International Mayors Summit (IMS)

About [/#about] Agenda Speakers Organizer Partners Contacts News Archive 2016 2017 EN UA EN UA REGISTRATION About Agenda Speakers Organizer Partners Contacts News Archive 2016 2017 Name Surname Title Organization Email address Mobile phone Occupation (choose one option): --- Business City Administration Startup Activist Press INTERNATIONAL MAYORS SUMMIT 2018 Oct. 9, 2018 Agenda Kyiv, Ukraine REGISTRATION About International Mayors Summit (IMS) was launched in 2016 as a knowledge exchange platform for local government leaders and representatives of the major stakeholders in local development at global level. The annual Summit brings together prominent mayors from all over the world to discuss modern trends in urban development, innovations, best practices and common challenges and solutions in all areas of city life. The Summit is supported by the Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Mayor of Kyiv. The IMS format allows participants to get inspired and build a strong international network with prominent global leaders of urban transformation, meet visionaries in city development, mayors, experts, as well as change agents from civil society and business. IMS 2018 will be held in Kyiv on October 9, 2018. It will be focused on cooperation as a tool of city transformation to respond to the needs of citizens. Three main directions in cooperation will be discussed at the Summit: cooperation with civil society and active citizens, cooperation with business and cooperation between twin cities. International Mayors Summit (IMS) was launched in 2016 as a knowledge exchange platform for local government leaders and representatives of the major stakeholders in local development at global level. The annual Summit brings together prominent mayors from all over the world to discuss modern trends in urban development, innovations, best practices and common challenges and solutions in all areas of city life. The Summit is supported by the Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Mayor of Kyiv. The IMS format allows participants to get inspired and build a strong international network with prominent global leaders of urban transformation, meet visionaries in city development, mayors, experts, as well as change agents from civil society and business. IMS 2018 will be held in Kyiv on October 9, 2018. It will be focused on cooperation as a tool of city transformation to respond to the needs of citizens. Three main directions in cooperation will be discussed at the Summit: cooperation with civil society and active citizens, cooperation with business and cooperation between twin cities. More... Agenda 9 october 8:00-9:00 8:00-9:00 Registration and morning coffee 9:00-9:30 9:00-9:30 Grand Opening 9:30-10:30 9:30-10:30 Visionary Discussion with Volodymyr Groysman, the Prime Minister of Ukraine (TBC) 10:30-11:00 10:30-11:00 Coffee break visit of interactive stands from partners and sponsors 10:30-11:00 10:30-11:00 Press-briefing 11:00-12:30 11:00-12:30 Panel discussion: From Competition to Cooperation – Strengthening Role of the City 12:30-13:30 12:30-13:30 Lunch| Group picture of participants 13:30-14:30 13:30-14:30 Business Speed Networking between the Mayors, Experts, Businesses, and NGOs quick sessions allowing participants to meet as many colleagues as possible 14:30-16:00 14:30-16:00 Panel Discussion: City Change-Makers: Engaging Citizens to Transform City Management cases of cities with active cooperation experience with citizens, presentation of challenges and successes 16:00-16:30 16:00-16:30 Coffee-break 16:30-18:00 16:30-18:00 Panel discussion: Business as a Stakeholder of City Transformation 18:00-19:00 18:00-19:00 Pitch your City: Best Cooperation Projects of Ukrainian Cities | Special Award 19:00-20:30 19:00-20:30 Dinner with Keynote Speaker Speakers Volodymyr Groysman Prime Minister of Ukraine Jaroslawa Z. Johnson President and Chief Executive Officer of Western NIS Enterprise Fund Vitali Klitschko Mayor of Kyiv Iryna Ozymok Founder of International Mayors Summit Volodymyr Groysman Prime Minister of Ukraine Mr. Groysman has been the Prime Minister of Ukraine since 14 April 2016. Groysman has indicated he would fight corruption and build closer ties with the European Union, which has complained about widespread and pervasive corruption in Ukraine’s government and economy. From March 2006 until February 2014 Groysman was the Mayor of Vinnytsia. From then to November 2014, he held two concurrent positions as the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for Regional Policy and the Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine. He was elected into parliament on the party lists of the pro-presidential Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Groysman’s next post was the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s national parliament), starting late November 2014 until being appointed Prime Minister. Jaroslawa Z. Johnson President and Chief Executive Officer of Western NIS Enterprise Fund Jaroslawa Z. Johnson was appointed WNISEF President and CEO effective January 1, 2015. Ms. Johnson directs, oversees and provides overall management for the WNISEF program activities and remains a member of the Fund’s Board of Directors in addition to her role as President and CEO. Ms. Johnson was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. She is a graduate of Goucher College and University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was editor of the law review and earned a J.D. in 1977. After law school, she served as law clerk to Chief Judge Thomas E. Fairchild, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and practiced corporate law with several Chicago law firms. She is a founding member and former chairperson of America Ukraine Business Council, which sponsored the first American visit of a Ukrainian president in 1991, and she organized the first Ukraine-U.S. Trade Conference for American companies in 1992. She was appointed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton to the Board of Directors of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund in 1994, serving as an active member of the Board since its inception. Prior to her appointment as President and CEO of WNISEF, Ms. Johnson was managing partner of an international law office in Kyiv, Ukraine, which she launched in the early 1990s. Ms. Johnson’s extensive international corporate practice included counseling corporations in many countries on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions, project finance and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance in the US and Central and Eastern Europe. Over the course of more than two decades of international corporate legal work, Ms. Johnson advised many Fortune 500 companies and other Western multinationals on cross-border transactions with Ukraine. During her many years as an international corporate attorney in Ukraine, Ms. Johnson was consistently recognized by international legal directories as a leading lawyer in Ukraine’s corporate, banking and finance and energy sectors. In August 2016 Jaroslawa Z. Johnson was awarded a Commemorative Medal on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence by President Petro Poroshenko in recognition of her contribution to Ukraine over the past 23 years. Vitali Klitschko Mayor of Kyiv Born in a military family on July 19, 1971 in the village of Bilovodske of the Moscovskyi district of the Kyrgyz SSR. Together with his parents and his younger brother Volodymyr lived in various regions of the Soviet Union. In 1984 the family moved to Ukraine. Graduated from the State Higher Educational Institution “Hryhorii Skovoroda State Pedagogical University of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi “. PhD in Sports and Physical Education. He maintained his thesis research on “Method of determining the qualities of boxers in the system of multi-stage sports selection”. In January 2011 graduated from the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine. Got a Master’s degree in Management of Social Development. Started boxing at 14 years old. His sports career yielded world-class accomplishments: Klitschko became a two-time world champion in amateur kickboxing and a quadruple champion in professional kickboxing, a three-time boxing champion of Ukraine, the First Military World Games champion, a silver medalist of the amateur World Boxing Championship. Gets in the professional ring in 1996: becomes European Boxing Champion, Intercontinental Champion of WBO and WBA, WBO and WBC Heavyweight World Champion. The World Boxing Council named Vitali Klitschko the best puncher in the history of the heavyweight division. Deeply engaged in social activities. In 2003 together with his brother Volodymyr founded a charitable organization “Klitschko Foundation”. His political career began in March 2006 when he simultaneously ran for the Verkhovna Rada and Kyiv City Council as Chairman of the “Pora-PRP” Bloc. Following the elections, heads the faction in the Kyiv City Council. After the off-year mayoral and Kyiv City Council elections in spring 2008, the Vitali Klitschko Bloc doubled its seats in the City Council. In February 2011, the Klitschko Bloc faction in Kyiv City Council was renamed the “Vitali Klitschko UDAR” faction. In April 2010 he was the head of the “UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms)” political party. Following the parliamentary elections in 2012, the “Vitali Klitschko UDAR” party enters the Verkhovna Rada. Elected Kyiv Mayor following the results of the off-year elections on May 25, 2014. Iryna Ozymok Founder of International Mayors Summit Iryna coordinates the Local Economic Development Program under which Western NIS Enterprise Fund supported a number of projects. In particular, the e-public procurement system ProZorro, ProZorro.Sale 1991 Open Data Incubator, Technovation Challenge project, CANactions Scholl of Urban Studies, reconstruction of schools in post-war territory, “Hub Schools” project and others. Previously, Iryna worked at ADETEF, a public agency of French international technical assistance under the Ministry of Finance of France that ensures intergovernmental cooperation between the two countries at the national and regional levels in the field of public finance, audit, public service reform, energy efficiency and transport. She is a member of the Board of the Professional Government Initiative, which brought together graduates of foreign universities to support the reforms. Iryna conducted a study on the role of graduates of foreign universities as change agents in Ukraine, the results of which were provided to the team of reformers at the Presidential Administration. Master of Advanced European Studies at College of Europe (Warsaw), Iryna taught European integration policy at the National Academy of Public Administration, where she did her thesis. Organizer Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) is a $150 million regional fund, a pioneer in Ukraine and Moldova with more than two decades of successful experience in investing in small and medium-sized companies. WNISEF was funded by the U.S. government via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Since its inception, WNISEF’s cumulative investments total over $172 million to 127 companies employing around 25 000 people and made it possible to unlock $1.5 billion for companies in Ukraine and Moldova. In 2015 WNISEF has launched a $35 million legacy program focused on export promotion, local economic development, impact investing and economic leadership. WNISEF is funding innovative, high-impact, reform-focused programs and aims to support Ukraine and Moldova at this critical period by developing sound economic policy and leadership. Visit wnisef.org Partners Contacts Organizer: Iryna Ozymok +38 (044 ) 490 55 80 iozymok@wnisef.org Press: Markitan Liudmyla +38 096 833 59 73 lmarkitan@wnisef.org REGISTRATION © Copyright 2017 International Mayors summit. All rights reserved Created by DL Agency