08:15-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:45	Welcome   Mr. Alois Linder, President, IESE German Alumni Chapter   Mr. Antonio González-Adalid, President, IESE Alumni Association   Prof. Dr. Jordi Canals, Dean, IESE Business School   Prof. Dr. Marc Sachon, Academic Director, IESE Global Alumni Reunion
10:00-11:30	How to foster innovation to compete globally   Dr. Enrico Tomaso Cucchiani. Member of the Board of Management, Allianz AG   Prof. Dr. Claus Weyrich, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens   Prof. Dr. Pankaj Ghemawat, Harvard Business School and IESE Business School
11:30-12:00	Coffee Break
12:00-13:30	Is it possible to compete from Europe?   Mr. Hans Ulrich Maerki, Chairman, IBM Europe Middle East Africa   Dr. Klaus Mangold, Executive Adviser to the Chairman, DaimlerChrysler   Prof. Dr. Pedro Nueno, IESE Business School
13:30-15:00	Lunch
15:00-16:15	Encouraging  Entrepreneurial Spirit   Mr. Franz Borgers, CEO, Johann Borgers GMBH & CO. KG   Mr. Rudolf Delius, C.A. Delius & Söhne GmbH & Co. KG   Ms. Vicky Hu, President of Shanghai Evergreen Hospital Investment Ltd.   Mr. Hans-Ewald Reinert, Founder, H. & E. Reinert GmbH & Co. KG
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break
16:45-17:30	Managing Risk and Security in Global Business   General Dr. Klaus Naumann, Former Chairman of the Military Committee, NATO
17:30-18:45	The Global Economic and Political Picture   Prof. Dr. Juergen Donges,  University of Cologne   Prof. Dr. Jesus P. Estanislao, University of Asia and The Pacific   Prof. Dr. Pedro Videla, IESE Business School
18:45-19:00	Closing Session

Simultaneous translation will be provided for each session.

You can view the detailed agenda on the page "45th Edition".

The Global Economic Picture
The introductory session will provide a general outlook of the global economic scene. It will touch upon issues such as: the European response to the challenges of productivity and the enlargement; the sustainability of the current global imbalances; and the necessary policies to achieve a relatively smooth adjustment process. This session will be the backdrop to the debates that will follow.

Competing Globally Through Innovation
More than any other, the technological sector experiences the constant need to innovate. Germany is number one in Europe in exports. The speed at which new ideas are thought up, built into products and then adopted by their customer base is spectacular. Efficient knowledge management is a powerful ally in this process.

Fostering Entrepreneurial Spirit
Germany’s true economic powerhouse is its Mittelstand (small and medium-sized enterprises), often called the hidden champions. Quite often, these companies are little known outside their local community. Nevertheless they form the foundation of the German economy, employ more people than the German multinationals combined and through their entrepreneurial spirit foster innovation which later finds its way into cars, machine tools and other best sellers. Their situation is burdened by the fact that the Mittelstand is very highly diversified and has no counterpart outside of Germany. This leads to an under-representation in Brussels resulting in regulations that are often detrimental to the development of these companies.In this panel, a group of Mittelstand CEOs will discuss the challenges of keeping the entrepreneurial spirit alive in owner-managed companies.

Managing Risk and Security in Global Business
Companies with international experience and ambition need to understand and monitor the risks they face in all corners of the planet, since the implications for security are a truly global issue.