Cooperation strategies: common funds, risks and profits. Purchasing groups, cooperative arrangements, networking and clusters
A map of Polish clusters: industries and their potential, achievements and plans
What are clusters for: building competitive advantage or creating ground for cooperation?
The concentration of technical know-how and production potential, better use of possibilities and resources, support for cooperation between enterprises, and cooperation between self-government and science
Do the clusters lend themselves well to increase the competitiveness of the Polish economy and promote Polish brands?
Clusters and their creators in Europe and worldwide. An overview of the most interesting experiences Guests invited to take part in the thematic session (alphabetical list):
Daniel Górski – Director, Department for Regional Development, Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Podlaskiego (Marshal’s Office of the Podlaskie Voivodeship); Jan Kiciński – Chairman of the Programme Board, Bałtycki Klaster Ekoenergetyczny (Baltic Eco-Energy Cluster); Krzysztof Krystowski – Chairman of the Board, Managing Director, Wytwórnia Sprzętu Komunikacyjnego PZL-Świdnik SA, Chairman of the Board, Związek Pracodawców Klastry Polskie (“Polish Cluster” Employers Association); Luk Palmen – Chairman of the Board, InnoCo Sp. z o.o., Manager, Silesia Automotive; Paulina Zadura-Lichota – Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP)
22 April 2015 13.30-15.00 Start-ups and young entrepreneurship
Conditions of initiating business activity. How to unleash the activity and entrepreneurship of the young generation? Are there some “difficult experiences from the past”? Typical problems of the first stage of an enterprise’s existence in
the market
How to make it easier to start? The role of experienced partners, education and administration, as well as investors Entrepreneurship incubators and other mechanisms of providing support to start-ups
Guests invited to take part in the thematic session (alphabetical list):
Wojciech Borczyk – Founder, Incuvo Sp. z o.o.; Wojciech Dołkowski – Founder, PolBAN Business Angels Club; Tomasz Jabłoński – Managing Director, Qpony.pl Sp. z o.o.; Sara Koślińska – Founder, Startup Poland; Piotr Krych – Chairman of the Board, Saule Technologies Sp. z o.o.; Bożena Lublińska-Kasprzak – Chairman of the Board, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP); Monika Żochowska – Chairman of the Board, Phenicoptere Sp. z.o.o.
Moderator: Dariusz Żuk – Chairman of the Board, Polska Przedsiębiorcza (Entrepreneurial Poland) 22 April 2015
Investment attractiveness
A range of needs and expectations: investments preferred by Polish local government in the development strategies pursued by cities and voivodeships
Investors and their plans regarding the offers proposed by cities. What types of jobs may be offered in the coming years?
Factors that influence business and location decisions. Creating the investment offer of the country, its regions and particular cities
Special Economic Zones and other tools to support and encourage investors – the effectiveness of such an approach in the eyes of the administration and business
Active partners of an investor: institutions of higher education and schools, labour market institutions, specialist units of self-government administration, and the state as a regulator
Guests invited to take part in the thematic session (alphabetical list):
Ilona Antoniszyn-Klik – Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economy, Poland; Arkadiusz Chęciński – Mayor of Sosnowiec; Sławomir Majman – Chairman of the Board, Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ SA); Małgorzata Mańka-Szulik – Mayor of Zabrze, Chairperson, Górnośląski Związek Metropolitalny (Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia); Tomasz Olszewski – Head of Industrial Department CEE, JLL; Wojciech Saługa – Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship; Paweł Tynel – Partner, Tax Advisory, Head of Grants and Incentives Advisory Services, EY; Piotr Wojaczek – Chairman of the Board, Katowicka Specjalna Strefa Ekonomiczna SA (Katowice Special Economic Zone); Andrzej Zdebski – President, Cracow Chamber of Commerce and Industry
22 April 2015 11.30-13.00 and 13.30-15.00 Mining. A profitable mine
Is it possible for hard coal mining in Poland to be profitable?
Economic, organisational and geological conditions for profitability in hard coal mining Investments that serve to increase the productivity of mines
A model mine. An attempt to conduct a simulation Guests invited to take part in the thematic session (alphabetical list):
Mirosław Bendzera – Chairman of the Board, Famur SA; Michal Heřman – Chairman of the Board, PG SILESIA; Wojciech Kowalczyk – Secretary of State, Ministry of Treasury, Poland, Secretary of State, Government Plenipotentiary for Restructuring of the Coal Mining Sector, Ministry of Economy, Poland; Zygmunt Łukaszczyk – Chairman of the Board, Katowicki Holding Węglowy SA, Chairman of the Board, Euracoal; Piotr Mocny – Senior Expert, A.T. Kearney; Jerzy Podsiadło – Chairman of the Board, Węglokoks SA; Heinz Schernikau – CEO, HMS Bergbau AG; Krzysztof Sędzikowski – Chairman of the Board, Kompania Węglowa SA; Janusz Steinhoff – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy between 1997-2001, Poland; Zbigniew Stopa – Chairman of the Board, Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka SA; Józef Wolski – Chairman of the Board, Kopex SA; Zbyszek Zaborowski – Poseł na Sejm; a representative of: JSW
22 April 2015 13.30-15.00 Housing
Housing supply and prices versus the wealth of the society Residential construction according to developers
The role of the state in housing development. Effectiveness of programmes that support purchases of flats New flats to let: the state policy versus the free market
Guests invited to take part in the thematic session (alphabetical list):
Bogusław Białowąs – Deputy Director, Agency Services Department, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK); Adam Grehl – Deputy Mayor of Wrocław; Zbigniew Juroszek – Chairman of the Board, Atal SA; Mariusz Książek – Założyciel Spółki, Chairman of the Board, Marvipol SA; Edward Laufer – Chairman of the Board, Vantage Development SA; Paweł Orłowski – Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, Poland; Wiesław Źrebiec – Chairman of the Board, Polska Izba Gospodarcza Towarzystw Budownictwa Społecznego (Polish Chamber of Commerce of Social Construction Associations)
22 April 2015 13.30–15.00
Health care. A set of questions: Has the patients’ way to treatment become shorter? The oncological package – an attempt at assessing the first quarter of 2015:
– Opinions expressed by the medical community and decision-makers – Main conclusions of the work carried out by a special team
A summary of results of the so-called queuing package in other medical fields to date – including cardiology and paediatrics
queuing package
Guests invited to take part in the thematic session (alphabetical list):
Alicja Chybicka – Senator, Deputy Chairperson, Health Committee of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, Head, Department of Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation, Oncology and Haematology, Wroclaw Medical University; Jacek Fijuth – Chairman of the Board, Polskie Towarzystwo Onkologiczne (Polish Society of Oncology), Head, Zakład Teleradioterapii (Department of Teleradiotherapy), Regionalny Ośrodek Onkologiczny (Regional Oncology Centre) in Łódź; Zbigniew Kalarus – Head, Department of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Diseases and Electrotherapy, Clinical Department of Cardiology of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Chairman of the General Board, Polskie Towarzystwo Kardiologiczne (Polish Cardiac Society); Tomasz Latos – Member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm), Chairman, Health Committee of the Polish Parliament (Sejm); Krzysztof Tuczapski – Deputy Chairman of the Board for Medical Affairs, Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia (National Health Fund); Piotr Warczyński – Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Health, Poland; Aleksander Zajusz – Deputy Director, Oddział ds. Lecznictwa Otwartego i Diagnostyki (Outpatient Health Care and Diagnostics Department), Centrum Onkologii – Instytut im. Marii Skłodowskiej- Curie (Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology), Oddział w Gliwicach (Branch Gliwice)
Moderator: Wojciech Kuta – Editor-in-chief, Rynek Zdrowia, rynekzdrowia.pl 22 April 2015
13.30-15.00