Wrocław - Investment Seminar & VIP Business Mixer

WROCŁAW – the city of meetings

Wrocław is undoubtedly the city of important meetings and events, also economic ones. Good transport accessibility of Wrocław is one of fundamental factors deciding about the economic development of the agglomeration and whole region of Dolnośląskie, currently inhabited by nearly 3 million people. In the next few years, quality of life of its inhabitants will improve significantly as a result of the execution of large-scale infrastructural projects which will clearly change the landscape of whole agglomeration. Size and multitude of activities undertaken by various entities are connected to temporary solutions in the City management, which has direct influence on functioning of investors and inhabitants who have various questions.

How to effectively manage the space of Wrocław and the region in the face of numerous infrastructure investments, and provide for their resilient development? What challenges and barriers does the region of Dolnośląskie have to face in the nearest future in relation to numerous carried out infrastructure projects? And finally, does such strong dynamics of occurring changes help or hamper in sustainable growth of whole agglomeration? The participants of the investment seminar „Prospects in Dolnośląskie” on 13 May will try to find answers to these and other questions. They will include representatives of authorities of the agglomeration of Wrocław, experts in infrastructure investments, specialists from the companies dealing with real estate market, as well as domestic and foreign investors.

Wrocław and Dolny Śląsk is currently one of the most interesting places for investors – says Tomasz Gondek – project director in Agencja Rozwoju Aglomeracji Wrocławskiej SA. In Poland, this is one of the biggest employment areas for specialists, in particular from the industry of IT and the area concentrating the largest number of schools, higher education institutions as well as service, trade and leisure centers – he adds. Motorization, household appliances and electronics, IT, finance and medicine as well as electronic and military engineering are among the fastest developing industries in the area of Dolnośląskie. Leading foreign investors include LG, Toyota, Whirlpool, FagorMastercook Volvo, Toshiba, Bosch, Siemens, 3M, Google or HP.

In spite of worldwide financial crisis, in 2009 Agencja Rozwoju Aglomeracji Wrocławskiej SA, which main task is to attract direct foreign investments, successfully ended 12 important investment projects. Total employment statement for these investments considerably exceed 5000 people. Key economic projects in 2009 included undertakings of IBM and McKinsey (Wrocław competed with Kraków for the location of this prestigious investment) but also production initiatives, e.g. investments of Autoliv or Esplex from Acer Group.

In the next years this stimulus will increase local government budget receipts by several of a dozen or so million PLN – assesses Tomasz Gondek.

During the investment seminar in May there will definitely be issues concerning the largest potential of the region of Dolnośląskie. Apart from solid infrastructure, people are undeniable asset of the agglomeration - higher education institutions in Wrocław yearly educate more than twenty thousand professionals, speaking fluent English and German – says Barbara Osuchowska, Project Manager in K&K Selekt Centrum Doradztwa Personalnego. It is a significant group of educated specialists that are young, dynamic and open to new challenges – she adds.

Wrocław is the city of meetings, also those „after hours”, that is, why just after the end of the official part of the seminar, the organizers plan an evening business mixer in Monopol hotel.

For more information contact the organizer Bluevine Consulting office@bluevine.pl