Saturday 5 September Online & Offline Conference Amsterdam
10.30h Welcoming Remarks Sergei Stanishev, President of the Party of European Socialists Maria João Rodrigues, President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies
10:45h An Alternative Globalisation Exists: Environmental and Employment Goals Carlota Perez, Honorary Professor, Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London (Special Lecture and Q&A)
11.15h Towards a Fair Digital Society and Economy Statement - Evgeny Morozov, author and researcher on political and social implications of technology Saskia Esken (TBC), co-chair of the SPD Francesca Bria, chairman CPD venture capital, UN advisor digital rights Andrea Renda, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation & Digital Economy at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Digital Innovation Chair in the European Economic Studies Department at the College of Europe Chair - FEPS
12.15h Carrousel: get to know the participants (Let’s get digital)/Lunch
13.00h The Economics of Belonging: a radical plan to win back the left Martin Sandbu, author and journalist Financial Times’ European Economics commentator
13.30h Creation and Redistribution of Opportunities against a Regional Divide Fabrizio Barca, former Italian minister for territorial cohesion Andrés Rodríguez-Pose. Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. Holder of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Chair TBD
14:15h Breakout Session (titles in appendix)
Industrial policy Liveable Cities - TBC - Emilia Smeds - Massimo Florio - Marleen Stikker - TBC - TBC - Moderator TBC - Moderator TBC
15:05h Breakout Session (titles in appendix)
Tax Justice Now Finance for people & planet - Grace Perez-Navarro - Sandrine Dixson-Declève, - Arjan Lejour - Arnout Boot - TBC - TBC - Moderator: Paul Tang - Moderator: Mehreen Khan
15.50h Mini pitches online + meet the speakers online: How to do a reset? and coffeebreak
16.15h Are we Radical enough on the Green Transition? Ann Pettifor, Director of Policy Research In Macroeconomics - PRIME Jeremy Rifkin (TBC), American economic and social theorist, writer, political advisor. Author of the “Third Industrial Revolution” and “The Green New Deal”. Diederik Samsom, Head of cabinet EC Vice-President Frans Timmermans Chair: Anna Gumbau, journalist
17:00h Lodewijk Asscher, Partij van de Arbeid party leader
17.30h Joseph Stiglitz Nobel Prize in Economics. Public policy analyst and professor at Columbia University
Confirmed speakers breakout sessions
Industrial policy - Massimo Florio, Jean Monnet Chair on industrial policy, University of Milano
Liveable Cities - Emilia Smeds, Research Assistant on Urban mobility transitions and experimentation, University College London - Marleen Stikker, founder of The Digital City. Member of the European H2020 Commission High-level Expert Group for SRIA on innovating Cities/DGResearch.
Tax Justice Now - Grace Perez-Navarro, Deputy Director of the OECD centre for Tax Policy. - Arjan Lejour, Full professor on Taxation and Public Finance, Tilburg University. - Moderator, Paul Tang, Member of the European Parliament
Finance for people & planet - Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of the Club of Rome and the former CPO of UN Sustainable Development. Former Director of the European Union office of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership - Arnout Boot, Dutch economist and professor at the University of Amsterdam. Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. - Moderator Mehreen Khan, Politico