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