2:00 – 3:00 pm: Welcome coffee and accreditation
3:00 pm: Opening remarks: Dr Urs Engels | Head of Ukraine Unit, BMWE
German business in action – Insights on investment climate, resilience, and procurement (impulses and interviews)
Moderation: Michael Harms | Managing Director, German Eastern Business Association
3:10 pm: 1) Resilience in action
Reiner Perau | Managing Director, German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Interview: Dmitry Bebeshko | CEO, Linde Gas Ukraine
3:30 pm: Q&A
3:35 pm: 2) Public procurement in Ukraine – challenges, risks and potential
Interviews:
Henrik Klaner | Regional Director Sales, Hitachi Rail GTS Germany
Daniel Müller | Senior Director Government Affairs, Siemens AG
3:55 pm: Q&A
4:00 pm: 3) FDI and investment climate reform
Robert Kirchner/Garry Polushkin | Deputy Team Leader/Project Manager Ukraine, German Economic Team, Berlin Economics
Interview: Oliver Gierlichs | President, German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Managing Director & CFO, Bayer Ltd.
4:20 pm: Q&A
4:25 pm Coffee break
5:00 pm: A trilateral approach to reconstruction: The potential of economic cooperation between Germany, Ukraine and Poland (panel discussion)
Moderation: Dr Lars Gutheil | Managing Director, German-Polish Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Katarzyna Kowalska | Vice President of the Management Board, KuKe
Kostiantyn Lisnychyi | Advisor to the Executive Director, UkraineInvest
Ganna Mikulytska | Managing Director, SAP Ukraine
Fedir Omelinskyj | General Director REHAU LLC, Country Head Ukraine
Christiane Rudolph | Chief Sustainability Officer, DEG
5:45 – 6:00 pm:Q&A
6:00 – 6:10 pm: Structures for building trust in Ukraine (closing interview)
Reiner Perau | Managing Director, German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Interview: Anka Feldhusen | Business Ombudswoman Ukraine
6:10 pm: Short break
Moderation: Dr Nicole Renvert | Managing Director International Economic Relations, German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
6:30 pm: Opening remarks: Dr Thomas Steffen | State Secretary, BMWE
High-level keynote speeches:
H.E. Oleksii Sobolev (tbc) | Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine
Michał Baranowski | Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Technology of Poland
7:00 – 8:30 pm: Buffet and networking
8:30 pm: End of side event
the Ukraine division of the BMWE
in collaboration with: German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK)
supported by: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH,
German Eastern Business Association (OA),
German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Ukraine), and
German-Polish Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Poland).