III European Congress of Small and Medium-Size Enterprises 16 th -18 th September 2013

Theme: “Cooperation of companies of the MSME sector in the regional, national and international dimension”

* Program

Day I 16th September 2013

10:00 – 11:45 a.m. Registration (coffee/tea)

10:30 –11:30 a.m Press conference with the participation of Congress Organizers

Invited experts: • Janusz Piechociński , Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy, • , President of the European People’s Party, former Prime Minister of Belgium, • , Member of the , • Mirosław Sekuła, Marshal of the , • Marek Sowa, Marshal of the Małopolska Voivodeship, • Józef Sebesta, Marshal of Voivodeship, • Bożena Lublińska-Kasprzak, President of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development • Andrzej Arendarski , President of the Polish Chamber of Commerce • Tadeusz Donocik, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in . 12:00 a.m. – 12:30 Opening of the Congress and welcome speeches p.m. Invited experts: • Bronisław Komorowski , President of the Republic of , • Mirosław Sekuła , Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship, • Zygmunt Łukaszczyk, Silesian Voivode, • Piotr Uszok, Mayor of the City of Katowice, • Tadeusz Donocik , President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Katowice,

Moderator: Marek Czyż 12:30 – 02:30 Inaugural session: p.m. “Economic order for small and medium-size enterprises” Invited experts: • , Vice President of the European Commission, Commissioner responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, • Wilfried Martens , President of the European People’s Party, former Prime Minister of Belgium, • Joanna Drake , Director for SMEs and Entrepreneurship at the European Commission,

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• Janusz Piechociński , Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy, • Jose Isaias Rodriguez Garcia-Caro , Vice- President of the Employers Group at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), • Nadezhda Neynsky, MEP, President of the SME EUROPE, • Gordan Maras , Minister for Entrepreneurship and Trade of Republica Croatia, • Stephen Mull , Ambassador of the United States of America to Poland, • Małgorzata Handzlik , Member of the European Parliament, • Mirosława Nykiel , Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on innovative economy and development of small and medium-sized enterprises, • Marek Goliszewski , President of Business Center Club , • Andrzej Arendarski , President of Polish Chamber of Commerce

Moderator: Jerzy Buzek , Member of the European Parliament,

02:30 – 03:30 Lunch p.m. 03:30 – 05:30 I Plenary session p.m. International Forum of Agencies for Support of Entrepreneurship part I

“Is the crisis in Europe and global markets threatening SMEs?” Introduction: • Janusz Piechociński, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy, • Joanna Drake , Director for SMEs and Entrepreneurship at the European Commission,

Invited experts: • Olgierd Dziekoński, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of Polish Republic, • Bożena Lublińska-Kasprzak, President of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, • Janusz Steinhoff , Chairman of the Council of the PCC and CCI in Katowice, • Joost van Iersel , representative of EESC, Consultative Commission on Industrial Change, • Louis Philippe Dos Santos Costa , President of the Portuguese Business Development Agency, IAPMEI, • Lyazzat Ibragimova, President of Agency for Enterprise Development in Kazakhstan, “Entrepreneurship Development Found” (“DAMU”) • Prof. Witold Orłowski , representatives of foreign agencies for Enterprise development,

Moderator : Marek Czy ż

(expert partner: Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, the panel will present premiere research results of Polish Agency for Enterprise Development “Panel of enterprises” regarding the effects of the economic slowdown in Polish SME)

05:30 – 06:30 Official awarding of certificates for participants of Polish Agency for p.m. Enterprise Development's survey "Polish Companies Session" 03:30 – 05:30 II Plenary session: p.m. “Entrepreneurship is a Woman” Introduction: • Madi Sharma , representative of the Employers Group of The European Economic and Social Committee Invited experts:

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• Elena Kalinina , Rector of Saint-Petersburg Social and Economic Institute, • Professor Zdzisława Dacko-Pikiewicz , Rector of the Higher School of Business in Dąbrowa Górnicza, • Hermann Scherer, speaker and business expert, • , Marshal of the , • Aleksandra Przydryga-Gajewska , Vice Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship, • Grażyna Henclewska, Undersecretary of State, • Professor Andrzej Blikle , President of the Association of Family Business Initiative, Chairman of the Supervisory Board A.Bikle Ltd. • Professor Marek Szczepański, Head of the Department of sociology of development, University of Silesia, • Michał Polański , Director of the Economic Promotion Department, PARP

Moderator: Roman Młodkowski , Chief Editor of TVN CNBC

(expert partner: Embassy for Women Entrepreneurship ) 05:30 – 07:00 Official awarding of certificates of nomination for 100 Women p.m. Entrepreneurship Ambassadors.

Host : Piotr Karmański 05:45 – 07:45 III Plenary session p.m. “Information security in SMEs” “Protection of classified and business information, personal data, intellectual and industrial property. White Book on National Security of the Republic of Poland.”

Invited experts: • Stanisław Koziej , Head of the National Security Office, • Stanisław Ligenza , President of Technical Supervision Office, • Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski , General Inspector of Personal Data Protection, • Renata Pięta, Deputy of Katowice District Labour Inspector, • Tomasz Cygan – Attorney, • col. Kazimierz Mordaszewski – Deputy Head of the International Security Agency, • Stanisław Wachowicz , Deputy Chairman of Polish Patent Office • col. Kazimierz Ślusarczyk – former Director of the National Security Agency in Katowice, • Grzegorz Kuta – Attorney of PKP PLK S.A. Inc., Department for the Protection of Classified Information • Dariusz Bogdan – Undersecretary of State in Ministry of Economy, • Academy of Business in Dąbrowa Górnicza,

Moderator: Mieczysław Tadeusz Koczkowski – President of KSOIN

05:15 – 07:30 Round Tables (closed sessions)**: p.m. “Vicious circle of unfulfilled chances of PPP and public contracts for SME”

“Business environment institutions’ offer and requirements of SME”

“System of student practices and apprenticeships”

“Training of skills for dynamic economy”

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Accompanying events

10.00 – 12.00 a.m. Outgoing assembly of Association of Polish Cities Board

05.15 – 07.30 Outgoing Committees Assembly p.m. Assembly of a Parliamentary Standing Committee Local Government and Regional Policy Committee- open to all participants

Assembly of a Parliamentary Standing Committee Innovation and New Technologies Committee- open to all participants

Assembly of a Parliamentary Standing Subcommittee Innovative Economy and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises- open to all participants 05:30 – 07:30 The official promotion of the book “Europe. Nobody said that it would be p.m. easy”- autobiography of Wilfried Martens, President of the european people party, nine times Prime Minister of Belgium- Special Guest of III ECSME.

Invited experts: • Wilfried Martens , President of the European People’s Party, former Prime Minister of Belgium, • Professor Jerzy Buzek , Member of the European Parliament, • Professor Wiesław Banyś , Rector of the University of Silesia, • Raoul Delcorde, Ambassador of Belgium in Poland, • Janusz Steinhoff, Chairman of the Council of the PCC and CCI in Katowice,

08:00 p.m. Solemn meeting of the participants of the Congress at the Monopol Hotel in Katowice (invitations only)

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9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Official Assembly of a Silesian Parliament Session with participation of the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Councils of Regional Chambers of Commerce.

Program of the Silesian Parliament session: 1. Opening of the Assembly- Andrzej Gościniak- Chairman of Silesian Parliament, 2. Introductory Speech- Janusz Steinhoff, Chairman of the Council of the PCC and CCI in Katowice, 3. Initiatives of the enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium-size enterprises: - presentation by Mr. Jerzy Buzek, Member of the European Parliament. 4. European local self-government and economy- the role and importance of cooperation: -presentation by Mr. , for regional policy 5. European models of economic cooperation between economic self-government and local self-government: - presentation by Mr. Andrzej Arendarski, President of the Polish Chamber of Commerce, Vice President of Eurochambers. 6. Cooperation all levels of local self-governments with economic self- government on examples of Silesian Voivodeship- proposals of system solutions: – presentation by Mr. Tadeusz Donocik, President of Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Katowice. 4

7. Challenges for local self- governments in promoting sector of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises: – presentation by Mr. Mirosław Sekuła, Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship. 8. Passing resolutions on: - appeal to the Polish Parliament to start work on the draft law on economic self-government, - appeal to the European Parliament to start work on the draft amendment to the public procurement law. 9. Official awarding of Contribution to Silesian Voivodeship Honor Badges and award of III edition of “Self-government, which supports SMEs” program. 10. Closing of the Assembly.

9:00 – 11:00 a.m. IV Panel sessions: International Forum of Agencies for Support of Entrepreneurship part II

“Effective tools supporting SMEs in the conditions of economic slowdown - Poland, Europe, global markets.”

Invited experts: Representative of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) and foreign agency for enterprise development, Moderator : Marek Czyż (expert partner: PARP )

Panel I: 9:00 – Panel session within the subjects**: 11:00 a.m. International Cooperation of the Skills and proficiency in Cooperation of SME SMEs with Responsible the SME Business Institute, Self- government and Corporations

European taxation Cooperative banks as a Dynamic management of system and Polish SME’s business partners. intellectual capital in solutions. the context of the Modern tools supporting future valuation of E-economy. management. Business enterprises in the Future of New capital market Technologies. dimension

Design in industry.

11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m. -1:30 V Panel session p.m. 11.30 a.m. – 12.45 part I “European Regional Policy for the development of SME” p.m. Invited experts: Johannes Hahn , European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Janusz Piechociński, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy, Elżbieta Bieńkowska , Minister of Regional Development, prof. Jerzy Buzek , Member of the European Parliament,

Jan Olbrycht, Member of the European Parliament,

Janusz Steinhoff , Chairman of the Council of the PCC and CCI in Katowice,

Christian Ardhe , representative of EESC

Moderator : Kamil Durczok

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12:45 p.m. -01:30 V Panel sessions p.m. part II: “Regional Forum”

Invited experts: • Bożena Lublińska-Kasprzak , President of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, • Andrzej Arendarski , President of the Polish Chamber of Commerce; Vice President of Eurochambers, • Krzysztof Przybył, President of the Board of the Foundation “Teraz Polska”, • Michael Kern, General Director of Polish-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, • Representatives of the three European regions cooperating with Poland (including Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France).

Moderator : Kamil Durczok

Panel II: Panel sessions within the subjects: 11:30 a.m. – 01:30 p.m. International Cooperation of the Skills and proficiency in Cooperation of SME SMEs with Responsible the SME Business Institute, Self- government and Corporations

Europe – East I Cooperative movement Financing of as an integrator of SMEs development and Economic and business in the competitive investments in SME cooperation with: market.

1. Armenia, The development of Azerbajian, business aviation. 2. Georgia, 3. Moldova, Protection of 4. . competition or competitors – how can the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection protect SMEs from market dominants?

The Science leads to small business! Bet on cooperation 01:30 – 02:00 Lunch p.m. 02:00 – 04:00 VI Panel session- CeBIT Conference 2013 Roadshow Poland p.m. part 1 “Influence of information and communication technology on the development of other industries and sectors of the economy”

Invited experts: • Arkadiusz Lefanowicz, Chairman of the Foundation IT Leader Club Polska 6

• Representative of the Chancellery of the President, • Prof. Maria E. Orłowska , Secretary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, • Dariusz Bogdan , Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economics Poland, • Representative of the Polish-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce, • Representative of the Employers of Poland, • Representative of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

Moderator : Roman Młodkowski , TVN CNBC

VI Panel sessions part II-CeBIT Conference

part 2 “What industries in the sector of information and communication technologies are really a Polish specialty?”

Invited experts: • Dariusz Bogdan , Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economics Poland, • dr Paweł Węgrzyn , Director of the European Games Academy, , • Representative of Polish Chamber of Commerce, • Representative of The Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, • Representative of the Chambers of Digital Economy, • Representatives of ICT companies (min. 3). • Moderator : Tomasz Bitner , Computerworld

(expert partner: Ministry of Economy ) Panel III: -02:00 – Panel session within the subjects: 04:00 p.m. International Cooperation of the Skills and proficiency in Cooperation of SME SMEs with Responsible the SME Business Institute, Self- government and Corporations Europe – East II Development of the The young entrepreneur market of private health in a modern city. Economic and business care cooperation with: Marketing and PR in the Support of Polish SME in company. ˛ Belarus, the Framework ˛ Kazakhstan, Programs of the EU – How can SME manage ˛ Russia. successes and unused the crisis? chances. How to increase benefiting from the framework Programs by Polish micro, small and medium-size enterprises?

Accompanying events

04: 30 p.m. - 06:30 Meeting with a speaker and business expert Hermann Scherer 7 p.m. 06:00 p.m. Official meeting of the Congress participants in the historic coal mine in Zabrze GUIDO (invitation only) 07:00 p.m. Business Mixer organized by the Academic Business Incubator of University of Economics in Katowice in the “Eye of the City” restaurant (”Oko Miasta”)

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9:00 a.m. -04:00 V Silesian Investment, Construction and Real Estate Forum p.m. Visits of the Congress guests in special economic zones, techno parks, 10:00 a.m. – 04:00 centers for technology transfer (depending on number of people interested) p.m. Lectures on selected foreign markets, economic potential of chosen 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 countries and presentations of possibilities of cooperation by foreign guests p.m. (TBC) African countries: • Dieudonne Mpika, International Business Consultant, • Mariusz Baran , Development Board Advisor, Algeria: • Abdelkader Khemri , Ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Austria : • George Jędrzejewski , Trade and Investment Promotion Section, Belgium : • Sławomir Czarlewski , Ambassador of Poland to Kingdom of Belgium in the years 2007-2012, Belarus : • Viktar Gajsionak , Ambassador of Belarus in Poland, Brazil : • Jorge Geraldo Kardi , Ambassador of Brazil in the Republic of Poland, -Hong Kong : • Maciej Wilk , Director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in the Republic of Poland, Georgia: • Representative of the Georgian National Investment Agency, Spain : • Stefan Bekir Assanowicz , President of the Polish-Spanish Chamber of Commerce, • Rocio Frutos , Commercial Counsellor of the Embassy of Kingdom of Spain in Republic of Poland, India : • Monika Kapil Mohta , Ambassador of India in the Republic of Poland, Kazakhstan: • Yerik Utembayev , Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Republic of Poland, Latvia: • Jerzy Marek Nowakowski , Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia in the Republic of Poland, Portugal : • Pedro Pereira da Silva , President of Polish- Portugese Chamber of Commerce Russia : • Marek Ociepka , Minister-Counsellor, Head of Trade and Investment Promotion Section, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Moscow, Ukraine : • Gennady Chizhikov , President of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Chamber of Commerce in Donetsk, 8

• Andrzej Grabowski , Minister-Counsellor, Head of Trade and Investment Promotion Section, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Kiev, 12:30 – 01:00 Coffee break p.m.

Individual B2B meetings for Polish entrepreneurs with representatives of 01:00 – 03:00 institutions/organizations/companies from selected countries p.m. Representatives of the invited countries: (TBC) • Representatives of the countries participating in lectures on selected foreign markets, • Bangladesh, • , • Cyprus, • Iraq, • Germany, • Pakistan, • Romania, • Turkey, • United States of America,

Accompanying events

10:00 a.m. – 03:00 Debate “Safe Together” organized by the Polish Association of Licensed Key p.m. Account Services.

09:30 a.m. – 02:00 Meeting of the representatives of Enterprise Europe Network centers p.m. 09:00 a.m. – 11:00 Workshop 1: “Academy of Marketing and Sales” a.m. 11:30 a.m. – 01:30 Workshop 2: “Academy of Marketing and Sales” p.m. 02:00 p.m. – Workshop 3: “Academy of Marketing and Sales” 04:00 p.m.

Accompanying events

19th September Conference “Integrative significance of the Odra river in social and economic life of local communities” 10.00 a.m. – 3 Hotel Hugo, Orkana 14 street, Sławęcice, Kędzierzyn-Koźle p.m.

* Organizer reserves the right to make changes in the Program. * Detailed description of round tables and panel sessions within the subjects are presented on the website www.kongresmsp.eu

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Nationwide Program organized within the BIZNES EXPO FAIR traditionally organized framework of the III Congress of SME: within the framework of the III Congress of SME

Registration on-line is available at www.kongresmsp.eu , where you can also find all the detailed information about the event .

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