30/09/16 – 01/10/16

Cultural-entertainment complex "Premier"

Nova Kakhovka (Kherson region)

Dniprovsky avenue, 42

9.00 – 10.15

Registration of the Forum participants, welcome coffee

Gala session

10.30

The opening ceremony

Welcome speeches of the:

-       Head of Kherson regional state administration Andrii Gordieiev

-       Head of the Kherson regional Council Andrii Putilov

-       Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman

-       Chairman of the International trade club in Ukraine Mr. Andras Kadar

-       President of East Europe Foundation Mr. Victor Liakh

-       Program Director USAID Leadership in Economic Governance (LEV) Mrs. Tamara Solyanyk

11.00

Presentation of the potential of the Kherson region
«Kherson Region – Synergy of Prospects»

Opportunities of high-capacity transport hub of Ukraine through transport logistics development

Speaker: Hero of Ukraine, General Director of the LLC AE NIBULON, Oleksiy Vadaturskii

Kherson Region – the territory of energy efficient technologies

Speaker: acting deputy head of Kherson Regional State Administration Oleksander Adamchyk

Development of modern hotel-resort industry - Kherson Region tourism driver

Speaker: Honorary President of the LLC «Morski vorota», Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Sweden Carl Sturen

Industrial parks of the Kherson Region – regional economic growth points

Speaker: Chairman of the board LLC RPE “Kherson machine building plant”, Oleksandr Oleinyk

12.30

Signing of cooperation memorandums

12.45 – 13.20

Press conference for mass media

12.45 – 14.00

Lunch

13.45 – 15.00

Bilateral meetings with members of the International trade club (heads of trade-economic departments of embassies of Poland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Slovakia) in B2B format

14.00 – 17.00

Business discussion platform

1. 1.  Panel discussion: «Kherson region – tourist pearl of Ukraine – synergy of nature and hospitality»

Moderator: Ivan Liptuga, director of the Department of tourism and resorts of the Ministry of economic development and trade of Ukraine

1. 2.  Panel discussion: «Investments in agribusiness»

Moderator: Andrii Stefanovych, director of the Department scientific and educational providing and rural entrepreneurship development of The Ministry of agrarian policy and food of Ukraine

1. 3.  Panel discussion: «Industry, transport infrastructure, energy efficiency and their investment attractiveness»

Moderator: Pavlo Sheremeta, Director of School of Public Management under Ukrainian Catholic University, former Minister of economic development and trade of Ukraine

1. 4.  Roundtable: «Developed business-climate – the basis for investment attraction»

Moderator: Igor Burakovky, Senior Adviser of USAID Leadership in Economic Governance (LEV) Program, Head of the Board of The Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting

5.Panel discussion: «Economically able communities of Kherson region –guarantee of the regional development»

Moderator: Anatolii Tkachuk, director on  science and development issues of Public Organization "Institute of Civil Society"

18.00

Reception from the Head of the Regional State Administration Andrii Gordieiev

9.00 – 15.00

Presentation and acquaintance of Forum participants with production capacities, investment proposals and areas of Kherson region according to the following spheres:

-       Agrarian sector – opportunities for the full production cycle;

-       Industry – brownfields and territories for your technologies development;

-       Transport hub – marine and air gateway of Ukraine;

-       Tourist pearl of Ukraine – synergy of nature and hospitality of Kherson citizens

Excursion among tourist sites of Kherson region (Biosphere reserve Askania-Nova of F.E.Falz-Fein)