Agenda

Location: Academy of Sciences Moldova, Stefan Cel Mare 1

10.00 – 11.15 (Blue Hall)

Official launch and plenary session I

• Mr. Gheorghe Duca, the President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova
• Mr. Pavel Filip, Minister of Information Technologies and Communications
• Mr. Abdoulaye Seck, World Bank Country Manager, Moldova

• Ms. Ellen Olafsen, Operations Officer, infoDev, World Bank

• Mr. Todor Yalamov, Coordinator, ECAbit network

Keynote speech: Ms. Stela Mocanu, Executive Director, e-Government Center, Moldova

Role of the e-Government as an accelerator for the mobile industry development (e-transformation)

11.15 – 11.30

Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00

Session II. Evolutions of Incubators: From buildings through services to communities

• Mr. Peter Harman, Chief Executive, UKBI, United Kingdom

What is the impact of incubators in ECA? Lessons learnt for five years.\

Ms. Sophia Muradyan, Project Manager, Enterprise Incubator Foundation

Regional mLab ECA in Armenia

            Discussion

Moderator: Ms. Ana Chirita, Executive Director, National Association of Private ICT Companies for the Mobile social networking session

13.00– 14.00 

Lunch

14.00 – 15.30

Session III: Evolutions of Incubators: From buildings through services to communities (continuation)

• The concept of Business Garden 

Gunnar Due-Gundersen, Project Director at SINTEF, Moldova

• Evolution of incubators in Russia: New Trends 

Olga Lapteva, Board member, NBIA Russia and President, Tambov Business Incubator

• Mr. Alexei Ciobanu the Executive Director of Simpals Garaje (Start up Incubator)

• Perspectives of incubators based at academic institutions

Elena Pereverzeva, Moscow International Business School, Russia

Discussion

Moderator: Mr. Peter Harman, Chief Executive, UKBI, United Kingdom

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee break

16.00 – 18.00  Sharing experiences of internationalization

• Ms. Alma Karabeg, Polar Star Innovation center in Murmansk, Russia/Norway

Incubator centered on internationalization (new concepts on cross-border cooperation)

• Ms. Lucia Usurelu, Deputy Director ENTRANSE 2 Your Business

The Secret behind Soroca Business Incubation

• Mr. Angel Milev, Program Director, ARC Fund (coordinator of EEN-Bulgaria)

Internationalization experience in the context of EEN and potential for synergies between EEN and Ecabit

• Mr. Karl-Heinz Clauss, private investor, Germany

Sharing his personal experiences as an investor in ECA and on internationalization

Moderator: Mr. Oltac Unsal, infoDev, World Bank

18:00 - 18:30 Short Visit to the Academy of Sciences Museum

18.30 – 22.30 Mobile Monday (Blue Hall)

18.30 – 19.30 Webcast: Levon Levonian, Senior Developer BlackBerry Europe (Research in Motion)

20.30 – 22.30 Reception with keynote addresses:

• Patrick Boostels, founder of MoMo Brussels and CEO of www.tcsdigitalworld.com, CEO of a telecom in Modlova
• Andrei Gradinari, founder of Spooky House studios

Day 2. November  8, 2011

Location: Academy of Sciences Moldova, address: Stefan Cel Mare 1(Small Room)

9.00 – 11.00

Mobile Social Networking: How we do it, plan to do it, and what are the needs of entrepreneurs

• Mr. Radu Ticiu, Timisoara Business Incubator, Romania

Timisoara Mobile Development Group

• Mr. Yana Granici, Moldovan Technology Transfer Network, Moldova

Mobile Monday - Modlova

• Mr. Tornike Bakhturidze, Georgian Business Development Center, CAUCASIA, Georgia

Moderator: Mr. Vitalie Moraru, Moldovan Technology Transfer Network, Moldova

11.00 – 11.20

Coffee break

11.20 – 13.00

Moderators: Мr. Stefan Schandera, Regional facilitator, infoDev, World Bank & Heidi Humala, infoDev, World Bank

Moderator: Mr. Todor Yalamov, Coordinator, ECAbit