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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 Ěŕu, 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 ŔĹB 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

 


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