Vedran Mimica
Director
Berlage Institute

Marko Škreb, Ph. D.
Chief Economist
Privredna banka Zagreb d.d.

• Defining the predominating real estate models in tourism;
• Geographical spread of models and regional examples;
• Global players in the real estate business;
• Is the tourism related real estate business desirable in Croatia?
• Are tourism resorts possible without the real estate?
• Advantages and disadvantages of existing models applied to our conditions;
• Recent practices;
• Key barriers in application of the real estate models;
• Short and medium term perspective

Miroslav Dragičević, Ph. D., Founder & Managing Partner
Horwath Consulting Zagreb

Ivica Čačić, Director
Hotel Partner d.o.o. Zagreb

Krešimir Lipovšćak, Partner
TPA Horwath d.o.o.

Otmar Michaeler, CEO
Michaeler & Partner & Falkensteiner Group

Veljko Ostojić, Director
Riviera Poreč d.o.o.

Ivana Šoljan, CEO
Jupiter Adria d.o.o.

Denis Čupić
Director
Redserve d.o.o.

Johanna Hult Rentsch
Deputy Development Manager Austria, Switzerland & South East Europe
Inter IKEA Centre Group

OPERA ROOM
ArtRoom
EXHIBITION
AT FIRST GLANCE – ALLEGORY OF FACES

During the Conference, at 17. floor of the Westin Zagreb Hotel in room Opera, there will be held an exhibition “At First Glance” – Allegory of Faces, at which students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb will represent their artwork. Filipović Business Advisory Ltd. is the initiator, organizer and sponsor of the Exhibition. We are honored that the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb is the patron of the Exhibition. Exhibited work can be bought directly from the students.

We are inviting you to visit the Exhibition, to enjoy the artwork of young authors and therefore give them the support in their professional development.

Lectures are simultaneously held in two conference rooms:

1) Crystal Ballroom / groundfloor
2) Room Panorama / 17. floor

• What was the situation in the tourism real estate market in 2008, and what are the expectations for the future;
• Is it time to invest in tourism?
• What are the conditions on the capital markets and after all do they even exist?
• Are the terms for investing in tourism sector of Croatia competitive considering business environment?
• To what extent is the governments' role in making investment climate more effective, is the government doing it and how successful?
• What is the intensity of crisis impacting the tourism sector, and how to get out of the crisis?
• Investment in the hotel sector in Spain;
• Investment in the hotel sector in CEE
• Hotel Development Cost 2009;
• Guidelines for new hotel projects in Central and Eastern Europe

Jaime Puig de la Bellacasa,
Asset Management
Eureca inventum

Lukas Hochedlinger, Senior Advisor
KPMG in Central and Eastern Europe
Real Estate, Leisure and Tourism Advisory Services

Franco Peruza , Investor Relations,
Magnum Hotels

Charlotte Ruhe , Head of the Office,
EBRD Croatia

Michael Widmann , Managing Director,
PKF hotelexperts GmbH

• Legislative frame for spatial planning of shopping centers;
• Procedures for enviromental impact appraisals and getting the location permit for shopping centres;
• Experience in process of planning, designing and getting licences for commercial and entertainment center "Arena centar" in Zagreb;
• Architectural vision of shopping centre development projects;

Goranka Radović, Head of the Sector,
Ministry of Enviromental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, Sector for Developments Significant to the Republic of Croatia

Tamara Stantić Brčić, Head Architecht,
UPI-2M

Leo Penović, Project Manager,
Trigranit Development Corporation

• Reallocation of one-time industrial plants – reconstruction of Torpedo hall into the business-trade fair centre;
• Reallocation of derelict parts of the town – Rujevica – residential development in the non-adequately used part of the town;
• Enhancing the camping zone into the zone of elite congress tourism – district of Preluk
• City project in function of urban revitalization of Zagreb

Ninoslav Dusper, M. A., Director
Urban Planning Institute of Croatia ltd.

Irena Matković, Head of Office
City of Zagreb, Office for the Strategic Planning and Development

Srđan Škunca, Head of Department
City of Rijeka, Department of Urban Development, Environment and Asset Management

• New Law on Public-Private Partnership and Laws on Concessions, Agency for Public-Private Partnership;
• Regulations on new Law on Public-Private Partnership;
• Contractual documentation on the old and new Law on Public-Private Partnership

Saša Marenjak, Ph. D., Manager, PPP Knowledge Centre
Croatian Institute for Bridge and Structural Engineering

Vladimir Skendrović, Ph. D., Manager for Croatia
World Bank

Kamilo Vrana, Managing Director
Agency for Public Private Partnership

Branko Vukmir, Ph. D., Advisor

• Legislative obligations considering tourist zones planning;
• Regulation distinction for tourist zone planning inside and outside of the urban settlements, and in the mixed settlements zone;
• Obligations and planning levels from development to procedural spatial plans;
• Process of making and producing Urban Development Plan/ Detailed Urban Plan for tourist zones;
• Process of issuing permits and development of Punta Scala tourist zone in Zadar

Ana Mrak Taritaš, Head of the Office
Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, Sector for Spatial Planning

Željko Predovan
Block-projekt d.o.o.

• Structuring and financing Public-Private Partnership projects;
• Croatian Public-Private Partnership practice experiences – Public Sector interest or not?
• Case Study – Handball sports hall in Split

Vladimir Skendrović, Ph. D.
Manager for Croatia
World Bank

Daniel Lenardić, Director
Business Advisory Services
KPMG Croatia d.o.o.

Saša Marenjak, Ph. D., Manager
PPP Knowledge Centre
Croatian Institute for Bridge and Structural Engineering

Lectures are simultaneously held in two conference rooms:
1) Crystal Ballroom / groundfloor
2) Room Panorama / 17. floor

• City of Zagreb-town integration;
• Spatial and urban planning system;
• City of Zagreb urban layout reconstruction for 21st century;
• City urban consolidation model shown in example of München;
• Railway line between Donji grad and Trnje

Slavko Dakić, M. A.

Višnja Bedenko, Assistant Head of the Office
City of Zagreb, Institute for Strategic Planning and Development

Jadranka Veselić – Bruvo, Head of Department
City of Zagreb, Institute for Strategic Planning and Development

Aleksander Laslo, Assistant Head of the Office
City of Zagreb, Institute for Strategic Planning and Development

Academician Professor
Velimir Neidhardt, Ph. D.
University of Zagreb, the Faculty of Architecture

• Short introduction on the topic of global and financial environment, with review to CEE region;
• Global crisis impact on economy and finance sector of the Republic of Croatia;
• Situation on the real estate finance market in the Republic of Croatia;
• Changes of the criteria within the banks;
• Trends of banking sector's assets scope related to real estate financing;
• The development of banking industry in Republic of Croatia;
• How did the banks meet the crisis?
• Will it come to withdrawal of foreign owners assets (capital, deposits, dividends?);
• What kind of future awaits us?
• Development in the retail and office landscape in the past 6 - 12 months;
• Future trends and consequently the new behaviour of banks and the players

Natalija Vulić, Head of Shopping and Industrial,
Filipović Business Advisory Ltd.

Alan Herjavec, Head of Project Finance,
Societe Generale – Splitska banka d.o.o.

Jochen W. Seibert , Director
RedServe GmbH

Juraj Sinano , Financial Controller
TriGranit Development Corporation

Mag. Hanna Bomba – Wilhelmi, CEO
Regioplan Consulting GmbH

• Present situation analysis;
• Residential development in Croatia in the upcoming years;
• Special review to the market crisis;
• Global financial crisis impact on the real estate market in Croatia;
• Possible recovery measures

Dubravko Ranilović, Partner, Kastel Nekretnine, Zagreb,
President of Real Estate Association at the Croatian Chamber of Commerce

Danijel Babić
Member of the Management Board
Profectus d.o.o.

Ivan Stojević, Director
PBZ nekretnine d.o.o.

Josip Tica, Ph. D. Doc.
Department of Macroeconomics and Economic Development, Faculty of Economics & Business at the University of Zagreb

• Discussion among reputable and expert architects about architects’ role in the arising situation of economic crisis and reduced real estate development project activities’ level;
• What kind of impact will the economic crisis have on the quality of architectural projects;
• Comparison to similar periods in Croatian contemporary architecture;
• The role of the architects in the projects of commercial real estate development: tourism, office buildings, shopping centres, industry etc.

Petra Škevin, Member of the Management Board,
Filipović Business Advisory Ltd.

Academician Branko Kincl, , Professor
Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia

Saša Randić M. A., Director
Randić-Turato d.o.o.

Andrew Yeoman, Director
Tower 151 Architects Zagreb d.o.o.

• Risk for developers in the process of building logistic parks in Croatia;
• Agents’ challenge with brokerage in leasing of the logistic parks;
• Development of logistic parks market in Croatia for the following 2-3 years;
• Distributors’ needs and demands;
• New concepts of distribution;
• Changes in the logistic parks' market in the past 5 years

Patrick Franolić, Managing Director,
Spiller Farmer d.o.o.

Željko Čeović, Logistic Manager
Oktal Pharma

Jovica Mandarić, Operations Director
AWT Group

Igor Šaravanja, Director Strategy and Organization
ALCA

Andrew Yeoman, Director
Tower 151 Architects Zagreb d.o.o.

• Overview of the Zagreb market in a CEE context;
• Will there be more supply in the coming 2 to 3 years;
• How do developers plan to finance their projects;
• Are existing office buildings being affected by the crisis;
• Is there a specific occupier sector or grade of space (A/B) which is more affected?

Arn Willems, Partner, CB Richard Ellis

Wolfgang Binter, Project Manager
Hypo Alpe-Adria-Immobilien AG

Ivana Božičević, Director
LS Property

Paul Davinson, Senior Associate
Proffesional Services, King Sturge

Žarko Kovačić, Director
Ilirika Nekretnine d.o.o.

Erik Mohorović, Managing Director
Verdispar Croatia

• Expansion during the period of global crisis – is it at risk?
• Emerging markets will recover among the first ones – is the Croatian market the emerging one?
• What kind of strategy do the retail companies use to fight the arising situation – considering sale techniqes, in the aspect of expansion?
• What role does the project size has considering interest of tenants, but also interest of consumers – is that "size" really important?
• The banks – initiator or brake for Retail market development in Croatia?
• Larger cities highstreets still do not lose in value – demand still exists!

Nenad Peris, Manager of Retail Department
Colliers International

Alma Mekić Čerdić, Director Real Estate Financing
Erste & Steiermärkische Bank d.d.

Branko Mihajlov, , Business Manager Croatia & Slovenia
Inter IKEA Centre d.o.o.

Leo Mršić, M. A, Director
Lantea Grupa d.d.

Jure Radoš, Sales and Marketing
Konzum d.d.

• Purchase of state owned properties;
• Purchase of real estates from municipalities;
• Forms of use of state owned land;
• New legal framework for agricultural land;
• New legal framework for golf courts

Tomislav Borić, Ph. D.
Faculty of Law, Graz

Melita Veršić-Marušić, LL.M, Attorney at Law
Versic Law Office

Sanja Porobija, Name Partner
Porobija & Porobija Law Firm