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Day one : July 2, 2009
8:00 - 9:30         Registration

9:30 - 9:35         Welcoming address
                         David Chikvaidze, Head Office, General Director's Office,
                         UNO Geneva (Switzerland)

9:35 - 9:45         Opening address

                         Henri-Claude de Bettignies, Emeritus Professor of Leadership and
                         Responsibility, INSEAD - EU Chair Distinguished Professor of Global
                         Governance and Sino European Relations, CEIBS, Shanghai (China)

                         Sophie de Menthon, President of ETHIC Association (France)

9:45 – 10:15        Keynote Speech 1 (Room XIX)
                         Chairman: Patricia H. Werhane, President of International Society of
                         Business Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) & Executive Director of the Institute
                         for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University (USA)

10:15- 11:15       Roundtable 1 - How to handle ethics in period of great uncertainty?
                         Chairman: Nandani Lynton, Professor, CEIBS (Germany)
                         Speaker: Alain Dinin, CEO, Nexity (France)

                         Speaker: Dan Vogel, CEO, ENABLON (France)
                         Speaker: Nicolas Buttet, Vice-President of Ecophilos Foundation (France)
                   
11:15 - 11:30      Networking refreshment break

11:30 - 12:45      Workshop A (3 concurrent sessions)
                         How can CSR strategies and practices be made innovative and
                               relevant in times of crisis?

13:00 – 14:30      Networking lunch

14:30 - 14:50      Reports from the workshops A1 - A2 - A3 in plenary sessions
                         (Room XIX) - Insead/Sciences-Po Paris/CEIBS/Sorbonne

14:50 - 15:30      Keynote Speech 2 (Room XIX)
                         Chairman: Luk van Wassenhove, Director, Social Innovation Center,
                         INSEAD (Belgium)
                         Keynote speaker: John Quelch, Professor, Harvard University (USA)

15:30 - 16:15      Networking refreshment break

16:15 - 17:30      Workshop B (3 concurrent sessions)
                         How can corporate social innovation lead to sustainable growth?

                         (Room XIX) Insead/Sciences-Po Paris/CEIBS/Sorbonne

18:15- 20:00       Official reception - Cocktail Buffet


Day two : July 3, 2009

9:00 - 10:15        Workshop C (3 concurrent workshops)
                         How can management education develop an alternative to the
                               dominant economic paradigm, induce a change in the business
                               leaders' mindset and develop globally responsible leaders?