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17:46 21.03.2013

Odesa FDI Forum 2013 Focus: Infrastructure

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Hereby we invite you to participate in the biggest investment event of the south of Ukraine -

ODESA FDI FORUM 2013 FOCUS: INFRASTRUCTURE, which will be held in Bristol Hotel in Odesa on April 12-13, 2013.

The initiator and customer of the project is Odesa Regional State Administration. The official partner of the forum is TIS Company. The partners are such authoritative companies as PwC Ukraine, Port Invest, Brooklyn-Kyiv and Lavrynovych and Partners.

The event is positioned as a platform for an active dialogue, and in order to realize such a discussion format an innovation conference system has been implemented, allowing each delegate to create his "profile" at the event's Web site www.fdi-odessa.com.ua, raise questions and appoint meetings with any participant or speaker of the event from his own PC or communicator before and during the event.

Hereby we invite you to participate in this unique project and ultimately use the opportunities provided by such an authoritative event.

Registration and all details of the project – on the Web site www.fdi-odessa.com.ua

PROGRAMM

0900 - 1000 Registration of the forum participants. Morning coffee.

1000 - 1130 Greeting to guests and participants of the forum.

• Welcome speech. Eduard Matviychuk,

Chairman of Odesa Regional State Administration

• Welcome speech. Oleksandr Vilkul,

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine

• Welcome speech. Hennadiy Chizhikov,

President of the CCI of Ukraine

Plenary strategic session

"ATTRACTION OF INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS:

ACTUAL PROBLEMS, MODELS, DECISIONS"

Moderator: Endy Kuzich,

Business Development Director PwC Ukraine

• Maksym Lavrynovych,

Managing partner of Lavrynovych and Partners law firm

• Oleksandr Smirnov,

General Director of Portinvest company

1200 - 1330 Panel discussion

"FINANCING OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS: WIDENING OF INVESTORS' OPPORTUNITIES"

Key issues of the discussion:

• Do professional investors have any appetite for financing Ukrainian infrastructure projects?

• Does investment attractiveness of infrastructure projects depend on certain sector: energy (including alternative one), transport, municipal economy?

• Has approval of the law of Ukraine on ports influenced the investment attractiveness of projects related to investing in port infrastructure?

Moderator: Erik Nayman, managing partner of the Capital Times financial company

• Borys Tymonkin, Chairman of UniCredit Bank

• Julian Smith, Partner, PwC International Practice Unit Head in railway and transport infrastructure

• Hayko Pelemann, Executive Director of HPC Ukraina

• Daniil Pasko, Partner of Horizon Capital

• Igor Mitiukov, Director of Morgan Stanley Ukraine

• Petr Kochevrin, Director of Russia Partners

1400 - 1530

Panel discussion

"ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE: INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES" with the support of the European-Ukrainian Energy Agency (EUEA)

Key issues of the discussion: - Investment in energy infrastructure: choice or necessity? - Energy saving and diversification: strategic priorities? - Basic requirements of financial experts: what should government start with? Moderator: Elena Rybak, Deputy Head of EUEA Board, Managing Director of iC Clean energy solutions Ukraine • Mykola Pashkevych, Chairman of the State Agency of Ukraine for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving • Oleksandr Malin, Deputy Governor of Odesa region • Wolfram Rehbock, Senior partner of Arzinger law firm • Guerman Ainbinder, Director of Wind Power LLC, DTEK • Markus Querner, Expert in project management and construction economics iC group (Austria) 1600 - 1730 Panel discussion "INDUSTRIAL PARKS: PERSPECTIVE SITES AND ADVANTAGES FOR PARTICIPANTS" • Andrey Stavnitser, General Director of TIS • Illia Shpurov, President of Inpark group of companies, Russian Federation • Denis Zhuravskiy, Executive Director of Russian Industrial Parks Association 1730 Governor’s reception in honor of the forum participants 1000 –1200 Visiting session. Odesa maritime merchant port "INVESTMENT PROJECTS IN PORT SECTOR: WHAT PREVENTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINIAN PORTS?" • Welcome speech. Yuriy Vaskov, Head of Odesa maritime merchant port • Moderator: Aleksandr Kifak, Chairman of the Board of ANK law firm "WHAT WILL THE LAW OF UKRAINE ON SEAPORTS PROVIDE TO INVESTORS?" • "ATTRACTION OF INVESTMENT IN UKRAINIAN SEA PORTS: MECHANISMS AND BARRIERS" Timur Kogan, Investment adviser of financial company Capitals Times • "EXPERIENCE OF EFFECTIVE USE OF PPP PRINCIPLES BY LEADING PORTS OF EUROPE AND BLACK SEA REGION" Georgiy Tokman, Executive Director of BASPA • "EXPERIENCE IN ADMINISTRATION OF ISLAND SEA PORTS ACTIVITIES" Vladimir Privizentsev, Representative of Verkís company in CIS countries, Island 1135 – 1200 Coffee break 13.00 - Opening of the first stage of the Brooklyn-Kyiv grains transshipping complex Provision of stable freight traffic – industrial parks, private terminals. Yuzhny Port. 17.00 - Closing business lunch for the forum participants.

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