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Retail Trade Forum Vienna ECE

Agenda (10.02.2005)

8:30 AM Registration

Moderation: Dr. Andreas Mattner
Managing Director ECE-Consulting

9:30 AM Welcome Speech

Dr. Michael Häupl
Mayor and Governor of Vienna

KommR Brigitte Jank
President of the Vienna Chamber of
Commerce and Industry

Klaus-Dieter Licht
Managing Director CEO
InvestitionsBank des Landes Brandenburg

10:00 AM Tilo Braune
State secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing
"Vital City - ermitter for strong and vibrant metropolis"
10:20 AM Dipl.-Ing. Rudolf Schicker
Town Councillor Urban Development / Traffic and Transport, City of Vienna
“In future – Vienna, Vision of urban development”
10:40 AM Dr. Michael Freytag
Minister of the Hamburg State Government,
Director of the Civic Development and Environment Agency
"System of central locations – the successful Hamburg Model"
11:00 AM Alexander Otto
CEO of ECE, Chairman of ULI Germany
"The City as a Retail Location: Between Inner City and Greenfield Site"
11:20 AM COFFEE BREAK
11:50 AM Pertti Hermannek
Head of the unit ERDF-Coordination/INTERREG/Projects
InvestitionsBank des Landes Brandenburg
"Vital Cities: Conception and objectives"
12:00 PM Dipl.-Geogr. Rolf Pangels
Manager of urban developement and traffic affairs, transport and logistics
Handelsverband BAG
Federal Association of Medium and Large-scale Retail Enterprises
“Retail location – city centre. Introduction to the Results of the current BAG-Customer survey of Vienna”
12:20 PM Solicitor Holger Schmitz
NÖRR STIEFENHOFER LUTZ
"Business-Improvement Districts (BID) – An Instrument for the Revitalisation of Europe's Inner Cities?"
12:45 PM LUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM Dr.-Ing. Heinz-Jörg Reiher
Architect & Urban Planner,
President of the association of “Deutsche Schinkelpreisträger e.V.”
“City as a place of trade and residence. Conflict traffic – a solution approach: Gentle Cars”
2:20 PM Prof. Dr. Arnold Klotz
Director of Planning, Vienna
“Vienna’s City Centre a World Heritage Site - Chance or Restraint for progress?”
2:40 PM Helmut Mondschein
General Manager
Vienna City Marketing Management of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Industry
“Vienna´s shopping streets – the world´s biggest entrepreneurial city network. A business modell put into action to strengthen commerce in Vienna.”
3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK
3:20 PM Dr. Joachim Seeler
Managing Director HGA
Capital Grundbesitz
"Potential and risks for investors in Central Europe"
3:40 PM Norbert W. Scheele
C & A, General Manager CEE
Central Europe Bureau Vienna
"What are the prospects of success for international retailers in Central Europe?"
4:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION
"Cities Challenges and Strategies for Vital City Centres"

Moderator: Alexander Otto

KommR Brigitte Jank,
Dipl.-Ing. Rudolf Schicker and
Representatives of the Cities of Bratislava, Budapest and Prague

Question time

5:00 PM Estimated end of the conference
8:00 PM FESTIVE EVENING
RECEPTION AT THE TOWN HALL VIENNA
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