Skills for Growth
Thursday 26 April 2012
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Presentation of the 2012 CEO Survey on Skills presented by FEB (Rudi Thomaes) and Accenture
Thursday 26 April 12 - 10:00 am to 10:30 am
Type : Interactive sessions
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Opening Plenary
Thursday 26 April 12 - 10:30 am to 11:15 am
Type : Plenary sessions
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Plenary Debate: How Can Skills Get Europe out of the Crisis?
Thursday 26 April 12 - 11:15 am to 12:30 pm
Type : Plenary sessions
Moderator : Tony Barber , Europe Editor and Associate Editor of Financial Times
Speakers : Christian Jourquin (invited), CEO of Solvay - Chairman of EIT Foundation - Jo Deblaere (invited), COO of Accenture - Martin Schulz (invited), President, European Parliament - Peter Praet (invited), Member of the Executive Board of ECB
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Open Forum Session 1
Thursday 26 April 12 - 12:30 pm to 02:00 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
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Business Leaders Lunch (on invitation only)
Thursday 26 April 12 - 12:30 pm to 02:00 pm
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Networking Lunches
Thursday 26 April 12 - 12:30 pm to 02:00 pm
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Open Forum Session 2
Thursday 26 April 12 - 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
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Session 1: Managing (Un)employment: Jobs and Skills in the Crisis
Thursday 26 April 12 - 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
Moderator : Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director of INSEAD
Speakers : Bernadette Ségol, General Secretary of European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) - László Andor (invited), Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission - Philippe de Buck, Director General of BUSINESSEUROPE - Vineet Nayar (invited), CEO of HCL Technologies
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Session 2: What Can Europe Learn from Other World Players?
Thursday 26 April 12 - 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
Moderator : Adrian van den Hoven (invited), Director International Relations of BUSINESSEUROPE
Speakers : Jan Truszcynski (invited), Director General of DG Education and Culture, European Commission - Martin Rama (invited), Director of World Development Report 2012 of World Bank - Michael C. Camuñez (invited), Assistant Secretary of US Department of Commerce - Natarajan Chandrasekaran , CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services - Sergey Borisov (invited), Deputy Chairman of the Government Commission for Development of Small and Medium Entrepreneurship, President of OPORA RUSSIA, Vice President of Sberbank of Russia
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Open Forum Session 3
Thursday 26 April 12 - 03:15 pm to 04:15 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
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Session 3: Activating Untapped Talents
Thursday 26 April 12 - 03:15 pm to 04:15 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
Moderator : Philippe Haspeslagh, Dean of Vlerick Management School
Speakers : Daniel Cohn-Bendit (invited), Co-President of the Group European Greens-European Free Alliance, European Parliament - Güler Sabanci (invited), Chairman and Managing Director of Sabanci Group - Kristin Skogen Lund (invited), President of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) - Philippe Lamberts (invited), European Deputy at the European Parliament - Stéphane Gatignon (invited), Mayor of Sevran - Thorkil Sonne, Founder of Specialisterne and Chairman of Specialist People Foundation
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Session 4: Leveraging Technology to Innovate
Thursday 26 April 12 - 03:15 pm to 04:15 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
Moderator : Richard Straub, Director of Corporate Services & EU Affairs of EFMD
Speakers : Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, European Commission - Ole Johansson, President of the Confederation of Finnish Industries and Former CEO of Wärtisilä Corporation - Rory Simpson, Chief Learning Officer of Telefónica - Sanjit Bunker Roy, Director and Founder of Barefoot College (India) - William Kennard (invited), Ambassador to European Union, United States
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Networking Break
Thursday 26 April 12 - 04:15 pm to 04:45 pm
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Open Forum Session 4
Thursday 26 April 12 - 04:45 pm to 05:45 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
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Session 5: New Skills for the Green Economy
Thursday 26 April 12 - 04:45 pm to 05:45 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
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Session 6: Education and Entrepreneurs: Matching Brains and Business
Thursday 26 April 12 - 04:45 pm to 05:45 pm
Type : Interactive sessions
Moderator : Christophe Leclercq, Founder and Publisher of EurActiv.com
Speakers : Antonio Tajani, Vice President and Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, European Commission - Jørgen Vig Knudstorp (invited), CEO of LEGO - Julie O’Neill , President of Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) - Lauritz Holm-Nielsen, Rector of Aarhus University (Denmark) - Mikael Hagström (invited), Chairman Executive Council of AmCham EU and President of EMEA and Asia Pacific, SAS Institute - Professor Hermann Simon, President of Simon-Kucher & Partners
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Closing Plenary: Skills for Growth
Thursday 26 April 12 - 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm
Type : Plenary sessions
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Closing Cocktail
Thursday 26 April 12 - 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm