Introduction | Testimonials | Program | Download Event Presentations
The program will start at 18:00 on Thursday, 24th September and end at 14:00 on Sunday 27th.
Thursday 24th September
| Welcome to the conference | |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Welcoming you to the weekend: an informal introduction to what you can expect during the event's three days and your own role and opportunities. |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 - | Interviewing the presenters: Rob Weinberg will be starting a conversation with your keynoters and panelists. Including an evening interview with the co-founder of the Social Entrepreneurship World HUB Innovation concept: Jonathan Robinson.
Getting to know who is there: helping you find the attendees closest to your passion, to your priorities, to your project or to your area of interest. |
Friday 25th September
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? GETTING THE FACTS RIGHT |
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| - | THE GROUNDING KEYNOTE
Arthur Dahl Looking to the horizon: what are we ultimately aiming for? What do we mean and what are the implications of our vision of "Enhancing the Wellbeing and Prosperity of Humankind"? |
| - | CREATING THE BEST COMPANY EVER - PART I Ruediger Fox The personal experience of transforming a corporate environment from the top - the "Just do it" approach to creating companies based on the individual's personal values. |
| - | CREATING THE BEST COMPANY EVER - FEMININE WISDOM Kristin Engvig The founder and CEO of the Women International Network WIN offers her views on the role of women and feminine wisdom in the "Best Company Ever". |
| - | MORNING CONVERSATIONS A World Café dynamic where working groups will address in more intimate conversations, sitting with the conference presenters, some of the issues connected with the conference theme. |
| - | Introducing THE PROJECTS ROOM Introducing the room where you will be able to view all the projects that participants are involved in and all the projects that EBBF and its members are developing. |
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| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch and then just ... relax, visit/share in the projects room (or network the EBBF way, as you prefer) |
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PARALLEL TRACKS |
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| - | A NEW DEFINITION OF WORK
Ruediger Fox - What should the objective of work, of companies be? |
ADVANCING THE ROLE OF WOMEN
Wendi Momen and Mieko Bond - How can we balance and offer truly equal opportunities to both women and men to create a more effective use of the world's human resources? |
AN INTEGRAL APPROACH TO DEVELOPING VIBRANT LEADERSHIP
Alain Gauthier - . |
GUIDANCE ON COHERENCE IN OUR ACTIVITIES
Rob Weinberg - offering the House of Justice's recommendations, encouraging us to achieve coherence in our activities - seeing every aspect of our lives as coherent elements of a process of building a new society/civilization. |
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
George Starcher & Jean Pierre Mean - An interactive session on how EBBF values can strengthen corporate governance practices. |
WHAT IS A MEANINGFUL CAREER?
Mika Korhonen What criteria should we use in finding the most meaningful career, one that is aligned with what is most important to us? How do we go about finding a meaningful job? What can we and our values offer to a meaningful company? |
| - | "CREATING THE BEST COMPANY EVER" KEYNOTE - I - THE THINKING Paul Hughes We start the first of the three sessions dedicated to building the best company ever with some thought provoking thinking into the company of the future. |
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| 18:30 - 19:30 | Dinner and then just ... relax, visit/share in the projects room (or network the EBBF way, as you prefer) |
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| - | EVENING ENTERTAINMENT
Be entertained and challenged listening to some of the projects that participants are taking forward, putting into practice EBBF's core values. |
| - | EVENING GALA CONCERT
A musical and arts program to delight the ears, the eyes and the spirits |
Saturday 26th September
CONTINUING THE CREATION OF "THE BEST COMPANY EVER" |
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| - | "CREATING THE BEST COMPANY EVER in a CHANGING ENVIRONMENT" KEYNOTE Augusto Lopez Claros Is the Financial Crisis A Harbinger of Emerging Global Governance? |
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| - | "CREATING THE BEST COMPANY EVER" KEYNOTE - II - THE STRUCTURE Larry Miller What is the framework and the structure of the company of the future? How will it function and what basic organizational layout will it offer? |
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| - | MORNING CONVERSATIONS A World Café dynamic where working groups will address in more intimate conversations, sitting with the conference presenters, some of the issues connected with the conference theme. |
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| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch and then just ... relax, visit/share in the projects room (or network the EBBF way, as you prefer) |
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PARALLEL TRACKS |
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| - | INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
Augusto Lopez Claros The Innovation for Development Report 2009-2010 Strengthening Innovation for the Prosperity of Nations" |
STRUCTURING THE BEST COMPANY EVER
Larry Miller Continuing the keynote theme. |
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Daniel Truran and Roxann Stafford Presenting and exploring new career paths and enterprises allowing you to earn a living whilst serving and solving social issues in an entrepreneurial way. |
TALENT EXCHANGE, JOB PLATFORM
Beppe Robiati, Faramarz Ettehadieh, ... Having explored how to find a meaningful career, small group conversations offering your talents to potential employers and receiving from them feedback on your approach, your CV, your talents and your direction. |
VALUES BASED INDICATORS
Dimity Podger and Arthur Dahl Involving you in the two year EU Funder project aimed at creating a set of indicators that will measure the effect of a values based approach in companies and organizations. Offering you the first findings and ways forward in the search for values driven indicators. |
DEVELOPING THE EBBF ETHICAL TOOLKIT
Mahmud Samandari and Sara Rohani Sharing with you an "Ethical Toolkit" for SMEs consisting of three modules (gender balance, purpose beyond profit and sustainable development), which will eventually be made available on line as a downloadable self-help instrument for anyone interested in implementing those values in their company or helping others to do so through workshops. |
| - | EBBF Annual General Meeting | |||||
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| 18:45 - 20:00 | Dinner and then just ... relax, visit/share in the projects room (or network the EBBF way, as you prefer) |
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| THE "WORLD TALK" ROUNDTABLE Live debate hosted by Wendi Momen |
| Saturday night live entertainment - For your ears, for your eyes and for your spirits. |
Sunday 27th September
CHANGE AND THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT |
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| - | LOOKING AT THE FUTURE
Looking at the future from an AIESEC perspective |
| THREE FORMS OF CHANGE AND THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT
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| - | CREATING THE BEST COMPANY EVER - INFLUENCING PEOPLE AROUND YOU
Francoise Le Goff |
| - | CHANGING THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND YOU to CHANGE THE WORLD
Gordon Naylor |
| - | Visionary close reflecting the journey of these last three days, highlighting its key messages |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch the last conversations and the informal goodbyes |
