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Agenda (10.06.2005)

8:30 AM	Registration and Get Together at the Town Hall of Gdańsk “Dwór Artusa” Moderation: Jan Debski Managing Director ECE Polksa
9:50 AM	Pawel Adamowicz President of the City of Gdańsk "Gdańsk between Future and Reality"
10:00 AM	Wieslaw Bielawski Deputy Mayor of Urban Planning, City of Gdańsk "Retail Market in Gdańsk"
10:40 AM	Dr. Michael Freytag Minister of the Hamburg State Government, Director of the Civic Development and Environment Agency "The 'Growing City': Hamburg's Civic Planning Vision Becomes Reality"
11:00 AM	Jan Ryszard Kurylczyk State Secretary of the Polish Ministry for Infrastructure
11:20 AM	Alexander Otto CEO of ECE, Chairman of ULI Germany "Development in Poland: The Retail Trade as a Key Element in the Concept of a Modern Inner City"
11:40 AM	COFFEE BREAK
12:00 PM	Holger Schmitz Solicitor VITAL CITIES Project Coordination as Regards Contents "Follow-up VITAL CITIES"
12:10 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 "Footfall Gdańsk 2004 – Introduction to the Results of the Current BAG-Customer Survey"
12:30 PM	Janusz Lipinski President of Synergia 99 "The Old Gdańsk Shipyard – Soon the New Centre of Gdańsk ?"
12:50 PM	LUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM	Marek Piechocki CEO of LPP S.A. "Partnership between Public Authorities and Trade"
2:20 PM	Dr. Joachim Seeler Managing Director HGA Capital Grundbesitz "Why Invest in Poland?"
2:40 PM	Jerzy Hańczewski Director Project Management / Member of the Board ING Real Estate Investment Poland “Public Private Partnership as the key instrument for a successful city centre development”
3:00 PM	COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM	Ryszard Gruda Architect, Vice-Mayor of the City of Gdańsk 1990–2002 "Spatial Development of Local Retail Trade in Gdansk from 1990 to Today"
3:50 PM	Krzysztof Sajewski Solicitor NÖRR STIEFENHOFER LUTZ "Strengthening City-Centres? What can Retail Trade Expect from Polish Politics"
4:10 PM	PANEL DISCUSSION "Can Eastern European Cities Learn from the Mistakes of the West?" Wieslaw Bielawski Deputy Mayor of Urban Planning, City of Gdańsk Alexander Otto CEO of ECE, Chairman of ULI Germany Andrzej Radecki CEO of JWK Invest sp. z o.o. Dr. Joachim Seeler Managing Director HGA Capital Grundbesitz Lech Langowski Director Department for urban development Poznan
5:10 PM	Estimated end of the conference
8:00 PM	FESTIVE EVENING RECEPTION AT PIWNICA RAJCÓW

Impressions

Retail Trade Forum Gdańsk/PL ECE on 10th of June 2005

Agenda (10.06.2005)