The conference, which is arranged by SEB and consultancy firm Springfellow, will be held on 13-14 October at Berns Salonger in Stockholm.

 

This year's theme is entrepreneurship and the programme consists of speeches, panel discussions and workshops. Moderators are SEB's Chief Economist Klas Eklund and Monika Richardson, a Polish journalist working for Polish state television.

 

The list of speakers comprises some 35 names representing government, finance and business in the three Baltic countries, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.

 

 

Journalists wishing to attend the forum should contact Pia-Lena Gröning,

tel. +46 8 763 87 87, pia-lena.groning@seb.se.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The SEB Group is a North European financial group for corporate customers, institutions and private individuals with ten home markets in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Germany, Poland and the Ukraine. SEB has 680 branch offices and 5 million customers, of whom approximately 2 million use the internet for their banking transactions. On 30 June 2005, the Group's total assets amounted to SEK 1,800bn while its assets under management totalled SEK 1,012bn. The Group is represented in some 20 countries around the world and has a staff of about 20,000. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.