Agenda
The IfTI Global Symposium: Financing. Impact. Together. tackled the issue of modernising the trade and development finance landscape to serve future goals. The symposium informed more than 125 financiers and policy makers from 30 countries, improved knowledge and expertise, built bridges strengthening institutional collaboration and moved towards creating a dynamic marketplace for mobilising capital. The symposium shared approaches to better understand and address current challenges, presented case studies, and offered opportunities to discuss practical and pragmatic ways to move forward.
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
08:30 Bus pick-up Offenburg Hotels to Campus Gengenbach
09:00 Registration and Coffee
Offenburg University, Campus Gengenbach
Klosterstraße 14, 77723 Gengenbach
09:30 Chair’s Opening Remarks:
Prof Andreas Klasen, Head, IfTI, Offenburg University
09:40 Keynote Speech
09:55 Berne Union Welcome Address
10:05 Setting the Scene: Fostering Development in a Disruptive Environment
10:50 Morning Refreshments and Networking
11:15 Financing Solutions for Africa's Transformation
12:00 Academic Interventions
13:00 Group Photo
13:15 Networking Lunch
Stream 1: Innovation
14:15 Accelerating Innovation: Policy Approaches and Financing Tools
15:15 Innovation in Government Financing Instruments: Evolution or Revolution?
Stream 2: Trade and Development
14:15 Development and Trade Finance: Convergence and Collaboration
15:15 Financing Tomorrow's Infrastructure
16:15 Afternoon Refreshments
16:30 End of Day 1 with bus pick-up Campus Gengenbach to Offenburg Hotels
18:45 Hotel bus pick-up followed by Reception and Dinner
19:00 Reception and Dinner
Brauwerk Baden, Gutenbergstraße 3, 77654 Offenburg
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
08:30 Bus pick-up Offenburg Hotels to Campus Gengenbach
09:00 Coffee
Offenburg University, Campus Gengenbach
Klosterstraße 14, 77723 Gengenbach
09:10 Chair’s Opening Remarks
Prof Andreas Klasen, Head, IfTI, Offenburg University
09:15 The Strategy Panel: Innovation, Industrial Development and Trade
10:00 Cases and Innovation Labs
11:00 Morning Refreshments and Networking
11:30 Report Back from Cases and Innovation Labs
12:00 Lunch
13:00 End of Day 2 with bus pick-up to Offenburg Hotels/Central Station