Sunday's Recorded Sessions:
Monday's Recorded Sessions:
Tuesday's Recorded Sessions:
Can new methods of dialogue and education help to create stronger independent economies? How can we take a more holistic and co-ordinated approach to supporting Africa, encouraging cultural understanding and empathy alongside efforts to stimulate trade and create a rule of law?
The technology and innovation of the developed world is transforming lives. However, the digital and technical divide threatens to become wider. How can we launch a technological revolution to address poverty and stimulate economies in Africa?
How can we better influence citizens, companies and countries to create change? What are our most likely tools? Taxes on emissions, cultural shifts, a new compact for action? Simply, how do we change the world’s mind?
How has globalization affected the medical world and what it can achieve? With people living longer and with significant breakthroughs at hand on many fronts, what should we be doing know to ensure the maximum global benefits for greater knowledge? Looking to the future, what developments should we anticipate and what should we be doing about them now?
Featuring the Annual Awards for Creative Achievement
Trade has a unique capacity to strengthen alliances, enhance cultural understanding, address poverty and create peace. Yet it has an equal power to divide and antagonize. What should we be doing to ensure that international trade builds bridges rather than burns them? What hopes are there to expand on the Doha talks? How might the development of trading blocs – Asia and Europe in particular – influence future progress?
How do we develop multi-dimensional thought in a multi-dimensional and multi-cultural world? How can leaders develop their brains to allow creative thought to meet the problems of the 21st century?
Cities are growing exponentially, but what should they be growing into? How should cities and countries react to their shifting economic make-up brought about by globalization? How can countries help their cities to diversify and thrive: developing cultural tourism, technology and services?
Pioneering CEOs highlight strategies for successfully growing global brands and business.
How can we develop and reform global structures to meet the new demands of a more fragmented global village? What is the potential of a global rule of law, of global currencies? How can we maximize the impact and integrity, and improve the brand images of global agencies?
Speech followed by a moderated Question & Answer session.
How has technology challenged traditional means of communicating with our constituents, whether they are shareholders or voters? How will the Internet change the way we select our leaders and run our businesses and countries?
With an increasing global Islamic population, and increasing potential tensions, what challenges and opportunities does the globalization of Islam present? How can we develop a social, economic, cultural and political alliance across the Middle East?
In a world that demands closer proximity to our neighbors, how can new approaches to foreign policy create greater accord, empathy and cultural understanding – particularly in regards to the USA? With resources running out, greater friction between societies, and bio-weapons and technology presenting a higher price of failure, how do we learn to create stronger alliances, balancing local, national and international demands?
How should we prepare the minds of the 21st century citizen? How can we encourage the way our children learn to prepare them for future challenges? With the stress of our fast-paced world how can we develop the brain and our senses to keep up? How has the Internet altered the developmental needs of our children?
Can a greater understanding of terrorism lead to new ways of fighting it? What can we learn from psychology, cultural identity and the past that can inform how we act in the future? How has the current wave of terrorism developed and what can we do about it?
The power of the visual image is increasing. In advertising, politics and beyond, the power of the image to influence change has arguably never been greater. From the cartoons that provoked violence, to the YouTube generation to a new world at Second Life, image is a key driver of our time. How do we capture the power of the image to create positive change?
As the power of global corporations eclipses that of many nations, with foundations increasingly setting agendas and addressing global problems, and with private individuals having greater levels of wealth, what responsibilities do these organizations and their leaders have? With such power to create change resting outside the boundaries of government, how can we ensure its effective and equitable use?
