Conference Programme

DAY 1
FRIDAY 26th February 2010
8.30am London Breakfast at Kings Place.
Keynote: Lord Chris Patten of Barnes
Followed by Q&A moderated by Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator,
Financial Times
9.45am - 4pm The Journey to Portmeirion.
Exclusive screening of Channel 4 BritCom documentary 'Erasing David'
4 - 6pm  Arrivals, unpacking
6 - 6.25pm





6.25pm 		Welcome from Julia Hobsbawm in Hercules Hall (Town Hall) followed by recorded contributions from film director Stephen Frears; Witred UK Editor David Rowan; Arts Council Chair Dame Liz Forgan; Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA; Will Hutton, Vice president of the Work Foundation and Commentator, The Observer; Amur Lakshminarayanan, Vice President and Head of global technology giant Tata Consultancy Services and the Rt. Hon David Cameron MP

Thought for the Day from Hardeep Singh Kohli
6.30 - 7.15pm BBC Global News HARDtalk recording.  Stephen Sackur talks to Professor Iain Hutchison, Oral and Maxillo-facial surgeon, Barts & Queen Mary’s and Facial Surgery Research Foundation (Saving Faces)

7.30 - 8.15pm

 Drinks in Hotel
8.15 - 9.15pm Supper, introduced by Conductor and Musician Charles Hazlewood
9.15 - 9.45pm Keynote: Alain de Botton, 'Staying sane in a complex world'
10 - Midnight
 Drinks in Hotel

DAY 2
SATURDAY 27th February 2010
7.15 - 8.30am Breakfast Discussions:
Castell Deudraeth
'The Individual in Society: more dominant than the group?'
Chair: Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.  Panel: Robin Wight, ENGINE and WCRS;
Dr Sarah Churchwell, University of East Anglia; Tim Johns, Unilever; David Davis MP

Hotel
'Has the internet ended privacy for good?'
Chair: Kirsty Lang, BBC.  Panel: Bruno Giussani, TED; Andy Hobsbawm, Green Thing; Martin Bright, spectator.co.uk, Jewish Chronicle and New Deal of the Mind; Derek Wyatt MP
9.00am

Hercules Hall.

Opening session, Chair and Thought for the Day: Robert Phillips, Edelman

9.15 - 9.45am Keynote:  Niall Ferguson, 'Trust and Privacy in Finance'
9.45 - 10.00am Q&A with Niall Ferguson
10.00 - 11.30am TRUST IN BUSINESS PANEL
Chair: Stefan Stern, FT. Panel: Richard Gillingwater, Cass Business School; Mrs Moneypenny, Financial Times; Darcy Willson-Rymer, Starbucks UK and Ireland; Matthew Kirk of Vodafone; Simon Warr, Jaguar Land Rover
11.30 - 11.45am Refreshment Break and Networking in the Long Room
11.45am - 1.15pm Special recording of ‘The Forum’ for BBC World Service:  Bridget Kendall talking to Mitchell J. Besser, mothers2mothers; Professor Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia University and Helio Mattar, Akatu Institute for Conscious Consumption in Sao Paulo
1.15 - 3.45pm

3.45 - 4.15pm 		Sandwich lunch plus walking and social time at Portmeirion and environs

Afternoon Tea in Hercules Hall
4.15 - 5.30pm Thought for the Day and Discussion
Chair: James Mackintosh, Financial Times
Phillip Blond, ResPublica
Claire Fox, Institute of Ideas
Charlie Leadbeater, Writer
Ben Page, Ipsos MORI
5.45 - 6.30pm BBC Global News HARDtalk recording between Stephen Sackur and Dr Abdul Malik Al-Jaber, Zain Levant
6.45 - 7.30pm Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: 'Individuality in Exile' - extracts from a one-woman show. Introduced by Sanjay Nazerali of the BBC
8.00 - 8.30pm Drinks in Hotel
8.30 - 9.30pm

9.30pm 		Supper introduced with a Thought for the Day by Charles Stewart-Smith, Editorial Intelligence

Walk/cars to Castell Deudraeth for drinks until late with magic tricks from Charlie 'the card' Burgess

DAY 3
SUNDAY 28th February 2010
8.00 - 9.00am Breakfast in Hotel
9.00am Hercules Hall
Thought for the Day from David Aaronovitch, The Times
9.15 - 10.00am BBC Global News HARDtalk recording with Stephen Sackur and Annie Lennox
10.00 - 10.15am Refreshment Break and Networking in the Long Room
10.15 - 11.30am Keynote: Paco Underhill, Envirosell followed by
Q&A with Peter York
11.30am - 12.45pm CLOSING SESSION: 'What did we learn this weekend?'
Chair: Julia Hobsbawm, Chief Executive, Editorial Intelligence.  Panel: Richard Sambrook, BBC Global News; William Eccleshare, Clear Channel International; Neil Stewart, Policy Review Intelligence; Jessica Morris, Jessica Morris Consulting; Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent
12.45 - 2.00pm Lunch at Portmeirion Hotel
2.00pm Embark on journey back to London
ENDS
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Last updated: 24 February 2010

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