How will the ICT industry persevere during the global financial crisis and the impact the crisis will have on the region of South East Europe are a few of the topics that will be discussed at this event. The forum will also address the elevated importance of ICT in THIS recession, ICT as a mode for increasing a company’s productivity, investing in ICT in order to cut costs, barriers in the development of the Serbian ICT industry, and measures which need to be taken in order to export ITC products from Serbia, among other topics.

Contact

Jennifer Grubac 
Tel: +381 11 3333009
E-mail: jennifer.grubac@emg.rs

10:30-11:00 Registration, Coffee/Tea

11:30-11:45 Opening Remarks: Božidar Đelić, Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of science and technological development Republic of Serbia

11:45-12:00 Keynote Speech: Jasna Matic, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society, Republic of Serbia

12:00-13:30 Panel 1: Upcoming Business strategy of ICT companies: perspective and challenges
Panelists:
Jasna Matić, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society, Republic of Serbia
Božidar Đelić, Minister of science and technological development Republic of Serbia
Ranko Ilić, Director of the Department for Programme Management , Telekom Srbija
Miloš Đurković, General Director, IBM
Nenad Saković, General Director, Siemens Enterprise Communications
Marko Tutunović, Country Manager, SAS

- Possibilities for utilizing development funds
- Strategy for creating regional development centers in partnership with large ICT companies
- Challenges and outlook for 2009?
- Strategy for doing business in 2009.
- Role and usefulness of ICT for companies during an economic crisis
- Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the ICT industry-case study

13:30-14:00 Coffee Break

14:00-15:30 Panel 2: Local issues and regulations for ICT
Panelists:
Jasna Matić, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society, Republic of Serbia
Milan Janković, Executive director, RATEL
Dragica Pilipović Chaffey, President of the Executive Board, SBB
Branislav Djuric, CEO, Comtrade
Goran Vasić, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Telenor 
Milovan Matijević, IT analyst, SITO (Serbian IT Outlook)

- Barriers in the development of the Serbian ICT industry: consequences of uncoordinated regulations and government practices
- New investment opportunities, what can the government do to stimulate Greenfield investments by IT giants?
- Measures which need to be taken in order to export ICT products from Serbia
- Measures which should be taken in order to increase Serbia’s visibility/attractiveness for foreign investment
- Market liberalization-how should it be carried out?
- Protecting Intellectual Property Rights, what is being done to promote the usage of original software and to combat piracy?
- TRIPS (Trade-related Aspects of intellectual Property Rights of WTO) and EU legislation
- What can be done to facilitate small IT companies to succeed in the market?
- Certificate of origin – are the measures too restrictive?

15:30-16:30 Networking Lunch

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