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Preliminary program

The IFES Convention Programm 2004
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Program 2004 (1,1 MB)		 IFES Convention
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Thursday - June 24th, 2004

8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

IFES Exhibition: Exhibitor Set-Up

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

IFES presidium meeting

12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

 IFES Exhibition in the networking forum

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

 lunch snack
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. IFES board-meeting (invited delegates only)
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Coffee Break in IFES networking forum with IFES Exhibition
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. IFES AGM
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Business relations to Lithuania
W. Seemann,
Director of the Vilnius Division
of VEREINS AND WESTBANK AG
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
 IFES get together and reception in IFES Exhibition for IFES-members, IFES guests, exhibitors
7:30 p.m. IFES dinner (optional)
at ZEMAICU SMUKLE – a Lithuanian style restaurant
(7:30 p.m. bus from the hotel)




Friday - June 25th, 2004
9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. IFES Exhibition is opened
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Opening of IFES Convention
IFES President Holger Nicolaysen
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Opening speech Gediminas Miskinis
State Secretary of the Ministry of economy of Lithuania
10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Russian exhibition industry
Igor Prudnikov
President of ROSINEX, Member of Exhibition Guild of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Director of the Exhibition Department of Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry
11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Belarussian exhibition industry
Vladimir Bulovickyi
General Director of the Exhibition Company MINSKEXPO, Member of International Union of Exhibition and Fairs for CIS and Baltic states
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 a.m. Developement of the Eastern European exhibition industry
Dr. Hermann Kresse
Representative of UFI and General
Managing Director of AUMA
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch in IFES networking forum
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Messe Düsseldorf:
Presentation of EuroShop 2005
Angelika Skornja
Project Manager EuroShop
Messe Düsseldorf
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Representative of Latvia
N.N.
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Representative of Ukraine
N.N.
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
 IFES country presentations Part I
(each country approx. 10 minutes)
3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Break sponsored by
 Coffee break in networking forum
Handover to the new IFES President
Larry Kulchawik
4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
 IFES country presentations Part II
7:00 p.m. IFES dinner in the Town Hall of Vilnius
(7:00 Bus from the hotel)
Dinner sponsored by
IDW GmbH




Saturday - June 26th, 2004
10:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Exploring Vilnius: guided bus tour through Vilnius and visit of the Vilnius Exhibition Centre
Visit of IDW GmbH, Vilnius
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Lunch Break
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Bus tour: around Vilnius and Trakai Castle
5:30 p.m. Reception and dinner in restaurant near Trakai Castle and Lake Galve

Sunday - June 27th, 2004
Departure or Participation in the
journey to Latvia and Estonia