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7.30am – 8.30am |
Registration / Networking / Breakfast |
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Welcome and Keynote Remarks
Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Ian Hyland, founder Ireland INC and IABA
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Session 1 – Global challenges, Global Opportunities
Over the past two decades there has been a fundamental shift in the relationship between OECD and developing countries. The west stopped making things. Instead most countries, including the United States and Ireland, became service-centred economies facilitated by a massive outlay in credit. Now the credit has dried up, which poses an existential question for many western economies. Cheap manufacturing has decamped en masse to developing countries. Is the answer moving up the value chain into areas such as R&D and innovation? If so, how is that achieved? How do countries manage to live with high debt burdens and at the same time recalibrate their economies?
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Session 2: Innovation and Competitiveness
There are a number of cutting edge sectors that will become crucial to future growth prospects for most global economies. These include life sciences, technology, and green energy. This session will gather together top CEOs from these sectors to discuss what it takes to develop knowledge economies. What sort of a regulatory environment is needed? What can governments do to help? Where are we in terms of workforce training and education investment?
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Lunch and Awards Ceremony
Honouring US Congressman Richard Neal (D) Massachusetts, and US Congressman Pete King (R) New York, Deans of the Friends of Ireland Caucus in the US House of Representatives
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Session 3: Global Financial Markets
The financial crisis has threatened to plunge the global economy into a depression. There is a consensus among government leaders and regulators that casino capitalism must come to an end. But is this possible without throwing the baby out with the bathwater? How can the banking system become fit for purpose? How is it possible to get credit flowing to the corporate sector again? Now that high levels of leverage will not be tolerated in the future, what does the future hold for the alternative investment sector, including private equity and hedge funds?
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3.45pm – 4.00pm – Close |
Cocktail Reception |
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