Speakers
Plenary Session: "Getting SMEs on the road to recovery"
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Montserrat Domínguez, Moderator
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Teresa Santero, General Secretary of Industry, Spain
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Françoise Le Bail, European Commission SME Envoy and Deputy Director General for Enterprise and Industry
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Kenneth Morse, Visiting Professor, ESADE Business School, Spain; Founding Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, USA;
Chair in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Competitiveness, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Keynote speech: "Entrepreneurship as Public Policy – Enabling Young Companies to Survive the Crisis and Global Competition"
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Panel discussion: Addressing the challenges of SBA implementation
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Françoise Le Bail, European Commission SME Envoy and Deputy Director General for Enterprise and Industry
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Antoni Soy, Deputy Minister for Industry and Enterprise, Government of Catalonia, Spain
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Alessandro Barberis, President of EUROCHAMBRES (The Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry
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Andrea Benassi, Secretary General of UEAPME (European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises)
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Hugh Morgan-Williams, Chair, Entrepreneurship and SME Committee, BusinessEurope
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Workshop A: Promoting the entrepreneurial spirit

Moderator: Joanna Drake, Director for Promotion of SMEs' competitiveness, DG Enterprise & European Commission
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Dr. Norbert Kailer, Self employment in the creative industry, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Business Development, Johannes Kepler University Linz (IUG), Austria
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Denise Kennedy, Genesis Enterprise Programme (GEP), Ireland
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Henri Talamy, Entrepreneur Residencies, Agence régionale de développement des territoires d'Auvergne (ARDTA), France
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Workshop B: Improving the business environment

Moderator: Antonio Fernández Ecker, Deputy Director for Business Development, Directorate General for SME Policy (DGPYME), Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Spain
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Dimitropoulos C. Athanasios, Municipality of Ios Cheese Factory, Municipality of Ios, Greece
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Siniša Nišavić, Programme of providing support to entrepreneurs aimed at reducing the closure rate of businesses, DATA, Poslovne Storitve d.o.o., Slovenia
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Wim Jansen, Regulatory Reform Group, Dutch Ministry of Finance, Reducing the administrative burden on SMEs, the Netherlands
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Workshop C: Investing in skills

Moderator: Luc Hendrickx, Director of Enterprise Policy and External Relations, UEAPME
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María del Mar Martinez Salmeron, Head of the Service for self-employed, social economy and entrepreneurs, Government of the Asturian Principality, Programme for the Promotion of a Entrepreneurship Culture, Asturias Region, Spain
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Sandra Johansson, Företagsamt Halland, Halland Region, Sweden
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Ulf Mattsson, Företagsamt Halland, Halland Region, Sweden
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Phil Hall, Pride of Hull, Hull city Council & Partners, UK
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Workshop D: Supporting the internationalisation of business: taking advantage of the Single Market

Moderator: Mechthild Wörsdörfer, Head of Unit for SME policy development, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
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Cenk Kaplangi, EGI - Euregional Start-up Initiative, Hochschule Niederrhein - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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Jorge Alonso, Director of the International Relations Department, Enterprise Europe Network, Helping businesses "go international", Spain
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Vicente Mompó Ruiz de la Cuesta, Responsible for the European and International Cooperation Department. Chamber of Commerce of Valencia
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Dr Maria Cristina Bertellini, Vice President of Piccola Industria, Confindustria, Italy
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Workshop E: Responsible and inclusive entrepreneurship & green economy

Moderator: Prof. Anders Lundström, Past President & Founder of IPREG (Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research/ Innovative Policy Research for Economic Growth), Member of EEA jury

Niina Immonen, Counselling services for co-operative entrepreneurship, Tampere Region Co-operative Center, Finland
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Dr. Harald Bolsinger, Initiative "Time for Ethics", Germany
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Kordian Kolbiarz, Construction of houses by means of a training system for unemployed persons, District Labour Office, Poland
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Workshop F: Supporting the internationalisation of business: taking advantage of third markets

Moderator: Enrique Verdeguer Puig, General Director for Information and Investment, Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Spain
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Oddbjorn Clausen, Norwegian Industrial Research and Development Contracts (IRD), Innovation Norway, Norway
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Dr Gianfredo Comazzi, Confindustria, President of Federexport, Italy
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Phil Bartley, Development Solutions (China) Ltd, China IPR SME Helpdesk, China
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Plenary Session: "Successfully exiting the crisis"

Antonio Tajani, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship
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Miguel Sebastián, Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Spain
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Plenary Session: "Moving forward with implementing the SBA"

Moderator: Françoise Le Bail, European Commission SME Envoy and Deputy Director General for Enterprise and Industry
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Pascal Rogard, Deputy-Director in charge of European and international affairs, Ministry of the Economy, Finances and Industry, France: Credit mediator and the statute for an "auto-entrepreneur", France
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Roger Desmet-Carlier, Director General, FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-employed and Energy, Belgium
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Edit Herczog, Member of the European Parliament
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Workshop G: Access to finance & helping SMEs face the crisis

Moderator: Enrique Blanco Beneit, Deputy Director of Innovation, Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Ministry of Economy and Finance, Spain
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Petri Laine, Veraventure Ltd, Finland: Finnish programme for early-stage VC-funding
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Pascal Rogard, Deputy-Director in charge of European and international affairs, Ministry of the Economy, Finances and Industry, France: Credit mediator and the statute for an "auto-entrepreneur", France
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Giorgio Guarena, Director General, Unionfidi Piemonte: Regional mutual garantee system, CONFIDI, Piemonte, Italy
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Workshop H: Encouraging innovation & eco-innovation

Moderator: Guy Corcelle, Deputy Head of Unit for Sustainable Industrial Policy, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
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Dr Harri Moora, Programme Director, Estonian Institute for Sustainable Development, Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre, Estonia
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Dr Giorgio Russomanno, Confartigianato, Recycling used batteries - the COBAT system, Italy
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Fernando Sánchez Sudón, Technical Director, Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables (CENER), Solar Energy Strategy, Navarra, Spain
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Closing words:
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Françoise Le Bail, European Commission SME Envoy and Deputy Director General for Enterprise and Industry
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Estela Gallego, General Director SME Policy, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Spain
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