Wednesday, 15 September 2010

• Conference Registration Opens

  10:00 a.m.

• Opening Keynote and Lunch
  • Speaker TBD

  12:00 p.m.

• Networking in the Exhibit Hall

  1:30 p.m.

• Seminar Sessions

  3:00 p.m.

  • Choose 1 of 3
  • Reform: A Look Back at the Financial Crisis
  • Growth: The Growth Agenda in the New Economy
  • Risk: Executive Pay and Managing Risk
• Seminar Sessions

  4:15 p.m.

  • Choose 1 of 3
  • Reform: Financial Services Reform and Its Impact
  • Growth: Intertwined—The Capital Structure and Growth Strategy
  • Risk: Crisis Management: Lessons Learned
• Networking Reception

  5:30 p.m.

• Force of Ideas Awards Presentation and Dinner

  6:30 p.m.

Thursday, 16 September 2010

• Breakfast and Keynote Interview with Mr. Tony Blair,
  Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland
  • Looking Ahead in the World Marketplace

  8:00 a.m.

  

  Keynote Speaker, Tony Blair

  Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from May 1997 to June 2007. He was also the leader of Britain's Labour Party (1994 to 2007) and the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield, England (1983 to 2007).

  Blair continues to be active in public life. He has many interests, not least his current role in the Middle East, which takes up the largest proportion of his time. He is working for the USA, UN, Russia and EU as the Quartet Representative, helping the Palestinians to prepare for statehood as part of the international community’s effort to secure peace.

  Blair has launched the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to promote respect and understanding of and between the major religions and to make the case for faith as a force for good in the modern world. The foundation will work with Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. Blair believes that faith will have great influence in how the challenges that globalisation presents will be met.

  The Foundation will show the good of faith in action by mobilising faith communities to work together in pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals to tackle global poverty and conflict. The Foundation’s first aim is the eradication of deaths from malaria through multi-faith action. It is also focusing on other critical areas such as its education programme, which will create innovative ways for young people of different faiths to learn with, from and about each other. The Foundation also will seek to work with the world’s most respected scholars, economists, business people and politicians to deepen the understanding of the relationship between faith and globalisation. As an initial step, the Foundation will support a high-quality academic course at Yale University, where Blair will be teaching a seminar class, to explore these issues and disseminate findings around the world.

  In addition he will continue to be an advocate on the issues he cares about such as Africa and climate change. On Africa, Blair is a member of the Africa Progress Panel, which was established following the Gleneagles G8 to keep world leaders' attention on Africa and the commitments made on development. In addition, Blair is working on governance projects in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, advising President Koroma and President Kagame respectively on policy delivery and attracting investment, with a team of his staff working full-time with both countries.

  On climate change, Blair published the first report from his 'Breaking the Climate Deadlock' initiative in June, which set out the framework for a new global deal for a low carbon future. It answered a series of practical questions about how the world can move to a low carbon economy. The project will now continue to identify the actions and questions that need to be resolved by political and business leaders to achieve a successful outcome to the UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009.

  During his ten years as Prime Minister, Blair transformed Britain's public services through a program of investment and reform in schools and hospitals, resulting in more children achieving better school results and more people receiving faster access to health care, with improved survival rates for cancer and coronary heart disease.

  Blair has always been a strong advocate of a values-based, activist and multilateralist foreign policy-an agenda that combined tackling terrorism and intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Sierra Leone, with action on issues like climate change, global poverty, Africa and the Middle East Peace Process. Blair is also widely credited for his contribution towards assisting the Northern Ireland Peace Process by helping jointly to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement and deliver a power-sharing government.

  In recognition of his debt to the North East, he has also launched the Tony Blair Sports Foundation, which will increase participation in sport by young people, particularly those who are currently socially excluded–by inspiring more adults to become trained coaches; by providing access to high quality nationally-accredited training for those we recruit; and by helping to match coaches with the schools and sports clubs which need them.

• Seminar Sessions

  9:30 a.m.

  • Choose 1 of 3
  • Reform: Tax Reform: A View from Washington, Part I
  • Growth: Rethinking Emerging Markets
  • Risk: Trends in Ensuring Compliance and Combating Fraud
• Seminar Sessions

  10:45 a.m.

  • Choose 1 of 3
  • Reform: Tax Reform: A View from Washington, Part II
  • Growth: Communicating the Growth Plan: Impact on Shareholders and Potential Investors
  • Risk: The Future of Risk Management—Making It More than Check the Box
• Lunch and Closing Keynote
  • Speaker TBD

  12:00 p.m.