First infrastructure forum focused on investment opportunities of the national market will be held in Kyiv

"Ukrainian Infrastructure Forum '16'" will be held on April 22, 2016 in the hotel InterContinental Kyiv supported by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine. Organizer – A7 CONFERENCES, Official partner – Lemtrans, Exclusive legal partner – International law firm Baker & McKenzie, Strategic partner – ArtBudService Construction company, Innovation partner – Microsoft Ukraine. The Forum will become a professional communication platform for opened public discussion, which unites the representatives of the government, international organizations, and Ukrainian businesses in order to move on a new level of the infrastructure market’s development. The aim of the Forum is to draw attention of national and international investors to the potential of the transportation system of Ukraine for attracting foreign investments in the sector. Keynote Speakers of the Forum are: Volodymyr Omelyan, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Oksana Reiter, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine for European Integration, Vladyslava Rutytska, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine for European Integration, Mikheil Saakashvili, Head of Odessa Regional State Administration, Yaroslav Dubnevych, Head of Transport Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Igor Bilous, Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Olyana Gordiyenko, Partner of Kyiv office, Baker & McKenzie, Gokhan Bayhan, General Manager for CIS, Europe, Middle East, North Africa, General Electric Transportation, Flavio Canetti, Senior Director Business Development, Bombardier Transportation, Vladimir Mezentsev, Chief Executive Officer, Lemtrans, Oleksandr Smirnov, Chief Executive Officer, Portinvest, Tatyana Korotka, Deputy Business Ombudsman in Ukraine, Andy Hunder, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, Oleksandr Kava, Manager of Transport and Infrastructure Section, Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO), Orest Klympush, Head, Federation of Transport Employers of Ukraine, Oleksiy Vadatursky, Chief Executive Officer, Nibulon, Ruslan Korzh, Partner Emeritus, A.T. Kearney, Oleksandr Kurlyand, President, Ukrferry, Yuriy Miroshnikov, President, Ukrainian International Airlines, Volodymyr Prykhodko, President, Kryukovsky Railway Car Building Works, Serhiy Vovk, Director, Center for Transport Strategies. Among other participants are leaders of top 100 Ukrainian and foreign companies in the transport sector, Ukrainian manufacturers of products in the infrastructure industry, foreign investors, and representatives of international financial corporations as well as embassies of foreign states. Igor Bilous, Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine highlighted: "Over the past ten years the volume of marine container transportations decreased in 2 times, transit cargoes - in 3 times. And this is despite the fact that at most terminals private companies are operating. After examining the international experience, we have found that we need to change the model of managing public ports. At the moment the most effective model is a mid-term concession by which operates over 80% world ports. In Ukraine, this form of cooperation between state and private capital can be effective only under conditions of establishing a new concession law. That is why we initiated the establishment of an interagency working group to discuss and write a new Law, where the features of concessions will be defined not only for ports but also in general for the transport industry, for the sector of municipal engineering, medicine, social infrastructure, etc." Mikheil Saakashvili, Head of Odessa Regional State Administration stated: "If we consider Ukraine from the perspective of logistics business, we can offer routes 3 times more attractive from the Russian. The route across Russia, which takes 30 days, you can get across Ukraine up to 9! This is our chance, we just have to take." The Forum aims to enhance the interest of foreign investors to Ukrainian infrastructure projects. It will answer the key questions regarding the sources of financing for the resumption of the infrastructure and mechanisms for implementation of large investment projects. Besides, the Ukrainian business during the event will receive comprehensive information about the opportunities of launching the processes of modernization and operation with state enterprises in the infrastructure sphere as well as prospects financing from the national and international financial institutions. The specialty of the Forum will be "1-to-1" meetings between investors and representatives of Ukrainian companies on the second day of the Forum. Within the framework of the event a Catalogue of investment projects of Ukrainian public and private organizations in the field of infrastructure is planned to be created. The Forum will be supported by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine. Organizer – A7 CONFERENCES, Official partner – Lemtrans, Exclusive legal partner – International law firm Baker & McKenzie, Strategic partner – ArtBudService Construction company, Innovation partner – Microsoft Ukraine. Exhibition partner – RC "Orange Park." General News Partner: Interfax-Ukraine, Business TV Partner: First Business Channel, General Media Partner: The Ukrainian Week, General Radio Partner: Golos Stolitsy Radio, Exclusive Media Partner: Liga Business Inform, Exclusive Business Media Partner: Business Newspaper, Business Media Partner: Delo.ua. Media Partners: 5 Channel, Persha Shpalta, Novoye Vremya, Ukrainian News, Business Channel, Companion, KyivPost, Delovaya Stolitsa, Hubs, Business Views, The Ukrainian Times, Platfor.ma, Industry in Focus, ABCnews, CTS, Industrial Cargoes, Liga:Zakon, ElectroNews. The Forum is supported by the UAIB, MBA International, ACC, EBA, CUCC, KMBS, Year of Europe in Ukraine 2020, Exporters of Ukraine Club, UBC, UVCA, CEO Club Ukraine, KSE, International Institute of Business, AHK Delegation der Deutschen Wirtschaft in der Ukraine. Online registration is open until April 21, 2016 at the web site: http://a7conf.com/infra For further details, please contact Oksana Kadochnikova, Public Relations Manager, A7 CONFERENCES via tel.: +38 044 227 27 77, +38 068 120 53 35, or е-mail: [email protected]
The Interfax-Ukraine News Agency is the general news partner.