Thursday
15 June 2023
Interpretation: EN, FR
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13h00 – 14h00 |
Networking break with welcome snacks
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14h00 – 14h45 |
Meeting of the internal ordinary General Assembly registration and documents via member area of AECM’s website
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14h45 – 15h00 |
Networking break
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15h00 – 18h30 |
Public session of the General Assembly
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15h00 – 15h15 |
Welcome & Opening
- Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
- Athina Chatzipetrou, CEO of the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), Greece
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15h15 -15h30 |
Keynote speech on the EIF’s support for SMEs: state of play and challenges
- Marjut Falkstedt, Chief Executive, European Investment Fund (EIF)
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15h30 -16h30 |
Panel 1: State aid, recovery plans, and ESI Funds: how to strengthen the link and improve the absorption capacity?
- Moderator and introductory speaker: Zane Paula, Senior Project Manager, Program Development Department, ALTUM, Latvia – tbc.
- Jonathan Denness, Head of Unit, Financial Instruments and International Financial Institutions Relations, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), European Commission
- Chris Allen, Senior Expert, Resident Representative in Athens, Unit Greece, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission
- Andreas Bergmann, Policy Officer – State Aid, Unit State aid: case support and policy, Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), European Commission
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16h30 -17h00 |
Networking break
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17h00 -18h20 |
Is the implementation of the InvestEU Programme on track?
Introductory speaker: Giorgio Chiarion Casoni, Director, InvestEU and financial institutions, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission
Panel 2 moderated by Kurt Leutgeb, Head of Guarantees and Equity, Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH (aws), Austria
- Astrid Bartels, Head of Unit, Access to Finance, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission
- Andrea Bomhoff, Head of Unit, State aid — Financial institutions III, Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), European Commission
- Ana Vizcaino Ochoa, Managing Director, Compañía Española de Reafianzamiento (CERSA), Spain
- Mateusz Olszak, Director Guarantees and Sureties Department, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK)
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18h20 -18h30 |
Concluding remarks & end of the public session
- Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
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20h00 |
Gala Dinner
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Friday
16 June 2023
Interpretation: EN, FR
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09h30 – 15h00 |
Annual seminar on “The regulatory framework of SMEs: how close are we to the red line of red tape?”
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09h30 – 09h45 |
Welcome & Opening
- Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
- Athina Chatzipetrou, CEO of the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), Greece
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09h45 – 10h15 |
Keynote addresses: how to improve the regulatory and policy environment for SMEs
- Céline Kauffmann, Head of the Division on Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Tourism, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD – tbc.
- Panagoula Pasxali, Director-General, Ministry of Development and Competitiveness and SME Envoy of Greece – tbc.
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10h15 – 11h15 |
Panel 1: The regulatory environment to finance sustainability for SMEs
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Moderator and introductory speaker: Gerhard Huemer, Director Economic Policy, SMEunited
- NN, British Business Bank (BBB) UK – tbd.
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Burçak İnel, Director of Financing Sustainable Growth, European Banking Federation (EBF)
- Giovanni Zazzerini, Secretary General, INSME – The International Network for SMEs
- Lina Konstantinopoulou, Policy Director, Eurochambres – the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry
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11h15 – 11h30 |
Networking break
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11h30 – 12h30 |
Panel 2: Regulatory framework: striking the right balance
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Moderator and introductory speaker: Giuseppe Gramigna, Senior Advisor i.a. of the World Bank Group and of AECM
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NN, Bank of Greece – tbd.
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NN, Deutsche Bundesbank / German Central Bank – tbd.
- László Tóth, Deputy CEO, Rural Credit Guarantee Foundation (AVHGA), Hungary
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Gernot Rößler, Deputy Managing Director, Verband Deutscher Bürgschaftsbanken (VDB), Germany
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12h30 -13h30 |
Group photo followed by a networking break
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13h30 – 14h45 |
Panel 3: The regulatory framework of SMEs from an international perspective
Introductory speaker: NN, Ibero-American network of guarantees association, REGAR – tbc.
Moderator: José Fernando Figueiredo, Special Honorary President of AECM with the special mandate for international relations and founding Co-Cordinator of the Global Network of Guarantee Institutions (GNGI)
- Nagla Bahr, President of the Euro-Mediterranean Guarantee Network (EMGN) and Managing Director, Credit Guarantee Company, Egypt – tbc.
- NN, Korea Federation of Credit Guarantee Foundations (KOREG), Korea – tbd.
- NN, tbd.
- NN, tbd.
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14h45 – 15h00 |
Concluding remarks & presentation of the AECM annual event 2024
- Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
- Athina Chatzipetrou, CEO of the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), Greece
- Mateusz Olszak, Director Guarantees and Sureties Department, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), Poland, host of the AECM annual event in 2024
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15h00 – 15h30 |
Networking break
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15h30 – 17h30 |
Annual meeting of the GNGI
– For members only –
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