BELARUS BUSINESS HARBOUR 2023

Registration and Welcome Coffee

Opening of the Forum by Yauheni Bury, President of ABBA 

Keynote Speech from Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, National Leader of Belarus, Head of United Transitional Cabinet (video)

Panel 1. Should the West support Belarusian businesses abroad or in Belarus?

• Anna Kostrzewa-Misztal, Deputy Director of the Eastern Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
• Antoni Rytel, Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Education and Science for Digital Transformation and Deputy Director of the GovTech Polska program 
• Henrik Huitfeldt, Representative of the European Commission
• Jenna Tajchman-Trofim, Belarus Country Director at USAID  
• Karolina Opielewicz, Member of the Management Board of the Polish Chamber of Commerce (KIG)
• Palina Prysmakova, Associate Professor at School of Public Administration, Florida University; Visiting Professor at Faculty of Economic Science, Warsaw University
• Moderator: Aleś Alachnovič, Vice President of ABBA; Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Advisor on Economic Reforms

Coffee Break

Information Panel. Roadmap for cooperation between US Department of Commerce and ABBA

• Zmarak Khan , Senior Counsel at the US Department of Commerce, Office of the General Counsel’s Commercial Law Development Program
• Aleś Alachnovič, Vice President of ABBA; Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Advisor on Economic Reforms
• Moderator: Drew Roberts, Attorney Advisor at US Department of Commerce  

• Sierž Naūrodski, Vice President of ABBA, Country Manager for Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia; Senior Economist at CASE
• Agnieszka Falkowska, Director of International Business Department at Polish Development Bank (BGK)
• Mateusz Zawistowski, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Armenia Securities Exchange 
• Yuriy Bryvus, Chief Revenue Officer at VC Leaders
• Yaroslav Romanchuk, Chairman of the Board, Association of Ukrainian Business in Poland
• Moderator: Anna Matsiyeuskaya, Co-Head of Eastern Desk at WBK Lawyers, Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board at ABBA 

Lunch Break

Panel 3. How to improve the business environment in New Belarus in order to encourage Belarusians and their businesses to come back or invest in new Belarus?

• Tomasz Sadziński, Deputy Director of Economic Cooperation Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
  
• Aleś Alachnovič , Vice President of ABBA; Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Advisor on Economic Reforms
• Dzmitry Kruk, Senior Researcher at BEROC - Belarusian Research and Outreach Center
• Nastia Khamiankova, Co-founder of Imaguru Startup HUB
• Lizaveta Yaznevich, Associate Research Fellow, Center for New Ideas 
• Moderator: Natalia Belikova, CEO at Press Club Belarus

• Dmitriy Navosha, Founder and co-owner of Tribuna.com (Spain)
• Aliaksandr Kuushynau, Head of Wialon at Gurtam (Lithuania)
• Aleksander Lukashou, Managing Partner at CleanWhale (Poland)
• Dmitry Matveev, Co-founder and CTO at Approveit Inc. (USA)
• Aliaksei Kartynnik, Blogger, Developer Relation Specialist, Community Builder & Programmer (Poland)
• Tszwai So, Founder of Spheron Architects (UK)

Closing Remarks

Networking in Hotel Marriott

Cocktail Party (by invitation only)