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Chairmans of all Oblast Councils of Ukraine will take part in IFIK-2009
23 October 2009
Leaders of regional councils from all regions of Ukraine will take part in major international investing forum IFIK-2009 which will be held on December 8-9 in Kharkiv.
Chairmen of the Oblast Council, who are gathered in Kharkiv for their planned conference, are interested in the opportunity to explore the experience of investments attraction and in preparation for Euro 2012.
On the first day of Forum, which will be devoted to the presentation of Kharkiv region potential and discussion of its most promising investment projects, the heads of regional councils will take part in the plenary meeting. In addition, they will have special sections where they would consider peculiarities of the local budgets formation for next year and issues of investments’ attraction into the regions.
The IFIK program currently assume holding of two plenary meetings per day, and several thematic sections. Sections will focus on issues of investments into the real sector of economy, natural resource potential of the region, science and IT-technology (first day), as well as issues related to preparation for Euro 2012: the development of hotels, tourism and medicine, transport and sports infrastructure (second day).
IFIK (International Forum “Invest in Kharkiv”) is designed as annual event and is conducted first in 2009. The forum is organized on the initiative of large-scale regional business; its main purpose – is to position Kharkov as a city with high investing potential, and to assist business in capital formation. In IFIK-2009 will take part the representatives of international financial institutes (EBRD, IFC and others), transnational companies (PricewaterhouseCoopers, DLA Piper and others), large-scale Russian business (Sberbank Rossii, Alfa Capital Partners, Beta Capital Management, IG «Aton» and others). Sponsors and partners of the forum are the leading companies in IT-industry: Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Datagroup, Freshtel. In the forum program: discussion of the most timely investing projects of the region in first-priority branches of economics and projects connected with Euro-2012. Direct organizer of the forum is consulting company LLC “Invest in Kharkiv”.
Press service of the forum
Olga Korol, +38 067 540-37-38, olga@ifik.com.ua
