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Invest in TUNISIA, Join the Growing Success
11th & 12th June 2015/ El Mouradi Hotel- Gammarth, Tunis
TIF 2015 DRAFT PROGRAMME
Thursday 11th June 2015
Ground floor - Mimosa room
08:00 am - 06:00 pm
Registration
09:00 am – 01:00 pm
WAIPA Regional Meeting for MENA
09:00 am – 09:30 am
Mezzanine floor -Orchidée 1&2 rooms
Opening & Welcome Speeches
 Mr. Khalil Laabidi, Director General- FIPA Tunisia
 Mr. Ismail Ersahin, Executive Director of WAIPA
 Mr. Fahad Al Gergawi, WAIPA MENA Director
Panel Discussion
Investment attraction in turbulent times. What matters to regional IPA’s?
What will be the right message to investors and priorities list?
09:35 am – 11:00 am
Speakers:
 Dr. Hassan Fahmy, Chairman- GAFI- Egypt
 Mr. Nabil Itani, Chairman & General Manager- IDAL- Lebanon
 Mr. Khalil Laabidi, Director General- FIPA Tunisia
Session Moderator:
 HE. Fahad Al Gergawi, CEO Dubai FDI, UAE & WAIPA Steering Committee and MENA Director
11:15 am – 11:30 am
Coffee Break
Panel discussion
Current trends and international best practices of FDI Promotions in Sustainable Developments. Is Clean
Tech the next big thing?
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Speakers:
 Mr. Nejib Zafraani, Chairman, RNM Reasech & Management Solutions-UAE
 Mr. Saud Al Suwaidi, Director of International Relations and Partnerships, SHUROOQ-UAE
 M. Linar Yacopuve, President of the Association of Regional Investment Agencies of Russia
 Mr. Salah Hannachi, Director General of ATLAS Consult
 Mr. Laurent Cambier, Manager and Renewable Energy Consultant in Europe, Middle East and Africa- General
Electric Company (TBC)
Session Moderator:
 Mr. Emmanuel Noutary, General Delegate of ANIMA Investment Network
12:30 pm – 01:00 pm
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Closing remarks & Lunch
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02:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Mezzanine floor - Orchidée 5 room
ANIMA General Assembly Meeting
ANIMA members only
Mezzanine floor -Orchidée 1
05:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Inauguration of ENAMA-MEA region Desk
Welcoming remarks:
 Mr. Giuseppe Castiglione, Under Secretary of State of Italian Ministry of Agriculture
 H.E. Raimondo De Cardona, Ambassador of Italy in Tunis
Presentation of Agreement ENAMA-DELTA CENTER
 Mr. Sandro Liberatori, Director of ENAMA
 Mr. Sandro Fratini, Chairman of DELTA CENTER
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
TIF GRAND OPENING
Ground floor- Tulip room
Opening remarks:
 Mr. Hichem Elloumi, TIF Chairman
 Mr. Yassine Brahim, Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation
Guests of honor:
 Mr. Jonathan Margolis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Science, Space, and Health- Bureau of
Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs- USA
 Mr. Giuseppe Castiglione, Under Secretary of State of Italian Ministry of Agriculture
 Mr. Chriostoph Kannengießer, Chief Executive Officer of the German-African Business Association "Afrika-Verein
der deutschen Wirtschaft e.V.
 Mr. Jacques Jean Sarraf, President of the Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises “BUSINESSMED”
 Mr. Christian Danielsson, Director-General Enlargement, Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and
Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission
Official opening:
 Mr. Habib Essid, Head of the Tunisian Government
Moderator:
 Mr. Mohamed A. Malouche, Board Chairman, Tunisian American Young Professionals
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FIPA- Tunisia 2015 Awards Ceremony
TUNISIA Investment Forum Awards are given, every year, to foreign established companies in recognition to their
positive contribution to enhance partnership links and to their commitment to be a distinguished part of Tunisian
economic sustainability
08:30 pm
Cocktail Reception hosted by FIPA-Tunisia
Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of FIPA Tunisia
Friday
12th
June, 2015
08:30 am – 10:30 am
THEMATIC PANEL
Ground floor- Tulip room
Towards a strengthening of TUNISIA’s Competitiveness
The panel will focus on the investment opportunities with a high added-value that the new Tunisia’s site offers, by
emphasising on the highly qualified human resources, the modern technologies and the factors of competitiveness in
Tunisia that have contributed to moving up in Global Value Chains.
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Honor Guest:
 Mr. Zakaria Hamad, Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining
Speakers:
Development and promotion of an intelligence and knowledge society in Tunisia and its impact on the enterprise
 Mr. Heinz Olbers, Director of the Neighbouring Countries and Central Asia Department -European Investment Bank
 Mr. Jean-Luc Bernasconi, Lead Economist -The World Bank
 Mr. Alexandre Scander Dabbou, Division on Investment and Enterprise -UNCTAD
Innovation and steady growth of the Tunisian industry
 Mr. Sami Zaoui, Partner, Advisory services - AMC Ernst & Young
 Mr. Wu Lei, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization
 Mr. Slim Sellami, Vice President of One Tech Group
Regional integration for a better positioning of Tunisia
 Mr. Claudio Cortese, Senior Deputy Secretary General at Union for the Mediterranean- Barcelona
 Ms. Cornelia Meyer, CEO MRL Corporation
Moderator:
Ms. Marie Corman, Policy Officer, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEsEuropean Commission
10:30 am – 11:00 am
11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Coffee Break
Ground flour- Tulip room
SECTOR PANEL
Emerging Sectors and Potential Growth
Tunisia’s assets and development prospects of the emerging sectors which are capable of strengthening the structural
transformation process and becoming a source of a dynamic growth and job creation.
11:00 am – 11:50 am
Offshoring/ Nearshoring
Speakers:
 Mr. Raouf Mhenni, President of ‘Smart Tunisia’ and Managing Director of Sopra HR SOFTWARE
 Ms. Anne Sophie Gombart, Supplychain Engineer/ EPAC Technologies- Silicon Valley USA- Technical Manager-EPAC
TUNISIA
 Mr. Olivier Pitras, Managing Director of IZI Systems- France/Canada
 Mr. Walid Saddi, PHD on Network and Telecommunication/ Responsible for Club Media Culture- ‘ATUGE Think’
 Mr. Younes Boughzela, Managing Director of Sphinx MENA subsidiary/ Associate Research at the Savoie Mont-Blanc
University
 Ms. Asma Brini, General Manager of ABshore
 Ms. Rym Sahnoun, Director of Orange Labs Tunisia
Q&A
Moderator:
Mr. Anis Daoued, Head of Business Advisory Services- BDO Tunisia
11:50 am – 12:40 pm
Renewable Energy
Speakers:
 Mr. Salah Hannachi, Director General of ATLAS Consult
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 Mr. Abdelkerim Ghezal, Director of Renewable Energy- ANME
 Mr. Laurent Cambier, Business development manager Growth Markets, Renewable Energy Europe- General Electric
Power & Water
 Mr. Mohamed Trigui, Deputy Director General- SOCOMENIN
Q&A
Moderator:
 Mr. Rafik Missaoui, Consultant, Energy and Climate Change Expert, ALCOR General Director- Tunisia
12:40 pm – 01:30 pm
Biotechnologies in Tunisia
Speakers:
 Mr. Walker Lahmann, Executive Director of Eurofarma (TBC)
 Mr. Sami Sayadi, General Director - Center of Biotechnology of Sfax
 Mr. Farouk Mhenni, Researcher- Monastir University
 Mr. Paolo Meoni, Expert PASRI
Q&A
Moderator:
 Mr. Noureddine Bouzouaya, CEO & Chairman- BiotechPole Sidi Thabet
01:30 pm – 02:30 pm
Lunch
02:30 pm – 04:30 pm
SIDE EVENTS
WORKSHOP A
Mezzanine floor -Orchidée 1&2 rooms
“ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE INVESTMENT IN TUNISIA”
Keynote Speaker:
 Ms. Boutheïna Ben Yaghlane, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance (TBC)
Speakers:
 Mr. Philip R. Trape, Principal Country Economist- African Development Bank
 Ms. Hildegard Gacek, Managing Director for the SEMED Region- European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development
 Ms. Eileen Murray, Country Manager for Tunisia- World Bank
 Mr. Philippe-Cyrille Berton, Director of AFD Tunis- Agence Française de Développement
 Mr. Glenn Rogers, Senior Development advisor- USAID
Q&A
Moderator:
 Mr. Wissem Ghorbel, CEO- NUMU Consulting
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WORKSHOP B
Ground floor- Tulip room
“DIALOGUE, AFTER CARE, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH
INVESTORS IN TUNISIA”
INVESTORS MOTIVATION AND SATISFACTION IN TUNISIA
Keynote Speaker
 Mr. Yassine Brahim, Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation
Speakers
 Mr. Khalil Laabidi, Director General - FIPA Tunisia (“FIPA Assistance” Plateform)
 Mr. Foued Lakhoua, President of the Tunisian French Chamber of Commerce & Industry
 Mr. Martin Henkelmann, General Manager of the Tunisian German Chamber of Commerce & Industry
 Mr. Mourad Fradi, President of the Tunisian Italian Chamber of Commerce & Industry
 Mr. Etienne Roumier, Managing Director - Crown Maghreb Can (USA)
 Mr. Wassim Berraies, Managing Director - STELIA (France)
Q&A
MAXIMISING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PERFOMANCE OF INVESTMENTS
Keynote Speaker
 Mr. Sadok Bajja, Director General SMEs- Ministery of Industry, Energy and Mining, Tunisia
Presentation
 Mr. Badr Biede, Project Manager at ANIMA Investment Network
Maximizing social & economic performance: presentation of the EDILE methodology & label
Speakers
 Mr. Jean-Claude Chesnais, Investment Officer Financial and Private Sector- AFD
Maximizing the impact of investments: the role of international financing institutions
 Representantive from the National Information System Center of Tunisia
Capitalising on the EDILE methodology to maximize the benefits of public projects
 Mr. Noureddine Taktak, Director General of APII Tunisia
Incentive SMEs to become more inclusive: the proposition of APII
TESTIMONIALS FROM INVESTORS AND SMEs AND DISCUSSION: TOWARD A NEW DEAL WITH INVESTORS IN TUNISIA
Moderator:
 Mr. Emmanuel Noutary, General Delegate of ANIMA Investment Network
04:30 pm – 05:00 pm
04:30 pm – 07:00 pm
Coffee Break
B2B MEETINGS
Ground floor - Glaïeul Room
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