Program konferencji

6
th
Regional CEED Conference
24th - 25th May, 2012 • Warsaw, Poland
Growing
Up Out
Leveraging Central & Eastern
European networks to scale
up your business
Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive
Development (CEED) will bring together
growth-oriented entrepreneurs from
throughout the CEE Region to meet in
Poland to share ideas and partner for
mutually beneficial growth.
6
Growing
th
Up Out
Regional CEED Conference
24th - 25th May, 2012 • Warsaw, Poland
Each year CEED brings together over 150
fast growth entrepreneurs from Central
and Eastern Europe to inspire, give a fresh
view, and offer regional business
networking opportunities.
This year entrepreneurs will meet in Poland,
the sixth largest economy in the EU and one
of the fastest growing economies in Europe,
with a yearly growth rate of over 3%.
CEE is a diverse region with each country
having comparative advantages and
providing unique opportunities. Market
contraction in the region requires we all do
‘more with less.’ Finding unique business
synergies in the region and beyond is the
challenge entrepreneurs face.
At the conference, regional and international entrepreneurs
and investors will share their views and experience on building
teams, growing companies and going beyond borders.
Our keynote speakers will include Jerry Colonna, an early
investor in Twitter, Lycos, Gamesville, Geocities. He has been
named as one of the 100 Most Influential People of the New
Economy by Upside Magazine and was named as one of the best
VCs in the U.S. by Forbes ASAP list. Jerry is also a coach to over 40
entrepreneurs in the U.S. and CEE region.
Jerry Colonna
Johan Gorecki
The moderator for the event will be Johan Gorecki. An
entrepreneur himself, he worked with the founding team of
Skype, which eBay acquired for $4.1 billion in 2005. He also
worked with the international entertainment broadcasting
company Modern Times Group (MTG). Most recently, Johan is
known for founding and being CEO of Globe Forum, an
internationally recognized marketplace for sustainable innovation.
Hubertus van der Vaart
Hubertus van der Vaart is co-founder of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF). SEAF invests
in small and medium enterprises in emerging and transition markets in the form of equity,
mezzanine, and term credit. Bert ran the first SEAF fund in Poland, today he is the executive
chairman of SEAF, which has made 352 investments across 22 emerging markets totaling $429
million in invested capital. He was a partner and associate with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in
Washington, D.C, Frankfurt, and Brussels where he specialized in corporate and financial
transactions and a management consultant with Bain & Company in London and Munich.
Jacek Błoński is CEO of Lewiatan Business Angels, the largest network of Business Angels in
Poland – Lewiatan Business Angels and in 2009, as the first representative of the Central and
Eastern European region, he was appointed Vice-President of the Board at The European Business
Angels Network (EBAN). His business experience includes working for the BMW Group, Enterprise
Investors Corpora¬tion, Simon Kucher & Partners.
Jacek Błoński
Ignacy Miedziński is co-founder and president of Biuro Projektowania Systemów Cyfrowych
(BPSC SA). BPSC is today among the top five providers of Enterprise Resource Planning solutions
in Poland. BPSC is a five time winner of the Puls Businesu (Business Pulse) Business Gazelle title, the
Forbes Diamond award (2009) and the Chorzow's Leader of Economic Development award (2010).
Ignacy has served as a board member of the Polish Software Market Association.
Ignacy Miedziński
Ela Madej is a young polish web and mobile entrepreneur who co-founded a few start-ups such
as Applicake, Future Simple, European Rails Conference Railsberry and Credictive. She recently
received U.S. VC funding in Chicago and was featured in Wprost magazine’s 2011 list of Poland’s
“100 Future Richest”. Ela is active in building the Polish startup community with Hive53 meetups
and running Mobile Mobile Conferences.
Ela Madej
Robert Kwiatkowski is the Deputy Director, Market Development Department, at the Warsaw
Stock Exchange (WSE). He is responsible for the acquisition of companies to the WSE through
cooperation with potential issuers and market participants, domestic and international. Robert is
active on the Polish capital market since 1994 and has also worked in the Polish National
Depositary for Securities.
Robert Kwiatkowski
Beata Kacprzyk is chief specialist at the Warsaw Stock Exchange’s Market Development
Department, responsible for attracting Polish and foreign companies and investment firms to the
WSE. During her multi-year carrier at the WSE, was involved in a number of business projects
related to development of the WSE. As a public speaker, Beata popularizes the ways of raising
capital via the stock market, along with stock and bond issues.
Beata Kacprzyk
Bogusława Cimoszko Skowrońska is the founder of CMS Corporate Management Services
with offices in Zurich, Warsaw and Prague. CMS assists management and company owners with
capital raisings from the public and private markets, strategy execution, and mergers &
acquisitions. CMS introduced first two foreign companies to the NewConnect segment of the
Warsaw Stock Exchange. As an experienced financial services executive, Boguslawa has for EBRD in
London, UBS AG and Fincoord in Zurich.
Bogusława Cimoszko
Skowrońska
Growing
6
th
Regional
CEED Conference
Up Out
24th - 25th May, 2012
Warsaw, Poland
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Pre-conference*:
Doing Business in Poland
14:00 – 16:00
Visit to Warsaw Stock Exchange
Presentation of New Connect Market for SMEs - an opportunity for attracting investments
16:00-17:00
17:00-19:30
Pre-conference registration
What does it take to make it in Poland?
Leveraging Polish economic growth to expand your business
19:30-22:30
Dinner & cocktails
*for international entrepreneurs
Friday, May 25th, 2012
CEED Regional Conference:
Growing Up & Out
8:30-9:30
9:30-9:45
Conference registration
Opening & Getting to know each other
9:45-11:00
Becoming the entrepreneur & CEO that can manage
and induce change: Keynote by Jerry Colonna
11:00-11:25
Break
11:25-12:20
Sharing the Entrepreneurial Journey: A conversation with mentors and entrepreneurs
Finding the Funding: Panel with investors about investment opportunities in the region
12:20-13:15
13:15-14:15
14:15-15:30
15:30-16:30
16:30
17:30-19:00
Networking Lunch
Pre-arranged B2B meeting & Networking Lounge
Grow up & Out: Entrepreneur Hot Spot
Closing
Cocktail hour
6
Growing
th
Up Out
Regional CEED Conference
24th - 25th May, 2012 • Warsaw, Poland
Venue
The CEED regional conference 2012 will take place at the Novotel
Warszawa Centrum Hotel, which is perfectly situated between
Warsaw’s historic Old Town and today’s thriving business district.
Novotel Warszawa Centrum Hotel
Ul Marszalkowska 94-98
00-511 Warsaw
Hotel arrangements
All international attendees are responsible for making for their own hotel reservations.
Due to the high conference season and the UEFA EURO 2012 in Warsaw, it is highly recommended that
attendees make reservations as soon as possible.
We have reserved blocks of rooms at the venue and other hotels. For more information visit
www.ceed-global.org
Conference fee
Members of CEED network: no fee for participation.
Non-members of CEED network: please contact us at: [email protected]
Registration
The registration form is available at www.ceed-global.org or write to
[email protected]
About CEED
CEED is a membership organization serving a new generation of
internationally oriented entrepreneurs in Central & Eastern Europe.
Entrepreneurs join CEED to gain access to the mentors, networks,
knowledge and capital they need to grow their businesses. CEED
is building a trusted community of growth oriented and like
minded entrepreneurs, gathering today more than 1000 active
members and having helped over 10.000 entrepreneurs in
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia,
Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.