Conference
Conference

IV CONFERENCE ABOUT REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS – REBEC (Real Estate Belgrade Exhibition & Conference)
June 20th - 22nd 2011, Continental hotel, Belgrade, Serbia

In Belgrade, for the fourth time in a row, the IV International Conference on real estate development and investments - REBEC will be held this year. For the first time, this year, the conference program will offer high-quality contemporary topics from the markets of the countries of Southeast Europe. During the two conference days we will have the opportunity to mutually exchange and compare global and local (regional) contemporary experiences. In the past three years REBEC presented also the expectations of future real estate development and investments in Serbia and in the region, so it is quite natural to continue this development in this year through the placement of topics that have an even broader geographical and professional significance. After the great success of the previous three, the fourth REBEC - Real Estate Belgrade Exhibition & Conference will be held from June 20th - 22nd at the Continental hotel in Belgrade.
The REBEC conference deals with all the current topics in the real estate business, through seven panels. In conjunction with the accompanying fair it will offer a comprehensive view on the real estate markets in Serbia through the aspect of their development compared to the region, through the promotion of pressing current issues. On this occasion we will offer a faster and deeper bringing together of participants in this business with leading international experts and investors from the region and beyond. Late last year, on several sites - mainly in England, appeared the interpretation of the letter B in the acronym REBEC. It is more than obvious that this letter B has lost the original meaning of the name of Belgrade; it now has the meaning of the region called the Balkans. Therefore, in this year it will be particularly interesting to see what the organizers of REBEC will offer, concerning the program and organization, for further spreading the influence that will exceed the limits of Southeast Europe.

REBEC Conference
June 21st - 22nd, Mezzanine of the hotel Continental, Le Club Belgrade

First conference day – June 21st
8:30-9:15
Registration of the participants, coffee and tea
9:15-9:30 Opening of the conference, keynote address

9:30-11:00
Mezzanine of the hotel Continental, Mediterranean / Adriatic Room
I Panel: Which way is Serbia going and what are the expectations of foreign investors in this and surrounding markets today
What is Serbia offering investors today? Only the story of the lure and / or something more specific?
What is the state offering to foreign and domestic investors? Who has the priority?
What is the status of the adoption of certain necessary and long-time expected legislative solutions that improve and accelerate the arrival of investors? Do they improve the safety of the investors?
How to evaluate this year compared to the previous, and what are the expectations in the near future?

  • Moderator Zaklina Gligorijevic,URBEL,General Manager
  • Aleksandra Damnjanovic,Ministry of Environment,Minning and Spitial Planning,Assistant Minister
  • Bojan Jankovic,SIEPA,Deputy Director
  • Nenad Djordjevic,MOZAIK,Vice President
11:00-11:15 Coffee, tea, juice.

11:15-12:45
 Mezzanine of the hotel Continental, Mediterranean / Adriatic Room

II Panel: Project management as a link that has, until recently, been missing in Serbia
What you have assumed about PM and so far no one has told - nor in Serbia nor in the region;
Project management as a support for investors in defining the best bid for the target project;
Project management, as the expected link, provides a better and more competitive real estate project realization;
How banks, as an indispensable actor in the development of investments, insist on the adequate use of PM procedures in the real estate development in Serbia and in the surroundings;
Possible PM strategies and their realization during the execution of projects in Serbia and in the surroundings;
How far or near is the investment market in Serbia to these procedures, compared to the region;
  • Moderator Nikola Matic ,ACES,President
  • Predrag Jeremic ,SORAVIA,Lead Project Manager
  • Jelena Vitasovic ,MACE,Operations Director
  • Milan Peric,ALPINE,Head of Technical office Contract and Claim Management
13:00-14:00 Lunch – halls Mediterranean, Adriatic and Baltic

14:15-15:30
Mezzanine of the hotel Continental, Mediterranean / Adriatic Room
III Panel: Retail development – the situation in Serbia and in the region
Is the announcement of the recent arrival of several international retail chains in Serbia a good indicator of the positive evaluation of the further development of the domestic retail market and where is this market in Serbia in relation to the environment;
Is the economic power of the average buyer in Serbia sufficiently attractive for these foreign retail chains;
Does the overtaking of the largest retail chain in Serbia open or close the market in Serbia in relation to the surroundings;
Can the economy in Serbia, with its resources and products, engage better in the competitive match and get the priority rights for supplying retail chains;
  • Moderator Srdjan Vujicic,King Sturge/Jones Lang LaSalle Serbia, Director
  • Jelena Jevremovic,Mercator Serbia RE,Director
  • Robert Yahav,BIG-CEE Serbia, CEO
  • Krsto Sandic,Robne kuce Beograd, General Manager
15:30-15:45 Coffee, tea, juice.

15:45-16:45 
Mezzanine of the hotel Continental, Mediterranean / Adriatic Room
IV Panel: Hotel and tourism industry in Serbia and in the surroundings;

15.45 - 16.oo Market overview SEE
format presentation
speaker Claudia Glück, Senior Consultant, PKF hotelexpert
16.oo - 16.45 Hotel project development in SEE - a fresh start after the crisis?
                             Pitfalls of hotel development and how to mitigate risks

format panel discussion in cooperation with PFK hotelexperts
moderator Claudia Glück, Senior Consultant, PKF hotelexpert
speakers
 
  • Sanja Ljeskovic Mitrovic,Ministry of Tourism and Sustainable Development of Montenegro, Assistant Director for space management
  • Rafael Pupovac,National Corporation for Tourism Development,Director
  • Franco Peruza,Steigenberger Hotels AG, Business Development SEE 
  • Clemens Schranz,Soravia,Managing Director
 16.45 - 17.00 Buy-to-let concepts 
format presentation 
speaker Stefan Hitzler, Consultant, PKF hotelexperts

17.oo - 17.45 Mezzanine of the hotel Continental, Mediterranean / Adriatic Room
V Panel: Residences and bay-to-let-key to successfulresort developments?;

17.oo - 17.45 How to create a win-win situation for buyers and sellers?
format panel discussion in cooperation with PFK hotelexperts
moderator Michael Widmann, Managing Partner, PFK hotelexperts
speakers
  • Thomas Brezina,Porto Montenegro,Partner
  • Gregor Famira,CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz,Partner
  • Peter Fuchs,Valamar,President Management Board
17:45°° Mezzanine of the hotel Continental: Sponsor of a glass of wine Tasting of representative local wines and the completion of the first conference day of the REBEC event 

20:00-20:30
Gathering for the gala dinner, reception and welcome speech by the sponsor
20.30-23.30 Gala dinner

Second conference day – June 22nd
8:30-9:30 Registration of the participants, coffee and tea

9:15-10:45
Mezzanine of the hotel Continental, Mediterranean / Adriatic Room
VI Panel: Investment Panel
Is Serbia, as an investment market, a sufficiently transparent and attractive market for investments in relation to the surroundings?
Experiences of foreign investors in Serbia and in the surroundings
What are the recommendations of investors to state authorities and what Serbia can change, quickly and relatively easily, to be positioned better in relation to the surrounding markets
Which projects are missing in Serbia, as an investment market, today?
  • Moderator Zlatko Milikic ,Consule Vero,Director
  • Kari HaatajaNorthstar Capital, Director
  • Philip Harold Bay,Colliers International, Regional Director
  • Sebastijan Trajkovski, Energoplan, Deputy CEO
  • Adrian Smith,LyntonInvestment Management, Head of Development
10:45-11:00 Coffee, tea, juice.

11:00-12:15
Mezzanine of the hotel Continental, Mediterranean / Adriatic Room
VII Panel: Institutional and investment frameworks in Serbia related to the support of the development of renewable energy sources
Serbia as a regional energy leader
The pros and cons of investments in renewable energy sources in Serbia
Assumptions that have to be determined so that Serbia will be accepted, from the point of investments, as a regional leader in energy
Local operations as a key partner in developing all kinds of grandiose energy projects in Serbia
The degree of usage of applications for green building and energy efficiency and the support of the state for an even faster and deeper implementation on the domestic market and where is Serbia compared to the region
  • Moderator Aleksandar M. Djelic,Bozovic, Djelic and Ivkovic Attorneys at Law , Partner
  • Marija Golubovic,Serbia Green Building Council, President
  • Devin Saylor,Colliers, Director
  • Thomas Bosse,grue+hornstrup,Project Manager
12:30-13:30 Mezzanine of the hotel Continental and the space in front of the Mediterranean / Adriatic Room
Panel VIII: Retrospective of projects and investment ideas in Serbia in the first half of 2011.
The panel is traditionally organized in cooperation with the "E Kapija" portal

13:30-15:00
Farewell cocktail and snack, sponsor of a glass of wine.

Announcement of the program and the themes for the REBEC 2012
Silver sponsors
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