A trusted forum for senior leaders shaping strategy across Central and Eastern Europe
The wiiw Executive Network connects senior executives from leading international and regional companies operating across CEE. Built on wiiw’s independent economic and proprietary survey research, it offers a confidential setting to exchange experience, test assumptions, and benchmark strategic choices with peers across the CEE region and multiple industry sectors.
Executive Network meetings are held regularly in Warsaw, Vienna, and Prague, combining research briefings with structured peer discussion, supported by digital content throughout the year.
What members discuss
Is Your Productivity Plan Built on Buying Tools You Can't Use?
54% of CEE firms fund AI tools with zero budget for the skills to run them — and 100% of firms that actually scaled AI had funded workforce readiness first. See the playbook synopsis in our free one-page CEE Labor & Productivity Benchmark.
Membership in the wiiw Executive Network
Access independent economic insight, proprietary benchmarking, and structured peer exchange with senior executives operating across Central and Eastern Europe.
Podcasts
Executive conversations on strategy and decision-making in CEE
Where AI Actually Fits
Most leaders can speak confidently about artificial intelligence. Far fewer can point to a spot in their own business where it has quietly earned its…
The CEE Growth Model in Transition
In this episode, host Fred Schneider is joined by Mario Holzner and Richard Grievesen of the wiiw to dissect the Spring 2026 Forecast: "Growth Model,…
From Firefighting to Forecasting: Preventive Maintenance and the Future of Industrial Operations
A state-owned industrial operator with six thousand employees sets an explicit target: cut the operations team by forty percent in five years, using preventive maintenance…