Konferencija Ohrid

Regional Y2K Conference for Contingency Planning
(Transport+Telecommunicatin, Finance and Health),
October 03-05,1999 - Ohrid (St. Naum)

In purpose to increase and to exchange the experience in contingency planning in particular sectors - Health, Transport and Tax Administration of the region, the Government of Macedonia through Ministry of Science organized the Regional Y2K Conference for Contingency Planning.

The responsible bodies for the organizing the conference were National Committee 2000 and Y2K Co-ordination Unit from Republic of Macedonia with the financial support of the World Bank’s infoDev Conference Scholarship Fund for the Year 2000 Initiative (iCSF-Y2K).

The following 29 countries were invited to participate the Conference: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
The two representatives from each country were invated to participate to the Conference.

13 Countries from mentioned managed to come and take a place on this Regional meeting.

Every present country had 10 minutes presentation of their Y2K situation and experience in contingency planning globally and particularly choosing one of the mention sectors as Health, Transport and Tax Administratio, besides useful presentation about contingency planning in the sectors, from experts from Europe and USA.

The Regional Y2K Conference for Contingency planning took place on October 03-05, 1999 by the lake Ohrid, Macedonia in St. Naum Hotel .

Language
The official languages of the Regional Y2K Conference for Contingency Planning was English.

Sunday, 03 October
- St. Naum

12:00 - 15:00 Transport Skopje-Ohrid
15:00 - 17:00 Lunch and Reception

19:30 - 20:30    Opening session
                          Goverment representative - Vera Koleva
                          USAID Tomas Filmore
                          National Committee 2000 Oliver Iliev
                          Y2K National Coordination Unit Fisnik Marku
20:30 -           Welcome dinner

Monday, 04 October
- St. Naum

09:00 - 09:45 Jack Magan - Year 2000 Contingency Planning
09:45 - 10:20   Ira Brackman - Zero Day Strategies
10:20 - 11:00   ITU - Ron Balls - Contingency Planning in Telecommunication
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee break
11:30 - 12:10 Ian Clark - ETIS - Contingency Planning in Telecommunication
12:10 - 13:00   Experiences
                              Mile Mircevski - Macedonian Telecommunication
                              Saso Andonov - DGCA - Macedonian Air Traffic
13:00 - 15:00   Lunch
15:00 - 16:30   Experiences
                              Milan Jankulovski - Macedonian Railways
                              Aleksandar Zarbov - Bulgarian Air Traffic
                              Ivan Bogomilov - Bulgarian Telecommunication
16:30 - 17:00   Jack Magan Y2K Solution - Contingency planning in Finance
17:00 - 17:30   Ira Brackman - Contingency planning General experiences
17:30 - 18:00   Coffee break
18:00 - 18:20   Representatives from Turkey and Azerbajan
18:20- 19:00    Werner Rainer - General Hospital of Bolcano -       Contingency planning in Health
20:00 -            Dinner and sightseeing of Ohrid

Tuesday, 05 October
- St. Naum

09:30 - 11:00 Representatives from the Region - Report   about Contingency actions
                      Closing session
11:00 - 12:00   Lunch
12:30 - 16:30   Transport Ohrid - Skopje