Slovakia-Swiss Forum

Slovak Agency for Investment and Trade Development (SARIO), in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs brings to your attention  the Slovakia-Swiss Business and Innovation Forum, which will be part of the state visit of the Swiss President and also the Minister of Economy, Education and Research H.E. Johann Schneider Ammann in Slovakia.
 
The forum will be attended by both Swiss and Slovak companies, political representatives as well as representatives of science, research and innovation.

The aim is to strengthen business opportunities and new partnerships between Switzerland and Slovakia and to find common intersections in cooperation.


THE PROGRAM

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 9:40 Welcome and introduction
9:45 – 11:00
Moderator: Jan Kuderjavý, Director Economic Diplomacy Dep, MFEA SR.

Robert Šimončič, Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO)
Heinz Karrer, Economiesuisse, 
Keneth Ryan, Managing Partner, KPMG Slovakia
Nima Motazed, Managing Director and Head Global Services
Bratislava of Swiss Re

11:00 – 11:20 Coff ee break

11:20 – 12:00 Welcome by State Secretary Lukáš Parízek
Keynotes

H.E. Andrej Kiska, President of the Slovak Republic
H.E. Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, President of the Swiss Confederation,
Head of the Federal Department of Economic Aff airs, Education and Research

12:00 – 13:15
Panel 2: Smart Industry 4.0, Innovation, Automatization, Robotics;
Cooperation for development of Automatization & Robotics;
How to catch benefits from trends in Automatization & Robotics?
Challenges for Slovak and Swiss policy making, economy and society.

Moderator: Zuzana Nehajová, Director General, Section of Innovation and
Business Enviroment, Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic

• Miroslav Balog, Adviser to the Director General, Section of Innovation,
Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency (SIEA)
• Juraj Hromada, Director, Research and Development Division,
Central European Institute of Technology (CEIT) Žilina
• Matthias Kaiserswerth, Vice-President of the Commission for Technology
and Innovation (CTI), former Director of the IBM- Research Center
iny Rüschlikon/Zürich;
• Hugo Allemann, Head of Market Division Central Europe,
Bystronic Laser AG
• Oliver Schnerr, Head of Sales, Division Industrial Proces
for Kistler.com; Bratislava, development of software
13:15 – 14:00 Buff et Lunch and Contact Lounge
14:00 – 16:00 Individual bilateral meetings between Slovak and Swiss companies,
B2B negotiations, export&trade, investments, outsourcing


Individual bilateral meetings between Slovak and Swiss companies
Bilateral meetings with companies from the group 1 (14:00 – 15:00)
Bilateral meetings with companies from the group 2 (14:00 – 16:00)

Registered companies will have access to the whole forum program, at whose end there will be 15-minute long bilateral meeting with the participating Swiss companies. Those interested in bilateral negotiations with the Swiss side are required to enter into their registration the name of the specific Swiss company with which they have an interest to negotiate with.
 
Swiss companies in group 1 (attachment: Company Group 1) have the time frame for negotiations from 14:00 to 15:00.
Swiss companies in group 2 (attachment: Company Group 2) have the time frame for negotiations from 14:00 to 16:00.

On the basis of these time limits, should there be an excessive demand for bilateral meetings, than the Swiss companies are entitled to choose their preferred partners for these bilateral talks.

Working languages during bilateral talks:
German and English

You can watch a livestream of the forum and its recording at https://www.thespot.sk/en/page/bif-2016

 
Registration is open till 14th June 2016

Contact person:  
Michal Wuketich, wuketich@sario.sk, +421 910 828 278