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INTERVIEW
business community. Our members have This year’s conference called Mace-
an extensive circle of associates on high donia2025 Summit 2016 will take place
positions in renowned world companies. on October 20/21 in the hotel Marriot in
Although they do not have Macedonian Skopje. What are you preparing this year,
origin, thanks to the engagement of our what topics and which speakers?
members, these people agreed to come to
Macedonia as speakers. B. M. Stamenova: The Summit will con-
vey the latest economic, financial and in-
The result of this connection was in- vestment trends in the world, as well as the
credible, starting from the first Summit latest technological achievements. One of
in 2012 and every next summer that ex- the topics that we will pay attention to is
ceeded the expectations of the previous the use of energy from renewable sources
one. Once a year we were the hosts of ap- and smart technologies which protect the
proximately forty business leaders who environment and provide efficient use of
spoke about the latest world trends in the natural resources. The world advances
field of the economy, investments, innova- in the use of renewable energy sources.
tions, technology, leadership, and entre- Sweden will become 100% free of fossil
preneurship before an audience of 300 fuels, Scotland produces 100% energy for
guests from more than 25 different coun- the households from the wind, Island is a
tries. The energy and the dynamics of the leader in the transformation of geother-
discussions were incredible. We were for- mal energy into electric energy, Canada
tunate to hear business advices from pro- shall be supplied 100% from the wind,
fessionals on top positions in Blackstone sun and water energy, Denmark shall be-
Group, Motorola, Nokia Corporation, Pan- come the first 100% organic country, Nor-
asonic, Philips, Cognizant, McKinsey, GE, way implements “pure technologies” for
Horwath Consluting, Oracle, SAP, Red- a zero waste, Morocco built the greatest
knee, Hatch, ViralNova, MindTree, and solar plantation. Macedonia has great po-
many others. tential, however it lacks knowledge. Part
of the best practices shall be transferred
We heard about the reforms of the to our audience.
former prime minister of Georgia, Nika
Gilauri, who together with his team of The list of speakers is extensive, and
experts Reformatics raised the country’s their number increases. Professor Steve
ranking in the report of the World Bank Hanke from the Johns Hopkins University
on doing business, from the 116th position is a top expert regarding the impact of the
in 2006 to the 9th position in 2012. We macroeconomic developments on the re-
learned about the future of mobile phones gion. Andrej Babache, the Director of Mid
from Tomi Ahonen, a motivational speak- Europa Partners from England shall indi-
er and bestselling author for technology. cate the industries where investors cur-
The speech of Harry Kraemer from Kel- rently invest. Hans Jorgen Koch, Director
logg School of Management, the author of of Nordic Energy Research shall represent
the bestselling books on leadership based Scandinavia’s strategy to use renewable
on real values was a real rarity to listen to energy sources. Some of the other speak-
in these areas. The attendance at such a ers include: Peter Kaznacheev, Director of
speech given by a leader costs more than the Center for Resource Economy of the
40,000 dollars per hour. However, they Russian National Academy, the Director
come at the invitation of our members for Innovations of Azrieli College of Engi-
without compensations, with a desire to neering from Israel, Dr. Igor I. Tulevski,
help the managers who are open to learn PhD, the Director of the Cardiology Cen-
new things. ter in the Netherlands. Initially the atten-
dance of following guests was confirmed
The event became the leading platform as well: Zdravko Počivalšek, Minister of
in the region and we can be proud that Economy and Technology of Slovenia, Ric-
Macedonia is becoming a recognizable cardo Monti, President of Italian Trade
destination where the last world trends
which move the economy can be heard.
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