AECM Annual Event: Athens, 15-17 June 2023

“The regulatory framework of SMEs: how close are we to the red line of red tape?”

Venue and Hotel

tbd

 

 

Programme

Thursday

15 June 2023

Interpretation: EN, FR

13h00 – 14h00

Networking break with welcome snacks

14h00 – 14h45

Meeting of the internal ordinary General Assembly
registration and documents via member area of AECM’s website

14h45 – 15h00

Networking break

15h00 – 18h30

Public session of the General Assembly

15h00 – 15h15

Welcome & Opening

  • Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
  • Athina Chatzipetrou, CEO of the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), Greece
15h15 -15h30

Keynote speech on the EIF’s support for SMEs: state of play and challenges

  • Marjut Falkstedt, Chief Executive, European Investment Fund (EIF)
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
16h30 -17h00

Networking break

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)
18h20 -18h30

Concluding remarks & end of the public session

  • Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
20h00

Gala Dinner

Friday

16 June 2023

Interpretation: EN, FR 

09h30 – 15h00

Annual seminar on “The regulatory framework of SMEs: how close are we to the red line of red tape?”

09h30 – 09h45

Welcome & Opening

  • Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
  • Athina Chatzipetrou, CEO of the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), Greece
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.
10h15 – 11h15

Panel 1: The regulatory environment to finance sustainability for SMEs

  • Moderator and introductory speaker: Gerhard Huemer, Director Economic Policy, SMEunited

  • NN, British Business Bank (BBB) UK – tbd.
  • 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
11h15 – 11h30

Networking break

11h30 – 12h30

Panel 2: Regulatory framework: striking the right balance

  • Moderator and introductory speaker: Giuseppe Gramigna, Senior Advisor i.a. of the World Bank Group and of AECM

  • NN, Bank of Greece – tbd.

  • NN, Deutsche Bundesbank / German Central Bank – tbd.

  • László Tóth, Deputy CEO, Rural Credit Guarantee Foundation (AVHGA), Hungary
  • Gernot Rößler, Deputy Managing Director, Verband Deutscher Bürgschaftsbanken (VDB), Germany

12h30 -13h30

Group photo followed by a networking break

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.
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
15h00 – 15h30

Networking break

15h30 – 17h30

Annual meeting of the GNGI

– For members only –

 


Leisure programme

Excursion

Saturday 17 June 2023

TBD

EUR tbd pp

Gala dinner

Thursday 15 June 2023
From 19h30

TBD

EUR tbd pp


Fees and registration

AECM Seminar Fee – Member EUR tbd pp
AECM Seminar Fee – Non-Member EUR tbd pp


In case of any questions please contact info@aecm.eu