AUSSEN WIRTSCHAFT AUSTRIA CONNECT JAPAN 2017 IN TOKIO „SUCCEEDING IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN“ November 8/9, 2017

PROGRAMME gefördert im Rahmen von (as of November 1, 2017)

einer Förderinitiative des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft und der Wirtschaftskammer Österreich

AUSTRIA CONNECT JAPAN 2017 „SUCCEEDING IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN“ 8 – 9 November 2017 CONFERENCE LANGUAGES: ENGLISH AND JAPANESE (SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION)

PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY, 08.11.2017

19.00 WELCOME COCKTAILS AND BUFFET DINNER Residence of the Commercial Counsellor at the Austrian Embassy and Head of Advantage Austria Motoazabu 3-13-3, Minato-ku, Tokyo http://j.mp/AC_Tokio

THURSDAY, 09.11.2017 AUSTRIA CONNECT JAPAN 2017; Location: Le Grand room, 4th Floor of the InterContinental Tokyo Bay

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09.00 REGISTRATION

09.30 OPENING REMARKS INGOMAR LOCHSCHMIDT | HEAD OF ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA TOKYO

09.35 WELCOME ADDRESS MICHAEL OTTER | DIRECTOR GENERAL OF ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA

09.40 EUROPE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION, FREE TRADE AND MIGRATION CHRISTOPH LEITL | PRESIDENT OF EUROCHAMBRES AND PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRIAN FEDERAL ECONOMIC CHAMBER Dr. Christoph Leitl, a well-known Austrian entrepreneur, top politician and university professor, president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber since the year 2000 is the incoming president of EUROCHAMBRES, the largest European business organization representing more than 20 million member companies in 43 countries in and beyond the European Union.

10.10 INTRODUCTION OF ALL ATTENDEES AND SPONSORS

10.40 COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

11.10 JAPANS ECONOMY 2017 AND OUTLOOK 2018 FLORIAN KOHLBACHER | HEAD OF ECONOMIST CORPORATE NETWORK N. Dr. Kohlbacher is director of the Economist Corporate Network, North Asia, at „The Economist“ with significant experience abroad in China and Japan, as well as the author of numerous international publications, in particular the Silver Market – the chances of the new senior generation in Japan.

11.35 ABENOMICS – BETTER THAN ITS REPUTATION: THE CASE OF IPS COMMERCIALIZATION Hardy TS Kagimoto, MD is a serial entrepreneur and obsessed with the concept of curing as many patients as possible through technology. At the first biotech, Aqumen, he launched BBG which gained de-facto-standard status in ophthalmology community, globally. Then he founded Healios with the vision to create a world leading regenerative cell therapy company. He took Healios public in 2015 and currently running P2/3 trials for acute brain stroke in Japan with somatic stem cell’s immune moderation effect to reduce secondary damage of acute brain stroke. Healios also holds various iPS products in the pipeline which are under clinical research to gain proof of concept with human subjects

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12.00 LUNCH BUFFET & NETWORKING Location: Park Lane room, 3rd Floor, InterContinental Tokyo Bay

13.45 FOCUS ON JAPANS NEIGHBOUR: IS BUSINESS CHANGING IN KOREA? FRANZ SCHRÖDER | HEAD OF ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA | SEOUL Dr. Franz Schröder has been Commercial Counsellor at Advantage Austria Seoul since August 2014 with lots of experience in different Asian and Middle Eastern countries. He gave his full support to Austrian companies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for 7 years and could see a dramatic increase in Austrian exports but also in investments to Malaysia. Prior to Kuala Lumpur he assisted Austrian companies in their efforts to succeed in the UN Oil for Food Program in Iraq as well as in the first after war reconstruction programs as Commercial Counsellor in Baghdad. Bangkok, Helsinki and Abu Dhabi were his other stations getting a lot of experience in different parts of the world and cultures. His academic background is in law and linguistics. Dr. Schröder graduated with PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of . He also studied Finno- Ugristics, specializing in Finnish and Estonian language, literature and culture. He is fluent in German, English and Finnish with good command in French, Estonian and Thai.

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14.15 TAXATION OF AUSTRIAN BUSINESSES IN JAPAN – IN LIGHT OF THE PROPOSED NEW AUSTRIA-JAPAN TAX-TREATY AND RECENT TAX REFORMS HANS-PETER MUSAHL | PARTNER, EY TAX JAPAN | TOKYO Hans-Peter Musahl is partner with EY Tax Co, Tokyo, qualified as a German lawyer and tax advisor. He is practicing since 22 years in Japan and leading the - Swiss-Austria inbound practice in Tokyo. Hans-Peter is chairing the Tax Committee of the European Business Council in Japan; actively promoting tax policy; and a lecturer in international tax law at Keio University. His main focus is serving and coordinating Japan inbound businesses, mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and tax efficient investment structures.

14.35 RECENT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS FOR DOING BUSINESS IN JAPAN THOMAS WITTY | ATTORNEY-AT-LAW | ARQIS FOREIGN LAW OFFICE | TOKYO Thomas Witty is a qualified German lawyer with more than 25 years of professional experience, 20 years of which as a registered foreign attorney in Japan. Thomas has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganization and general corporate and commercial law and has advised numerous European public and private companies investing in Japan.

Graduated from Ludwig Maximilian University of in the faculty of law in 1986 and, after a 2 years scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Organization (DAAD) in Japan, he was admitted as attorney in Düsseldorf in 1992. Having joined the multidisciplinary firm Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner in Düsseldorf he moved to Tokyo in 1995 where he stayed ever since. In 2006 Thomas was a founding partner of ARQIS Rechtsanwälte starting ARQIS Foreign Law Office in Tokyo. Since 2008 he is teaching as adjunct professor for Business Law at The University of Tsukuba, MBA Program in International Business, Graduate School of Business Sciences and since 2013 he represents the German-Japanese Lawyers Associationin Japan.

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14.55 VIENNA AS HUB FOR SOLVING BUSINESS DISPUTES BETWEEN JAPAN AND CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPE CHRISTIAN KLAUSEGGER | PRESIDENT, AUSTRIAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION | VIENNA FILIP BORAS | PARTNER WITH BAKER MCKENZIE | VIENNA Christian Klausegger is partner at Binder Grösswang, one of Austria´s leading law firms and heads the firm’s Dispute Resolution Group. He is currently president of the Austrian Arbitration Association and has more than 20 years of experience representing international clients in complex commercial disputes. Christian Klausegger gives advice to clients on all kind of contentious matters and acts as counsel in state courts and in international arbitrations. Christian Klausegger is consistently ranked among the very top in dispute resolution in leading directories. Filip Boras, a Partner with Baker McKenzie, handles international commercial and investment arbitration cases. He is recognized by Chambers Europe and Global as a leading lawyer for dispute resolution in Central & . His clients are investors in CEE from all over the world, including Asia, who benefit from his region- specific experience and his being a native Serbo-Croatian. He is experienced with the major institutional rules and procedures of the ICC, VIAC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and Swiss Rules, as well as before ad hoc tribunals. His commercial arbitration experience focuses on post-M&A, corporate and energy disputes. Filip is a member of the board of the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP) and an Executive Committee member of the International Section of the New York State Bar Association with over 2,000 members.

15.15 COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING

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16.00 INNOVATIONSTRANSFER INS LAND DER SONNE – TÜCKEN UND HERAUSFORDERUNGEN BEIM VERTRIEB INNOVATIVER TECHNOLOGIEN IVAR JOHANNSON, VICE PRESIDENT, CORRENS CORPORATION | TOKYO Ivar Johannson earned his Master’s degree in Applied Physics at the Institute of Technology at Linköping University in 1991 and started his working career at Ericsson Radio Systems in Stockholm during the era of digitalization, working on the first worldwide digital mobile phone communication standard GSM. After his MBA at the Technical University of Munich in 1994, he entered into the highly innovative semiconductor field at the Silicon Valley company National Semiconductor. In 1996 he joined Siemens Semiconductor and spearheaded the introduction of the worldwide digital cordless standards DECT and Bluetooth, often bringing him to Japan for introduction of these innovative technologies to leading consumer electronics companies like Sony, Panasonic and Sharp. All three companies later became long-term customers. In 2004 Ivar moved to Japan and was responsible for organizing the spin-out of the memory business at Infineon Technologies as well as initiating and setting up several technical cooperation projects including a Joint Venture with companies like Nintendo and Sony. From 2010 until today, Ivar is co-owner and Vice President of Correns Corporation, a Tokyo based company with 170 employees and a 70 years history in Japan. Correns Corporation is acting as a distributor and sales representative with technical service for around 150 European machinery and component manufacturers focusing on bringing advanced technology from Europe to Japan.

16.20 WHAT IT TAKES TO SUCCESSFULLY REPRESENT AN AUSTRIAN MACHINE BUILDER. SATOSHI ABE | SUN EARTH | TOKYO Mr Satoshi Abe originally learned machine systems but developed a passion of Austrian forestry. In over ten years he studied advantages of Austrian forestry machinery and how to adapt their use to Japanese forests. His specialty is tower yarders where he found a congenial and long-term business partner in Austria – Konrad. The success in the business proved him right; Konrad forest machinery has become a hallmark for innovative technology in the Japanese forest industry.

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16.40 FINDING SUCCESS IN ALL THAT YOU DO IN THE LAND OF THE RISEN SON MICHAEL KAWACHI | TOKYO Michael Kawachi is an international lawyer, businessman and Christian pastor. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the International Mediation Summit, which provides negotiation and mediation assistance and training to governments, non- government actors, diplomats, law firms and corporations. He was previously a partner with Mayer Brown and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, two of the largest and most successful US-based multinational law firms, the latter being the most profitable law firm in the US, an advisor to the most successful investors in the world including Elliott Management, and Vice President & Assistant General Counsel for Amazon.com. He currently advises, trains and assists diplomats, government officials, businessmen and lawyers to be successful in all that they do. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of International Christian University and a pastor in Tokyo, Japan. He has degrees from University of California Los Angeles, Columbia Law School, Tokyo University Faculty of Law (graduate research associate) and Duke University Fuqua School of Business.

17.00 WRAP UP

17.30 END OF THE CONFERENCE PART OF AUSTRIA CONNECT JAPAN 2017

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18.30 MEETING AT HOTEL LOBBY 3RD FLOOR AND SHORT WALK TO THE CRUISE PIER

18.50 DEPARTURE ON CRUISE SHIP “VINGT ET UN” DINNER CRUISE AND NETWORKING WHILE SAILING IN TOKYO BAY

21.20 ARRIVAL BACK AT TOKYO BAY PIER END OF PROGRAMME

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