Economic Forum of Young Leaders

9th ECONOMIC FORUM of YOUNG LEADERS

2th - 5th of September 2014 NOWY SĄCZ
AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET, MAKE FRIENDS AND TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

DAY 3 : Thursday

September 4, 2014, Krynica

Synergy Time. How to Unleash the Full Economic Potential of Central Europe?

Plenary session

Christian Lowe - Bureau Chief, Central Europe and the Balkans - Thomson Reuters
Alexander Guryanov - Deputy Minister - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
Władyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz - Minister - Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
Elena M. Bryan - Senior Trade Representative - U.S. Mission to the European Union
Jan Mladek - Minister - Ministry of Industry and Trade - Czech Republic
Leonid Mukhamedov - President Central and Eastern Europe - Schneider Electric
Michele Nicoletti - Member of the Foreign and EU Affairs Committee, Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - Chamber of Deputies - Italy

Thematic Block: Entrepreneurship

On the third day of the Forum we organized a special thematic track dedicated to startups. A special lecture was delivered by Bozena Lublińska - Kasprzak, President of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development. Then there was a presentation of the three successful startups associated with the use of drones to trade and services, editing web pages based on Wordpress in real-time and positioning websites on the internet and display advertising. The whole event ended with a discussion on how to support young entrepreneurs, how to start your own adventure with the business and develop your passion and interest into the tool of making money, and above all how to develop a startup into a prospering business.

Thematic Block: Entrepreneurship

Startups as a key factor of youth entrepreneurship

Lecture

Bożena Lublińska – Kasprzak – President of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development

Be inspired.

Presentation of startups. How did they start? How did they manage to be successful?

Business presentation

FlyTech Solutions sp.z o.o. - Przemysław Lekston, Michał Wojas
+moreplease - Konrad Kaczmarczyk, Kinga Krotos
Semanticad - Albert Czajkowski, Damian Klocek, Jakub Czekaj - http://semanticad.pl

Założyciel +moreplease o projekcie Be-Very.com

How to help startup`s? Business angels, venture capitals, public funds. Other forms of suport

Panel discussion

Peter Olajos – Deputy Chairman of SME Europe
Sandro Mendonca - Profesor ISCTE-IUL Business School
Andy Brandt – Scrum.org
Maria Luisa Delgado Medina - Deputy Director General of Technology Transfer, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain
Przemysław Lekston - FlyTech Solutions sp.z o.o.
Konrad Kaczmarczyk - +moreplease
Albert Czajkowski - Semanticad

Acquiring young professionals of Polonia for promotion brand of Poland in their country of residence

Panel discussion

25 Years after the European Autumn of Nations. Has Central Europe Grasped Its Historic Chance?

Plenary session

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz - Mayor - City of Warsaw
Andrius Kubilius - Former Prime Minister of Lithuania, Member of Energy Commission, Seimas
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero - Prime Minister (2004-2011), Honorary President - The Ideas Foundation
Jozef Oleksy - Member - Programme Council of the Economic Forum - Poland
Karel Schwarzenberg - Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee - Parliament of the Czech Republic - Czech Republic
Valdis Zatlers - Former President of the Republic of Latvia, MP, Chairman of the National Security Committee - Parliament of Latvia
Phillip Karber - President - The Potomac Foundation, USA