Women’s Entrepreneurship Expo 2022 - Serbia satellite event

Women Entrepreneurship – Connect to Create and Accelerate Your Business

6 and 7 October 2022
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Resavska 13-15, Ground floor conference room
DAY 1
09:00 – 09:15 Registration of participants, welcoming coffee
09:15 – 10:00 Opening of the event, introductory remarks.
o Branislava Simanic, Director of Sector for Entrepreneurship,
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
o Ana Brnabic, Prime minister, (t.b.c)
o H.E. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill, Ambassador of the United
States to Serbia, (t.b.c)
o Alia El-Yassir, Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, (t.b.c)
o dr Sanja Popovic Pantic, president of the Association of Business
Women
Introduction to the event.
10:00 – 11:00 Panel 1: Growth oriented business transformation
o Key factors for successful business transformation, Dr Jasmina
Knezevic, CEO Acibadem Bel Medic and founder of Bel Medic
o Online sales and e-commerce for business growth, (t.b.c)
o How do we support transformation of women’s companies,
Dragana Kokot, Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce of
the Republic of Srpska
o Challenges of business transformation for women entrepreneurs
in Croatia, Ivana Radic, President of the International network of
women entrepreneurs, Croatia
o Good examples from North Macedonia, Gabriela Kostovska
Bogoeva, President of the National Council for Women
entrepreneurship
Moderator: dr Sanja Popovic Pantic, President of the Association of
Business Women
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:45 Panel 2: Women and Innovation
o Innovation as a precondition for sustainable business, Vesna Baur,
owner of the company Basna
o Supporting sustainable fashion through innovations- Marija

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 Ivankovic - Jurisic, owner of the company Marija Handmade
o Virtual reality in tourism - How did I make my business
competitive by innovating?, Veronika Mudri Šestan, owner of the
company Magic d.o.o Croatia, Zadar, Croatia
o Women’s Entrepreneurship Expo 2022 for Europe and Central
Asia – possibilities for innovation and business growth, Ana
Pashalishvili, UN Women Programme Analyst
Moderator: dr Sanja Popovic Pantic, President of the Association of
Business Women
12:45 – 13:45 Panel 3: Potentials and funding sources for Women entrepreneurship
o National scheme for women entrepreneurs – experiences and
lessons learned, Aleksandra Vucetic, Head of Group in the Sector
for the development of small and medium enterprises and
entrepreneurship, Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Serbia
o Integration of EU standards and learning from best practice
examples through EU support, Nikola Bertolini, Head of
Cooperation, EU Delegation to the Republic of Serbia
o EBRD Women in Business Programme – experiences, lessons
learned and next steps, Aleksandra Miladinovic, Regional
Coordinator for the Western Balkan, Advice for Small Businesses
at EBRD
o Support to women entrepreneurship through the USAID Catalyze
Engines of Growth programme, Dragana Bukvicki Todosijevic
Moderator: t.b.c.
13:45-13:50 End of conference part of the event
13:50 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 18:00 Only for women entrepreneurs
Implementation of series of the B2B meetings scheduled in advance
through the platform B2Match.
Lead by CQCI

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 DAY 2
Supported by EBRD
Only for women entrepreneurs from Serbia
Lecturers:
09:30 – 10:00 Registration of participants, welcoming coffee
10:00 – 11:30 Session 1: XXX
 Theoretical input
 Work in groups
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 Session 2: XXX
 Theoretical input
 Work in groups

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30  Work in groups cont
 Presentation of the results
15:30 – 16:00 Main conclusions
End of the event