PROGRAMME BUEM 26.9.2025 - online connection
Wednesday 24.9.2025
15:00 – 17:00 Registration BUEM
15:00 – 16:30 Board Meeting BUEM
17:00 – 19:00 Guided City Tour Bratislava, Old Town
Thursday 25.9.2025
08:30 Registration Auditorium, EUBA (entry room)
09:30 – 10:30 Official Opening Auditorium, EUBA
9:30 – 9:50 Paula Puškárová, Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral Studies, Bratislava University of Economics and Business and Ľuboš Cibák, Rector, Bratislava University of Economics and Management: Official Opening and Welcome
9:50 – 10.00 Ján Hrinko, State Secretary, Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic: Introductory Welcome Notes
10:00 – 10:10 Andreja Jaklic, Professor, University of Ljubljana, Academy of International Business Central & Eastern Europe Chapter (AIB-CEE) Chapter Chair: Who We Are
10:10 – 10:30 Michal Hvorecký, Writer, Translator, Head of Department for Culture, Bratislava Old Town: Bratislava – An Introduction of a Central European City
Moderators: Soňa Ferenčíková & Dagmar Váleková
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Auditorium, EUBA (entry room)
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote Speaker Auditorium, EUBA
- Torben Pedersen: Geopolitical turbulence in the world and companies’ resilience strategies
Moderator: Andreja Jaklič
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break EUBA (new building)
13:30 – 14:45 Expert Panel Auditorium, EUBA
- Internationalization: Slovak case (institutional framework and companies´ operations)
- Rastislav Chovanec, State Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovak Republic
- Andrea Krajčíková, Director General, Foreign Trade Policy and European Affairs Section, Ministry of Economy, Slovak Republic
- Róbert Spišák, Director and Board Member AZC Group
- Peter Rusiňák, Head of Business Service Center Forum
Moderator: Soňa Ferenčíková
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee Break Auditorium, EUBA entry room
15:15 – 16:30 Keynote Speakers Auditorium, EUBA
- Pervez Ghauri: Is compliance to ESG and SDGs achievable in the new world order
- Arnold Schuh: IB research on CEE: The end of certainties and the recognition of blind spots
Moderator: Denisa Čiderová & Soňa Ferenčíková
17:00 – 19:00 Reception EUBA (new building)
Program may change.