The Conference program

Thursday, 10 September 2009 - 20:00 Welcome Cocktail

Day 1: Friday, 11 September 2009

10:00-11:00

Opening Ceremony

Moderator: Angela Eliopoulos, President, Global Owner Properties, U.S.A/Europe

Addresses by:

Aristotelis Thomopoulos, HELEXPO S.A. President, Greece

Dan Negulescu, CEREAN President, Romania

Nikos Manomenidis, MLS Greece President, Greece

Ron Phipps, NAR First Vice President U.S.A

Giorgos Souflias, Minister for the Enviroment, Physical Planning and Public Works (tbc)

Keynote speaker:
Sutton Wheeler, Vice President, The Trump Organization, U.S.A.

11:00-11:30

Press Conference & Coffee break

11:30- 13:00

Mythunderstanding of the RE Industry :
Realities of Today and Prospects for Tomorrow.

Moderator: Eli Moneva, NRPA Bulgaria, President-Elect. CEREAN, Bulgaria

Ron Phipps, NAR First Vice President U.S.A

Artur Ohanesyan, CEREAN President 2005-2006, Ukranie

Stratos Paradias, Lawyer, President Hellenic Property Federation & International Union of Property Owners - U.I.P.I., Greece

Giannis Siotos, President PROPINDEX S.A., Greece

13:00-14:15

Buffet lunch

14:15- 15:30

-The strategic role of the state and the local authorities;
-Recovery and anti-crisis programs; 
- Building opportunities through smart infrastructure development

Moderator: Natalia Souponitskaya, President of “FILIA” Association for the Greek – Russian friendship.

Mikhail Khatkevich, Russian Federation Consul General, Russia

Georgios Vlachos, President of SATE, Greece

Valery Kazeikin, First Vice-presidentof MAIF, Chairman of the working group at the State Duma, Russia

15:30-16:00

Networking & Coffee break

16:00-17:30

A Buyer's market: It is when the power is in buyers’ hands!
-How do we approach prospective buyers?
-Which are the expectations and which is the real capacity of the Buyers in National and International terms?

Moderator: Maria Vosiki, Lawyer, Vice-President of the French-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Greece

Tatiana Rodionova, Russian FIABCI President, Russia

Gil Ostrander, BEI Rodman, Austria

Kirkor Ajderhanyan, Vice Chair International Relations FNAIM, France

Timothy Gallagher, Director of European Operations for the Italian Residence Club, Italy

17:30-20:30

Expopartenariat: B2B Meetings

21:00

President’s Dinner

Day 2: Saturday, 12 September 2009

09:30-10:45

Overview of the Real Estate markets

Moderator: Dimitrios Biniaris, Binswanger Hellas, member of the Board of the Panhellenic Federation of Realtors, Greece

Anastasia Ioannou, Cyprus REAA Secretary, Cyprus

Andrey Shulga, President of the Ukrainian RA, Ukraina

Manuel Negryo, President CEI, Belgium

Κonstantinos Kopanitsanos, NAR representative at SΕΚ, Greece

Joe Hanauer, Chairman IRPF, U.S.A.

10:45-11:15

Networking & Coffee break

11:15-12:45

-Keeping the banks as partners in the process of Financing of the Real Estate Industry
-Mortgage securitization models - Insurance

Moderator: Efstratios Simopoulos, Chairman of the Board of Directors Technical Company DIASTASI S.A., Greece

Aris Karytinos, General Director, Real Estate National Bank of Greece

Anastasios Panoussis, Assistant General Manager, Deputy Head of Mortgage  Lending Business Unit, Eurobank EFG,Greece

Petia Dimitrova - Executive Director and a Member of the Board of Directors of Eurobank, Bulgaria

Charalambos Charalambopoulos, President of Greek evaluation Institut, Greece

Panos Skliamis, General Director Premier Services, Greece

12:45-14:00

Buffet lunch

14:00-15:30

Alone or together?
-The Professional Associations’ role in providing information
-Sector Carriers and Media Campaigns
-Research & Studies

Moderator: Costis Veros, Broadcast news Director,
“TV MAKEDONIA”

Dale Stinton, CEO NAR, U,S,A

Babis Zepidis, Athens RA Secretary, Greece

Dimitrios Tsourekas, ATEM Group of Companies President, Greece

Yevhen Makovyak, Ukraine ASNU, Ukraine

Special debate for MLS

Dan Negulescu, CEREAN President

MLS Greece

Udrea Sorin, Owner of REALPRO 

15:30-16:00

Closing Ceremony

Simultaneous interpretation Greek, English, Russian will be available during the conference

20:00 GALA  DINNER
Keynote speaker: Constantinos Fotopoulos, Chairman and CEO of the Hellenic Public Real estate corporation