Programme

7th Annual SUMMIT100 Business Leaders of Southeast Europe:
DIGITAL LEAP FOR QUANTUM GROWTH
or
IS THE 4th INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION THE REGION’S 2nd CHANCE?
October 1-2,2018
Hotel Hyatt Regency, Belgrade, Serbia

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
(as of September 27, 2018)

IS DIGITAL DISRUPTION AN OPPORTUNITY AHEAD – A thorough survey will be undertaken by PwC and SUMMIT100 among business leaders of SUMMIT100 in the months prior to October 1-2, 2018. The results of the survey will be used as a basis for the discussion during the whole program and will be presented at the SUMMIT100 2018.

Monday, October 1

11:30 – 13:00

Registration and Welcome Cocktail and Lunch

13:00 – 13:30

Grand Opening on the Importance of Using 4th industrial Revolution as a 2nd Chance for the Region: All is Well That Disrupts Well
Addresses by

  • Stanka Pejanović, Summit100 President of the Board and Board Member Gorenje Group, The Importance of the Summit100 Initiative or Run, Region, Run!
  • Key Note Address – Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of the Government, Republic of Serbia: Could Disruption in Politics Lead to a Competitive Region
  • Alejandro Plater, Chief Operating Officer, A1 Telekom Austria Group
  • Antonella Mei-Pochtler, The Boston Consulting Group

13:30 – 14:00

Networking break

14:00 – 16:15

Special Disruptively Digital Dialogue with Key Note Guest Antonella Mei-Pochtler, The Boston Consulting Group

  • Video link address by Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society: Mind the Gap and Make it Work for the Region

Brief description:
The idea is for the key note guest to do a motivational intro (up to 30 min) that would follow with the panel discussion with app.10 selected leaders from different regional countries, representing different industries (agri i.e. food and beverages, ICT, energy, tourism i.e. hospitality, medical and pharma, etc.) who would join the key note guest on the stage (setting would be a theater seating on the stage), pose questions, interact on all sorts of aspects of digital platforms including blockchain mindset and how the region/ regional sectors can use it for much needed quantum leap to a globally competitive region.
The expected outcome should be to spark ideas that could lead to new products, services, projects from the region, all instantly competitive on the global scale.

Intro to the dialogue: Survey results presented by Biljana Bogovac, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Panelists:

  • Gazmend Abrashi, Exclusive Group
  • Blaž Brodnjak, NLB Banka
  • Dragoljub Damljanović, Schneider Electric
  • Slobodan Đinović, Orion telekom
  • Diana Gligorijević, Telegroup
  • Eldin Hadžiselimović, ASA Holding
  • Jasmina Knežević, BelMedic
  • Vasko Kronevski, Nextsense
  • Tomaž Orešič, Resalta

Moderator: Branislav Vujović, New Frontier Group

16:15 – 16:45

Networking break

16:45 – 18:15

Power Discussion: Much Ado About Nothing or What Are Results That Would Really Make a Difference for the Region
Ministers vs Business Leaders

Brief description:

The concept of the panel is to discuss progress on regional cooperation so far and what are the streams / projects / ideas from the business perspective from different sectors that would really make a difference for the region. Ministers from different countries that have been working on regional projects for the past several years will be challenged by business leaders with regional footprint facing obstacles and seeing opportunities on daily level.

Topics to be discussed: Free Cargo – Green Balkanika – Centers of Excellence – Labor Mobility – Energy Sustainability – Branding the Region – Digitalization

Panelists:

  • Kocho Angjushev, Deputy Prime Minister, Republic of Macedonia
  • Branimir Gvozdenović, Vice President of the Parliament of Montenegro
  • Franjo Bobinac, Gorenje
  • Duško Knežević, Atlas Group
  • Medeja Lončar, Siemens
  • Ivan Mišetić, Atlantic Grupa
  • Mirko Šarović, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Moderators: Almir Jazvin, Prevent CEE and Marko Čadež, Chambers Investment Forum WB6

18:15 – 19:30

Free networking time

19:45 – 20:30

Transport to gala dinner

20:30 – 23:30

Unexpected dinner at “secret” location by Business Garden

Tuesday, October 2

08:45 – 09:15

Easy Breezy Coffee Time

09:15 – 10:15

Creative Hardtalk with BCG: Labour Challenge in the Region – How to Turn Brain Drain into Brain Gain or How Can We Shift Labor Resources Across Border Within Region?

  • how can we help each other when we have seasonality shortages
  • how can we help each other when we have expert shortages
  • what kind of adjustment our governments need to do in order to become more flexible with the labor market for regional workforce

Hardtalk panelists:

  • Nebojša Bjelotomić, Saga
  • Dejan Turk, A1 Slovenia, Vip mobile Serbia
  • Katja Krašković, GEA College

Moderator: Melanie Seier Larsen, BCG

10:15– 10:45

Networking break

10:45 – 11:45

Creative Hardtalk with BCG: How Can We Be Stronger as a Region?

  • How to become more effective in attracting sustainable, development-oriented investments, from regional investors and via FDI?
  • In which product/service/sector should we as a region team-up to leverage our unique advantages and reach critical scale of competitive and sustainable export-oriented business?

Hardtalk panelists:

  • Miljenko Bura, Medical Group
  • Branko Greganović, NLB Bank
  • Dušan Radičević, MK Group
  • Marko Voljč, Adriatic Council

Moderators: Nikola Vuković, BCG and Nevenka Črešnar Pergar, NP Consulting

11:45– 12:15

Networking break

12:15 – 13:15

How to Make Digital Technologies Work for the Region?

  • how can we, small countries use better new digital technologies?
  • whom could we offer digital solutions?
  • can we become a global IT hub for a multinational company?
  • what do we need to become globally interesting in the field of digital?

Hardtalk panelists:

  • Branimir Brkljač, Mokrin House
  • Matej Čer, AvantCar
  • Miša Lukić, NewStartegy

Moderators: Melanie Seier Larsen and Nikola Vuković, BCG

13:15 – 14:45

Networking Lunch

14:45 – 16:15

Plenary Panel: Can the Region Compete at the Global Playfield

Panelists:

  • Rasim Ljajić, Deputy Prime Minister, Serbia
  • Kocho Angjushev, Deputy Prime Minister, Macedonia

Moderated by Stanka Pejanović, Gorenje, Summit100 President of the Board and Zhivko Mukaetov, Alkaloid Skopje

Brief description:
The idea of the panel is to discuss with Prime Ministers concrete ideas, projects and solutions that MUST make a difference in the region on SEE and that are results of the two day discussion and work prior to the panel. Ideas but also projects will be presented during the panel by business leaders and moderators will try to get the commitment from prime ministers on when rather than why/why not.

16:00 – 16:15

Family photo with Deputy Prime Ministers

16:15– 17:30

Farewell cocktail at the Bar, Hyatt Regency

              The organizers reserve the right to make changes to the event program!