On Tuesday, 11 November 2014, started the introductory, domestic part of this year's 8th tour of the VZMD (PanSlovenian Shareholders' Association) international business-investment programmes: Invest to Slovenia - investo.si and International Investors` Network - invest-to.net. In the framework of this year's tour the VZMD representatives attended in the first three days four important conferences in different places around Slovenia.   

The VZMD President Kristjan Verbič, MSc, thus attended, together with the investo.TV team, the international conference »SouthEast Europe Business Networking«in Pomurje region. The conference, organised by the Regional Development Agency Mura, the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, and SPIRIT Slovenia, was attended by the representatives of more than 100 companies from Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, Hungary, Germany, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey. The representatives spent two days discussing the possibilities of business cooperation, and there were more than 1.300 B2B business meetings.   

The very next day the VZMD team was in Nova Gorica where, within the framework of Coinvest project, the »Balkan Venture Forum« took place. The three-day forum, organised by COBIK (Centre for Excellence), Europe Unlimited and Balkan Unlimited, was attended by numerous domestic and foreign start-up companies, and representatives of investors from Europe, Israel, Russia and the USA. The assembled participants were in the introduction addressed by the State Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology Mr Janko Burgar, MSc, who showed a great deal of interest also for the VZMD international business-investment programmes and additional possibilities of cooperation with the Ministry.

Besides Mr Burgar, Mr. Verbič, spoke about the possibilities of deepened cooperation with numerous representatives of the organiser, the Club Business Angels of Slovenia, and other participants, primarily in the light of his visit to Helsinki, where he departed the following day, and where he met the most prominent representatives of the European Trade Association for Business Angels (EBAN), Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN), and numerous important participants from all over the world who actively attended the four-day annual conference.

The products of the Slovenian innovators were at the same time also presented in Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana where the 9th Slovenian Innovation Forum took place.

On Thursday the VZMD President, on the invitation of the Slovenian Association for Quality and Excellency (SZKO), attended their 23^rd Annual Conference which took place in Portorož. The assembled audience was in the introduction addressed by the SZKO President Janez Benčina, Director General of the European Organization for Quality, dr Eric Janssens, and the representative of the European Foundation for Quality Management, Mr Gianluca Mulè. In the framework of the conference there were many lectures and reports of some domestic and foreign experts, and in the evening the award ceremony "Slovenian Quality Mark" took place, as well as the award ceremony of SZKO awards and recognitions.  

The VZMD President continued this tour of the international business-investment programmes investo.si and invest-to.net with his visit to Helsinki where the International Conference of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN) took place, and VZMD has been actively cooperating with them since the last year's conference in Vienna. After his visit to Helsinki, Mr Verbič also took part in the delegation managed by Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission »Mission for Growth«at Cape Verde, where Mr Verbič met the President of the Republic, (VIDEO REPORT TCV from the reception at the Presidential Palace), the Prime Minister, and numerous high representatives of the Government, diplomatic corps and business representatives there. The VZMD President attended some B2B meetings, and he had business talks with some domestic and foreign representatives of companies as well. He was also present at the gala reception held by the EU Ambassador, and he attended the International Conference opening and FIC 2014 Expo.

The VZMD President is going to conclude the 8th international tour this week by attending the award ceremony of the prestigious awards »European Small and Mid-Cap Awards 2014«in Brussels, organised by the European Commission, EuropeanIssuers and Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE).

After this year's successful presentations in Belgrade, Bled, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Grodno, Madrid, Montevideo, New Delhi, New York, Yaroslavl, Ouagadougou, Paris, Piran, Reykjavik and Tehran, and last year's in Astana, Almaty, Baku, Bled, Brussels, Buffalo, Bucharest, Cape Town, Celje, Dubai, Vienna,  Kiev, Ljubljana, Madrid, Minsk, Moscow, New Delhi, Tokyo, Toronto and Zagreb, the two VZMD international business-investment programmes continue to provide for their partners effective presence and presentations on five continents!  

If you would like to take part in our events and activities, you are kindly invited to contact the VZMD investo.si programme coordinator by phone +386 31 770 771 or e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..