GNGI Meeting
(by invitation only – meeting in English, no interpretation provided)

AECM-REGAR Task Force on additionality
(by invitation only – meeting in English, no interpretation provided)

Meeting of the Board of Directors
(reserved to the members of the Board)

Private session of the General Assembly
(reserved to AECM members)

Public Session of the General Assembly
(open to all registered participants)

AECM Annual Seminar: New Technologies

Opening

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM
• Michel Casselman, General Manager, PMV/z-Waarborgen nv

Key note address

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

“Taking stock of SME policy of the outgoing EU Commission and looking at the challenges ahead ”

• 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

PRESENTATION / PDF

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

PRESENTATION / PDF

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
• Barbara Cattrysse, Senior Legal Counsel, European Investment Bank (EIB)
• Astrid Bartels, Deputy Head of Unit, COSME Financial Instruments, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission  and Michel Cottet, rapporteur 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 impact
• Enrico Gaia, Chairman of the AECM working group law and regulation

PRESENTATION / PDF

Concluding remarks and closing of the meeting

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM

Opening statements:

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM
• Filip Lacquet, Group Manager Corporate Finance, PMV/z-Waarborgen nv

Key note addresses        

• Helen Kopman, Deputy Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and Blockchain, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), European Commission.

PRESENTATION / PDF

• Alessandro Tappi, Chief Investment Officer at the European Investment Fund (EIF)
• Leo van de Loock, Transition Manager Industry 4.0 at Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen

PRESENTATION / PDF

Impulse statement: Insights in the FinTech evolution

• Jurgen Ingels, IT-entrepreneur and specialist in FinTechs

PRESENTATION / PDF

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
• Marco Vanzetti, Entrepreneur promoted by ISMEA, Vanzetti Holstein, Italy

PRESENTATION / PDF

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

• 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
• Nico Peters, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Compeon, the leading product and supplier-independent full-service provider in Germany for SMEs’ access to finance
• Wim De Waele, CEO, B-Hive, a European collaborative innovation fintech platform that brings together major banks, insurers and market infrastructure players

PRESENTATION / PDF

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

• Moderator and introductory speaker: Marie-Claude Taillandier–Thomas, Development Manager at The International and European Affairs Department, Bpifrance, France
• Beatriz Freitas, President of the Board of Directors of SPGM, Portugal  “Industry 4.0 – support for digitization”
• Daniel Goupillat, President of the National Federation of the SOCAMA, France “Guarantee procedure via an app”
• Antonio Couceiro, President of CESGAR, Spain “Digitisation and technological platform for guarantees”
• Jēkabs Krieviņš, Member of the Board of Directors of Altum, Latvia “The digital journey of Altum” 
• Seán Farrell, Head of Product Development, SBCI Ireland “Creating a Digital Platform to serve a Digitising economy”
• Bernhard Krautschneider, Deputy CIO aws, Austria “Digital all the way”

Closing Remarks

• Bernhard Sagmeister, Chairman of AECM

AECM annual event 2020 presentation