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DELPHI ECONOMIC FORUM IV Conference Agenda DELPHI ECONOMIC FORUM IV The Challenge of Inclusive Growth Delphi, Greece | February 28 - March 3, 2019 Conference Agenda DAY 1 Thursday, February 28, 2019 11.00 REGISTRATION OPENS EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 12.30 LIGHT MEAL For all guests & participants at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi 14.15 SESSION 1 - KONSTANTINOS KARAMANLIS HALL DISCUSSION AMONG PARTY CANDIDATES FOR THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Evangelos Meimarakis, fmr. DefenceMinister; fmr.President, New Democracy Party, fmr. President, Hellenic Parliament Dimitris Papadimoulis, Vice-President, European Parliament, Brussels Chair:Pinelopi Gavra, Journalist, Greece 15.00 SESSION 2 - KONSTANTINOS KARAMANLIS HALL HELLENIC DEVELOPMENT BANK: POTENTIAL & PROSPECTS Yannis Dragasakis, Deputy Prime Minister, Hellenic Republic H.E. Christophe Chantepy, French Ambassador to Athens Adonis Georgakakis, President, ETEAN, Greece Pascal Lagarde, Executive Director in charge of Int. Affairs, Strategy, Research & Development, Bpifrance Ioannis Hadjiyiannis, Head of Athens Office, Directorate General for Structural Reform Support Service (SRSS), Greece Chair:Lyda Bola, Journalist, Alpha TV, Greece 16.00 SESSION 3 - KONSTANTINOS KARAMANLIS HALL 1 CULTURE AND VALUES Rector Hélène Ahrweiler, President, Administration Council, European Cultural Centre ofDelphi, Greece Nikiforos Diamandouros, Emeritus Professor, University of Athens; European Ombudsman (2003- 2013), Greece Chair: Thanasis Niarchos, Author, Poet & Columnist, Greece DAY 1 Thursday, February 28, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 17.00 KEYNOTE SPEECH- KONSTANTINOS KARAMANLIS HALL CULTURAL HERITAGE AND DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS: CONDITIONS FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING, PEACE AND SUSTAINABILITY Marianna V. Vardinoyannis, Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO, President, Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation, Greece Introduced by: Symeon G. Tsomokos, Delphi Economic Forum 17.15 BREAK EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 14.15 SESSION 4 – DIONYSOS HALL GREECE 2020-2030: NEW NATIONAL OBJECTIVES Dimitris Liakos, Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister, Hellenic Republic Takis Athanasopoulos, Chairman, Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research; Chairman, HERACLES G.C.C, Greece Anna Diamantopoulou, President, DIKTIO Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, Greece Costas Douzinas, Member of the Parliament, Syriza Party, Hellenic Republic Theodore Fessas, Chairman, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, Greece Konstantinos Kostis, Prof.of Economic & Social History, University of Athens; Advisor to the Management, Alpha Bank Dimitris Papalexopoulos, CEO, TITAN, Greece Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Caretaker Prime Minister 2012, Hellenic Republic George Provopoulos, Former Governor of the Bank of Greece 2008-2014, Greece Evangelos Venizelos, fmr. Deputy Prime Minister; fmr. Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic Chair:Pavlos Tsimas, Editor-at-Large, Huffington Post, Greece 2 17.15 BREAK 3 DAY 1 Thursday, February 28, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI ARTEMIS HALL – PLENARY 17.25 SPONSORS’ THANK YOU CEREMONY 17.35 SESSION 5 THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Why are leaders in government and business struggling to handle the ‘new normal’ of global disruptions? Nik Gowing, Director and Co-author, Thinking the Unthinkable Chris Langdon, Director and Co-author, Thinking the Unthinkable Introduced by: Yannis Thomatos, Vice-President, Delphi Economic Forum 18.20 BREAK 18.30 OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY H.E. Prokopios Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic Nikos Voutsis, President, Hellenic Parliament Rector Hélène Ahrweiler, President, Administration Council, European Cultural Centre ofDelphi, Greece Christos Stylianides, Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, European Commission, Brussels Gila Gamliel, Minister for Social Equality, Israel The Digital Revolution for A Better Society Welcome note by Kostas Bakoyannis, Governor, Region of Central Greece Welcome note by Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, Mayor, Municipality of Delphi Introduced by: Symeon G. Tsomokos, Delphi Economic Forum DELPHI AMALIA HOTEL 21.00 OPENING RECEPTION For all guests &participants at the Delphi Amalia Hotel 21.00 PRIVATE DINNERat theAPOLLON ROOM OF AMALIA HOTEL(by invitation only) AN OUTLOOK ON THE TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS Heather Conley, Senior VP Europe, Eurasia, Arctic; Director, Europe Program, CSIS, USA Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director, Bruegel, Brussels Amb. Rastislav Kacer, Chairman, Globsec, Slovakia 4 Chair: Paul Glastris, Editor-in-Chief, The Washington Monthly, USA 5 Day 2 Friday, March1, 2019 DELPHI AMALIA HOTEL 08.00 BREAKFAST 1– APOLLON ROOM NATIONAL SECURITY: POLITICAL CONSENSUS, SOCIAL COHESION AND STRATEGY FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH Alexandros Mallias, Ambassador (ad honorem), Greece Kostas Ant. Lavdas, Professor of European Policy, Panteion University, Greece Kostas Ifantis, Associate Professor, Panteion University, Greece Nicolas Papanastasopoulos, PhD, Political Science and International Politics, Greece Nicolaos Koukis, Philologist & Historian; Senior High School Deputy Director, Doukas School, Greece George Hatzitheofanous, Major General (ret.), ESDDA, Strategy and Operational Planning Instructor, Greece Panayiotis Tsakonas, President of BoD, Center for Security Studies (KE.ME.A), Greece Chair:Andreas Sideris, Political Scientist/Editor, MSc LSE, Greece 08.00 BREAKFAST 2 –ERMIS ROOM WHICH WAY FORWARD FOR MIGRATION AND ASYLUM IN EUROPE? Programming Partner: ELIAMEP Angeliki Dimitriadi, Research Fellow, ELIAMEP, Greece Marie De Somer, Head, European Migration & Diversity Programme – Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre Amb. Rastislav Kacer, Chairman, Globsec, Slovakia Kemal Kirisci, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, USA Chair:Thanos Dokos, Director General, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy, Greece 08.00 BREAKFAST3– IANTHI ROOM CYBER SECURITY Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director, ENISA, Greece John Baras, Distinguished Uni.Professor & Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering, University of Maryland, USA Konstantinos Lampropoulos, Associate Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Greece Panagiotis Papagiannakopoulos, Associate Partner, Advisory Service, Ernst &Young SA, Greece Chair:Vaggelis Mandravelis, Journalist, Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece 09.30 BREAK 6 Day 2 Friday, March 1, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 09.45 SESSION6– ARTEMIS HALL FINANCING THE NEXT DAY FOR GREECE Opening statement Socrates Lazaridis, CEO, Athens Exchange Group, Greece Discussants Petros Doukas, Chairman of the Board, Capital Partners SA; President, International Chamber of Commerce, Greece Sabina Dziurman, Director for Greece and Cyprus, EBRD, Greece Vassilis Karamouzis, AGM, Corporate & Investment Banking, National Bank of Greece Konstantinos Petropoulos, Assistant General Manager, Structured & Shipping Finance, Piraeus Bank, Greece Yannis Manuelides, Partner, Allen & Overy, UK Konstantinos Vassiliou, Deputy CEO, Eurobank, Greece Domna Maria Michailidou, Adjunct Lecturer, Cambridge University, UK Chair:Peter Sanfey, Deputy Director, Country Economics and Policy, EBRD 11.00 IN CONVERSATION– ARTEMIS HALL PORTUGAL: CRISIS, ADJUSTMENT AND THE PATH TO SUSTAINABLE GROWTH Dr. Carlos Costa, Governor, Central Bank of Portugal Chair:Costas Mitropoulos, Executive Director, PwC Greece 11.30 IN CONVERSATION– ARTEMIS HALL H.E. Jens Plötner, German Ambassador to Greece Chair:Katerina Sokou, Washington DC Correspondent, Kathimerini Greek Daily, USA 12.00 BREAK 12.15 SESSION 7– ARTEMIS HALL UPGRADING EUROPE'S "CONVERGENCE MACHINE": HOW TO LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND INDUSTRY 4.0 FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH? Programming Partner: World Bank Group Dimitris Liakos, Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister, Hellenic Republic Anna Diamantopoulou, President, DIKTIO Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, Greece Ana Revenga, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings, USA Christian Bodewig, Program Leader, World Bank Group, USA Zina Mavroeidi, E-fresh.gr, Greece 7 Chair:Arup Banerji, Regional Director for the EU Countries, World Bank Group, USA 8 Day 2 Friday, March 1, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 13.30 SESSION 8– ARTEMIS HALL THE EMERGING AFRICA Programming Pαrtner: To DIKTIO Network for Reforms in Greece & Europe H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President, Federal Republic of Nigeria Intervention:Dr. Noureddine Bardad Daidj, Algerian Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic Chair: Anna Diamantopoulou, President, DIKTIO Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, Greece 14.00 LUNCH BREAK PLENARY SESSION - ARTEMIS HALL 14.30 IN CONVERSATION –ARTEMIS HALL Robert D. Kaplan, Author; Managing Director, Eurasia Group, USA Alexis Papahelas, Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece 15.10 FIRESIDE CHAT– ARTEMIS HALL Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Leader of the Opposition, New Democracy Party, Greece Peter Spiegel, News Editor, Financial Times, UK 15.55 BREAK 16.00 SESSION 9– ARTEMIS HALL THE SILVER ECONOMY: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GREECE? Programming Partner: diaNEOsis diaNEOsis is an independent, private, non-profit research organization based in Athens. Its aim is to foster all forms of informed public dialogue .and shape concrete proposals that contribute to the resolution of the critical economic and social problems Greece is currently facing Yannis Tountas, Medical Doctor; Professor at Medical School, University of Athens, Greece Platon Tinios, Assistant Professor, University of Piraeus, Greece Aristos Doxiadis, Partner, BigPi Ventures, Greece Sofia Gkiousou, Public Policy, Airbnb, UK 9 Chair:Thodoris Georgakopoulos, Editorial
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