ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK For business. For growth. For life. COLLABORATIVE ENTREPRENEUR DEVELOPMENT A Game Changer in a Challenging Business Ecosystem Guest-of-Honour & Keynote Address YAB Dato’ Sri Mohd. Najib Bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak Prime Minister of Malaysia at The Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 20 - 21 October 2014 Endorsed by: Supported by: THEME OF THE FORUM COLLABORATIVE ENTREPRENEUR DEVELOPMENT A Game Changer in a Challenging Business Ecosystem models in addressing challenges in developing entrepreneurs of the emerging markets. Acknowledging the ever-changing landscape of the current business ecosystems, there is a need to share experiences, propose models and explore innovative solutions to not only sustain high growth of the entrepreneurs but more importantly to appreciate the need to insulate the risk positions of both the enterprises and the financiers when facing volatile and uncertain business scenarios. The business relationships cannot be over-emphasised. This becomes more pressing when addressing the needs of those involved in cross-border business engagements. Who Should Attend? ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Policymakers and Decision Makers at Governmental Ministries and Agencies Chairmen, Presidents, CEOs and MDs of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and Commercial Banks Government-Linked Companies Finance / Management Consultants and Investment Analysts Academic Scholars and Researchers Trade Associations and SME-related bodies Entrepreneurs, Manufacturers & Service Providers Why Attend? ◆ A forum suited for financing professionals, policymakers and market players to address alternative models of developing and nurturing entrepreneurs from the start-up stage and beyond. ◆ Gain fresh insights on the ever-changing business ecosystems vis-à-vis the sharing of experiences, the appropriate business models and exploring innovative solutions to sustain high growth. ◆ Obtain latest trends and strategies from the perspectives of regulators and key players with regard to key developments in the world of DFIs. ◆ Understand the various challenges encountered by DFIs and how to address them while turning these challenges into business opportunities. ◆ Recognising the true potentials of DFIs as full-fledge financiers in the context of fuelling the economic growth of businesses and economies. ◆ Capitalise on the networking session to exchange views and build rapport with potential business partners. • Get tips from financial experts and successful entrepreneurs to expand business horizon and unleash greater business potentials. • Appreciate the importance of developing fresh entrepreneur-financier collaborative business-model on the premise of the risk-sharing principle. PROGRAMME DAY 1 20 October 2014 08.30 – 09.30 Arrival and Registration of Delegates 09.30 – 09.35 Quran Recitals 09.35 – 09.40 Forum Multimedia Presentation 09.40 – 10.00 Welcoming Address and Opening Remarks 10.00 - 11.15 Conferment of the ADFIMI Hon. Membership on H.E. Sheikh Abdullah Saoud Al-Thani, the Governor of Qatar Central Bank by Mr. Mehmet EminÖzcan (ADFIMI Chairman) Tribute to H.E. the Governor by Mr. Farid Masood, Director of Advisory Services and Asset Management The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) of Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah Special Address by H.E. Sheikh Abdullah Saoud Al-Thani 11.15 – 11.30 11.30 – 13.00 PLENARY 1 BEYOND FINANCING – A Game Changer in Shaping and Sustaining High Growth Entrepreneurs The new game-changing model in ensuring the success and sustaining high-growth of today’s entrepreneurs rests upon addressing the mandate of developing entrepreneurs towards national economic growth, the agenda deserves a coaching and building capacities of entrepreneurs, in the spirit of financier-entrepreneur business-partnership, has become the order of the day. This session shall discuss some of the key strategic issues, proposals and their limitations as experienced by both the valuable experiences as practised in their respective markets. MODERATOR PLENARY 1 Datuk Mohd Radzif Mohd Yunus Group Managing Director, Small Medium Enterprise Development Bank, Malaysia SPEAKERS PLENARY 1 • Mr. Hussein Al-Mehdari Executive Director, Coorporative and Agricultural Credit Islamic Bank, Yemen • Prof. Bustanul Arifin Senior Economist, Indonesia • Mr Turgut Boz Senior Assistant General Manager / TEB SME Banking Group, Turkey 13.00 – 14.15 Lunch Break 14.15 – 15.45 PLENARY 2 INNOVATION – The Value Creation Tool in a Changing Business Ecosystem While the initiative to address beyond-financing agenda is crucial, it is equally imperative to appreciate today’s changing complexion and intricate dimension by the rapid changing economic landscape and investors’ expectations. As such, the financing structures require fresh innovative approach and packaging that match and map both the requirements and their expectations, in particular their returns on investments. This session shall discuss some new innovative approaches in adding values to address the issues. This could ensure that not only the financial institutions stay relevant at the marketplace, but also encourage entrepreneurs to continue creating value propositions and blended investment packaging through some structural level of collaboration. MODERATOR PLENARY 2 Mr. Abdulaziz Al Khalifa CEO, Qatar Development Bank, Qatar SPEAKERS PLENARY 2 • Dr. Abdulhasan Al-Dairi Chairman, Bahrain SMEs Society, Bahrain • Mr. Raja Hassanien Javed Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA), Pakistan • Dr. Stephen Robert Isabalija Victoria University, Uganda 15.45 – 16.00 16.00 – 17.30 PLENARY 3 MANAGING RISKS – Alternative Models in a Collaborative Entrepreneurial Environment Risk-return complexion has always been a key consideration in addressing both financing requirements as well as entrepreneur investment decisions. However, in a changing business environment, there is a need to explore risk partnership principles of musyarakah as an alternative for instance, as compared to the arguably riskier conventional otherwise. implications, as experienced by some leading financiers as well as entrepreneurs in managing these inherent investment-business risks. MODERATOR PLENARY 3 Mr. Farid Masood Director of Advisory Services and Asset Management The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) of Islamic Development Bank , Jeddah SPEAKERS PLENARY 3 • Mr. Aliashraf Afkhami CEO, Bank of Industry and Mine, Iran • Datuk Mustafha Abd. Razak Managing Director/President, Bank Kerjasama Rakyat, Malaysia • Dr. Savaş Alpay Director of SESRIC Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries 17.30 END OF DAY 1 Business Networking ADFIMI-SME BANK GALA DINNER 19.30 – 19.45 Arrival of Guests and Delegates 19.45 – 20.00 Arrival of VIPs 20.00 – 20.20 Special Address by the Guest of Honour 20.20 – 22.00 Dinner and Cultural Shows PROGRAMME DAY 2 21 October 2014 09.00 – 09.30 Special Address by YBhg Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop Deputy Chairman of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Malaysia 09.30 – 10.00 Rapporteurs Summary of Day 1 Forum 10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Address by YAB Dato' Sri Mohd. Najib Bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak Prime Minister of Malaysia 11.00 – 11.15 11.15 – 12.45 PLENARY 4 CROSS BORDER ENGAGEMENT – The Challenges of the DFIs’ and SMEs’ Collaboration in Sustaining Growth Entrepreneurs involved in cross-border business engagement often face issues in enhancing both market as well as financing access. These are made more challenging by not only the foreign exchange risk exposure, but ever-changing business landscape of participating countries, their political-legal risks, technological requirements, resource talents and the likes. The risks escalate further when the financing products availability and the cross-border participating DFIs are cross-border business deals, the situations are more perplexing for the SMEs. This session shall discuss such challenges and explore means of addressing such issues, in the context of initiating structured networks of collaborative DFIs-SMEs environment. MODERATOR PLENARY 4 Dr. Ibrahim Abdel Moneim Subahi Board Member / Central Bank of Sudan SPEAKERS PLENARY 4 • Dr. Mahmoud Sami Nabi Head of Economics Department / Tunisia Polytechnic School - University of Carthage, Tunisia • Dr. Murat Yalçintaş Istanbul Commerce University / Former President of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce, Turkey • Datuk Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar Founder & Group Chairman of Amanie Advisors, Malaysia 12.45 – 13.00 Closing Remarks End of Conference Business Networking 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 – 18.00 Free and Easy For registration & more information: Please RSVP before 6 October 2014 ADFIMI ( Association of National Development Finance Institutions In Member Countries of Islamic Development Bank ) Saka Mehmet Sokak, No:13, Kat:2, Sultanhamam, Eminonu, 34116, Istanbul,Turkey •Tel: +90 (212) 526 51 26 +90 (212) 526 51 27 • Fax: +90 (212) 526 51 28 •E-mail: adfimi@adfimi.org info@adfimi.org • Web: adfimi.org •Nuri Birtek - Secretary General: • Tel: +90 533 368 6751
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