14:00 |
Networking lunch
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| 14:00 – 15:00 |
Panel 3: Internal control system of the guarantees schemes
Moderator and introductory speaker: Bernd Leidner, Managing Partner, LANDT, Germany
- NN, KredEx, Estonia (tbd)
- Konstantinos Makedos, President, TMEDE – the Engineers and Public Works Contractors Fund, Greece
- Vilson Ukaj, Senior Legal Specialist, Kosovo Credit Guarantee Fund (KCGF), Kosovo
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| 15:00 – 15:15 |
Presentation of and invite to the annual event of AECM in 2025 – save the date: 15 to 17 May 2025
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| 15:15 – 15:25 |
Concluding remarks
- NN, President of AECM (tbd)
- NN, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), Poland (tbd)
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| 15:25 – 15:30 |
Group photo and end of seminar
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| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Networking break
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16:00 – 17:40
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Annual meeting of the GNGI
– For GNGI members only – NO interpretation provided
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