ECRF Conference 2018

Tuesday 5th June 2018

08:30 - 19:00

Reception Desk opening at University - Participants registration for ECRF & EBR Members

09:00- 10:00

EBR EEIG Board Meeting and Steering Committee Board Meeting

(Separate meetings but at the same time)

10:00 - 12:30

EBR General Meeting

(EBR Members only)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 16:00

ECRF General Assembly

(ECRF Members Only)

16:00 - 18:00

ECRF & EBR Joint Assembly

(ECRF & EBR Members Only)

19:30 - 20:00

Meet at Grand Parade for Welcome Dinner

20:00 - 23:00

Welcome Dinner

(Dress Code - Casual)

Wednesday 6th June 2018

09:00 - 09:45

Registration and Welcome Coffee

09:00 - 09:30

ASORLAC, CRF, IACA and ECRF President’s meeting

09:45 - 10:00

Conference Opening

09:45 - 09:50

Professor Catherine Bachleda - Acting Vice-Chancellor of The University of Gibraltar

09:50 - 10:00

Mr. Vito Giannella - ECRF President

Welcome and Delegate Roll Call

10:00 - 11:15

Session 1 - Cryptocurrencies, ITO’s, ICO’S

10:00 - 10:20

Mr. Nick Cowan - CEO GSX Group / Gibraltar Stock Exchange

10:20 - 10:40

Mr. Russell Perry - CEO, 360 Kompany Gmbh, Austria

‘Business KYC utility for the new Crypto/Blockchain economy’

10:40 - 11:00

Mr. Stephen Reyes - Managing Partner, Deloitte Gib / UK

11:00 - 11:15

Q&A

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 - 13:20

Session 2 - Business Registries: Present and Future

11:45 - 12:15

Ms. Stacey-Jo Smith - Senior Policy Adviser - Companies House UK,

Ms. Monica Grahn - Head of Unit/Senior Advisor - Swedish Companies Registrations Office (Bolagsverket) &

Mr. Rolf Koenig - Head of Working Group RegisSTAR/Auregis

‘The International Business Registers Survey’

12:15 - 12:20

Q&A

12:20 - 12:40

Ms. Maija Laurila - Head of the Company Law Unit at the European Commission, Justice and Consumers Directorate General

‘The European Commission’s Proposal on Digital tools and processes in Company Law’

12:40 - 13:00

Ms. Mojca Kunšek - Director at Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Related Services - AJPES

‘Register’s Data as a tool of Government policies’

13:00 - 13:20

Ms. Nienke Palstra - Adviser – Anti-Money Laundering - Global Witness

‘Public beneficial ownership registers as a tool for anti-corruption’

13:20 - 13:30

Group Photo

13:30 - 14:35

Lunch

14:35 - 15:50

Session 3 - Focus on recent developments in the area of Fintech and DLT

14:35 - 14:55

Ms. Siân Jones - Senior Advisor on DLT at the GFSC

14:55 - 15:15

Mr. Jonathan Garcia - Partner at ISOLAS LLP in charge of the Fintech/DLT team

15:15 - 15:35

Mr. Anthony Provasoli - Partner in Hassans’ corporate and commercial department and co-leads the firm’s FinTech team

15:35 - 15:50

Panel Discussion

15:50 - 16:10

Coffee Break

16:10 - 18:00

Session 4 - Blockchain - a challenge to the established order. An alternative to centralised Intellectual Property Registers

16:10 - 16:30

Mr. Ingmar Vali - Estonian Centre of Registers and Information Systems

‘Blockchain in Business Registry - must or nice to have?’

16:30 - 16:50

Mr. Joost Fleuren - Programme Manager InnovationLab, Chamber of Commerce of The Netherlands

‘Identity management with blockchain for business registers’

16:50 - 17:10

Mr. Michał Piechocki - CEO Business Reporting – Advisory Group

‘EFTG ( The European Financial Transparency Gateway) Project’

17:10 - 17:30

Mr. Jonas Udris - Deputy director - Vilnius branch office - State Enterprise Centre of Registers

‘A new type of a legal entity – Virtual Limited Liability Company (VLLC)’

17:30 - 17:45

Panel Discussion

20:00 - 23:00

Gala Dinner - sponsored by ISOLAS LLP

(Dress Code - Smart / Casual)

20:00 - 20:10

Welcome address by Her Worship The Mayor of Gibraltar - Kaiane Aldorino Lopez

Thursday 7th June 2018

09:30 - 11:00

Session 5 - What’s new in Business Registries

09:30 - 09:50

Ms. Simona Boscolo Bragadin - Product Manager - European Business Register

‘The EBOCS project’

09:50 - 10:10

Ms. Ann Lewis - Director of Operations and Customer Delivery - Companies House UK

‘The Programme for Transformation’

10:10 - 10:30

Mr. Ricco Dun - Senior Business Relations Manager - Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

‘LEI Presentation Structure’

10:30 - 10:50

Mr. Henrik Räihä - Team Manager - Enterprises and Corporations Finnish Patent and Registration Office

‘PRH’s Journey to become fully accredited LOU – what did it take?’

10:50 - 11:00

Q&A

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

Session 5 - What’s new in Business Registries (continuation)

11:30 - 11:50

Mr. Zvonko Obradovic - Director of the Serbian Business Registers Agency

‘Balkan Portal’

11:50 - 12:10

Mr. Rolf Koenig - Head of Working Group RegisSTAR/Auregis & Mr. Keno Kuhlmann - Project Manager at Atos Information Technology

‘The Future of the German Business Register’

12:10 - 12:30

Mr. Steve Roylance - Senior Vice President, Identity Services Ubisecure Oy

‘ECRF 2018 – Identity Assurance’

12:30 - 13:10

Conclusion remarks

12:30 - 12:40

Ms. Berit Loog - Adviser of the Division of Court Registers, Judicial Administration Policy Department, Ministry of Justice, Estonia

ECRF 2019, Estonia. (Presentation of 2019 Conference)

12:40 - 12:50

Ms. Carla Bonaventure - International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) - President

IACA Update

12:50 - 13:00

Ms. Marija Boshkovska Jankovski - Central Register of the Republic of Macedonia (CRM) - Director

CRF 2019 Conference

13:10 - 14:55

Farewell Lunch

14:55 - 17:20

Rock Tour - St. Michael’s Cave / WWII Tunnels