Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget, Budapest, 10 October 2008
8:00 – 8:50 Registration
8:50 – 9:00 Welcome speeches
Borbála Czakó, President of the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum
Pál Gáspár, Director of ICEG European Center
József Péter Martin, Editor-in-chief of Figyelő
9:00 – 09:10 Preliminary speech – Regional expansion, unlimited competitiveness
Erik Bogsch, CEO of Richter Gedeon Nyrt.
9:10 – 10:00 Keynote speeches – Hungarian economy and the reform of public finances
István Stumpf, Chairman of the Századvég Foundation, former Minister of Chancellery
Lajos Bokros, Professor and CEO of Central European University, former Minister of Finance
10:10 – 11:00 Guest lectures – Economic reforms, euro and convergence
Ivan Miklos, former Minister of Finance of Slovakia
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:20 Ministerial round-table – The problems of state finances, short-term challenges
János Veres, Minister of Finance
Gordon Bajnai, Minister for National Development and Economy
Mihály Varga, Vice-president of Fidesz, former Minister of Finance
12:20 – 13:00 Round-table on tax reforms for a competitive economy
László Kovács, EU Comissioner for Taxation and Customs
Árpád Kovács, the President of the Hungarian State Audit Office
László Parragh, Chairman of Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Szabolcs Vámosi-Nagy, Tax Director of Ernst&Young, former Vice-President of the APEH
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
Section 1 – Macroeconomic and state finance prospects, questions of competitiveness (Financial Summit VIII)
14:00 – 15:00 State finance and macroeconomic prospects with the eyes of analysts
György Barcza, chief economist of K&H Bank
István Zsoldos, macro analyst of the Goldman Sachs
Raffaella Tenconi, chief economist of Wood & Co.
Christoph Rosenberg, Head of the IMF’s regional office for Central Europe and the Baltics
15:500 – 16:00 Competitive state, competitiveness of the national economy
László Drajkó, CEO of Microsoft Hungary
László Ábrahám, General manager of National Instruments
Géza Egyed, Secretary delegant for ESS Projects
Gábor Kornai, President of AAM Management Information Consulting Ltd.
László Kapolyi, CEO and President of System Consulting Zrt.
14:00 – 14:20 Tax competition and competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
László Kovács, EU Comissioner for Taxation and Customs
14:20 – 15:10 What does the region have to offer investors? Attractive investment targets in the region
Tamás Vitézy, Chairman of the board of directors of Adriatiq Islands Group
Péter Lakatos, CEO of Videoton Holding Zrt.
György Rétfalvi, CEO of ITD Hungary Zrt.
15:10 – 16:00 Different countries, different investors’ experience
Krisztina Dorogházi, CEO of Italiana Energia e Servizi (IES) of the MOL-group
György Bobvos, Director of Serbian TriGránit Development Corporation
László Diósi, President and CEO of OTP Bank Romania
István Szabó, Deputy-CEO of Gedeon Richter Romania S.A.
Plenary
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 – 16:40 Monetary processes and leeway of the central bank
Ferenc Karvalits, Deputy-Governor of National Bank of Hungary, member of the Monetary Council
16:40 – 17:00 Closing
Lajos Bokros and István Stumpf
