MACEDONIA2025 SUMMIT OFFICIAL AGENDAOCTOBER 31st - NOVEMBER 3rd, 2017

A DYNAMIC PLATFORM FOR SHARING KNOWLEDGE ON BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP

Organizer:

MACEDONIA2025

MARRIOTT HOTEL SKOPJE, MACEDONIA

October 31, 2017

10 am – 3pm GET IN THE RING (Business Pitch Competition for high school students and start-ups)Event Chair: Chris Pavlovski, Founder and CEO of Rumble, Canada; Macedonia2025 Board Member(Venue: Museum of Macedonian Struggle)

6pm – 7:30pm Promoting Kellogg Executive Scholarship Part 2 (Venue: Marriott Hotel, conference room, 1st floor)

8pm – 9:30pm Informal Drinks (AT PERSONAL COST) (Venue: Marriott Hotel, Distrikt Bar)

November 1, 2017 (Marriott Hotel Skopje)

7am Registration of delegates

8:30am - 9:15am OPENING ADDRESSES

Robert Arsov, Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, USA; Macedonia2025 ChairmanMike Zafirovski, Founder/ President of The Zaf Group, USA; Macedonia2025 Co-Founder and Board MemberVuk Jeremić, President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), Serbia

9:15am - 10:30am SESSION 1: BEST PRACTICES IN DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC MODELS OF SMALL STATES

Mike Zafirovski (Panel Chair), Founder/President at The Zaf Group, USA; Macedonia2025 Co-Founder and Board MemberSuan Hiang Lee, President of the Economic Development Board Society, SingaporePierre Gurdjian, Philanthropy Partner at RVVZ Foundation, Armenia

10:30am - 11am COFFEE BREAK

11am - 1pm SESSION 2: WHAT WE LEARNED AND HOW CAN WE IMPLEMENT BEST PRACTICES IN MACEDONIA AND THE REGIONZoran Martinovski (Panel Co-Chair), IFC World Bank Country Manager for Macedonia and Montenegro; Macedonia2025 Summit Co-chair and Macedonia2025 Board Member, MacedoniaAna Arsov (Panel Co-Chair), Managing Director at Moodyʼs U.S. Financial Institutions team; Macedonia2025 Summit Co-chair and Macedonia2025 Board MemberZoran Zaev, Prime Minister of the Republic of MacedoniaKocho Angjusev, Vice Prime Minister of the Government of Macedonia Dimitar Bogov, Governor of the National Bank of Republic of Macedonia Igor Luksic, SEE Public Sector Director at PwC; Former Prime Minister of MontenegroSavo Kentera, President & CEO at Atlantic Council of Montenegro Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Chair of Alternativa, political party in Kosovo and a Member of Kosovo ParliamentSvetozar Janevski, President of M6 Investments, Macedonia

1pm - 2pm LUNCH

2pm - 3pm SESSION 3: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS-SHARING KNOWHOW AND DEVELOPING LOCAL SUPPLIERSJerry Naumoff (Panel Chair), CEO of Taskforce, MacedoniaNikica Mojsoska-Blazevski, Dean of the School of Business Economics and Management at the American College at Skopje, MacedoniaSteven Sharpe, President & CEO of Euromax Resources, United Kingdom Filip Van Hool, Owner of Van Hool, Belgium Borijan Borozanov, Plant Manager/Managing Director at Delphi Electronics System, Macedonia

3pm - 4pm SESSION 4: REQUIRED ROLE OF WOMEN AS LEADERS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTUREAna Arsov (Panel Chair), Managing Director at Moodyʼs U.S. Financial Institutions team; Macedonia2025 Summit Co-chair and Macedonia2025 Board Member Angelka Peeva Laurencic, Founder and Manager of Image PR, Macedonia Sonja Smuc, General Manager at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of SloveniaTarja Krehic, Incorporating Partner at Krehic Law Firm, Croatia

4pm - 4:30pm COFFEE BREAK

4:30pm - 5:30pm SESSION 5: A CONVERSATION ON GIVING BACK TO THE HOMELANDRobert Arsov (Panel Chair), Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, USA; Macedonia2025 ChairmanRuben Vardanyan, Impact investor and social entrepreneur, Advisory Board Member of the IFC (World Bank Group) and Ameriabank8pm - 10pm SUMMIT COCKTAIL RECEPTION (Venue: Museum of Macedonian Struggle)

November 2, 2017 (Marriott Hotel Skopje)

7am Registration of delegates

8:30am - 10am SESSION 6: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE MEDIA AND TELECOM INDUSTRY Vlaho Kostov (Panel Chair), R&D Executive and Head of CEE and Mediterranean region at Panasonic, GermanyIvan Skenderoski, Founder and Managing Partner of Salience, UAE Branko Stancev, Chief Commercial Officer at Makedonski Telekom Stan Baaijens, CEO of Funke Digital TV, NetherlandsDarko Ratkaj, Senior Project Manager at European Broadcasting Union, Switzerland Francesco Sciacchitano, Senior Legal Officer at AGCOM, Italy

10am - 10:30am COFFEE BREAK

10:30am - 11:30am SESSION 7: SOCIAL MEDIA AND PLATFORMSChris Pavlovski (Panel Chair), Founder and CEO of Rumble; Macedonia2025 Board Member, CanadaAlek Icev, Engineering Manager at Google, USAVanja Josifovski, CTO at Pinterest, USA

12pm - 1pm LUNCH

1pm - 2pm SESSION 9: MACEDONIA – A HUB FOR SMART INDUSTRIESFilip Misovski (Panel Co-chair), Software Product Executive at SAP, Germany Petar Kajevski (Panel Co-chair), Customer Value Selling at Finastra, Austria Marta Arsovska Tomovska, Board Member at the UN World Summit Awards & Former Minister for Information Society and Administration of the Republic of MacedoniaDelyan Lilov, CEO of Musala Soft, BulgariaDimitar Siljanovski, Chief Technical Officer at Global Savings Group GmbH, GermanyAleksandar Memca, Managing Partner at InterWorks, MacedoniaNikola Bojkov, CEO and Co-Founder of EmbedSocial, Macedonia

11:30am – 12pm SESSION 8: ISRAEL'S SUCCESS AS THE STARTUP NATION Dana Gavish-Fridman, VP Entrepreneurship at Ben Gurion University, Israel

2pm - 3pm SESSION 10: RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND SMART SOLUTIONSAleksandra Nakjeva Ruzhin (Panel Chair), Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to the Kingdom of SwedenTjaša Ficko, Deputy Major of Ljubljana, SloveniaViktor Nelepa, Founder & CEO of DIDEA MEDIA Co. LLC, UAERonny Arnberg, Project manager at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden Borjan Panovski, Senior Advisor at Rubicon Infrastructure Advisors, USA

3:30pm - 4:30pm SESSION 11: TECHNOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE:THE FASTEST ELECTRIC CARS IN THE WORLDJohn I. Bitove, (Panel Chair), Sole shareholder of Obelysk, Canada; Macedonia2025 Co-Founder and Board MemberAco Momcilovic, CHRO at Rimac Automobili, Croatia

4:30pm - 5pm CLOSING REMARKSJohn I. Bitove, Sole shareholder of Obelysk, Canada; Macedonia2025 Co-Founder and Board Member

9:00pm INFORMAL GATHERING (AT PERSONAL COST)

3pm - 3:30pm COFFEE BREAK

November 3, 2017 (Mountain Vodno)

10am – 1pm Climb with Leaders (Vodno – Nerezi walk and lunch at Makedonsko Selo)