5th International EPSA Knowledge-Transfer Conference

"Breaking silos for better service delivery: How to build sustained partnerships between the public sector and entrepreneurs"

Please find the presentations of the conference in the programme below. The videos will be uploaded in the following days.

Wednesday, 13 March 2019
10.00	Official opening Marta Felip, Secretary General of Enterprise and Knowledge, Government of Catalonia Marga Pröhl, Director-General, European Institute of Public Administration, EIPA
10:00	Check-in and framing of the event, purpose and expected results Alexander Heichlinger, Expert, Co-Founder & Chair of the European CEFG Group, EIPA Barcelona
10.30	Keynote address: Innovation through Networking Thinking - towards new growth models and networked innovation ecosystems for Europe Darja Tataj, Chairwoman of Advisors to EU Commissioner Carlos Moedas, Author of "Innovation and Entrepreneurship", Founder & CEO, Tataj Innovation
11.45	Panel: Successful tools for harnessing the transformative effect of digitalisation of services Moderated by Marga Bonmatí, Diretcor of the Open Administration Consortium of Catalonia e-Estonia: Excellence in digital business services, EPSA Best Practice Piret Reinson, Brand Strategist & Estonian Insider, former Marketing and Communication Team Lead e-Residency (Estonia) Low Emission Zone Antwerp, EPSA Nominee and Best Practice Sven Plentickx, Product Owner Magda, Informatie Vlaanderen - Flemish Information Agency (Belgium) The Digital Transformation Strategy of the Municipality of St. Feliu de Llobregat Mario Alguacil Sanz, Director of Open Government (Spain)
13:00	Panel: Client-centredness in the public sector - Which policy instruments and services for companies and entrepreneurs? Moderated by Pere Condom, Responsible for Entrepreneurship and Training, Government of Catalonia Growth Hubs - the missing piece of the business support jigsaw Ian McLaughlan, Growth Hub Manager at Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (United Kingdom) The Rotterdam business case Rob Gringhuis, Manager Department of Work and Income, City of Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Portugal Site Selection, EPSA Best Practice Maria Alexandre Costa, Technical Expert, Portuguese Business Development Agency - Aicep Gobal Parks (Portugal)
15:30	Panel: Connecting the dots - making grants and financing more accessible to companies and entrepreneurs Moderated by Josep Solà, Director General of Avançsa, Government of Catalonia Single window for financial business support Rainer Schütze, Head of Department of Credit Risk Management, Development Bank of Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) Alternative financing Oriol Sans, Director of Funding Unit, Catalan Agency for Enterprise Competitiveness - Acció, Government of Catalonia (Spain) BIND 4.0 Public-private initiative connecting startups with industrial players Amaia Martinez, Technical Expert, Strategic Initiatives (SPRI), Business Development Agency of the Basque Government (Spain) ICF - The Public Financial Institution of Catalonia Lourdes Ridameya, Head of Promotion, Business Development Division, Catalan Finance Institute (Spain)
16.45	Wrap-up of the day and check-out Harrie Scholtens, Project Leader EPSA 2017, EIPA Maastricht
Thursday, 14 March 2019
09:45	Welcome to the 2nd day Alexander Heichlinger, Expert, EIPA Barcelona
10.00	Presentation of the EPSA 2019 Call for applications: Theme, objectives, application process and criteria Julia Bosse, Researcher, EIPA Barcelona
10.15	Panel: Business-friendliness in the public sector. Examples from holistic One Stop Shops Moderated by Ester Manzano, Director General of Modernization and innovation of the Catalan Administration, Government of Catalonia Catalan Business One Stop Shop, EPSA Nominee and Best Practice Cristina Pruñonosa, Business Management Office Manager, Government of Catalonia (Spain) Austrian Business Service Portal (BSP), EPSA Best Practice Georg Nesslinger, Head of Division eGovernment Businesses, Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs (Austria) Tuscany's One Stop Shop Laura Castellani, Director, Department of Information Technologies, Regional Government of Tuscany (Italy)
12:15	Closing address: The next developments for the digital and client-centred PA - Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Evgeniia Filippova, Member of the Management Team and Senior Scientist, Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Crypto Economics, Vienna
13:00	Summary of the results of the conference and take-home messages. Official closure and end of the 5th International EPSA Knowledge-Transfer Conference Harrie Scholtens, Project Leader EPSA 2017, EIPA Maastricht Alexander Heichlinger, Expert, EIPA Barcelona Joaquim Ferrer, Secretary General of Enterprise and Competitiveness, Government of Catalonia (Spain)