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Final Conference

USAID Leadership in Economic Governance (LEV) Program

DEVELOPING SME – BUILDING THE FUTURE

Venue:

DEPO Conference Hall

50 Antonovych Str, Kyiv (“Olimpiiska” subway station)

October 10-11, 2017

Agenda

Day 1

October 10, 2017, Tuesday

“Indigo” Conference room

8.30 – 9.30

Registration of participants. Welcome coffee.

9.30 – 10.15

Conference opening: Tamara Solyanyk, USAID LEV Program Director

Welcome remarks: Susan Kosinski Fritz, Director of the USAID Regional Mission to Ukraine, Belarus

and Moldova (tbc)

Opening address:

Ksenia Lyapina, Head of the State Regulatory Service of Ukraine

Gennadiy Chyzhykov, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine

Vasyl Kuybida, President of the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of

Ukraine

Viktor Liakh, President of the East Europe Foundation

10.15 – 11.45

Business climate and SME development: what does business expect, Presentation based on

2016/2017 Annual Business Climate Assessment

Speaker:

Oksana Kuziakiv, Objective Coordinator of the USAID LEV Program, Chief Executive of the

Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER)

Comments:

Dmytro Lyapin, Senior Researcher of the National Institute for Strategic Studies

Algirdas Šemeta, Business Ombudsman, the Business Ombudsman Council

11.45 – 12.00

Coffee break

Panel discussions

12.00 – 13.30

Regulatory environment for business: From deregulation towards ‘smart’ regulation

Moderator: Liubomyr Chornii, USAID LEV Senior Expert

Speakers:

Viktor Halasiuk, Chairman of the VRU Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship

Ksenia Lyapina, Head of the State Regulatory Service of Ukraine

Discussants:

Viacheslav Bykovets, Vice-President of the Union of Small, Medium and Privatized Enterprises

of Ukraine

Vira Nedzvedska, USAID LEV Regulatory Policy Component Coordinator

Andriy Palyanytsya, Expert on regulatory policy, the World Bank Consultant

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13.30 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 16.00

SME development policy: what can the regions do

Moderator: Oksana Kuziakiv, Objective Coordinator of the USAID LEV Program,

Chief Executive of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER)

Speaker: Ihor Burakovsky, Senior Economic Advisor to the USAID LEV Program,

Head of the Board of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER)

USAID LEV regional package: from idea to practice

Discussants:

Oleg Kazmirchuk, Deputy Director of the Department for Economic

Development, Investment and International Cooperation of Ternopil Oblast State

Administration

Dmytro Pyvak, Division Head, Department for Regional Development of

Cherkasy Oblast State Administration

Tetyana Lamakina, Division Head, Department for International Cooperation

and Regional Development of Vinnytsia Oblast State Administration

Roman Fylypiv, Director of the Economic Policy Department of L’viv Oblast

State Administration

Larysa Grysyuk, Director of the Department for Economic Development and

Trade of Kyiv Oblast State Administration

Olena Feodosieva, Deputy Director of the Department - Head of the Unit for

Enterprise Development, Regulatory Policy and Trade of Kherson Oblast State

Administration

Vasyl Fedyuk, U Lead Program expert in regional development

16.00 – 16.15

Coffee break

16.15 – 17.45 Foreign economic activity: how to simplify the life of entrepreneurs

Modertator: Tamara Solyanyk, USAID LEV Program Director

Speakers:

Tetyana Korotka, Deputy Business Ombudsman, the Business Ombudsman Council

Liubomyr Chornii, USAID LEV Senior Expert

Discussants:

Victoria Ptashnyk, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine

Roman Shpek, Chairman of the Board of the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine

(NABU)

Oksana Prodan, Member of Parliament, Chairwoman of the Board of All-Ukrainian Union of

SMEs "Fortetsia"

Gennadiy Chyzhykov, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine

Iaroslava Savastieieva, Head of Compliance Department, the European Business Association in

Ukraine

18.15 – 20.00 Official closing of the training program "Comprehensive Approach to Exporting"

Certificates awarding ceremony (participation by invitation)

Certificates given by:

Tamara Solyanyk, USAID LEV Program Director

Viktor Liakh, President of the East Europe Foundation

Gennadiy Chyzhykov, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine

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Day 2

October 11, 2017, Wednesday

“Fiolet” Conference room

9.00 - 9.30

Registration of participants. Welcome coffee.

9.30 - 10.00

Public Talk with Oleksiy Kredisov, Managing Partner, EY in Ukraine

10.00 – 11.30

Development of local SMEs: the role of business associations

Moderator: Yulia Solokha, USAID LEV Advocacy Coordinator

Discussants:

Oleksandr Pechalin, Head of the NGO Vinnytsia Oblast Organization "Business Association "Stina"

(Vinnytsia)

Oksana Pavlyk, expert of NGO “Institute for Regional Development” (L’viv)

Ihor Komendo, Project Manager of the NGO "GoLocal" (Bila Tserkva, Kyiv oblast)

Larysa Rymar, Head of the NGO “Center of Regional Development and Law” (Ternopil)

Oksana Kuleba, representative of the NGO "Business Community Club" (L’viv)

Ivanna Kachalina, project manager of the NGO " Vinnytsia Business Community Club" (Vinnytsia)

Pavlo Yarmiy, Head of the Board of the NGO Agency for Regional Development “Tavriya Union of

Territorial Communities” (Nova Kakhovka)

Andriy Tkachenko, representative of the NGO "My -Khersontsi" (Kherson)

11.30 – 11.45

Coffee break

11.45 – 13.30

Roadmaps competition – partnership for the business development

Moderator: Olga Krasovska, Coordinator of the USAID LEV Roadmap Competition, Senior

Researcher at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER)

1. What could be done to boost the entrepreneurship among ATO veterans at the regional level

Speakers:

Olena Sorokivska, NGO "Center for Strategic Development and Reforms"

Larysa Antoniuk, NGO "Irpin City Union of Soldiers-Participants of the Antiterrorist Operation"

Discussants:

Oleh Kazmirchuk, Deputy Director of the Department of Economic Development, Investment and

International Cooperation of Ternopil Oblast State Administration

Andriy Litvynov, Head of Investment, Utilities and Infrastructure Development Department of Irpin

City Council

2. Improving landscape plans can help to promote entrepreneurship

Speakers:

Valeriy Vetrov, expert of NGO Information Resource Center "Legal Space"

Discussant:

Larysa Leonova, People’s Deputy of Kherson City Council

3. Peculiarities of SME development in mountainous regions of L’viv region

Speaker:

Orest Mykyta, Executive Director of the NGO Institute for International Economic Research (L’viv)

Discussant:

Mykola Romanyshyn, Head of Skole Rayon Council, L’viv oblast

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4. Development of entrepreneurship in the field of aquaculture

Speaker:

Oleksandr Sologhub, Project Manager of NGO Vinnytsia Oblast Organization "Business

Association "Stina" (Vinnytsya)

Discussant:

Tetyana Lamakina, Division Head, Department for International Cooperation and Regional

Development of Vinnytsia Oblast State Administration

Participants of the discussion: including the representatives of the 1st wave of the Roadmaps

competition

13.30 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 16.00 Business game "Trade without Barriers - the Way to Prosperity"

Coach: Maxym Obrizan, USAID LEV Program Expert, Kyiv School of Economics

16.00 – 16.30 Closing of the conference: Concluding remarks.