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Hosted conversations

The "Hosted conversations" were open explorative sessions on a chosen theme, hosted by a person who introduces the conversation, who invites a few prepared inputs and who then invites everyone into the conversation.

Download the detailed list of hosted conversations in pdf.

Friday, June 27

 

14.00 – 15.30


The future of capitalism
with Arun Maira and Oscar Motomura


New legal minds
with Hans Corell, Walter Amoko and Hugo van Heemstra


The risks you must take
with Eric Best


Addition!
Human security – an issue for global stability?

Human rights violations, poverty, conflicts and violence have catastrophic effects on individual lives. What is its influence on stability and security on the global level?

Hosted by Ingrid Srinath, Secretary General Elect, CIVICUS, South Africa, with David Batstone, President, Not for Sale Campaign, Co-Owner of Earthware Enterprises and Professor, University of San Francisco, USA, and Salome Katia, Executive Secretary of the Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum on Peace - AMANI Forum, Kenya


Change!
Please note this session will now be a pre-forum conversation taking place on Wednesday, June 25, 16.30:

Youth - Entrepreneurship – Sustainability is now called  Creating millions of livelihoods

A conversation hosted by Poonam Ahluwalia and Caroline Stiernstedt Sahlborn with Dumisani Nyoni, Pindarous Allison,
Hanna Hallin

A sustainable end to hunger - Inspiring initiative
with Jill Lester

 

16.00 – 17.30

An open conversation on China
with Ling Huawei


Children and Nature - Inspiring initiative
with Bo Sköld

Rethinking universities
with Howard Gardner and Sverker Sörlin

A smart strategy for Afghanistan
with Amber Nystrom, Nadir Naim, George Asatiani, David Elliot and John Varnden-Quick


Change!

Social Entrepreneurship – with Arthur Wood
(changed from Sunday, this session will merge with the re-designing session on “
A new ‘market place’ for investments in developing economies”)

 

Saturday, June 28

 

8.30 – 10.30

How do you make global collaboratives work?
with David Batstone, Frederick C. Dubee, Ashok Khosla, Poonam Ahluwalia, Marcello Palazzi and Jim Wine

Mind the gaps - Demographic challenges
with Hans Rosling and Wolfgang Lutz

Security and stability in the Middle East
with Baria Alamuddin

Redundant light and heat to meet our energy demand
with Ged Davis, Gerhard Knies and PeterAnderberg

Biofuel – expanding too fast or not fast enough?
with Jacqueline McGlade and Per Carsted

Change!
Please note this session has moved from Friday, June 27, 14:00 to Saturday, June 28, 8.30 -10.00

A new transatlantic dialogue
with Jan Eliasson, José Maria Figueres Olsen and Peter Goldmark


14.00 – 16.00

An open conversation on Africa
with Pindarous Alisson

Philanthropy and climate change
with Maximilian Martin, Don Mohanlal, George Polk, and Kim Samuel-Johnson

Setting the agenda - the role of the media
with Subhash Agrawal and Alan Stoga

The Sustainable Consumption Conundrum
with Rebecca Oliver and Adrian Nelson

Understanding planetary boundaries
with Martin Hedberg, Robert W. Corell and Åsa Persson

 

Sunday, June 29

 

8.30 – 10.00

Nature walk (exception: starts at 7.30!)
with Oren Lyons

Changing minds on global warming
with Jim Wine, Alexander Crawford, Mark Lynas and Bill McKibben

Social entrepreneurship - The next wave
With William Drayton, Howard Gardner  and Johannes Hengstenberg

Living within the boundaries
with Colin Vivian Jones

40 years of systems thinking - IIASA as an inspiring initiative
with Sten Nilsson

 

10.30 – 12.00

Seeing nature through native eyes,
with Jake and Judy Swamp

When big gets too big: The challenge of size and scale
with Christine Loh and Hans Olof Olsson

Foundations and NGOs: Bridging the gap
with Felicity von Peter and Burkhart Gnärig


An open conversation on the United States
with Alan Stoga


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