Tuesday 25 November 2008
- Claridge’s,
London |
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| 07.45 | Registration with tea/coffee | ||
| 08.00 | Breakfast discussion groups |
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| 09.05 | Welcome address | ||
| Michael Toedman, VP, International Managing Director, BusinessWeek | |||
| 09.15 | Opening Keynote Neelie Kroes Commissioner for Competition, European Commission |
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| 09.45 | Head-to-Head: Europe's Relationship with Growth Countries and Globalisation | ||
A head-to-head debate featuring senior European CEO’s discussing major issues and opportunities facing today’s global businesses, moderated by Chris Power, International Editor, BusinessWeek and Steve Tappin, a Managing Partner of Heidrick & Struggles' Global CEO and Board Practice and author of “The Secrets of CEOs”. Lord Browne, Managing Director, Riverstone Europe LLP |
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| 10.30 | Morning Coffee | ||
| 11.00 | The 2008 European BW 50 Panel: Managing High Performance Businesses
through Uncertain Global Economies |
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The European BW 50, the annual ranking of the best performing
European companies, is Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO, Telenor ASA, Norway |
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| 12.15 | Lunch Discussion Groups | ||
| • Performance | |||
| The anatomy of high performance companies
featuring executives from the BW Europe 50. |
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| • Innovation | |||
| Open Innovation: recessions present a
good opportunity to collaborate with others on finding, developing, and marketing new ideas. |
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| • Emerging Markets | |||
| High growth markets vs competition – the challenge of BRIC and Emerging Markets. | |||
| 14.15 | Coffee | ||
| 14.45 | Afternoon Roundtable Discussion Groups | ||
| The 2008 European Leadership Forum will feature invitation only
Roundtable Discussion Groups, limited to twenty-five to thirty participants each and focused on a major sector issue or specific theme crucial to successful global companies. Each Roundtable will include senior representatives from the industry, analysts, regulatory representatives and clients to ensure an interactive and lively debate, with co-moderation from BusinessWeek’s global editors and expert analysts from the sector. After introductions the Roundtables will proceed through a specific agenda with a defined set of questions to debate and answer, moderated through- out to ensure a good flow of debate and discussion, and will conclude with the creation of a summary outline and whitepaper on the questions posed. Draft topics and sectors are outlined below, however are subject to change. A draft schedule for each Roundtable is as follows: 14.45 Introductions 15.00 Open Presentations from Moderators and Co-Hosts 15.15 Roundtable – Debate & Discussion 16.30 Conclusions from the Group 17.15 Roundtable Close |
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| Refreshments will be available through the discussion group | |||
| • Telecoms | |||
| Infrastructure vs. content; which is the more reliable guarantee of future income? | |||
| • Finance | |||
| Raising capital and managing risk in turbulent markets. | |||
| • FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) | |||
| Achieving sustained growth in a slower economic climate. | |||
| • Energy | |||
| Security of supply: availability of resources;
declining domestic production; renewables; environmental/sustainability targets. |
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| • Aviation | |||
| Competition, consolidation and globalisation – the future of an industry. | |||
| • Auto | |||
| Globalization - competing in each others markets; development of a world car. | |||
| • Digital / Information Technology | |||
| Aligning global business drivers. | |||
| • Industrials | |||
| Sustainability. | |||
| Confirmed participants include: Richard Boynett, CIO, Electrocomponents plc Daslav Brkic, Vice President, Business and Technology Development – Onshore, Snamprogetti SpA, Italy Grégoire Dallemagne, Executive Vice President Strategy, BELGACOM, Belgium David Giampaolo, Chief Executive, Pi Capital Nick van Holstein, President UK and Ireland, Sara Lee Jeremy Hyland, Group Director of IT, Amtico International Michiel Mak, Senior Vice President, Clean Coal Energy & Power, Shell Gas & Power Fernando Naredo, VP, Europe Government Affairs, Westinghouse Electric Company, Belgium Georges Pauget, CEO, Credit Agricole Bob Pettigrew, Non Executive Chairman, ACAL Energy Nick Read, CEO, Vodafone UK Barbara Ridpath, Chief Executive Officer, International Centre for Financial Regulation (ICFR) Richard Simon-Lewis, Director and Head of Energy & Utilities, Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets Andrew Stanleick, General Manager of L'Oreal Paris for the UK & Republic of Ireland Sveinung Støhle, President & CEO, Höegh LNG Ltd, Norway Mehdi Varzi, President, Varzi Energy |
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| 18.00 | Cocktails / Networking reception | ||
| A facilitated networking service will run throughout the evening
to help delegates with common interests locate each other. |
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| 18.30 | Roundtable Presentation | ||
| John Defterios will present key findings and items of agreement
and contention from each Roundtable prior to the gala dinner. Note: An output report summarising each group’s work will be made available to all participants after the event. Facilities will be provided for the establishment of common interest groups and discussion forums after the event so that dialogue can continue between participants. |
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| 19.00 | BusinessWeek Leadership Dinner with
Guest Speaker Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham Minister for Trade and Investment Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform |
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