Mart Saa and Ragne Sinikas from Rotermann Eesti OÜ	A Small Miscalculation by Navitrolla	Denise Fountoura & Makossa

This year Thanksgiving Gala Dinner was held on November 29th 2008 in Tallink SPA& Confetence Hotel. It was the most elegant Thanksgiving Gala Dinner in the chamber history. A magic atmosphere of NERO restaurant, beautiful Brazilian Samba, Salza and Jazz tunes by Denise Fountoura & Makossa, exclusive Thanksgiving menu with perfect match of wines provided by Altia Eesti AS and great program created a very special atmosphere that will be hard to forget.

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Mr. Urmas Paet	Tasty vitals from Reval Hotell Olympia	Hans H. Luik speaks

 On November 13th we were honored to have Foreign Minister Mr. Urmas Paet speak at the AmCham Luncheon event. This spectacular event gathered over 50 members and partners of AmCham Estonia.

In his speech Foreign Minister highlighted such topics as foreign policy, perspectives in development of business relations between Estonia and Europe and pointed out challenges that business people will face during the upcoming economical period.

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AmCham Estonia Annual General Meeting for 2009 was one of our most successful events!

More than 60 members gathered at Uniquestay Mihkli Hotel on Wednesday, November 5th to elect the new Board of Directors 2009-2010, approve the new bylaws, review the year of 2008 and discuss future plans for 2009.

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Costumes are nice.	PayBack rocks.	Amcham is child friendly.

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On October 31st more than 30 AmCham members gathered in TGI Friday´s Restaurant to join Halloween Costume Bash, try luck in specially organized for this evening Charity Raffle and to participate in fun games in traditional Halloween style. It was an unforgettable night with a great musical performance by trio PayBack.

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On October 21st AmCham long time partner Grillhaus Daube kindly hosted October Business After Hours. Over 30 AmCham members gathered together to mingle and enjoy fellowship of AmCham in warm and friendly atmosphere of this famous Old Town Restaurant. Guests had a great opportunity to taste exclusive wines, delicious snacks and pastries prepared specially for the event.
Everybody truly enjoyed this great evening and appreciated Grillhaus Daube hospitality. 
 
Many thanks to Kristin Bezborodkina and Vallo Hirvela for making this event possible!
 
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On October 16th more than 20 AmCham young professionals gathered in Inscape Baltic conference room for the third session of YPC interactive workshops series.
YPC chairman Thomas Baumer made opening remarks and gave presentation on his view of Personal Efficiency aspects.

Our special guest speaker this time was Mati Sööt, Member of the Board and owner of Inscape Baltic, who gave a wonderful speech on Personal Efficiency topic.  It was a great mini-seminar with lots of visual and theoretical examples of how important personal efficiency is for young professionals. Our speaker presentation made a very valuable contribution to the event’s content and initiated very productive discussions. All participants were greatly satisfied with the opportunity to learn more on the topic and found it very interesting and useful for their work.

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Our special THANK YOU to Inscape Baltic and Mati Sööt personally for contributing his time and expertise!  Thank you to Helen Paat,  Implement Baltic training consultant for helping to put this great event together!
If you are interested to find out more about this topic and test your own behavior profile, please contact Helen Paat via e-mail helen.paat@inscape.ee or call +372 6310 639

On September 18th we were honored to have the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves speak at the AmCham Luncheon event.
This spectacular event gathered over 100 members and partners of AmCham Estonia, Swedish, British and Danish Chambers of Commerce in Estonia.
In his speech President Ilves highlighted such topics as foreign and security policies, current economic situation in Estonia and pointed out the challenges that business people will face in the future.
The Q&A section brought out various questions on inequalities in the society, international military policy and other topics.

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On September 9th AmCham loyal long-term member Shipco Transport kindly hosted first AmCham fall event, September Business After Hours.

It was a great Tuesday evening with business talks, delicious snacks and drinks. AmCham members had Shipco Trasnport brand new office tour, a small pearl in the Kopli area, got introduced to Shipco friendly staff and of course enjoyed fellowship of AmCham members in relaxed evening atmosphere.

Special thank you to Anders Christensen for his hospitality and for making this event possible!

To view pictures of this great event, please click here:
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On September 4th American Chamber of Commerce Estonia in cooperation with CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association held Cyber Security Forum event in Radisson SAS Hotel. It was the first cyber security event to address both the technical and skills issues and  highlighting the importance of their synergy. The panel of speakers included such high caliber names as Mr Jaak Aaviksoo, Minister of Defense, Mr. Maart Laar,  Member of Estonian Parliament, Mr Costas Andropoulos, Head of Unit at DG Enterprise and Industry, and experts of the Ministries of Defense and High Education, CERT Estonia, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence and others. This interactive event brought together over 90 leading policymakers, entrepreneurs and experts and enabled an exchange of views and experiences to develop practical strategies for an improved policy environment for cyber security protection in Europe. Leading business news newspaper “Äripäev” covered forum in press. After the forum panel speakers kindly gave interview to Kalev Meedia.

Thank you to all participants for productive discussions.
 
Special thank you to our co-operation partner CompTIA for making this event possible.
 
To view photos of this spectacular event, please click here:
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On July 6^th AmChamEstonia held one of year key events – Annual USA Independence Day Celebration and Picnic. This year celebration took place at magnificent Maardu Manor House. More than 100 AmCham members gathered with their families on Sunday afternoon in Maardu Manor House Park to enjoy American style picnic with traditional July 4^th meal and entertainment. Event program included great live musical performance by vocal duet “Arabica” and Jazz trio. Children enjoyed games and fun contests on special playground provided by Premier Restaurants Eesti. Opening remarks were made by AmCham President Yrjö Ojasaar and Karen Decker, Deputy Chief of Mission from U.S. Embassy.

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We would like to thank all AmCham members for active participation in this event.

Special thank you to this event Main Sponsor Advokaadibüroo Sorainen.

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On June 17^th AmChamEstonia organized a very productive and successful Speaker Lunch with special guest speaker, Minister of Social Affair Ms. Maret Maripuu. Ms. Maripuu gave an exclusive presentation to AmCham members about new Employment Law Draft. The Minister touched base with the most essential new law aspects that will influence the labor market and impact the business environment. All AmCham members were very active and had a lot of practical questions and remarks. Ms. Maripuu kindly answered all of them and gave very nice overview.

AmCham Estonia sincerely thanks Minister Maripuu for this great speech!

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On June 10^th AmChamEstonia launched a new Discover America Committee. New Committee initiative group consists of following members: Lufthansa, Kaleva Travel, Finnair, Estravel, Radisson SAS, Wris Tours, Hertz car rental. The main goal of the Committee is to raise awareness of Estonian tourists about America and let them discover this great country as main tourist destination. Discover America Committee is strongly supported by U.S. Embassy.

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On June 4^th AmChamEstonia in co-operation with Microsoft Estonia held a very successful Entrepreneurship conference for students that took place in Tallinn IT College. This event gathered more than 60 students who were interested in establishing their own enterprise and getting practical advice on successful business development and entrepreneur key qualities development. Event was moderated by Microsoft CEO Rain Laane. U.S. Ambassador Phillips also participated in this event and shared his entrepreneur experience with Estonian students.

Special thank you to Microsoft for productive co-operation.

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On May 26^th AmChamEstonia held a very successful business lunch in Radisson SAS Hotel. This event gathered more than 20 Estonian and foreign businessmen who came to listen to Special Guest Speaker from the USA - Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Ambassador Gross was accompanied by Richard C. Beaird, the Senior Deputy U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Ambassador Gross touched the base of IT topic and spoke about ICT influence to the global world. Special U.S. guests participated in a very interesting discussion with our members and kindly answered all the questions.

To view event photos, please click here (Photos by FOTKI, AmCham Charter Gold Member)

On May 15^th more than 30 AmCham members gathered in poker room of Reval Park Hotel & Casino to enjoy Olympic Casino Poker evening and try luck at the tables. It was an unforgettableLas Vegas night for all the members right in the center of Tallinn! Professional Olympic Casino dealers gave AmCham an exclusive poker training that was followed by fun tournament with special prizes from Olympic Casino. Drinks and snacks were kindly provided by Olympic Casino bar.

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On April 14th On April 14th AmCham IPR Committee in co-operation with U.S. Embassy, BSA, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Estonian Organization for Copyright Protection and Microsoft Estonia hosted a very successful event on IPR topic. It was this year highlight event for IPR Committee that gathered more than 90 Estonian teachers at a training seminar for local educators entitled “Know Your Rights”.

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On April 3^rd Raekoja Sigari Maja kindly opened the doors for all AmCham members and gave them a great opportunity to spend Thursday evening with cigar and cognac. All our guests truly enjoyed the classy atmosphere of Raekoja Cigar house and cigar tasting in this cozy old town lounge.

Many thanks to Natalja Sokolova, member of the Board of Sigari Maja and Altia Eesti for making this event possible!

On March 28^th AmChamEstonia held a very successful business Lunch at Reval Hotel Olümpia. This event gathered more than 20 Estonian and foreign businessmen and investors who gathered to listen to Enterprise Estonia Senior Board Member Mrs. Maria Alajõe and get an overview of new EU structural funds and new options that are now opened for  businessmen. AmCham also had an honor to have as a guest the Director of EAS in Silicon Valley Mr. Andrus Viirg. Mr. Viirg introduced EAS activities in Silicon Valley and kindly answered all our guests’ questions.

Many thanks to Estonian Enterprise guests for making this event interesting and productive!

To view photos of this event, please click here.

On March 27^th AmCham longtime member PW Partners hosted friendly Business After Hours event in wine house Tervisex. AmCham members had a nice opportunity to taste different wines and cheese snacks and enjoy fellowship of AmCham members in relaxed evening atmosphere.

Many thanks to Peeter Võrk for making this event possible!

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On March 17^th Ambassador Stanley Davis Phillips and his spouse kindly opened t Pirita residence doors for AmCham members and Board Directors. It was a very warm reception that was devoted to week ofUSA movies in Tallinn and topic of American art. More than 40 guests had a chance to enjoy Ambassadors´ house hospitality, great Art collection and tasty snacks that were specially prepared by Ambassador´s spouse for this event.

Many thanks to Ambassador Phillips family for his hospitality and warm reception!

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AmCham Jeep Test-Drive Event Review

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Today American Chamber of CommerceEstonia held a very successful business Lunch at Radisson SAS Hotel.

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On January 17th Overseas Security Advisory Council in co-operation with AmCham Estonia and Internation School of Estonia held a very productive seminar on topic of School Violence. School violence became a very important and sensible issue in terms of past school violence incidents and OSAC Committee felt that we need to put our heads together and discuss the possibility of preventing such cases in the future.

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On January 17th Overseas Security Advisory Council in co-operation with AmCham Estonia and Internation School of Estonia held a very productive seminar on topic of School Violence. School violence became a very important and sensible issue in terms of past school violence incidents and OSAC Committee felt that we need to put our heads together and discuss the possibility of preventing such cases in the future.

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