Business Sweden and the Swedish Embassy in Madrid, along with our partners EKN, The Swedish Export Credit Agency, and SEK, The Swedish Export Credit Corporation, welcomes you to join Construction Summit Madrid 2019.

Spain is home market to some of the world's largest international contractors and has seven companies ranked on ENR's global top 50 list. Spanish contractors have 14% of the international market share with an international revenue of 59 bUSD and approximately 75% of the contractors' turnover derives from international projects. The sector's success abroad can partly be explained by its distinct abilities in engineering, innovation, process integration, value chain activities and management of large and highly complex projects.

Swedish companies offer innovative and high quality solutions for the construction sector whereas the Swedish financing solutions to Spanish and Portuguese contractors will support the procurement of Swedish technologies globally.

The focus areas of the Construction Summit are:

• Global footprint of Spanish and Portuguese contractors
• Innovative and high quality solutions by Swedish companies for the construction sector
• Swedish technology & financing solutions for projects in and outside of Spain and Portugal

Targeted participants are among others representatives from:

• Spanish and Portuguese contractors with global portfolio
• Swedish technology, product and solution providers
• Public stakeholders from Spain, Portugal and Sweden

Learn more about Swedish financing:

SEK - https://www.sek.se/en/financing

EKN - https://www.ekn.se/en/what-we-do/how-it-works

Agenda

09:00 - 09:30

Registration & Networking Coffee

09:30 - 09:45

Introduction and Welcome

• Mr Teppo Tauriainen, Ambassador-Designate of Sweden in Spain
• Ms Malin Backman, Project Manager, Business Sweden

09:45 - 10:00

Team Sweden's Call for Partnership with Global Contratctors

• Mr Hans-Olof Rauman, Senior Advisor Strategic Projects, Business Sweden
• Mr Kjell Forsberg, Deputy Director Large Corporates, EKN
• Mr Per Åkerlind, Deputy CEO and Head of Strategic Partnerships and Relations, SEK

10:00 - 10:50

Construction and Infrastructure Panel – Market Outlook

Moderated by Hans-Olof Rauman, Senior Project Manager, Strategy and Business Development, Business Sweden

• Mr Kjell Forsberg, Deputy Director Large Corporates, EKN
• Mr Per Åkerlind, Deputy CEO and Head of Strategic Partnerships and Relations, SEK
• Mr Yoshi Ichikawa, Head of Europe, Structured Export Finance, Standard Chartered Bank
• Mr Torben Sjöholm, Regional Sales Manager, ABB Power Grids Sweden AB
• Mr Carlo Amado, Business Development Director, MCA Grupo

10:50 - 11:20

The Spanish Construction Sector at Home and Abroad

• Presented by SEOPAN
  • Ms María Moreno López de Ayala, International Department Director, SEOPAN
  • The presentation comprises the international activities of the Spanish construction companies and their characteristics, as well as brief information about the Spanish Association of Infrastructure Contractor and Concessionaires.

11:20 - 12:00

Spanish and Portuguese Contractors' International Pipeline

• Mr Alcibíades López Cerón, Business Development Director, FCC Construction

  • Introduction of the FCC Group, a global player in the infrastructure, environmental and water management sectors. Experience from working in more than 35 countries and is nowadays actively involved in the Nordics, where the group has recently succeeded with it's first contract for NYE VEIER in Norway and is currently being considered for the Kista Tram project.

• Mr Naim Danji, Head of Export Finance and Investments, Zagope

  • Introduction of ZAGOPE who currently has a prominent place in the engineering and construction scenario, developing structuring projects in the international public and private sector. With head office in Portugal, ZAGOPE operates in the markets of Europe, Africa and Asia, having developed different iconic project works throughout its successful journey.

12:00 - 12:15

Coffee Break

12:15 - 12:45

Swedish Export Financing Solutions: Case Studies

• Mr Hans-Olof Rauman, Senior Advisor Strategic Projects, Business Sweden
• Mr Kjell Forsberg, Deputy Director Large Corporates, EKN
• Mr Per Åkerlind, Deputy CEO and Head of Strategic Partnerships and Relations, SEK
• Mr José Luis Vicent, Executive Director, Global Export & Agency Finance, Grupo Santander

Walkthrough of selected successful projects with EKN & SEK will be presented.

12:45 - 13:30

Innovative Solutions within Construction: Case Studies

• Mr Darren Fitch, Director Key Account Sales, Region EMEA, Volvo Construction Equipment AB

  • A brief presentation of Volvo – a world-class transport and construction solutions provider.

• Mr Stefan Gahns, Senior Sales Manager, Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB

  • A brief presentation of Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB (SIT) in Sweden being the manufacturer of world class gas turbines for the global market.

• Mr Magnus Wenna, Regional Marketing Manager, Voith Hydro AB

  • A brief presentation of Voith Hydra AB, a reliable partner for 150 years, offering everything needed for the efficient and future-oriented creation of hydropower.

13:30 - 13:45

Sum-up

Moderated by Ms Malin Backman, Project Manager, Business Sweden

• Mr Hans-Olof Rauman, Senior Advisor Strategic Projects, Business Sweden
• Mr Kjell Forsberg, Deputy Director Large Corporates, EKN
• Mr Per Åkerlind, Deputy CEO and Head of Strategic Partnerships and Relations, SEK

Sum-up by Team Sweden, presenting step-by-step how contractors can present opportunities, as well as possible next steps.

13:45 - 16:40

Networking Lunch and B2B Meetings

• 85 participants signed up for this session

Participants

• Contractor Company 45
• Technology & Solution Provider 13
• Financial Institution 22
• Engineering & Consulting Company 5
• Association 2
• Government / Trade Promotion Agency 8
• Other 6

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