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Success in the CIS and Eastern Europe
PROGRAM
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Saturday, November 2, 2002
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8:00 AM -- Registration.
Registration $125 to be paid by October 15, 2002.
Full-time student registration fee is $25.
Saturday Lunch is $15 extra, and Dinner is $25 extra.
Register early. Space is limited.
Download Registration form
(PDF format). Follow instructions.
Reservations for the Marriott University Park Hotel
University at 880
E. Second Street, Tucson.
1-800-228-9290 by October 1.
State that you are attending the CIS & Eastern European Business
Forum.
| Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation,
such as a sign language interpreter, by calling 520-621-7341. Requests
should be made as early as possible to allow time to arrange the accommodation.
For further information, please call 520-621-7341 or 520-298-6599 at
the University of Arizona Department of Russian and Slavic Languages and
ask for senior lecturer Roza Simkhovich
or department head Dr. George
Gutsche.
Last minute program changes can be found on the conference Web site:
http://russian.arizona.edu/business.
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Roza Simkovich
George Gutsche
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8:30 AM -- Session 1.
The
Political and Economic Scene.
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Linda Wetzel, an independent
consultant on doing business internationally, will provide a quick, opening
overview of the political and economic scenes in Russia and Armenia. Ms.
Wetzel, an expert on the former Soviet Union, has been the opening speaker
for the Symposium since its inception in 1993. After a 19-year career as
an analyst of the Soviet Union and as a manager for CIA, Ms. Wetzel joined
the adjunct faculty [see
profile] of The American Graduate School of International Management
-- Thunderbird, where she offers
courses on doing business in Russia and in North America, on risk management,
and on business intelligence.
Click here to see Wetzel's slide presentation.
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Linda Wetzel
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Keat Preston PhD, research
director, global political rist and senior associate for East Central Europe
at Eurasia Group. Dr.
Preston is a specialist on the politics of economic transition and has
spent the past ten years analyzing the dynamics of industrial reform in
the region. [See
about.] He is the country analyst for Poland and Hungary on the 4-component
Lehman
Brothers Eurasia Group Stability Index (LEGSI) of 22 emerging market
countries, and head on the East Central Europe Practice Group for Global
Market Risk Analysis. He will focus on: "Managing Political Risk for Investors
in Emerging Markets."
Click here to see Preston's slide presentation.
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Keat Preston |
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9:30 AM -- Session 2.
US
Government Support.
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10:30 AM -- Session
3. CIS and Eastern Europe.
Presentations will be given by:
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Armen A Yedigarian
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Talgat Bazarbekov , First Secretary/Political, Embassy of Kazakhstan.
Mr. Bazarbekov's presentation will be: "Investment Opportunities in Kazakhstan."
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Talgat Bazarbekov
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Ödön Király, PhD, Trade Commissioner, Consul for
Commercial Affairs, Hungarian
Consulate [Also see: Business
to Hungary], Los Angeles, will provide information on the Hungarian
economic and business environment, central and local government incentives
for investors, investment and trade opportunities, matchmaking companies
for joint ventures. His presentation is titled: "Businessland: Hungary"
Click here to see Kiraly's slide presentation.
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Ödön Király |
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12:00 PM -- Lunch
Click here to see photo of introductions
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1:00 PM -- Session 4.
Case
Studies with Technology Transfer.
Presentations will be given by:
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Alan Felton, chairman and founder of Felton
International, Inc., a firm that is developing proprietary needle-free
jet injector technology in collaboration with Medical Equipment of Voronezh,
Russia, for human and animal health applications worldwide. The company
has recently achieved its first sales of the Russian/US designed devices,
and Alan will discuss the challenges, lessons and fun that have been part
of starting this "win-win" business."
Click here to see Felton's slide presentation.
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Alan Felton |
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M. W. “Bill” Washburn, president of Foodpro
International, Inc., a consulting engineering firm that offers
a complete range of services to the food industry from concept development
through the start up of the new or expanded operation. Founded 28 years
ago, Foodpro has completed more than 330 projects in 36 countries. Internationally,
it has specialized in working in developing countries. With extensive work
in Russia and the NIS, it is in a good position to monitor change in the
food industry. Bill will share his views about some of the dramatic recent
changes.
Click here to see an outline of Washburn's presentation.
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Bill Washburn |
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Tom McKinney, Director
of the International New Business Development Department for the Raytheon
Missile Company (RMS). This department has responsibility for all
existing and future offset obligations across all RMS product lines. Mr.
McKinney has over sixteen years of international business experience in
the areas of government and commercial contracts, and new business development.
He has had customers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. His briefing
will familiarize the audience with the overall concepts of "Industrial
cooperation (offset) - A Contractor's View." With emphasis on Central and
Eastern Europe, his talk will include some of the history, customer issues,
typical features of offset arrangements and the challenges that offset
commitments present from a US defense contractor's point of view.
Click here to see McKinney's slide presentation.
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Tom McKinney
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David Price
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2:30 PM -- Session 5.
Case
Studies.
Presentations will be given by:
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Ursula McLoughlin, President of Corona Hospitality, Inc.
Since 1975 Ursula McLoughlin has been a commercial real estate salesperson
specializing in land for development and the sale of hotel/motel properties.
During the past ten years she has worked extensively with the Hotel Dostyk
in Almaty, Kazakhstan and with the Hotel Dostuk in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
and the Resort Aurora at Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. Presently, Corona
/ Mrs.McLoughlin is engaged in the development of an 85 room hotel at Atyrau,
on the north shore of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. Her presentation will
focus on: “Developing Hotel Properties in Central Asia”.
Click here to see a summary of McLoughlin's
presentation.
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Ursula McLoughlin
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Bill McNeil, manager of the BusinessMAP Software Division for ESRI,
the world’s largest GIS or digital mapping company. For the past seven
years his division has been exclusively using Russian programmers to create
consumer software. To date over 130,000 copies of BusinessMAP programs
have been shipped through such stores as CompUSA, Micro Center, and Fry’s.
His division currently does business with companies in Novosibirsk, Taganrog,
Penza, and Moscow. He will focus on methods for building effective software
development teams in Russia, investment advantages and disadvantages compared
to the USA, and companies and areas in Russia that are the most progressive
and productive.
Click here to see McNeil's slide presentation.
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Bill McNeil |
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Doug Goodman, CEO Ridgetop
Group, Inc, Tucson, Arizona, with a focus on commercial product
development using technical resources in Ukraine and Russia. Ridgetop Group
is a Tucson-based semiconductor design and services firm, with strong interests
in the development of state-of-the-art tools for the design and testing
of advanced semiconductors. Since its founding in 2000, Ridgetop has worked
with engineers from Kiev, Ukraine and Novosibirsk, Russia, in the development
of advanced math routines that are used for non-linear curve fitting, advanced
simulation tools, and software database projects. This talk will focus
on our experiences in working with engineers and technical personnel, and
will address questions that US businesses face in working with former countries
of the Soviet Union.
Click here to see Goodman's slide presentation.
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Doug Goodman
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Susan Weidner, formerly a senior commercial officer at U.S. embassies
in Kazakhstan and Bulgaria, was chosen to be the facilitator for the Investors
Roundtable in 2001 and 2002 in Kyrgyzstan. Mrs. Weidner will describe the
unique on-going mechanism and results that have evolved from this dialog
between the president of the country and key officials, legislators and
local business representatives on one side, and the major foreign investors
on the other.
Click here to see an outline of Weidner's presentation.
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Susan Weidner |
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Sunday, November 3, 2002
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8:30 AM -- Session 6. Investment
and Finance.
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10:30 AM -- Session 7. Marketing
Challenges.
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8:30 AM -- Session 6.
Investment
and Finance.
Presentations will be given by:
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Radomil Novak
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Steven L. Johnston
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Natalie A. Jaresko
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Gulbarshyn Bozheyeva
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10:30 AM -- Session
7. Marketing Challenges.
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Led by Emmett McLoughlin, President of the Fair Winds Trading
Company has had two decades of marketing experiences in Germany, Georgia,
Kazakhstan and Japan. He will facilitate a general meeting of participants,
helping to identify “haves” and “wants” and attempting some “matchmaking.”
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Emmett McLoughlin |
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