International Investments Forum "Sochi-2008"

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

FORUM CONCEPT

SPONSORS

PROGRAMME
Business programme of forum

Signing of agreements

Timetable of the presentations

Plenary session - hall allocation

Cultural programme

Excursion programme

Sports and entertainment events

European Beach Volleyball Championship RUSSIAN MASTERS – 2008

Krasnodar Territory Governor’s Prize Tennis Tournament

Kuban Cuisine Festival

Kuban Wine Festival

Open Krasnodar Territory yacht races

Russian Beer Festival

Ballooning Festival

EXHIBITIONS

KRASNODAR TERRITORY

REGISTRATION

PERSONAL OFFICE

PARTICIPANTS

OVERSEAS OPERATORS

TRANSLATION SERVICES

VISA PROCESSING

HOTEL RESERVATIONS AND RENTAL OF SPACE

TRANSPORT

PRESS CENTRE

CONTACTS

HISTORY

PROGRAMME
VII INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT FORUM
SOCHI, 18-21 SEPTEMBER 2008

Thursday, 18 September 2008

All day	Arrival of participants at the VII International Investment Forum in Sochi, accommodation in hotels
09.00 – 02.00	Registration of Forum participants. Accreditation of media representatives
20.00	GALA RECEPTION HELD BY THE CO-CHAIRMEN OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE ON THE OPENING OF THE VII INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT FORUM Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Seaview Terrace

Friday, 19 September 2008

08.00 – 20.00	Registration of Forum participants
10.30 – 10.45	WELCOME FROM THE CO-CHAIRMEN OF THE FORUM ORGANISING COMMITTEE Venue: Winter Theatre
10.45 – 12.15	PLENARY SESSION THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY – WHERE TO INVEST? Venue: Winter Theatre Moderator: Andrei Sharonov, Managing Director of GK Troika Dialog SPEECH BY VLADIMIR PUTIN, PRIME MINISTER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
12.30 – 14.00	EXHIBITION OPENING CEREMONY. VIEWING OF EXHIBITS
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch for Forum participants Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Seaview Terrace
14.00 – 16.00	CONFERENCE 1 SOCHI-2014: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Venue: Winter Theatre Moderator: Dmitriy Chernyshenko, President of the Organising Committee of Sochi-2014
14.00 – 16.00	ROUND TABLES (held concurrently) ROUND TABLE 1.1 RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE – LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Cinema-Concert Hall Moderator: Alexei Gordeev, Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation ROUND TABLE 1.2 THE FINANCIAL MARKET OF RUSSIA: THE BASIS FOR INNOVATION INCREASE (supported by the Expert media holding) Venue: Pravilion 15, Hall 4 Moderator: Valeriy Fadeev, General Director of Expert media holding ROUND TABLE 1.3 THE “RUSSIA” BRAND AS A FACTOR IN THE COUNTRY’S INVESTMENT APPEAL (supported by the Consulting Committee for Foreign Investments under the Government of the Russian Federation) Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Panorama Hall Moderators: Stanislav Voskresenskiy, Deputy Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation and Igor Bunin, political scientist, General Director of the Centre for Political Technologies Foundation, General Director of the POLITKOM.RU information website of political commentaries ROUND TABLE 1.4 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AZOV-CITY GAMING ZONE – PROBLEMS AND PRACTICE Venue: Marins Park Hotel, Coral Hall Moderators: Willy Kollman, Managing Director RMC International and Sergei Tchoban, Partner in the NPS Tchoban Voss architect’s bureau/Partner of the SPeeCH association in Russia
16.30 – 18.00	ROUND TABLES (held concurrently) ROUND TABLE 2.1 LOW-RISE RUSSIA Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Panorama Hall Moderators: Sergei Kruglik, Deputy Minister for Regional Development of the Russian Federation Alexander Kogan, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION on Taxes and Treasury ROUND TABLE 2.2 ROLE OF INSURANCE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS Venue: Pavilion 15, Hall 4 Moderators: Ilya Lomakin-Rumyantsev, Head of the Federal Insurance Supervisory Service and Dr. Peter Müller, representative of the Münich Re-insurance Company in Russia, Ukraine and the Republic of Belarus ROUND TABLE 2.3 SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES – LOCAL GROWTH DRIVER Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Chandelier Hall Moderators: Andrei Alpatov, Head of the Federal Agency for management of special economic zones and Vadim Shvetsov, General Director of Sollers ROUND TABLE 2.4 DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS INVESTMENT PROJECTS Venue: Pavilion 15, Hall 5 Moderator: Igor Schogolev, Minister of Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Shishkarev Sergey, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION on Transportation ROUND TABLE 2.5 WHY DO WE HOLIDAY IN TURKEY? POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA’S TOURISM SECTOR Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Amber Hall Moderators: Anatoliy Yarochkin, Head of Federal Tourism Agency of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION Phileppe Bodri, Head of Economic Mission of the French Embassy, MINISTER-CONSELLOR ROUND TABLE 2.6 STRATEGY FOR REGIONAL INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT: RESOURCES AND RISK MANAGEMENT Venue: Marins Park Hotel, Coral Hall Moderators: Sergey Mazurenko, Head of Federal Agency for Science and Innovations Brunswick Pierre Philippe, Vice-President of AMD Group (USA) ROUND TABLE 2.7 (devoted to the meeting of the Inter-government Commission on aspects of bilateral co-operation at Summit level) Venue: Pavilion 15, Hall 5 Moderator: Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs *Signing of the trilateral agreement between the RUIE, MEDEF and the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Russia* *Press conference by the President of the RUIE, the President of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Russia and the head of MEDEF*
16.30 – 18.00	Award Ceremony for the winners of the V open competition of joint-stock company annual reports Venue: Marines Park Otel, Panorama Hall RUSSIAN – BELGIAN MEETING: THE POTENTIAL OF MUTUAL INVESTMENTS Venue: Press-hall
20.00 – 01.00	RECEPTION HELD BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE KRASNODAR TERRITORY, ALEXANDER TKACHEV, FOR FORUM PARTICIPANTS Venue: Primorskaya Embankment, water park “Mayak”

Saturday, 20 September 2008

10.30 – 12.30	CONFERENCE “INVESTMENT PROJECTS OF RUSSIAN REGIONS – THE LOCOMOTIVE OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT” (organisers: Ministry for Regional development of the Russian Federation and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE), with the support of the newspaper Vedomosti) Venue: Winter Theatre Moderators: Dmitriy Kozak, Minister for Regional Development of the Russian Federation
10.30 – 12.30	ROUND TABLES (held concurrently) ROUND TABLE 1 PRESENTATION OF THE STRATEGY OF THE SOUTHERN FEDERAL AREA OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Cinema-Concert Hall Moderator: Mikhail Dmitriev, President of the Center for Strategic Research Foundation ROUND TABLE 2 TOWN-PLANNING DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS FOR THE KRASNODAR TERRITORY. INVESTMENT POTENTIAL Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Panorama Hall Moderators: Academician Alexander Kudryavtsev, President of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, People’s Architect of Russia Cameron F. Sawyer, Chairman of the Board of Director of GVA Sawyer ROUND TABLE 3 MANPOWER AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA Venue: Pavilion 15, Hall 3 Moderator: Vladimir Маu, Rector, Agricultural Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation ROUND TABLE 4 ENERGY-SAVING TECHNOLOGIES AS AN ELEMENT OF GROWTH (supported by the European Business Association of the Russian Federation) Venue: Pavilion 16 Moderators: Rainer Hartmann, Chairman of the Board of АЕB and E.ON Russia Miles Stamp, Head of the IFC Programme for encouraging investment in energy saving, “Russia Sustainable Energy Finance Program” ROUND TABLE 5 PLACE MARKETING: BEST PRACTICES Venue: Pavilion 15, Hall 5 Moderators: Bulat Stolyarov, Director of the Institute for Regional Policy and Krister Asplund, leading European consultant in the sphere of innovation clusters and territory branding strategies, Partner in the consulting firm Interlace-Invent ROUND TABLE 6 PROGRESSIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR ROAD DESIGN AND BUILDING – EFFICIENT USE OF INVESTMENTS Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Palm Hall Moderator: Oleg Shakhov, General Director FGU Dorogi Rossii ROUND TABLE 7 MANAGEMENT OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS: EFFICIENCY MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Amber Hall Moderators: Viktor Kolodyazhniy, President of GK Olympstroy Alexander Piskunov, Auditor of the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation ROUND TABLE 8 INVESTMENTS IN HOUSING AND UTILITIES. PROSPECTS FOR FINANCIAL SANATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRY Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Chandelier Hall Moderators: Sergei Kruglik, Deputy Minister for Regional Development of the Russian Federation Martin Vukovich, Ambassador Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Austria to the Russian Federation ROUND TABLE 9 ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE KRASNODAR TERRITORY’S INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT Venue: Marins Park Hotel, Coral Hall Moderators: Sergey Osadchiy, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Natural Resources, Environment and Ecology Martin Vukovich, Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the Russian Federation ROUND TABLE 10 US-Russian Round Table within US-Russian Business Dialogue (Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia) Venue: Pavilion 15, Hall 4 Moderators: Aleksander Shokhin - President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch for Forum participants Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Seaview Terrace
13.00 – 13.45	Briefing by the President of GK Olympstroi, Viktor Kolodyazhniy, for representatives of diplomatic and trade missions and the media Venue: Press Centre
13.00 – 14.00	Meeting of the investment commission for selecting projects applying for state financial support from the Investment Fund of the Russian Federation Venue: Sanatorium “Chernomorye”, Conference Hall
14.15 – 15.00	FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE CO-CHAIRMEN OF THE VII INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT FORUM Venue: Press Centre
20.00	RECEPTION HELD BY THE MAYOR OF SOCHI, VLADIMIR AFANASENKOV, FOR FORUM PARTICIPANTS Venue: Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Seaview Terrace

Sunday, 21 September 2008

All day	· Excursions · Festival visits · Visits to sports events
All day	Departure of participants at the VII International Investment Forum

RUSSIAN – BELGIAN MEETING: THE POTENTIAL OF MUTUAL INVESTMENTS