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Draft Conference Agenda (As of January 30) DELPHI ECONOMIC FORUM IV The Challenge of Inclusive Growth Delphi, Greece | February 28 - March 3, 2019 Draft Conference Agenda (as of January 30) DAY 1 Thursday, February 28, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 10.00 ARRIVAL OF GUEST & PARTICIPANTS REGISTRATION STARTS 12.15 LIGHT MEAL ARTEMIS HALL – PLENARY 13.00 OPENING SESSION Sigmar Gabriel, Member of Parliament; Former Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Germany 13.30 SESSION GREECE 2020-2030: NEW NATIONAL OBJECTIVES Evangelos Venizelos, fmr. Deputy Prime Minister; fmr. Minister for Foreign Affairs, Greece Panayiotis Pikrammenos, Caretaker Prime Minister 2012, Greece Anna Diamantopoulou, President, DIKTIO Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, Greece Takis Athanasopoulos, Chairman, Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research; Chairman, HERACLES G.C.C, Greece Theodore Fessas, Chairman, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, Greece Konstantinos Kostis, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Athens, Greece Dimitris Papalexopoulos, CEO, TITAN, Greece George Provopoulos, Former Governor of the Bank of Greece 2008-2014, Greece Chair: 15.30 BREAK 1 | P a g e Τhe agenda is subject to change (*) to be confirmed DAY 1 Thursday, February 28, 2019 15.45 SESSION A HELLENIC DEVELOPMENT BANK: A NEW HEAD-START TO THE GREEK ECONOMIC ECOSYSTEM Yannis Dragasakis, Deputy Prime Minister, Hellenic Republic H.E. Christophe Chantepy, French Ambassador to Athens Adonis Georgakakis, CEO, ETEAN, Greece Pascal Lagarde, Executive Director in charge of Int. Affairs, Strategy, Research & Development, Bpifrance Chair: 16.30 SESSION DISCUSSION AMONG PARTY CANDIDATES FOR THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Evangelos Meimarakis, fmr Defence Minister; fmr President, New Democracy Party; fmr President, Hellenic Parliament Dimitris Papadimoulis, Vice-President, European Parliament, Brussels Chair: Penelope Gavra, Journalist, Greece 17.15 SESSION CULTURE AND VALUES Rector Hélène Ahrweiler, President, Administration Council, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece Nikiforos Diamandouros, Emeritus Professor, University of Athens; European Ombudsman (2003- 2013) Chair: Thanasis Niarchos, Author, Poet & Columnist, Greece 18.00 BREAK 18.15 THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE Why are leaders in government and business struggling to handle the ‘new normal’ of global disruptions? Nik Gowing, Founder, Thinking the Unthinkable, UK Chris Langdon, Co-author, Thinking the Unthinkable, UK 19.00 BREAK 2 | P a g e Τhe agenda is subject to change (*) to be confirmed Day 1 Thursday, February 28, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 19.15 OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY H.E. Prokopios Pavlopoulos, President of the Hellenic Republic H.E. Nikos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Cyprus * Nikos Voutsis, President, Hellenic Parliament Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy, European Commission, Brussels * 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 20.25 BREAK DELPHI AMALIA HOTEL 21.00 OPENING RECEPTION at DELPHI AMALIA HOTEL 21.00 PRIVATE DINNER at the APOLLON 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 Chair: Paul Glastris, Editor-in-Chief, The Washington Monthly, USA 3 | P a g e Τhe agenda is subject to change (*) to be confirmed Day 2 Friday, March 1, 2019 DELPHI AMALIA HOTEL 08.00 BREAKFAST – 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 (Retired), ESDDA, Strategy and Operational Planning Instructor, Greece Panayotis Tsakonas, President of BoD, Center for Security Studies (KE.ME.A), Greece Chair: Andreas Sideris, Political Scientist/Editor, MSc LSE, Greece 08.00 BREAKFAST – 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 Daniel Esdras, Special Envoy of the Director General, IOM to the Government of Greece, The UN Migration Agency Amb. Rastislav Kacer, Chairman, Globsec, Slovakia Kemal Kirisci, Senior Fellow, Brookings, USA Chair: 08.00 BREAKFAST – IANTHI ROOM CYBER SECURITY Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director, ENISA, Greece Phillip Larbey, Global Managing Principal – CENTA & Associate Director - NCC Group Konstantinos Lambropoulos, Associate Fellow, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Greece Chair: 09.30 BREAK 4 | P a g e Τhe agenda is subject to change (*) to be confirmed Day 2 Friday, March 1, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 10.00 IN CONVERSATION – ARTEMIS HALL Yannis Dragasakis, Deputy Prime Minister, Hellenic Republic Chair: 10.30 IN CONVERSATION – ARTEMIS HALL PORTUGAL: CRISIS, ADJUSTMENT AND THE PATH TO SUSTAINABLE GROWTH Dr. Carlos Costa, Governor, Central Bank of Portugal Chair: 11.00 SESSION – 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, Greece * Sabina Dziurman, Director for Greece and Cyprus, EBRD, Greece Fotini Ioannou, General Manager, Corporate & Investment Banking, Piraeus Bank Vasilis Karamouzis, AGM, Corporate & Investment Banking, National Bank, Greece Yannis Manuelides, Partner, Allen & Overy, UK Konstantinos Vassiliou, Deputy CEO, Eurobank, Greece Chair: 12.00 BREAK 12.15 SESSION – 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 Ana Revenga, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings, USA Christian Bodewig, Program Leader, World Bank Group, USA Chair: Arup Banerji, Regional Director for the EU Countries, World Bank Group, USA 13.45 IN CONVERSATION – ARTEMIS HALL Jurgen Rigterink, First VP Banking, EBRD, UK 14.00 LUNCH BREAK 5 | P a g e Τhe agenda is subject to change (*) to be confirmed Day 2 Friday, March 1, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI PLENARY SESSION - ARTEMIS HALL 14.30 IN CONVERSATION – ARTEMIS HALL Robert D. Kaplan, Author; Fellow, Center for a New American Security; Senior Advisor, Eurasia Group, USA Alexis Papahelas, Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece 15.05 FIRESIDE CHAT – ARTEMIS HALL Kyriacos Mitsotakis, Leader of the Opposition, New Democracy Party, Greece Peter Spiegel, News Editor, Financial Times, UK 15.45 BREAK 16.00 SESSION – 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 Giannis Tountas, Medical Doctor; Professor at Medical School, University of Athens, Greece * Platon Tinios, Assistant Professor, University of Piraeus, Greece Yannis Retsos, President, Greek Tourism Confederation, SETE Chair: Thodoris Georgakopoulos, editorial director, diaNEOsis, Greece 16.45 SESSION – ARTEMIS HALL WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE EUROPEAN BANKS Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Former President, Eurogroup Gikas Hardouvelis, fmr. Minister of Finance; Professor, University of Piraeus, Greece Pavlos Mylonas, CEO, National Bank, Greece Chair: Professor Christos V. Gortsos, Law School, University of Athens, Greece 17.15 IN CONVERSATION – ARTEMIS HALL Dr. Heiner Flassbeck, Former State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany Nikos Christodoulakis, Professor, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece 6 | P a g e Τhe agenda is subject to change (*) to be confirmed Day 2 Friday, March 1, 2019 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI 17.45 SESSION - ARTEMIS HALL COCA COLA EXECUTIVE 18.00 SESSION - ARTEMIS HALL LEADING NOW: CRITICAL CAPABILITIES FOR A COMPLEX WORLD Alexandra Papalexopoulou, Executive Director, Titan, Greece Spyros Theodoropoulos, CEO, Chipita SA, Greece Eftichios Vassilakis, Chairman, Aegean Airlines; CEO, Autohellas, Greece Chair: 19.00 KEYNOTE SPEECH – ARTEMIS HALL H.E. Pedro Sanchez, Prime Minister of Spain * H.E. Boyko Borissov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria * H.E. Ivica Dacic, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic Serbia * Dr. Werner Hoyer, President, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg 19.45 BREAK PLENARY SESSION - ARTEMIS HALL 20.00 KEYNOTE SPEECH – ARTEMIS HALL H.E. Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic 7 | P a g e Τhe agenda is subject to change (*) to be confirmed Day 2 | Friday, March 1, 2019 DELPHI AMALIA HOTEL 21.45 PRIVATE DINNER at the APOLLON ROOM OF AMALIA HOTEL (by invitation only) IN CONVERSATION Nicos Christodoulides, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
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