09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

European Green Deal and competitiveness: will the regulatory rethink and the EU “omnibus” deliver what we need? 

This session will dive deeper into the new European Commission strategic priorities and the efforts to simplify and streamline reporting and compliance, and what the competitiveness and simplification agenda means for businesses and finance in the CEE region. We will explore the unique needs of the region when it comes to investment and enabling policies for business growth. 

Chair: Helena Vines Fiestas, Chair of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance & Spanish Capital Markets Authority
Speakers: 

Andreas Hauer, Head of Sustainable Finance, Erste Group

Piotr Dmuchowski, CEO, PFR TFI S.A.

Petr Polach, Co-Head of Group Structured Finance & Investment Banking, Raiffeisen Bank International

Alice Machova, Partner, EY  

Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

11:00 – 12:00 | Conversation with the audience 

Investing and business sense in turbulent times

Is ESG dead? What is the future of investing and the role of sustainability in it? Is AI about to eat “your lunch”?

A session discussing whether we are witnessing new, unexpected developments in the investment and finance world, and what makes good business/investing sense – what to keep in mind when seeking value creation, scalable companies, and resilience. 

Chair: Linda Zeilina-Cross, CEO, ISFC  

Cliff Prior, Advisor, ImpactScope & Board Advisor, Gifftid.ai

Brian Wardrop, Managing Partner, ARX Equity Partners

Marian Gazdík, Managing Partner, G-FORCE

Lubomir Vystavel, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs Asset Management  

Michał Gladiš CEO, ARP TFI

12:00– 12:30 | TED-style talk 

Prof Dirk Schoenmaker, Professor of Banking and Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

A special presentation with analysis of the risk management for certain countries (Germany, Czechia, Poland) and sectors (automotive, energy, etc.) to improve and manage competitiveness in regional and global markets. 

Prof Dirk Schoenmaker, Professor of Banking and Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

A special presentation with analysis of the risk management for certain countries (Germany, Czechia, Poland) and sectors (automotive, energy, etc.) to improve and manage competitiveness in regional and global markets. 

13:30 – 13:50 | TED-style talk: Prof Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

13:50 – 14:20 | TED style presentation (10min) & conversation with the audience 

Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

Prof J. Doyne Farmer: Making sense of chaos: better economics for a better world (University of Oxford, INET)

 14:20 – 15:00 | Discussion with the audience - Sustainable investing vs European security and defence needs. 

This session will look closer at whether sustainable or ESG investing is bad for European military industrial complex. What impact will joint efforts to improve Europe’s defence capacities have for business and finance? 

Speakers: 

Eila Kreivi, Board Member, Finnerva & former head of Capital Markets, EIB

Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

15:40 – 16:00| TED-style presentation

Special presentation: Prof Irene Monasterolo, Utrecht University School of Economics, Finance

16:00 - 17:00 | Conversation with the audience

Nature positive finance and biodiversity - are we ready for biodiversity disclosures and the measurement of natural capital? Sustainable finance - the EU taxonomy, reporting

Chair: Will Oulton, Vice Chair, UK’s Marine Conservation Society (MCS)

Andreas Rajchl, Head of the Green Finance and Sustainable Economy Department Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Alexandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

Astrid Matthey, Team lead Sustainable Finance & Environmental Valuation, German Environment Agency

17:00 – 17:10 Closing session (interview) and reflections of the day

Nature positive finance and biodiversity - are we ready for biodiversity disclosures and the measurement of natural capital? Sustainable finance - the EU taxonomy, reporting 

Chair: Will Oulton, Vice Chair, UK’s Marine Conservation Society (MCS) 

Andreas Rajchl, Head of the Green Finance and Sustainable Economy Department Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

Alexandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif