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ESMT ANNUAL FORUM 2014 ESMT EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 2050 Building to last – leading to adapt July 3, 2014 ESMT Annual Forum 2014 1 ESMT ANNUAL FORUM 2014 ESMT ANNUAL FORUM 2014 2050: A CONNECTED GLOBAL SOCIETY AIMING AT A CLEAN PLANET The first things that come digital means. A large number of universities are currently to mind while thinking experimenting with MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, ahead to the year 2050 which offer modules to those who have had no access to usually have to do with learning thus far or who wish to balance their knowledge ourselves in relation to deficits. There have been MOOC courses with hundreds of future developments. Quite thousands of international users – what initially looked like legitimately, we wonder hype may turn into a serious learning method that includes about what condition the learners from all generations. world will be in when we have reached retirement Globalized universities CONTENTS age and about the issues In any discussion regarding the future of learning, globalization that will arise along the is central. Currently, more than 90 percent of ESMT’s full-time way. The ESMT Annual Forum 2014 will by no means find students are from outside Germany. Eight of the world’s top 10 1 Welcome answers to all the questions involved – even the attempt would executive MBA programs take place on more than one continent. 2 Program overview be presumptuous. Instead, we will focus on subject areas that Business schools, including ESMT, are cooperating in international 3 Campus plan are certain to dominate in the future. groups such as the Global Network for Advanced Management. 4 Opening remarks and keynotes Every researcher at ESMT has to collaborate with peers across 6 Panel discussion: Business trends and technology Business, technology, and our environment continents to make their work relevant for today’s business. 10 Concurrent interactive sessions When people flocked to world fairs in the past two centuries, Universities as well as schools need to understand the impact 14 Selected open enrollment programs they saw the latest technologies that society had to offer. In that globalization has on society. This means designing and 16 Panel discussion: Leading into the future Philadelphia in 1876, it was the telephone, the typewriter, and offering classes that cover the numerous requirements posed 18 ESMT Responsible Leadership Award the phonograph; in Paris in 1900, it was the escalator; in the by a globalized world. In this context, we will pay special 20 ESMT events following decades there was the airplane, TV, computers – a attention in the Annual Forum to the skills the global leaders steady development toward more sophisticated technologies. of the next decades need to possess. Starting in the last century, the world fairs began to showcase more than just technological innovations and focused on people Having and sharing information and the environment as well. The expo in Osaka in 1970 carried It helps that information is – and will be – available to an extent the motto “Progress and Harmony for Mankind”; Nagakute in it has never been before. We have platforms and social networks 2005 promoted “Nature’s Wisdom”; Zaragosa in 2008 was to freely and collectively communicate, assets we already value themed “Sustainable Development”; followed by “Better City, so highly that we object if these routes are blocked by political Better Life” in Shanghai in 2010. The theme for the next expo, censorship. This trend will certainly continue. According to a in Milan in 2015, is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” special report of the Economist last year, Cisco estimates that continuing in the previous vein. Modern innovation, in other by 2020, 50 billion devices of various kinds will be connected Special thanks: words, is no longer just about spectacular technological to help us discover the information we want – or decide what inventions but also includes concerns for humans and their we do not want. This leads to an issue that will impact future natural habitat. In light of this evolution, the Annual Forum discussion, that is, how to minimize, if not prevent, the abuse will look at the substantial task set before businesses all over of the open channels with which we will live and work. the world – to connect the quest for technological innovation with the need to protect the earth. I cordially invite you to join us at the Annual Forum 2014, a platform for guests, international business leaders, academics, Demographic change and lifelong learning and policymakers, to examine the exciting future offered by Media partners: Another subject we will discuss concerns increased life tomorrow’s developments. expectancy and subsequent demographic changes. In addition to affecting public and private decision making, educational institutions such as ESMT will also be affected as we will invest Sincerely in programs for lifelong learning, be it in class or through 2 1 ESMT ANNUAL FORUM 2014 ESMT ANNUAL FORUM 2014 PROGRAM OVERVIEW CAMPUS PLAN 9:00–10:00 a.m. REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING BREAKFAST 2nd floor Main Entrance and Foyer II Corridor 10:00–11:15 a.m. WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Auditorium Maximum Prof. Jörg Rocholl, PhD (ESMT) Michael Diekmann (Allianz) Auditorium Auditorium Foyer II Auditorium Maximum WC II I KEYNOTES Dr. Kurt Bock (BASF) Peter Bakker (WBCSD) 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION “BUSINESS TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGY” 1st floor Auditorium Maximum Peter Bakker (WBCSD) Dr. Theo Freye (CLAAS) Jayant Kohale (Larsen & Toubro) Lounge Frank Riemensperger (Accenture) Prof. Jörg Rocholl, PhD (ESMT) WC Foyer I Introduction: Prof. CB Bhattacharya, PhD (ESMT) Moderation: Gerrit Wiesmann, journalist 1:00–2:00 p.m. NETWORKING LUNCH with special thanks to GAZPROM Germania Foyer II Ground floor 2:00–3:30 p.m. CONCURRENT INTERACTIVE SESSIONS Throughout campus Energy and transport in 2050 – Will we overcome the nexus between energy consumption Café (see displays) and economic growth? (Dr. Jens Weinmann) Future of banks? Will we still need banks in 2050? (Prof. Guillermo Baquero, PhD) Markets for technology – Is the patent system broken? (Prof. Dr. Stefan Wagner) The future 50 years ago (Katja Leppler and Veronika Naumann) WC Bookshop The manager of the future (Dr. Kirsten Fischer) The quest for happiness (Shirish Pandit) The skills for the future – A look at the skills individuals may employ by 2050 (Dr. Franziska Frank) Elevator Entrance Wall Street in 2050 (Prof. CB Bhattacharya, PhD) What elite athletes can teach managers about innovation and strategy (Prof. Joe Peppard, PhD) 4:00–5:15 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION “LEADING INTO THE FUTURE” Auditorium Maximum Jürgen Fitschen (Deutsche Bank) ANNUAL FORUM WIRELESS LAN Prof. Konstantin Korotov, PhD (ESMT) David B. Peterson, PhD (Google) Dr. Johannes Teyssen (E.ON) Network name: esmt-guest Angela Titzrath (Deutsche Post) Username: AF2014esmt Moderation: Ali Aslan, television host and journalist Password: esmtAF2014 5:30–6:15 p.m. ESMT RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP AWARD Auditorium Maximum Herman Van Rompuy (President of the European Council) TWITTER Laudatio: Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger (Global Head of Public Policy and Economic Research, Allianz and Chairman of the Munich Security Conference) #esmt2050 6:15–7:00 p.m. EVENING RECEPTION with special thanks to INFOSYS Foyer II There will be photos and video recordings during the event. Please advise a member of staff should you object to subsequent use for print and online publishing by ESMT. 2 3 ESMT ANNUAL FORUM 2014 ESMT ANNUAL FORUM 2014 OPENING REMARKS AND KEYNOTES 10:00 – 11:15 A.M. AUDITORIUM MAXIMUM Keynotes will set the stage on future scenarios related to business and the workforce, expectations with respect to transformative processes, and the role that sustainability and technology will play in this context. Peter Bakker Michael Diekmann Dr. Kurt Bock President, World Business Chairman of the Board of Chairman of the Board of Council for Sustainable Management, Allianz Executive Directors, BASF Development (WBCSD) Michael Diekmann studied law and philosophy at Göttingen Two years later, he was given a seat on the Allianz management Kurt Bock is the chairman of the board of executive directors Peter Bakker joined the WBCSD in January 2012 after having University in Germany. After graduating in 1982, he headed board and assumed additional responsibilities for Eastern of BASF SE, a position he assumed in May 2011. He is currently been involved as a member for a number of years through his up his own publishing business, Diekmann/Thieme, where he Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and group HR. Diekmann became responsible for legal, taxes and insurance; strategic planning role as CEO of TNT NV, the Netherlands-based holding company wrote and published a number of books. In 1988, Diekmann the head of all Allianz insurance businesses in the Americas in and controlling; communications and government relations; of TNT Express and Royal TNT Post. Bakker is a respected leader joined Allianz as executive assistant to the manager of the 2002. Since 2003, he has been the chairman of the board of global executive human resources; investor relations; and in corporate responsibility. He was the recipient of the Clinton company’s Hamburg office. In 1990, he assumed leadership of management and CEO of Allianz AG (since 2006 Allianz SE). compliance. From 2003 to 2011, he was chief financial officer Global Citizen Award in 2009 and the SAM Sustainability the Hamburg-Harburg sales office before becoming head of Diekmann is also chairman of the supervisory board of Allianz of BASF Group, and during that time, from 2007, he was also Leadership Award in 2010, and he is a UN WFP Ambassador the Hannover office (1991), head of Customer Relationships Asset Management AG and vice chairman of the supervisory chairman and chief executive officer of BASF Corporation, based Against Hunger.