ABOUT IME

The Investment Management Exhibition (IME) is a two-day investment event of a special kind. Our concept is a unique symbiosis of conference and exhibition, which will take place on September 14th and 15th, 2023 for the seventh time in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and virtually on our online platform.

The IME is the ideal place for growing companies looking for funding. In addition, we are also looking forward to welcome cities, regions and countries that would like to present specific investment projects to an audience of entrepreneurs and investors.

Participants at IME are usually executives and visionaries from all over the world. At IME, we know that nothing can replace a personal meeting and conversation. The quality of meetings that you can have in the shortest possible time as part of the IME is incomparably high. Accordingly, by participating in the IME, you can achieve your business goals much faster and easier.

Who will be there

Decision makers representatives and project managers for the public sector (Mayors, Ambassadors, Consuls, Ministers, heads of Investment Agencies)
Small and medium-sized entrepreneurs and corporate officers
Investors, banks, other financial service providers
Representatives of specialized economic associations and Business Clubs
Service providers such as: project developers, consultants, lawyers, tax specialists

What IME is Offering

Our aim through the Investment Management Exhibition (IME) is to help promoting better economic and social partnerships, increasing competitiveness of different regions and enabling networking between government bodies, businesses and International Financial Institutions.

Three main aspects of IME:

A highly efficient networking platform for project owners and investors in the fields of PPPs, Real-estate, Automotive, Agriculture, Chemical industry, Logistics, Financial services, Energy, Tourism and Hospitality.
Networking between cities / regions / countries and entrepreneurs for company settlement and attracting foreign direct Investment in economic zones. It is a platform where government uses to showcase investment opportunities and meet investors.
A Financial Forum, where representatives from the global financial and business community come together to discuss about opportunities and challenges facing Europe and the world.

facts and figures #IME21

240

onsite
participants

600+

online
participants

40+

speakers

countries from
five continents

82%

decision makers

How it works

Projects are presented mainly by the public sector as part of the conference program as well as on the exhibition space. Investors and entrepreneurs, who form the audience, have the opportunity to get to know a multitude of projects from the relevant industries and potential new locations within a short period of time and to get in direct contact with the project owners. The matchmaking process, however, begins already in the run-up to the event itself, so that in the course of the two days concrete deals can be closed.

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Structure of Participants

54%

investors

22%

economic
regions
and cities

13%

financial service
providers

project
developers

other

SPEAKERS AT #IME22

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Alice Mashingaidze

Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe in Berlin, Germany

Sarah Jaax

Senior Consultant, FDI Center

Douglas van den Berghe

Founder and CEO, NxT Zones

Mateusz Wachowski

Senior Inspector in the Investors Assistance Department, Katowice City Hall

Magdalena A. Kolka

Deputy Director of Investors Assistance Department, Katowice City Hall

Marcin Woźniak

CEO at Swarmcheck | President of the board at Optimum Pareto Foundation.

H.E. Mulu Solomon Bezuneh

Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of F.D. R. of Ethiopia to F. R. of Germany

Dr. Ahmed Zaid Al Hussain

CEO of the Royal Commission Jubail within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

Guy Van der Beken

President of EUREKA

Heike Freimuth

Head of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group Office in Germany

Moshe Bar Zvi

Principal of Love Israel Venture Capital

Prof. Peter Platzer

Secretary General of EUREKA, Co-Founder of 3rd School of Austrian Macroeconomics

Phina Jerome

Research and Planning Manager, Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC)

Johannes Jung

Head of Department 5 Strategy, Law, Foreign Trade and European Affairs Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism, State of Baden-Württemberg

Fabio Righi

Minister of State for Industry, Handicraft and Trade, Technological Research and Regulatory Simplification of the Republic of San Marino

Jens Manke

Director Germany, OCO Global

Jon Whiteaker

Editor, Investment Monitor

Professor Stefan Liebing

Chairman, German-African Business Association

ACADEMICIAN PROF. DR. MILAN KRAJNC

Psychotherapist, Nobel Prize nominee and Author of the Dynamic Leadership Model

GUNTHER FEHLINGER

Secretary General CEE-BC

DIPL. ING. HEIKO SCHNEIDER

CEO and Managing Partner GoGaS Goch GmbH & Co. KG

JÜRGEN RAIZNER

CEO | Administrator / Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Ost-West-Kooperationen

MR. MARKUS LEHNER

Principal of LEHNER INVESTMENTS

Speakers History

Moshe Bar Zvi

Principal of Love Israel Venture Capital

Mr. Michael Ries

Hong Kong Trade Development Council

Dr. Martin Mendelski

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Anja Petschauer

Director Marketing and Promotion, gwSaar Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung Saar mbH

Mr.Oliver Schwebel

CEO of Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt GmbH - Frankfurt Economic Development

Ms. Hao Lishuang

Director of the Investment Office, Xingtai Municipal Bureau of Commerce

Achim Hartig

Managing Director at Germany Trade & Invest

Mr.Xie yongfa

Deputy Division Director at Hebei Provincial Commerce Department

Laurens van der Schoor

Free Zones & Incentives Advisor

Agnieszka Kalisiewicz

Ministry of Economy Poland

Ljiljana Rek Solaro

Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs Croatia

Daniel Ruchti

CEO, Daniel Ruchti AG Switzerland

J. Mischa Mensik

SEC Board Member, Chamber of Commerce Switzerland Central Europe SEC

Kujtim Dobruna

CEO, Economic Initiative for Kosovo ECIKS

Xavier Mayo

Head of International City Promotion, Barcelon City Council

Andreas Stephan

Dipl. -Geophys., MBA SPRINT! Energy Consulting GmbH

Arlind Zeqiri

Head of International Office Bern, Agency for Foreign Investments and Export Promotion of the Republic of Macedonia

Mr.Nikola Jankovic

Senior Investment Advisor, Serbian Development Agency

Mr.Mirsad Jašarspahić, dipl.ing.maš.

President, Chamber of Economy of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mr.Flamur Kuçi

Ceo of ADVICE, Management Consulting Albania

Mr.WANG Shunqing

Generalkonsul at Generalkonsulat of People

Mr. Aleksejs Stecs

Vice Chairman of Rezekne city council on development and investment

Mr.Stefan Günther

Manager regionale, Projekte Invest in Bavaria – Die Ansiedlungsagentur des Freistaates Bayern

Mr.Alush Gashi

Minister and Functions in the Assembly of Kosovo

Mr.Michael Voigt

Wirtschaftsförderer, Wirtschaft und Tourismus Villingen-Schwenningen GmbH

Mr.Klaus Madlmair

Projektmanager, Business Upper Austria - OÖ Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH

Mr.ERIC MENGES

President & CEO FrankfurtRheinMain Region

Ms Božica Lapić

Director for Investments, Agency for Investments and Competitiveness of Croatia

Ms.Yeva Zeynalyan

Country Coordinator for PPD Network, Armenia

Ms.Mariam Kuchuloria

Deputy CEO of EBA Georgia

Ms. Tessa Jacques

President of the Caribbean Association for Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA)

Ms. Mariyana Nikolova

Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Demographic Policies in Bulgaria

Dr. Martin J. Worms

State secretary at the Ministry of Finance of Hessen

Mr. Norbert Barthle MdB

Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Sarah Jaax

Location marketing, Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture Rhineland-Palatinate

Sarah Jaax

Senior Consultant, FDI Center

Ikechukwu Okoli

Head of Advisory and Investment, Kiakia Gas Limited

Wolfgang Leidig

Director and Project Manager of the Innovation and Training Park ITP in Prizren Kosovo

Courtney Fingar

Editor-in-chief, FDI, at New Statesman Media Group

Francisco Mackenney

Consul General of Chile in Frankfurt

Ms.Olga Mroz

Dama of Honour

Fellanza Podrimja

Public relations, economic and educational advisor to the Mayor of Prizren Municipality

Albin Kurti

Former Prime Minister of Republic Kosovo

Teodor Bate

Chief architect of the Dambovita county, Romania

Yofi Grant

CEO, Ghana Investment Promotion Center

Sering Bamba Saho

Founder and CEO, M + S Piano-Express GmbH

Hon. Dennis Waweru

Vorsitzender, Kenya Investment Authority

Christian Weber

Executive Director Representative Office Mexico, Bayern International

Ángel D. Morales Castillo

President, German-Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Kadio Fofana Diop

Investment Direcor for APIX SA

Justus Vitinius

Director Corporates Latin America, German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG)

Gustavo Weigel

Managing Director , WEIGEL HALLER CORPORATE FINANCE (Uruguay)

Dr. Corinna Franke-Wöller

Director Agency for Economy and Development

Gunther Fehlinger

Secretary General CEE-BC

Miguel Solis

Commercial Advisor, Embassy of Guatemala

Hans-Joachim Hebgen

Senior Consultant for financing, policy issues develoPPP.de and textile industry

Carolin Welzel

Senior Consultant International Organizations, Agency for Economy & Development (AWE), Berlin

Ricardo Pedroza

Director Europe, PROCOLOMBIA Frankfurt

Paola Suárez Buhrmann

Manager at FDI Center

Mr.Eric Menges

CEO of FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH

Mr.Sheku Lexmond N. Koroma

CEO at Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency

Franka Ismer

CEO – persönlich + gesellschaftlich + unternehmerisch

Ms.Saida Kahouli

Deputy director in Foreign Investment Promotion Agency-FIPA TUNISIA

Ali Mehrez

Director in charge of Industrial sectors at AMDIE – Moroccan Investment and Export Development Agency (AMDIE)

Sarah Russis

Director, fDi Intelligence – Financial Times Group

Mr.Jacopo Dettoni

Editor of fDi Magazine – Financial Times Group

Dr. Eyup Vural Aydin

Chairman – Istanbul PPPCoE

Mirko Twardy

Head of Business Development Finance and Promotion – Dr. Kakuschke & Partner AG, Berlin

Jürgen Raizner

CEO | Administrator / Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Ost-West-Kooperationen

Prof. Julien Chaisse

School of Law | City University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong SAR

Georgi Petrov

Regional Manager – ECA PPP Transaction Advisory, IFC

Jens Manke

Director Germany, OCO Global

Jon Whiteaker

Editor, Investment Monitor

Guy Van der Beken

President of EUREKA

ARSHI AYUB MOHAMED ZAVERI

CEO – TrustWithTrade Group | Senior Advisor Royal Family Office, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

Mateusz Wachowski

Senior Inspector in the Investors Assistance Department, Katowice City Hall

Jürgen Raizner

CEO | Administrator / Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Ost-West-Kooperationen

Dr. Simone Burel

CEO of LUB GmbH

Her Excellency Lady Elizabeth Kelly

Businesswoman in Dubai (UAE)

Douglas van den Berghe

CEO of NxtZones and FDI

Dr. Rüdiger Meyer

Application Expert Energy Storage, Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG

Paul Soubry

President & Chief Executive Officer, NFI

Dr.-Ing. Nurettin Tekin

Hydrogen Product Management, KAWASAKI Gas Turbine Europe GmbH

H.E. Laila Rahhal El Atfani

Founder & President at Business Gate / Global President CEC-UK

Professor Olga Mroz, Dame of Honour

Al-Khalifa Business School

Markus Exenberger

German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)

Academician Prof. Dr. Milan Krajnc

Psychotherapist, Nobel Prize nominee and Author of the Dynamic Leadership Model

Prof. Dr. Armin Willingmann

Minister for Economy, Science and Digitalization of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Dr. Maike Schäfer

Minister for Climate Protection, the Environment, Mobility, Urban and Housing Development for the city-state of Bremen, Germany

Gustavo Weigel

Managing Director, WEIGEL Finanzas Corporativas, Uruguay

Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert

Minister for the Environment, Agriculture and Energy of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Heiko Staubitz

Senior Manager Investor Consulting Hydrogen & Energy Infrastructure, Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI)

Nuno Maposse

Senior Investment Expert, Mozambique Investment and Export Promotion Agency (APIEX)

Jens Deutschendorf

State Secretary, Hessian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Housing

Miguel Solis

Trade Counsellor, Embassy of Guatemala in Berlin

André Steinau

Co-Chair Clean Energy Partnership

Mr. Markus Lehner

Principal of LEHNER INVESTMENTS

Prof. Heinz-Peter Platzer

Co-Founder at the 3rd Austrian School of Macroeconomics and Secretary General of Eureka.

H.E Denisa Gokovi

Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart

Minister of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Dipl. Ing. Heiko Schneider

CEO and Managing Partner GoGaS Goch GmbH & Co. KG

ROSE DOREE BOKELEALE EBETA

Deputy Managing Director of the National Investment Promotion Agency (ANAPI DRC) of the DR Congo

H.E. Dr.Dr.h.c. Raphael Nagel

Chairman at The Abrahamic Business Circle

Alice Mashingaidze

Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Zimbabwe in Berlin, Germany

Carlos Andrés Alvarez

Senior Advisor Foreign Investment, PROCOLOMBIA

Reinhold von Ungern-Sternberg

Director International Markets

Dr. Philipp Steinberg

Head of Economic Policy Department, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Ksenija Cipek

Ministry of Finance, Tax Administration of the Republic of Croatia.

Aïssata Lam

Director General - Investment Promotion Agency of Mauritania (APIM)

Vanessa Völkel

Deputy Head, UNIDO ITPO Germany

Jessica Neumann

Investment and Technology Promotion Expert at UNIDO ITPO Germany

ALBIN KURTI

Prime Minister of Republic Kosovo

Adekunle Olusile

Advisor Nigeria, UNIDO ITPO Germany

Mr. Daouda Sangaré

Advisor Côte d'Ivoire, UNIDO ITPO Germany

Yassir Ahmed

Advisor Sudan, UNIDO ITPO Germany

GUNTHER FEHLINGER

Secretary General CEE-BC

ACADEMICIAN PROF. DR. MILAN KRAJNC

Psychotherapist, Nobel Prize nominee and Author of the Dynamic Leadership Model

GUNTHER FEHLINGER

Secretary General CEE-BC

DIPL. ING. HEIKO SCHNEIDER

CEO and Managing Partner GoGaS Goch GmbH & Co. KG

JÜRGEN RAIZNER

CEO | Administrator / Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Ost-West-Kooperationen

MR. MARKUS LEHNER

Principal of LEHNER INVESTMENTS

Phina Jerome

Research and Planning Manager, Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC)

Johannes Jung

Head of Department 5 Strategy, Law, Foreign Trade and European Affairs Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Tourism, State of Baden-Württemberg

Fabio Righi

Minister of State for Industry, Handicraft and Trade, Technological Research and Regulatory Simplification of the Republic of San Marino

Heike Freimuth

Head of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group Office in Germany

Magdalena A. Kolka

Deputy Director of Investors Assistance Department, Katowice City Hall

Marcin Woźniak

CEO at Swarmcheck | President of the board at Optimum Pareto Foundation.

H.E. Mulu Solomon Bezuneh

Ambassador, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of F.D. R. of Ethiopia to F. R. of Germany

Dr. Ahmed Zaid Al Hussain

CEO of the Royal Commission Jubail within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

Douglas van den Berghe

Founder and CEO, NxT Zones

Prof. Peter Platzer

Secretary General of EUREKA, Co-Founder of 3rd School of Austrian Macroeconomics

Professor Stefan Liebing

Chairman, German-African Business Association

Testimonials

Mr. Jens Deutschendorf

State Secretary, Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing

We are very happy that this event is happening, we see a lot of International guests are in Frankfurt, Hessen and we are talking about very important issues like Hidrogen and climate change and the changing in energy system and this is very important thing for the hessen government and so I am very interested to meet people and to talk to them and see if we can match interesting projects and learn from each other and this is IME offering to all of us.

Mr.Markus Lehner

Principal of Lehner Investment

Mr.Markus Lehner, Principal of Lehner Investment, mentioned that IME is a very special Event, it is a niche Event and is not to compare with any other events in the Investment field and therefore is very important to do because it has a good place for Investors and investment needs from different countries, from different places and also in different categories, very unique. I meet very interesting people and had very nice conversation and this the purpose of this Event.

Hon.Dennis K.Waweru

Chairman, Kenya Investment Authority

I am very excited, it is very well-organized event, there was a loot of networking and also the most important is that I was able to understand the real issue that Investors look for before they make an investment decision where to put their money.

Prof. Heinz-Peter Platzer

Co-Founder at the 3rd Austrian School of Macroeconomics and Secretary General of Eureka

I would like to express my respect to the Organizer of this Event, to be optimistic enough because of each week the situation is changing, and you never know what happened and finally you were able to bring this event to reality and I am like being here and I will take the opportunity to speak about the New Economy 3.0 - Sustainability Macroeconomics with Green Rendite. As I so from the program that Sustainability and the climate change and all questions that we have right now in this time period is relevant and will be elaborated within these two days of IME.

Mr. Heiko Schneider

CEO at GoGaS Goch GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

The reason why I am at IME is that I am interested to highly meet profile of people with influence pushing ideas and we from our side to share our ideas to go with let CO2 and protect our environment.

Ms. Rose Doree Bokeleale

Deputy Managing Director, National Investment Promotion Agency, DR Kongo

This is great opportunity which have been given to us so that we can attract FDI so that we can ensure the growth of our economy and it was also a good opportunity to exchange with different participants many ideas of collaborations.

Mr. Miguel R. Solis Avalos

Commercial Advisor, Embassy of Guatemala in Germany

This is the second time that Guatemala is at IME and for Guatemala is very interesting being at IME and positioning our Country for Latin America as a point of reference for European Investors and Investment Management Exhibition allow us to create these networking and to provide these information to potential Investors.

Mr. Carlos Andrés Alvarez

Senior Advisor Foreign Investment, PROCOLOMBIA Germany

I am very glad to be here because this a very useful platform for Colombia to increase visibility in Europe in achievement to becoming one of the best Investment destinations in Latin America.

Dr. Lello Francisco

Member of the Board of Directors, AIPEX Angola

We are here because we know that IME is very good platform for my country and my Investment Promotion Agency to share our Business Opportunities and bee in touch with the German companies, investors who like to make Investment in Angola and that’s way is great to be at this Event.

Stephan Siering

Invest in Bavaria

We take part in the IME to present Bavaria as Germany's leading innovation hub and to convince companies and start-ups to settle in Bavaria. The IME is a great way to expand our network.

Xavier Mayo

Barcelona City Council

Take care and we prospect all the new events that are taking place in our statistics market, in Europe, IME is a place in which we are interested to promote and to explain which the assets of the city of Barcelona are.

Hebei Provinz

China

We are very happy to be here at IME! Our Hebei province is the only province around the capital Beijing and Tianjin, we have a large market and potential opportunities and the economy is going strong, so we would like to cooperate with German companies and businessmen.

Yeva Zeynalyan

Country Coordinator for PPD Network, Armenia

Participating in the IME is of crucial importance for Armenia, because we brought many different projects regarding tourism and greenhouses and we would really like to get closer to investors.

Mariam Kuchuloria

European Business Association Georgia

I’m here to present concrete projects from Georgia to the participants of this exhibition and also to find out about other promising investment opprtunities, which might be interesting for Georgia and our main companies.

Klaus Madlmair

Projektmanager, Business Upper Austria - OÖ Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH

The reason why we are here is to show international investors and Business Agencies why Austria is a great location to invest into.

Michael Ries

Hong Kong Trade and Development Council

We, that is the Hong Kong Trade Development Council came here to participate basically with the key objective of meeting a large group of investment.

Mirsad Jašarspahić

President, Chamber of Economy of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Participating in the IME is a very good chance for all companies from my country to present all their potentials and why Bosnia and Herzegovina is a great location for investments.

Gi Won On

European Political Analysis Group

For me, the IME is a very interesting and useful matchmaking-platform for sharing business information as well as creating joint global solutions.