MAY 8 PROGRAM - BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FROM LEADING ORGANIZATIONS

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9:00-10:30		Success stories from Business Leaders
10:30-11:00		Networking coffee
11:00-14:30		Visits to the Leading Business Companies (including Lunch)
14:30-14:45		Coming back from companies visits
14:45-15:50		Company visits review and “World cafe” discussion with a cup of coffee
15:50-16:20		Insights on Leadership
16:20-17:00		Key-note closing speech "Blue Ocean Strategy and Leadership"
19:00		GALA DINNER

9:00-10:30 Success stories from Business Leaders

		Mr. Yerkin Tatishev Chairman of the board of directors "Kusto Group" Singapore The Kusto Group – Creating Value The Kusto Group is a Singapore private holding company with diversified investments in construction materials manufacturing, oil and gas production, energy, development, civil construction, venture/IT and agriculture. The presentation will cover the long-term approach, used by the Group, to sustainable value creation, and commitment to developing national and international champions in every sector where Kusto Group invest. They use such approach not only in their headquarters in Singapore, but also in the branches worldwide - in Vietnam, China, India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia and Israel.

		Mr. Toomas Prangli Co-Managing Partner Sorainen Estonia The SORAINEN Story – Becoming the Leader Through Right Strategy, Systems and Innovation SORAINEN has grown from low-key Estonian law office to the leading law firm in Baltics and Belarus. The presentation will focus on the key strategies that have helped the firm to expand its reach geographically and develop its services. SORAINEN believes in innovation, but understands that it is only possible with the right systems and substantial investments into support functions. The presentation will also explain the current challenges that lie ahead of business law firms.

		Mr. Raimundas Petrauskas Managing Director JSC Schmitz Cargobull Baltic Lithuania How to Make Impossible Things Possible- the Case of Schmitz Cargobull Baltics Schmitz Cargobull Baltics is an integral part of Schmitz Cargobull AG, which was founded in 1892 by Melchior Schmitz in Altenberge (Germany). The Company in Lithuania produces semi-trailers and trailers and rapidly provides the customers with the replacement parts that they need. Even if their semi-trailers and trailers have more than 48,000 different parts. Schmitz Cargobull Baltics managed to create the work philosophy within the company which enables permanent innovations in technology process and high quality of production. They achievement often has been given as a benchmark for the rest of the Group companies worldwide. General manager R. Petrauskas has been selected as CEO of the Year in 2014 by the popular Business magazine. He is going to share his experiences how to turn around the company and continuously grow and be a leader of the market internationally.

		Dr. Kestutis Bagdonavicius CEO ERGO Life Insurance SE Lithuania Innovation Examples of ERGO in the Baltic States ERGO has been among leading insurance groups in the Baltic States and offers a complete range of coverage including non-life insurance along with life and health insurance. Premiums of ERGO Baltic totalled EUR 163 million in 2014. Last year customers in the Baltic countries were paid more than EUR 82 million for insurance claims. ERGO is also present in Belarus offering services in the non-life sector. Over 550,000 customers in the Baltic States trust the services, know-how and financial stability of ERGO Group. ERGO companies operating in the Baltic countries are part of the ERGO Group – one of the major insurance groups in Germany and Europe. Worldwide, the Group is represented in over 30 countries and concentrates on Europe and Asia. In 2014, ERGO recorded a premium income of 18 billion euros. ERGO is part of Munich Re, one of the leading reinsurers and risk carriers worldwide.

11:00-14:30 Visits to the Leading Business Companies

		Visit to the JSC "Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics" Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics has world-class capabilities in manufacturing products for the life science market, specifically in molecular, protein, and cellular biology, and has an outstanding research and development (R&D) center, focused on the development of new products in all aspects of molecular, protein, and cellular biology. These products are broadly used worldwide to study gene structure, expression and variety, to create new diagnostics methods for innate, hereditary and infectious diseases. Currently Vilnius COE employees over 500 people in a variety of roles including almost 100 researchers making this one of the largest private R&D center in whole region. During the visit the participants of Conference will have a chance to understand how Lean management tools help achieving strategic site goals and increase employees‘ engagement. It will be also an opportunity to observe the structure and performance of daily accountability boards and meetings, KPIs monitoring, Lean tools (Pull System, standard work, visual control, 5S, etc) in manufacturing, as well as in Reaserch and Development laboratories.

		Visit to the Workshop organized by Mothers’ Union at the Children’s Hospital in Santariškės During the visit the participants of Conference will have a chance to see the innovative methods that charity foundation “Mother’s Union” (Mamų Unija) is using in order to take care of Lithuanian children touched by the cancer. This non-profit organization has been operating since 2008. Over five years they have successfully launched and implemented various nation-wide charity projects aimed at supporting children suffering from cancer and their families. They do help families raising children with cancer and provide psychological assistance, advise on treatment and rehabilitation as well as financial support. During the workshop the participants will be able to take part in making toys for the children together with them and see other activities performed by staff of Mother's Union. Your visit and participation in the workshop will also help children with cancer to recover faster! More on Mother’s Union activities visit https://www.facebook.com/mamuunijaEN?fref=ts

		BOD Group - The innovative Global Company and state-of-art factory BOD Group is the oldest and largest manufacturer of industrially pre-recorded CD/DVD/Blu-ray in the Baltic States. 90% of production is exported to 40 different countries. In 2009, the daughter companies UAB “Baltic Solar Energy” and UAB “Via Solis” were established to produce solar cells and Glass/Glass type solar modules using the latest technologies. SoliTek is a new trademark of PV products introduced by BOD Group. The 30.250 m² manufacturing facility -the L.I.G.H.T. WING centre- is the first industrial production facility in Central and Eastern Europe using geothermal energy for the building and industrial facilities heating and cooling. A unique, up to 1 MW, geothermal system is patented by BOD Group, enabling to save up to 40% energy costs. Experienced scientists of BOD group permanently perform research and development of manufacturing process, which has been encouraged by European Commission recognizing the “Smart Flex” project as the most innovative PV developing program. In cooperation with United-Nations BOD Group implements the program in Africa developing the local electrification. The tutor of the program – Ban Ki Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations. Together with Malaysia’s Government Group develops the project to build a PV cell and module factory in Malaysia. During the visit the participants going to hear and see how those achievements became possible and what it took to implement very ambitious plans into the reality.

14:45-15:50 Company visits review and “World cafe” discussion with a cup of coffee

Company visits review and reports from the Group Leaders followed by "World Cafe" discussion “What do we need in order to create and innovate?”

The participants of the conference will hear the short feedback from the Company visits, performed by the specially assigned Group leaders. After that, using the “world café” format all participants will have an opportunity in the small groups to provide their personal opinion on what it is necessary to do in order to create the conditions for innovations and creativity within any organization.

15:50-16:20 Insights on Leadership

Dr. Neda Songin
Work Measurement Practice Director for Eastern Europe
„Hay Group“

Are the leaders of our Region competitive globally?

How the leadership profile in our region looks like? What leaders could do more to have even bigger impact on the bottom line results if the company? What qualities of regional leadership could serve as competitive advantage internationally today and in the future? Those and many other issues will be covered during this presentation. Hay Group is international consulting company, having 87 offices in 48 countries and for 70 years conducting research on people potential, their motivation and delivering advise on implementing successful change by people.

16:20-17:00 Key-note closing speech

Mr. Pavlo Sheremeta
Economist, former Minister of Economical Development and Trade
Director of School of Public Management of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv
Ukraine

Blue Ocean Strategy and Leadership

Blue Ocean Strategy does not aim to out-perform the competition. It aims to make the competition irrelevant by reconstructing industry boundaries. It creates uncontested market space by the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost. The presentation will explore the recent extension the Blue Ocean Strategy into leadership, which comes with the insight that leadership, in essence, can be thought of as a service that people in an organization either ‘buy’ or ‘don’t buy’. Every leader in that sense has customers: bosses to whom the leader must deliver performance and followers who need the leader’s guidance and support to achieve. When people value your leadership practices, they in effect buy your leadership and are inspired to excel and act with commitment. But when employees don’t buy your leadership, they disengage, becoming non customers of your leadership. Thus the concepts and frameworks that were developed to create new demand in the field of strategy are now adapted to help leaders convert disengaged employees into engaged ones, conserving leaders’ most precious resource – time. Blue Ocean Leadership provides a systematic way to unlock the ocean of unrealized talent and energy in your organization – fast and at low cost.