DAY 1

14 SEPTEMBER
Monday

GEOPOLITICS,
FINANCE & AI

Geostrategic Europe, Geopolitics, Climate and Strategy in an Era of AI

Main stage

  • Keynote speeches

    09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome remarks

    09:20 – 09:30 | Opening keynote

    • Jan Dusík, Deputy Director General, DG CLIMA, European Commission

  • 09:30 – 09:50 | Fireside conversation

    • Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Responsible Investor 

    • Speakers: Martin Zenker, Head of Group ESG Office, UNIQA Group

      Vedrana Jelušić Kašić, Executive director, corporate banking, VUB 

      Miluše Poláková, Country HR director Czech Republic and HR Director zone Central and Eastern Europe, Veolia

    09:50 - 10:20 | On stage interview 

    Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Editor, Responsible Investor 

    Speaker: Sabine Abfalter, CFO and board member, Raiffeisen CZ

    10:20 – 11:00 | Networking break

  • 11:00 – 11:20 | TED-style presentation: Transition planning and implementation 

    • Petra Ondrušová, CSO, Česká spořitelna

    • Peter Franek, Head of Strategic Risk Management, Česká  spořitelna

    11:20 – 11:35 | Fireside chat: The transition to net zero: Where does the CEE region stand in the transition of key sectors? 

    Gergely Pókos, Executive director, Green Program Directorate, OTP Bank

  • 11:30– 11:55 | Keynote and a fireside conversation
    Climate, AI, and the future of society: are we doomed?

    • Connie Hedegaard, former European Commissioner for Climate Action from 2010 to 2014

    • In conversation with: Jakob Thomä, Founder and CEO, Theia Finance Labs

    12:00 – 12:30 | TED style talk
    Who Are You Really Reporting To? Rethinking Sustainability Reporting for Financial Markets

    • Erwin Groenendal, Co-Founder and Product Evangelist, Tangelo Software

    12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break

  • 13:30 – 13:45 | TED-style presentation 
    Climate change scenarios for financial sector professionals

    Prof Riccardo Rebonato

    13:45 – 14:00 | TED-style talk
    Banking on Tomorrow: Where green ambitions meet security reality 

    Martin Sládeček, Associate Director of Customer & Digital Advisory, KPMG 

    14:00 – 14:30 | Fireside conversation 
    Energy transition and competitiveness in focus: is Europe’s strategic autonomy realistic?  

    What are the strategic pivots for European business?  

    • Chair: Martin Ehl, Correspondent, Hospodarske Noviny

    • Pavel Micka, Head of performance and transformation, Veolia

    14:30 – 15:00 | Fireside conversation 

    Mobilising private capital for economic growth and resilience 

    • How will we finance the economic transformation? 

    • What are the trends and developments in the financial sector? 

    • Will sustainable finance play a greater role in company financing going forward? 

    Speakers: 

    • Vera Economou, Sustainable Solutions Group Lead, ING

    • Gina Hanrahan, Head of Economic Policy, UN PRI

    • Radek Taborsky, Senior manager for investment banking, VUB Bank Prague

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:15 | On-stage interview

    Fixed income and technological solutions in focus: using tools and approaches for a profitable and smart transition 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Journalist & founder of Responsible Investor 

    • Speakers: Justine Leigh Bell, CEO, Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute  

    • Luca Bertalot, Secretary General, EMF-ECBC

    16:25 – 17:00 | TExpert discussion

    Risk mapping – the use of climate risk maps in pricing and risk management

    17:00 – 17:10 | Closing session and reflections of the day

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Side-event

Transformation vs. transition - mobilising finance

The second room on Monday will bring together a select group of experts and practitioners in banking and finance.

The room will have a fishbowl workshop approach -an active discussion with an opportunity for the audience to be active participants, in order to share questions, remarks, and comments both directly and online.

  • 11:00 – 11:15 | Introductions and keynote remarks 

    11:15 – 11:30 | Presentation 

    11:30 – 11:50 | Interview

    11:50 – 12:30 | Facilitated discussion on the most pressing needs and options for improved implementation  

  • Prudential supervision and the transition – managing expectations and risk

    13:45 – 14:00 | Introduction and tour de table 
    14:00 – 14:30 | Introductory presentations and remarks 
    14:30 – 15:00 | Discussion

  • 15:30 – 15:45 | Introductory remarks & tour de table 

    16:00 – 16:20 | Presentations of practices and case studies

Closed-door sessions

These are sessions for in-depth discussions on different key topics.

If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org.

ROUNDTABLES

  • Navigating shifting geopolitics and money flows, with UN PRI.

  • Organised by Eurosif, CzechSIF and EURENI roundtable)

  • Run by Moody’s Ratings
    with Amaya London, Assistant Vice President - Sustainable Finance

    A practical discussion on how issuers and investors are navigating the next phase of the sustainable finance market - from the EU Green Bond Standard and evolving investor expectations to social, sustainability-linked, transition and blue bonds.

    Featuring perspectives from Moody’s Ratings and CPIPG, with a focus on framework design, credibility and the realities of the CEE market.

15 SEPTEMBER
Tuesday

DAY 2

BUSINESS & ELECTRIFICATION

  • Keynote speeches

    09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome remarks

    09:05 – 09:15 | Keynote

  • 09:15 – 09:40 | On-stage interview

    Geopolitical shifts, trade, and energy transition: key risks and upside for business in Europe and CEE

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, The Financial Times

    • Speakers: Gary Mazzotti, Chair, Accolade

    • Andrea Fiori, director of VUB Bank in Prague

    • Jan Ružicka, Chief External Affairs Officer, PPF Griup

    09:40 – 10:10 | On-stage interview

    Leadership – how to lead teams and communicate in difficult times 

    • Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Responsible Investor 

    • Ganna Pidgorna, UNIQA

    • Emila Mamajova, EVERITA

    • Christine Würfel, CSO, RBI

    10:10 – 10:30 | TED-style talk

    Adaptive leadership & managing the contradictions of modern leadership

    Emmanuel Coblence, Professor of Leadership, Associate Dean for Pedagogy, HEC Paris

    10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break 

  • 11:00– 11:20 | On stage discussion

    Business in the EU – the future of competitiveness, resilience, and funding for growth

    • Pavlína Žaková, Confederation of Industry

    • Anita Simon, Deputy CEO, Alteo

    • Marta Babicz, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Poland

    11:25 - 11:45 | Presentation: Net-zero transition planning: financing business and risk perspectives 

    Réka Sulyok & Gábor Szigel, OTP Bank

    11:45 – 12:00 | Presentation: Policy Design for System Change: What Is Needed to Speed Up the Transition and Move from A to Better 

    Gerben Hieminga, Senior Economist at ING Research 

    12:00 – 12:30 | Conversation with the audience

    Made in Europe: will Europe deliver on its ambitions for clean tech? 

    Speakers:

    • Albéric Mongrenier, Executive Director of EIES, the European Initiative for Energy Security

    • Radu Surdeanu, Senior Director, Government Affairs, Siemens Energy

    • Jan Brazda, Co-founder, Revoltum

    12:30 -13:30 | Lunch Break

  • 13:30 – 13:50 | | Fireside conversation 

    Transition planning & future of non-financial reporting and risk management  

    Questions:  

    • How are the data and integration issues getting solved?

    • How is transition planning for energy sector progressing?  

    • How to best manage stakeholder engagement and communications related to ESG strategies and transition plans?

    Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Editor in Chief, Responsible Investor 

    Speakers:  

    • Stanislaw Cichocki, PGE

    • Martin Račan, ČEZ Group 

    13:50 – 14:10 | On-stage interview

    Hugh Wheelan, Founder, Responsible Investor

    Speakers: 

    • Eva Bučová, Country Manager, ING Bank Czech Republic

    • Andrea Basilova, CEO, Sensoneo

    14:10 -14:25 | TED-style presentation 

    How sustainability can be translated into tangible financial performance 

    Livio Scalvini, Executive Director of the Leonardo Centre & CEO and Co-founder of Golden for Impact 

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation

    16:00 – 16:30 | Conversation with the audience

    What to expect from the European Commission going forward – updates and insights from the “Brussels bubble” and beyond

    • Olivier Vardakoulias, Chief Economist, CAN Network

    • William Todts, Executive Director, Transport and Energy

    • Chris Vrettos, reScoop

    16:30 – 17:00 | Conversation with the audience

    Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Journalist and Founder, Responsible Investor

    Corporate reporting, digital infrastructure, and technological autonomy for the EU 

    Přemysl Píška, Regional sales director for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and DACH, Tangelo Software 

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Main stage

Business & Transition

Electrification & Energy Transition

Side-event

Co-hosted with SAPI (Slovak Association of Sustainable Energy).

A dedicated deep-dive for energy practitioners, investors and policymakers, using a fishbowl format that gives the audience space to participate and ask questions.

  • 09:10 – 09:20 | Opening speech
    Jan Karaba, Director, SAPI – Slovak Association of Sustainable Energy

    09:20 – 09:45 | Keynote presentation – Laila Kienel, Deputy head of the unit for renewables and energy system integration policy at the European Commission, DG ENER

    9:45 – 10:30 | Facilitated discussion – Delivering the Next Phase of Europe's Energy Transition

    Chair: ISFC

    Speakers:

    • Stanislaw Cichocki, Economic Expert at National Bank of Poland, PGE Group

    • Balázs Felsmann, Economist, REKK

    10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break

  • 11:00 – 11:20 | Introductions and keynote remarks: From Energy Transition to Energy Security

    Albéric Mongrenier, Executive Director, EIES, European Initiative for Energy Security

    11:20 – 11:40 | Presentation - Energy security in focus

    11:45 – 12:30 | Conversation with the audience

    Questions we will explore

    • Can electricity networks keep pace with Europe's electrification ambitions?

    • What investments are most critical to strengthening Europe's energy security?

    • What is preventing capital from flowing into strategic energy infrastructure

    Chair: Jan Karaba, Director, SAPI

    Speakers

    • Radu Surdeanu, Senior Director Government and Executive Affairs at Siemens Energy 

    • Katarína Kertýsová, Policy Officer, NATO

    • Patrik Križanský, member of BoD AVERE – European Association for Electromobility

  • 15:40 – 16:00 How private finance be mobilised for innovative clean energy solutions? What is happening in the banking sector and project finance in the CEE region?

    • Jan Troják, Director of Project Finance, CSOB 

    16:00 – 17:00 | Facilitated discussion

    Questions we will explore

    • Where is private capital flowing today?

    • Which clean energy technologies are attracting the strongest investor interest?

    • What are today's biggest risks for investors?

    • How do policy uncertainty, permitting delays, grid constraints and electricity market volatility affect investment decisions?

    • What makes a clean energy project bankable?

    Chair: Denisa Lehmanova, ISFC

    Speakers

    • Zdeněk Obruča, CEE Head of Energy Advisory 

    • Martin Račan, ČEZ Group

    • Zdeněk Obruča, CEE Head of Energy Advisory

    • Jim Campion, PE Fund Manager, investor, asset manager and advisor in Renewable Energy and Storage projects

Closed-door roundtable sessions provide an interactive setting for in-depth discussions on different key topics. If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org.

Roundtables

  • Discussion topics: 

    • Industrial Accelerator Act 

    • Modernisation Fund and future financial incentives for decarbonisation 

    • CBAM and EU ETS – the tools and policies for enabling European competitiveness 

    • Changes to procurement  

  • A facilitated roundtable for ESG managers and business leaders focused on how to bring sustainability topics into management decisions and business strategy. Participants will share both successful approaches and lessons learned from what did not work, with space for peer-to-peer discussion across different industries.

    The session will be held in Czech.

    Fair Venture – strategic ESG and sustainability consulting

16 SEPTEMBER
Wednesday

DAY 3

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE & RESILIENCE

  • 09:30 – 09:50 | Presentation or fire side chat 

    09:50 – 10:10 | TED-style talk or presentation

    10:10 – 10:30 | Spotlight session: what is needed to build critical infrastructure and resilience for business? 

    10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break

  • 11:00– 11:15 | Presentation

    11:15 – 11:30 | Short interview 

    11:30 - 11:50 | On-stage interview

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Journalist

    • Tomáš Procházka, CFO, Accolade  

    • Michał Gładyś, CEO/CIO of ARP TFI managing the Polish Green Fund 

    11:50 – 12:30 | Real estate – EPBD and solving the retrofitting financing and implementation puzzle

    How can we mobilise private finance and make the transition affordable? 

    • Chair & speaker: Marta Gellová, Chance for buildings

    • Katarína Nikodemová, Buildings for the Future Slovakia

    • Sarah Anwar, Head of Sustainability and Governance, Econans

    12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break

  • 13:30 – 13:50 | TED-style presentation  

    EU taxonomy in the built environment

    13:50– 14:10 | On stage interview  

    14:00 – 14:20 | Presentation 

    14:40 - 15:10 | Conversation with the audience 

    15:10 - 15:40 | Coffee Break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style talk

    16:10 – 16:30 | On stage interview/ fireside chat 

    Digital infrastructure and data centres  

    16:30 – 17:00 | Conversation with the audience 

    Real estate – valuations, climate, risk, and climate adaptation  

    What value added derives from investing in retrofitting or ESG integration? 

    • Stefan de Goeij, Partner and Head of Sustainability & ESG for Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordics, Cushman & Wakefield

    17:00 – 17:10 | Closing remarks

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Business & Transition

Main stage

Innovation and clean tech for resilience

Co-hosted with Czech Invest.

A special event for a group of movers and shakers in the innovation space, from start-up founders to investors and scale up business developers.
The room will have a fishbowl approach - for an active discussion with the audience.

Side-event

  • 09:10 – 09:20 |Keynote remarks: Markéta Přenosilová

    09:20 – 09:40 | Fire side chat:

    09:40 – 10:20 | Facilitated discussion with the audience

    10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee Break

  • 11:00 – 11:15 | Introductions and keynote remarks 

    11:15 – 11:30 | Keynote presentation

    11:30 – 11:50 | Fireside discussion

    11:50 – 12:30 | Facilitated interactive discussion with the audience

  • 15:30

Closed-door roundtable sessions provide an interactive setting for in-depth discussions on different key topics. If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org.

Roundtables

15 SEPTEMBER
Tuesday

Business & Transition

BUSINESS & ELECTRIFICATION

  • Keynote speeches

    09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome remarks

    09:05 – 09:15 | Keynote

  • 09:15 – 09:40 | On-stage interview

    Geopolitical shifts, trade, and energy transition: key risks and upside for business in Europe and CEE

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, The Financial Times

    • Speakers: Gary Mazzotti, Chair, Accolade

    • Andrea Fiori, director of VUB Bank in Prague

    • Jan Ružicka, Chief External Affairs Officer, PPF Griup

    09:40 – 10:10 | On-stage interview

    Leadership – how to lead teams and communicate in difficult times 

    • Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Responsible Investor 

    • Ganna Pidgorna, UNIQA

    • Emila Mamajova, EVERITA

    • Christine Würfel, CSO, RBI

    10:10 – 10:30 | TED-style talk

    Adaptive leadership & managing the contradictions of modern leadership

    Emmanuel Coblence, Professor of Leadership, Associate Dean for Pedagogy, HEC Paris

    10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break 

  • 11:00– 11:20 | On stage discussion

    Business in the EU – the future of competitiveness, resilience, and funding for growth

    • Pavlína Žaková, Confederation of Industry

    • Anita Simon, Deputy CEO, Alteo

    • Marta Babicz, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Poland

    11:25 - 11:45 | Presentation: Net-zero transition planning: financing business and risk perspectives 

    Réka Sulyok & Gábor Szigel, OTP Bank

    11:45 – 12:00 | Presentation: Policy Design for System Change: What Is Needed to Speed Up the Transition and Move from A to Better 

    Gerben Hieminga, Senior Economist at ING Research 

    12:00 – 12:30 | Conversation with the audience

    Made in Europe: will Europe deliver on its ambitions for clean tech? 

    Speakers:

    • Albéric Mongrenier, Executive Director of EIES, the European Initiative for Energy Security

    • Radu Surdeanu, Senior Director, Government Affairs, Siemens Energy

    • Jan Brazda, Co-founder, Revoltum

    12:30 -13:30 | Lunch Break

  • 13:30 – 13:50 | | Fireside conversation 

    Transition planning & future of non-financial reporting and risk management  

    Questions:  

    • How are the data and integration issues getting solved?

    • How is transition planning for energy sector progressing?  

    • How to best manage stakeholder engagement and communications related to ESG strategies and transition plans?

    Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Editor in Chief, Responsible Investor 

    Speakers:  

    • Stanislaw Cichocki, PGE

    • Martin Račan, ČEZ Group 

    13:50 – 14:10 | On-stage interview

    Hugh Wheelan, Founder, Responsible Investor

    Speakers: 

    • Eva Bučová, Country Manager, ING Bank Czech Republic

    • Andrea Basilova, CEO, Sensoneo

    14:10 -14:25 | TED-style presentation 

    How sustainability can be translated into tangible financial performance 

    Livio Scalvini, Executive Director of the Leonardo Centre & CEO and Co-founder of Golden for Impact 

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation 

    16:00 – 16:30 | Conversation with the audience 

    What to expect from the European Commission going forward – updates and insights from the “Brussels bubble” and beyond 

    • Olivier Vardakoulias, Chief Economist, CAN Network

    • William Todts, Executive Director, Transport and Energy

    • Chris Vrettos, reScoop

    16:30 – 17:00 | Conversation with the audience 

    Corporate reporting, digital infrastructure, and technological autonomy for the EU 

    Přemysl Píška, Regional sales director for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and DACH, Tangelo Software 

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Side-event

Main stage

Co-hosted with SAPI (Slovak Association of Sustainable Energy) - A dedicated deep-dive for energy practitioners, investors and policymakers, using a fishbowl format that gives the audience space to participate and ask questions.

Electrification & Energy Transition conference

  • 09:10 – 09:20 | Opening speech – Jan Karaba, Director, SAPI – Slovak Association of Sustainable Energy

    09:20 – 09:45 | Keynote presentation – DG ENER, name TBC

    9:45 – 10:30 | Facilitated discussion – Delivering the Next Phase of Europe's Energy Transition

    Chair: ISFC

    Participants/speakers

    • Stanislaw Cichocki, PGE Group

    • Balázs Felsmann, Economist, REKK

    10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break

  • 11:00 – 11:20 | Introductions and keynote remarks: From Energy Transition to Energy Security

    Albéric Mongrenier, Executive Director, EIES, European Initiative for Energy Security

    11:20 – 11:40 | Presentation - Energy security in focus

    11:45 – 12:30 | Conversation with the audience

    Questions we will explore

    • Can electricity networks keep pace with Europe's electrification ambitions?

    • What investments are most critical to strengthening Europe's energy security?

    • What is preventing capital from flowing into strategic energy infrastructure

    Chair: Jan Karaba, Director, SAPI

    Speakers

    • Radu Surdeanu, Senior Director Government and Executive Affairs at Siemens Energy 

    • Katarína Kertýsová, Policy Officer, NATO

    • Patrik Križanský, member of BoD AVERE – European Association for Electromobility

  • 15:40 – 16:00 How private finance be mobilised for innovative clean energy solutions? What is happening in the banking sector and project finance in the CEE region?

    • Jan Troják, Director of Project Finance, CSOB 

    16:00 – 17:00 | Facilitated discussion

    Questions we will explore

    • Where is private capital flowing today?

    • Which clean energy technologies are attracting the strongest investor interest?

    • What are today's biggest risks for investors?

    • How do policy uncertainty, permitting delays, grid constraints and electricity market volatility affect investment decisions?

    • What makes a clean energy project bankable?

    Chair: Denisa Lehmanova, ISFC

    Speakers

    • Zdeněk Obruča, CEE Head of Energy Advisory 

    • Martin Račan, ČEZ Group

    • Zdeněk Obruča, CEE Head of Energy Advisory

    • Jim Campion, PE Fund Manager, investor, asset manager and advisor in Renewable Energy and Storage projects

DAY 2

Roundtables

Closed-door roundtable sessions provide an interactive setting for in-depth discussions on different key topics. If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org.

  • Discussion topics: 

    • Industrial Accelerator Act 

    • Modernisation Fund and future financial incentives for decarbonisation 

    • CBAM and EU ETS – the tools and policies for enabling European competitiveness 

    • Changes to procurement  

  • A facilitated roundtable for ESG managers and business leaders focused on how to bring sustainability topics into management decisions and business strategy. Participants will share both successful approaches and lessons learned from what did not work, with space for peer-to-peer discussion across different industries.

    The session will be held in Czech.

    Fair Venture – strategic ESG and sustainability consulting

14
SEPTEMBER
Monday

GEOPOLITICS, FINANCE & AI

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

15
SEPTEMBER
Tuesday

BUSINESS & ELECTRIFICATION

Main Stage

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Side-event

Co-hosted with SAPI (Slovak Association of Sustainable Energy) - A dedicated deep-dive for energy practitioners, investors and policymakers, using a fishbowl format that gives the audience space to participate and ask questions.

Electrification & Energy Transition

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Roundtables

Co-hosted with SAPI (Slovak Association of Sustainable Energy) - A dedicated deep-dive for energy practitioners, investors and policymakers, using a fishbowl format that gives the audience space to participate and ask questions.

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

14 SEPTEMBER
Monday

Geostrategic Europe, Geopolitics, Climate and Strategy in an Era of AI

GEOPOLITICS, FINANCE & AI

  • Keynote speeches

    09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome remarks

    09:20 – 09:30 | Opening keynote

    • Jan Dusík, Deputy Director General, DG CLIMA, European Commission

  • 09:30 – 09:50 | Fireside conversation

    • Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Responsible Investor 

    • Speakers: Martin Zenker, Head of Group ESG Office, UNIQA Group

      Vedrana Jelušić Kašić, Executive director, corporate banking, VUB 

      Miluše Poláková, Country HR director Czech Republic and HR Director zone Central and Eastern Europe, Veolia

    09:50 - 10:20 | On stage interview 

    Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Editor, Responsible Investor 

    Speaker: Sabine Abfalter, CFO and board member, Raiffeisen CZ

    10:20 – 11:00 | Networking break

  • 11:00 – 11:20 | TED-style presentation: Transition planning and implementation 

    • Petra Ondrušová, CSO, Česká spořitelna

    • Peter Franek, Head of Strategic Risk Management, Česká  spořitelna

    11:20 – 11:35 | Fireside chat: The transition to net zero: Where does the CEE region stand in the transition of key sectors? 

    Gergely Pókos, Executive director, Green Program Directorate, OTP Bank

  • 11:30– 11:55 | Keynote and a fireside conversation
    Climate, AI, and the future of society: are we doomed?

    • Connie Hedegaard, former European Commissioner for Climate Action from 2010 to 2014

    • In conversation with: Jakob Thomä, Founder and CEO, Theia Finance Labs

    11:55 – 12:15 | TED style talk
    Who Are You Really Reporting To? Rethinking Sustainability Reporting for Financial Markets

    • Erwin Groenendal, Co-Founder and Product Evangelist, Tangelo Software

    12:15 – 12:30 | On-stage interview

    Fixed income and technological solutions in focus: using tools and approaches for a profitable and smart transition 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Journalist & founder of Responsible Investor 

    • Speakers: Justine Leigh Bell, CEO, Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute  

    • Luca Bertalot, Secretary General, EMF-ECBC

    12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break

  • 13:30 – 13:45 | TED-style presentation 
    Climate change scenarios for financial sector professionals

    Prof Riccardo Rebonato

    13:45 – 14:00 | TED-style talk
    Banking on Tomorrow: Where green ambitions meet security reality 

    Martin Sládeček, Associate Director of Customer & Digital Advisory, KPMG 

    14:00 – 14:30 | Fireside conversation 
    Energy transition and competitiveness in focus: is Europe’s strategic autonomy realistic?  

    What are the strategic pivots for European business?  

    • Chair: Martin Ehl, Correspondent, Hospodarske Noviny

    • Pavel Micka, Head of performance and transformation, Veolia

    14:30 – 15:00 | Fireside conversation 

    Mobilising private capital for economic growth and resilience 

    • How will we finance the economic transformation? 

    • What are the trends and developments in the financial sector? 

    • Will sustainable finance play a greater role in company financing going forward? 

    Speakers: 

    • Vera Economou, Sustainable Solutions Group Lead, ING

    • Gina Hanrahan, Head of Economic Policy, UN PRI

    • Radek Taborsky, Senior manager for investment banking, VUB Bank Prague

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 16:25 – 17:00 | TExpert discussion 

    Risk mapping – the use of climate risk maps in pricing and risk management 

    17:00 – 17:10 | Closing session and reflections of the day

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Side-event

Main stage

The second room on Monday will bring together a select group of experts and practitioners in banking and finance.

The room will have a fishbowl workshop approach -an active discussion with an opportunity for the audience to be active participants, in order to share questions, remarks, and comments both directly and online.

Transformation vs. transition - mobilising finance

  • 11:00 – 11:15 | Introductions and keynote remarks 

    11:15 – 11:30 | Presentation 

    11:30 – 11:50 | Interview

    11:50 – 12:30 | Facilitated discussion on the most pressing needs and options for improved implementation  

  • Prudential supervision and the transition – managing expectations and risk

    13:45 – 14:00 | Introduction and tour de table 
    14:00 – 14:30 | Introductory presentations and remarks 
    14:30 – 15:00 | Discussion

  • 15:30 – 15:45 | Introductory remarks & tour de table 

    16:00 – 16:20 | Presentations of practices and case studies

DAY 1

Roundtables

Closed-door roundtable sessions provide an interactive setting for in-depth discussions on different key topics. If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org.

  • If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org

  • Navigating shifting geopolitics and money flows, with UN PRI.

  • Organised by Eurosif, CzechSIF and EURENI roundtable)

  • Run by Moody’s Ratings
    with Amaya London, Assistant Vice President - Sustainable Finance

    A practical discussion on how issuers and investors are navigating the next phase of the sustainable finance market - from the EU Green Bond Standard and evolving investor expectations to social, sustainability-linked, transition and blue bonds.

    Featuring perspectives from Moody’s Ratings and CPIPG, with a focus on framework design, credibility and the realities of the CEE market.

15
SEPTEMBER
Tuesday

BUSINESS & ELECTRIFICATION

Main Stage

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Side-event

Co-hosted with SAPI (Slovak Association of Sustainable Energy) - A dedicated deep-dive for energy practitioners, investors and policymakers, using a fishbowl format that gives the audience space to participate and ask questions.

Electrification & Energy Transition

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Roundtables

Closed-door roundtable sessions provide an interactive setting for in-depth discussions on different key topics. If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org.

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

14 SEPTEMBER
Monday

GEOPOLITICS, FINANCE & AI

DAY 1

14 SEPTEMBER
Monday

GEOPOLITICS, FINANCE & AI

Main Event

  • Keynote speeches

    09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome remarks

    09:20 – 09:30 | Opening keynote

    • Jan Dusík, Deputy Director General, DG CLIMA, European Commission

  • 09:30 – 09:50 | Fireside conversation

    • Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Responsible Investor 

    • Speakers: Martin Zenker, Head of Group ESG Office, UNIQA Group

      Vedrana Jelušić Kašić, Executive director, corporate banking, VUB 

      Miluše Poláková, Country HR director Czech Republic and HR Director zone Central and Eastern Europe, Veolia

    09:50 - 10:20 | On stage interview 

    Chair: Lucy Fitzgeorge-Parker, Editor, Responsible Investor 

    Speaker: Sabine Abfalter, CFO and board member, Raiffeisen CZ

    10:20 – 11:00 | Networking break

  • 11:00 – 11:20 | TED-style presentation: Transition planning and implementation 

    • Petra Ondrušová, CSO, Česká spořitelna

    • Peter Franek, Head of Strategic Risk Management, Česká  spořitelna

    11:20 – 11:35 | Fireside chat: The transition to net zero: Where does the CEE region stand in the transition of key sectors? 

    Gergely Pókos, Executive director, Green Program Directorate, OTP Bank

  • 11:30– 11:55 | Keynote and a fireside conversation
    Climate, AI, and the future of society: are we doomed?

    • Connie Hedegaard, former European Commissioner for Climate Action from 2010 to 2014

    • In conversation with: Jakob Thomä, Founder and CEO, Theia Finance Labs

    11:55 – 12:15 | TED style talk
    Who Are You Really Reporting To? Rethinking Sustainability Reporting for Financial Markets

    • Erwin Groenendal, Co-Founder and Product Evangelist, Tangelo Software

    12:15 – 12:30 | On-stage interview

    Fixed income and technological solutions in focus: using tools and approaches for a profitable and smart transition 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Journalist & founder of Responsible Investor 

    • Speakers: Justine Leigh Bell, CEO, Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute  

    • Luca Bertalot, Secretary General, EMF-ECBC

    12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break

  • 13:30 – 13:45 | TED-style presentation 
    Climate change scenarios for financial sector professionals

    Prof Riccardo Rebonato

    13:45 – 14:00 | TED-style talk
    Banking on Tomorrow: Where green ambitions meet security reality 

    Martin Sládeček, Associate Director of Customer & Digital Advisory, KPMG 

    14:00 – 14:30 | Fireside conversation 
    Energy transition and competitiveness in focus: is Europe’s strategic autonomy realistic?  

    What are the strategic pivots for European business?  

    • Chair: Martin Ehl, Correspondent, Hospodarske Noviny

    • Pavel Micka, Head of performance and transformation, Veolia

    14:30 – 15:00 | Fireside conversation 

    Mobilising private capital for economic growth and resilience 

    • How will we finance the economic transformation? 

    • What are the trends and developments in the financial sector? 

    • Will sustainable finance play a greater role in company financing going forward? 

    Speakers: 

    • Vera Economou, Sustainable Solutions Group Lead, ING

    • Gina Hanrahan, Head of Economic Policy, UN PRI

    • Radek Taborsky, Senior manager for investment banking, VUB Bank Prague

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 16:25 – 17:00 | TExpert discussion 

    Risk mapping – the use of climate risk maps in pricing and risk management 

    17:00 – 17:10 | Closing session and reflections of the day

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Side-event

Transformation vs. transition - mobilising finance

  • The room will have a fishbowl workshop approach -an active discussion with an opportunity for the audience to be active participants, in order to share questions, remarks, and comments both directly and online. 

  • 11:00 – 11:15 | Introductions and keynote remarks 

    11:15 – 11:30 | Presentation 

    11:30 – 11:50 | Interview

    11:50 – 12:30 | Facilitated discussion on the most pressing needs and options for improved implementation  

  • Prudential supervision and the transition – managing expectations and risk

    13:45 – 14:00 | Introduction and tour de table 
    14:00 – 14:30 | Introductory presentations and remarks 
    14:30 – 15:00 | Discussion

  • 15:30 – 15:45 | Introductory remarks & tour de table 

    16:00 – 16:20 | Presentations of practices and case studies

DAY 1

Roundtables

  • If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org

  • Navigating shifting geopolitics and money flows, with UN PRI.

  • Organised by Eurosif, CzechSIF and EURENI roundtable)

  • Run by Moody’s Ratings
    with Amaya London, Assistant Vice President - Sustainable Finance

    A practical discussion on how issuers and investors are navigating the next phase of the sustainable finance market - from the EU Green Bond Standard and evolving investor expectations to social, sustainability-linked, transition and blue bonds.

    Featuring perspectives from Moody’s Ratings and CPIPG, with a focus on framework design, credibility and the realities of the CEE market.

15
SEPTEMBER
Tuesday

BUSINESS & ELECTRIFICATION

Main Event

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Side-event

Co-hosted with SAPI (Slovak Association for Sustainable Energy). A dedicated deep-dive for energy practitioners, using a fishbowl format that gives the audience space to participate and ask questions.

Electrification & Energy Transition

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue

Roundtables

Closed-door interactive sessions for in-depth discussions.
If you are interested in attending one of the following roundtables, please email registrations@ceesummit.org.

  • Keynote speeches 

    09:10 – 09:20 | Opening keynote 

    • Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative

    09:20 – 09:35 | Fireside conversation 

    • Chair: Hugh Wheelan, Financial Journalist 

    • Speaker:  Anne-Sophie Castelnau, Global Head of Sustainability, ING Group

  • 09:35 – 10:30 | Conversation with the audience - 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

    10:30 – 11:00 | Networking break 

  • 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  

    Speakers

    • 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 Gladyš, CEO, ARP TFI

  • 12:00– 12:30 | 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? 

    • Chair: Raphael Minder, CEE correspondent, Financial Times 

    Speakers:

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

    • Piotr Arak, Chief Economist, Velobank

    • Julian Popov, former minister of Environment, Bulgaria

    • Petr Zahradník, Economic and Strategic Analyst, Česká spořitelna

  • 13:30 – 14:00 | TED-style talk: GDP at transition risk. 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. 

    14:00 – 14:30 | TED style presentation : Prof J. Doyne Farmer (University of Oxford, INET) - Making sense of Chaos: A better economics for a better world  

    14:30 – 15:00 | TED-style talk: Dr Florian Berg, MIT: ESG and the original sin

    15:00– 15:40 | Coffee break

  • 15:40 – 16:00 | TED-style presentation: Making macroeconomic and financial models work for climate risk analysis

    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) 

    Speakers:

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

    • Astrid Matthey, Senior Economist, German Environment Agency

    • Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

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

  • 17:10 – 18:00 | Move to evening venue