Dear AmCham Members and Friends,
AmCham Slovakia would like to cordially invite you to the
"AMCHAM SLOVAK UKRAINIAN FORUM"
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF RICHARD RAŠI, MAYOR OF KOŠICE
The conference will be held on Wednesday, April 26, 2017
at the Kasárne Kulturpark, Košice, starting at 9:00 AM,
followed by the Reactive SUF Meet-up at 2:00 PM and cocktail at 6:00 PM
P R O G R A M
8:30 - 9:00
REGISTRATION
9:00 - 9:10
OPENING AND WELCOME
• Jake Slegers – Executive Director, AmCham
9:10 - 9:20
OPENING KEYNOTE
• R. Raši – Mayor, City of Košice
9:20 - 9:35
PRESENTATION
“Overview of public support opportunities for business subjects in investment, research-development and innovative projects”
• M. Rybár – Partner, Deloitte
9:35 – 9:45
PRESENTATION
“Project financing opportunities with EIB”
• R. Ossowski-Barbetti – Head of Slovakia Office, EIB
9:45 - 11:05
PANEL 1:
“Incentives & Funding for Businesses”
• M. Rybár – Partner, Deloitte
• R. Ossowski-Barbetti – Head of Slovakia Office, EIB
• V. Marushenko – MP, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• S. Tatusiak – Head of the Euroregion "DNIESTER"
• V. Seman – Moderator, RTVS (Moderator)
11:05 - 11:25
COFFEE BREAK
11:25 - 12:45
PANEL 2:
“Ukraine in Europe”
• H.E. Y. Mushka, Ambassador, Embassy of Ukraine in Slovakia
• L. Sullivan – Senior Economic Officer, U.S. Embassy in Slovakia.
• I. Artjushenko - Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Chairman of the Slovak-Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee
• H. Moskal – Governor, Zakarpattia Region
• D. Fischer - Head of International Security Program, SFPA (Moderator)
12:45 - 12:55
CLOSING REMARKS
13:00
LUNCH
14:00 - 19:45
REACTIVE SUF MEETUP
18:00 - 21:00
BUSINESS COCKTAIL
The technological track of the Slovak-Ukrainian Forum in Košice. The track shall provide forum for start-ups, corporations, IT developers and institutional partners from both Ukraine and Slovakia.
14:00 – 14:30
REGISTRATION & OPENING
14:30 – 16:15
PANEL DISCUSSION
“The perspectives of cooperation between IT sectors in Slovakia and Ukraine in terms of innovation“
• M. Ftáčnik – CEO, Vacuum Labs
• F. Jakab – Director, UCITT Technical University Košice
• Š. Mikloš – Košice Location Leader, IBM
• Š. Šicko – CEO, Pixel Federation
• A. Zaikin – Founder and CEO, Platform of Innovative Partnership
16:15 – 17:15
LIGHTNING TALKS
• Startup centrum TUKE
• Eastcubator
• Unicorn
• IBM IoT Lab
17:30 – 19:30
REACTIVE MEET-UP
”From apprentice to master”
Practical and highly professional hands-on presentation on the topic of Webpack with Juho Vepsäläinen.
Juho Vepsäläinen has been dealing with the web since the 90s. He is behind jster.net and SurviveJS and he is also a core member of webpack. He has developed colorjoe color picker and reactabular table library in addition to many other libraries.
19:30 – 21:00
REACTIVE BEER
Networking event providing ideal opportunity for all parties to come together and meet, talk and better know each other. Food&drinks shall be provided.
Please, make your reservation online by April 24, 2017
All conference participants can book a stay at Hotel Doubletree by Hilton Košice for a favorable discount rate. Please state “SUF 2017” as the purpose of your stay when making room reservation at reservations@hiltonkosice.sk
For more information, please visit the event website or contact kosice@amcham.sk