April 20th, 2015

Venue

Registration

13:00 – 13:30

Opening Speech

13:30 – 13:45

Daniel Kaddik (Project Director for Southeast Europe of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Sofia)

Richard Zundritsch (Board Member, Hayek Institut and Austrian Economics Center)

Panel 1 – To grow or not to grow? From secular stagnation to robust recovery.

14:00 – 14:45

Moderator

Yordan Mateev (Editor-in-Chief FORBES Magazine)

Panelists

Lawson Bader (President, Competitive Enterprise Institute)

José Luis Cordeiro (Director, The Millennium Project, Venezuela Node)

Petar Ganev (Senior Economist at Institute for Market Economy, Bulgaria)

Daniel Kaddik (Project Director for Southeast Europe of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Sofia)

Q&A section

14:45 – 15:15

Coffee break

15:15 – 15:30

Panel 2: Entrepreneurship and its enemies. How to set our creative energy free?

15:30 – 16:15

Moderator

Nico-Alexander Jahn (Business Development Manager, Publicis MARC Group in Sofia)

Panelists

Genoveva Christova (Managing Director, LINGA Group)

Ivaylo Penchev (Founder, Co-owner and General manager of Walltopia)

Kate Sheehan (Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Free Market Institute)

Richard Zundritsch (Board Member, Hayek Institut and Austrian Economics Center)

Q&A Section

16:15 – 16:45

Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:00

Panel 3: “Entrepreneurship – Nature or Nurture. Born an Entrepreneur?”

17:00 – 18:30

TBA

Buffet

18:30 – 19:30 

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