BUSINESS DIALOG – Budapest, 10.10.2019

Budapest Airport: Air Cargo | Courier Express Parcel | Internationalization & Infrastructure

Mahart Container Center: Containerization | Digitalization & IOT | Innovation & Venture Capital

A contribution to improve mobility and multimodality – Road, Rail and Air links. Organizers of Danube Macro Region Business Week invite business people and stakeholders to a real dialog. Let us discuss together challenges and solutions in logistics.

Agenda 10.10.2019

08:30-09:00 Registration and welcome coffee

09:00-09:45 – Welcome and Opening Remarks
József Kossuth – Head of Cargo, Budapest Airport (introduction Budapest Airport Cargo Develop. Strategy)
Erhard Busek, Chairman, IDM, Institute for the Danube Region & Central Europe
Video Message from VP Vazil Hudak, EIB

09:45-10:30 – Session 1: Role of Hungary and Budapest Airport in the connectivity of the Danube Region & Central Eastern Europe – development opportunities
György Firbás – Representation from Ministry of Innovation and Technology
Soóki-Tóth, Gábor Csaba M.Sc. MRICS – Airport Development Cluster
Wolf Péter – advisor to president – Pest County Municipality
Ádám Fucskó – manager international business – Hungarian Post
János Pekár – secretary of Hungarian Freight Forwarder Association
Moderator: József Kossuth, Head of Cargo Budapest Airport

10:45-11:45 – Session 2: Recent challenges for Air cargo, effect of global economic,
development opportunities – E-commerce business as a main driver
Andrey Zimin, Senior Operations Planning Manager at Amazon, Luxembourg (tbc)
Ting Ho, President, Sustainable Agrotech Association, CEO QIBiotech Limited, Hong Kong
Ali Al Jallaf, Chairman Air Cargo Trader LLC, Dubai
Samuel Jeffson, Director, St. Johns Freight, Chennai/India (tbc)
René Droese, Director Properties, Budapest Airport
Moderator: Ferenc Kovacs, President – R-Bag Group

11:45-12:00 – Summary, Conclusion of morning session
René Droese, Director Properties, Budapest Airport

11:45-12:30 – Visit Air cargo Terminal, Greenfield Investment (in completion) & future challenges
József Kossuth, Director Air cargo Budapest Airport

12:30-13:30 – Lunch and Transfer Csepel Free Port

13:30-14:30 – Visit Mahart Container Center
Zoltán Fábián, Managing Director Mahart Container Center

14:30-15:30 Session 3: Smart Connectivity via Containerization and Digitalization a.o.
Igor Hribar, Head of DB Schenker Rail Services – Regional Director, Vienna
Andreas Stepan, President, Austrian Ship-Brokers Association
Moderator: Zoltan Fabian, Managing Director Mahart Container Center, Csepel

15:30-17:00 – Session 4: Trade, Infrastructure, Finance & Promotion (and Marketing & RoL)
Franz Nauschnigg, Founder of DFD (Danube Finance Dialog)
Hannes Sollgruber, EC Brussel, Trade Development & Agreements
Zoltán Kozlovszky Logistics Centres / HIPA / Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency
Palágyi Adrián – Cargo and Property Marketing specialist
Tamas Forizs, DanubeLaw-Research
Moderator: Dominik Schmied, Program Director, DMRBW2019

17:00-17:45 – Summary, Conclusion, Next Steps and Schedule for DMRBW2020/2021
Ernst Schmied, Chair DMRBW2019 with H. Pönisch, (OWWF) & J. Raizner (Steinbeis)