Over more than two decades, the Portoro\u017e Business Conference (PKP) has built its reputation and recognition in part through the participation of renowned guest lecturers from many of the world\u2019s universities and business schools. Organised by the Finance Business Academy and the School of Economics and Business of the University of Ljubljana, PKP has been held since 1999.<\/p>\n
Each year at the Portoro\u017e Business Conference, the School of Economics and Business of the University of Ljubljana, together with its partner institutions, publishes a research study. As Professor Janez Pra\u0161nikar, PhD, programme director of PKP, explains, more than 100 researchers have taken part in the studies so far, with a permanent group of 16 experts working on the project every year.<\/p>\n
Over all these years, PKP has hosted several thousand participants and more than 450 European and international speakers, who each year have given their assessment of the main challenges facing the economy in the world, in Europe and in the region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Those who have taken part in the region\u2019s central business conference include Peter Mandelson, former European Commissioner for Trade (2004\u20132008), Andr\u00e9 Sapir, former economic adviser to the President of the European Commission and professor at the Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, and many distinguished lecturers from the universities of Amsterdam and Michigan, London Business School and Eindhoven University of Technology. The speakers have also included Robert Martijnse, then CEO of Philips for Italy, Greece, Egypt, the Adriatic region and Israel.<\/p>\n
\n\n\n\nWhy attend PKP? Because it is \u2026<\/div>\n\n\n
- An opportunity for personal and professional growth, for renewing existing business contacts and making new ones<\/li>\n
- A place where opinion leaders, decision-makers, managers and top speakers gather, and where you will be in direct contact with them<\/li>\n
- Focused on the most important business topics and trends of our time<\/li>\n
- A source of new knowledge and practical ideas that help you in your work and in achieving your business plans<\/li>\n
- An incentive to check whether your current business and leadership practices are the right ones<\/li>\n
- The right balance of the \u201creal\u201d world, practical experience, academic knowledge and research<\/li>\n
- An opportunity for business networking<\/li>\n
- A space for reflection and new ideas, so that you can face business challenges in new and innovative ways<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
PKP has also hosted lecturers from Copenhagen Business School, the University of Pennsylvania, the MIRBIS International Business School in Moscow, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Bilkent University in Ankara, the universities of Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Belgrade, the Faculty of Economics in Podgorica, the Institute of Economics in Kyiv, the business school of the University of North Carolina, Eindhoven University of Technology, Dutch faculties of economics and many other universities and institutes.<\/p>\n
\nThe Portoro\u017e Business Conference is an event that is designed anew every year, and its content is built on thorough research work, which ensures the conference\u2019s high added value.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Among the distinguished lecturers, we should mention Professor Joachim Scheide of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Peter Sanfey, chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Willem Buiter, the influential British economist and professor of European political economy at the London School of Economics, Helmut Bernkopf, head of Central and South-Eastern Europe at BACA, Klaus Rausch, managing director of HVB Information Services, HypoVereinsbank, and Peer Hull Kristensen of Copenhagen Business School. We have of course also hosted many Slovenian professors and economists, among whom the respected Professor Veljko Bole deserves special mention; he has been with EIPF for more than three decades and currently works there as a senior research fellow.<\/p>\n
\nThe Finance Newspaper Award is a top accolade in the Slovenian business community, intended for those individuals and organisations that make a key contribution to economic development and to increasing social prosperity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
At PKP we present the awards for special achievements in business. The winners to date are: Ivan Ribnikar, professor at the Faculty of Economics; Jo\u017ee Stani\u010d, former President of the Management Board of Gorenje; France Bu\u010dar, first President of the National Assembly; Stojan Petri\u010d, President of the Management Board of Kolektor; Milan Ku\u010dan, former President of the Republic; Slavko Avsenik, musician; Jo\u017ee Colari\u010d, President of the Management Board of Krka; Vojko \u010cok, President of the Management Board of Banka Koper; Janez \u0160krabec, managing director of Riko; Spomenka Hribar<\/b>, philosopher; Sandi \u010ce\u0161ko<\/b>, President of the Management Board of Studio Moderna; \u0160tefan Hoyer<\/b>, President of the Management Board of the Jub Group; Ivo Boscarol<\/b>, director of Pipistrel; Aleksander Zalaznik<\/b>, Danfoss Trata; Melita Ferle\u017e<\/b>, Henkel Maribor; Jo\u017eica Rejec and \u0160tefan Bertoncelj of Domel; Tina Maze, skier; Vladimir Rukavina<\/b>, director of Narodni dom Maribor and father of the Lent Festival; Darko Brlek<\/b>, artistic director and general manager of the Ljubljana Festival; Igor Akrapovi\u010d<\/b>, owner of the Akrapovi\u010d Group; Professor Janez Pra\u0161nikar<\/b>; Edi Kraus<\/b>, Aquafil Slovenija; Silvan Per\u0161olja<\/b>, Klet Brda; Marjan Pipenbaher<\/b>, Ponting; Gertrud Rantzen<\/b>, Slovenian-German Chamber of Commerce from 2006 to 2022; and Sre\u010dko \u0160estan<\/strong>, Commander of the Civil Protection of the Republic of Slovenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29802","eventinfo","type-eventinfo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventinfo\/29802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventinfo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventinfo"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pkp.akademija-finance.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}