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09.00-13.30 Special Event: the Roadmap of an Outward Economy DRAFT CONFERENCE PROGRAM CONFERENCE: «STRATEGY FOR AN OUTWARD ECONOMY: VISION & REALITY» 1st DAY 09.00-13.30 SPECIAL EVENT: THE ROADMAP OF AN OUTWARD ECONOMY 09.00 Registration - Coffee 09.30 Welcome Speech Christina Sakellaridis, Chairman, Panhellenic Exporters Association Confirmed 09.40 Keynote Address Kostis Hatzidakis, Minister, Ministry for Development & Competitiveness Confirmed 10.00 SESSION 1: REFORMS FOR MOST COMPETITIVE GREEK EXPORTS Opening Address George Filiopoulos, Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Development & Competitiveness Confirmed Keynote Address Tom Butterly, Chief of the Global Trade Solutions Section, United Nations, UNECE Confirmed Constantine Nichoritis, Director, D.G of Customs and Excise Duties, Ministry of Finance Confirmed Sofia Papagianni, Head of Customs Procedures, Ministry of Finance Confirmed Nikolaos Mavrikos, Chairman, Panhellenic Association of Ship Suppliers Confirmed George Xirogiannis, Head of International Trade & Relations, SEV Hellenic Federation of Enterprises Confirmed 11.30 Break – Coffee 11.45 Keynote Address Athanasios Tsaftaris, Minister, Ministry of Rural Development and Food Confirmed 12.10 SESSION 2: INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES IN EXPORT FACILITY Opening Address Fotis Kourmousis, Advisor, Ministry of Finance Confirmed Keynote Address Antonis Kastrisianakis, European Commission DG TAXUD Director Confirmed Chrisoula Papadimitriou, Directorate of Processing Standardization and Quality Control of Products of Plant and Food, Department of Food Quality Control, Hellenic Ministry of Rural Development and Food Confirmed Nikolaos Archontis, Chief Operations Officer, Panhellenic Exporters Association Confirmed 13.30 Light Lunch OPENING OF THE PLENARY SESSION 13.30 Registration - coffee 14.15 Welcome Speeches Christina Sakellaridis, Chairman, Panhellenic Exports Association Official Opening H.E. President of the Greek Republic Mr. Karolos Papoulias 14.25 Keynote Speaches Kostis Hatzidakis, Minister, Ministry for Development & Competitiveness Chris Megalou, Chief Executive Officer, Eurobank 15.00 OUTWARD ECONOMY: FINANCE, PRODUCTION, TOURISM, TRANSPORT, CULTURE Michalis Chrisochoidis, Minister, Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Tasos Liaskos, Secretary of Tourism George Stathakis, Member of the Hellenic Parliament, SΥRΙΖΑ party 16.45 Break-Coffee 16.00 KEYS TO ASSIST FOREIGN TRADE Keynote Speech Notis Mitarachis, Greek Deputy Minister, Ministry for Development and Competitiveness Angelos Kotsiopoulos, Chief Executive Officer, Export Credit Insurance Organization Alkiviadis Kalabpokis, Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic Foreign Trade Board Nikolaos Philippas, Chairman, Centre of Planning and Economic Research Vasso Kollia, General Secretariat for Gender Equality 17.15 FINANCING GREEK MANUFACTURING MACHINE Keynote Speech Constantinos Vousvounis, General Manager, Eurobank Constantinos Antonopoulos, CEO INTRALOT Group, Guido Clary, Senior Police Officer, European Investment Bank Giorgos Gerontoukos, Chairman & CEO, Hellenic Fund for Entrepreneurship and Development TBC 18:00 END OF 1ST DAY 20:00 DINNER WITH GUEST OF HONOR & KEYNOTE SPEAKER THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC MR ANTONIS SAMARAS (ADMISSION ONLY WITH INVITATION) 2nd DAY 09.00 Welcome coffee 09.30 Official Opening Evangelos Venizelos Vice President Of the Government & Minister of Foreign Affairs Hellenic Republic 09.50 Harry Theoharis, General Secretary of Public Revenue, Ministry of Finance 10.00 ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE RELATIONS OF GREECE WITH CRITICAL TARGET MARKETS Panagiotis Mihalos, Secretary General for International Economic Relations and Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Peter Schoor, Ambassador, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Jenny Bloomfield, Ambassador, Embassy of Australia Vladimir Chkhikvishvili, Ambassador, Embassy of the Russian Federation TBC Xiaoli Zou, Ambassador, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China Jean Loup Kuhn-Delforge, Ambassador, Embassy of France Michael Christidis, Ambassador, B Directorate-General Ministry of Foreign Affairs 12.00 WAYS OF PENETRATION IN FOREIGN MARKETS Doukas Marinopoulos, Chairman, Diplomatic Employees Union, Economic and Commercial Affairs Confirmed Themistoklis Kalpaktsoglou, Chairman, Export Credit Insurance Organization Constantinos Lambrinopoulos, Chairman, Hellenic management Association Tasos Vamvakidis, Commercial Director, PCT/PCDC Constantinos Kastrinakis, Vice President, Kantor Managemet Consultant Zooullis Mina, Managing Director, Athenian Brewery 13.15 Break 13.30 SUCCESS STORIES OF AN OUTWARD ECONOMY Keynote Speech Gina Mamidakis, Member of the Board of Directors of SETE, EEDE & Managing Director of Bluegr & Mamidakis Hotels Costas Bakouris, Chairman, Corinth Pipeworks SA Vassilios Katsos, President & CEO, Pharmathen Marika Lamprou, Chief Executive Officer, SingularLogic Eleftherios Saitis, Chief Executive Officer, KRONOS SA Dimitris Papanikolaou, Vice President, Neon Energy 15.00 END OF CONFERENCE - COCTAILS .
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