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EP World Business Forum 2009
August 15th Agenda.
11:00 Registration
11:00 Press Briefing – Coffee – Tea – Enterprise Meetings - Networking
11:30 Buffet Lunch
11:30 Welcome and Introduction Speech
Formal welcome to the Environmental Parliament and the LSE University of London by
The Chairman of the Environmental Parliament, Dr Pano Kroko.
An introduction to the purpose and aims of the EP World Business Forum
on Climate Change, Enterprise and the Environment.
‘’Business, Technology and New Enterprise models for low carbon growth’’
A how to Primer for the Green Web.
12:00 Keynote Speech
Lord Anthony Giddens, LSE, House of Lords, UK
‘’Business, Global Governance and Climate Change’’
12:30 Plenary Session – Business of Climate Change – Multinational Enterprises
A low carbon economy will only be achieved through Technology, Business and Cultural change,
with focus on technological developments, strategic institutions and global agreements such as the UN, Copenhagen accords and the WTO. New enterprises will have to interpret and monetize this change,
for the rest of the society.
Chair: Mr Robert Tobin, Green Capital, UK
Panel of Speakers: Anu Sismani, Carlos Redding, Myriam Hopper, Albert Kallio.
12:30 Parallel Worksession 1) Bringing About Change – Greening of Asset Management -
Green Private Equity
What are the great opportunities I converting and greening assets.
Potential barriers and what is required to make traditional targets of
Private Equity green and thus reap the stimulus packages for climate change.
Chair: Professor Joe C. Smilly, Harvard University, US
Panel of Speakers: Lillian De Tomasso, Pano Kroko, Cecile Thompson, Dr Fred Persis
12:30 Parallel Worksessions 2) Venture Capital - Technological Change – Web3.0 – Green Tech
What are the New successful Business Models and the new web Innovations to monetize the
Technological Change and fuel a low carbon growth? The case of Green Carbon Ltd.
Green Carbon Ltd : A Revolution in the making for popularizing Climate Change action and Offsets.
A new ''Green Carbon'' company: the Google of the Climate Change world. { greencarbon.mobi }
Chair: Ms Helen Bittwer of Juniper Research Management
Speakers: Pano Kroko, Raj Kakarlapudi, Mayur Sri Raja, Yan White, Helen Sutton, Suresh Nagam
12:30 Parallel Worksessions 3) Multinationals - Strategic Institutional Change
The role the Multinationals, Corporations, NGOs, Civil Societies and strategic institutional private and public leaders can play to enable change towards a low carbon economy.
Chair: Professor Ms Melissa Lines, University of Washington, US
Panel of Speakers: Carlos Selimm, Dimitris Manos, Richard Cameron, Anthony Gibbs.
12:30 Parallel Worksessions 4) Global Governance - Politics
Leadership and Management changes to make global low carbon growth a reality.
Chair: Professor Jason Bogdanovich, Stanford University, US
Speakers: Lilian Helmut, Fiona Asperberg, Klaus Henry, Victoria Small.
14:30 Break - Coffee - Tea - Networking
15:00 Heads of Corporations Session
The Frozen Middle: Middle management engagement need for Climate Change corporate adaptation and
Societal change. The critical need to work towards low carbon growth.
Leaders and Heads of Corporations from the UK, the US and EU as well as from developing countries,
will present individual case studies on the profitable business generation from impacts of climate change.
15:00 Parallel Worksession 1) Corporate Governance
There will also be a parallel opportunity to see a documentary and follow a presentation
about the Greening of the Corporation, a Documentary project on the lessons learnt from the
rehabilitation of the environmentally challenged Forestry and paper giant of Japan.
15:00 Parallel Worksession 2) WEB3.0 is the Green Web
A selection of forward Technology companies in the areas of agriculture, finance, Offsets,
Web, Biotech, Internet, Mobile Communications, Energy, Clean Tech, Nano tech and Stem cell
Applications to present ready solutions, products and services, for the award of the 2009 EP World Business Climate Change Forum, Technocrat Challenge Winner.
15:00 Parallel Worksession 3) Gift Economy
Discussion of the Book ‘’Gift Economy’’ by Pano Kroko.
‘’Gift Economy - Frozen middle Climate thaw - Change Leadership’’
‘’A little green book manual by Pano Kroko’’.
It is a unique leadership manual for Corporate, Civil and Political leaders to manage the
Frozen middle layer of all organizations that prevents change. A cultural revolution prescription
to the area of organizations and human institutions, that holds the greatest resistance to change.
Book introduction and the interview of the author will be conducted by General Laurentis Marmant.
16:30 Closing Speech Ceremony
Closing Speech by HH Lama Gumpta Rinposhe
A social wine reception will follow and book signing of the ‘’Gift Economy’’ book by Pano Kroko.