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Wednesday January 23
Welcome to the Annual Meeting - Pascal Couchepin and Klaus Schwab
17:45 CET
Opening Remarks - Hamid Karzai, Rajendra K. Pachauri with Klaus Schwab
18:00 CET
Opening Address - with Klaus Schwab
18:20 CET
Opening Plenary with all the Co-Chairs - Tony Blair, James Dimon, K.V. Kamath,
Henry A. Kissinger, Indra K. Nooyi, David J. O'Reilly, Wang Jianzhou with
Klaus Schwab
18:45 CET
Thursday January 24
A Unified Earth Theory: Combining Solutions to Extreme Poverty and the Climate
Crisis - Bono, Al Gore with Thomas L. Friedman
Myths and Realities of Sovereign Wealth Funds - Richard Fuld Jr, Kristin
Halvorsen, Muhammad S. Al Jasser, Aleksey Kudrin, Bader M. Al Sa'ad, Stephen
Schwarzman, Lawrence H. Summers, Robert M Kimmit with Martin Wolf
09:00 CET
Time is Running Out for Water - Ban Ki-moon, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, E.
Neville Isdell, Ichiro Kamoshita, Fred Krupp, Andrew N. Liveris with Ralph R
Peterson
10:15 CET
The Quest for Peace and Stability - Fakhruddin Ahmed, Ilham Aliyev, Hamid
Karzai with Nik Gowing
France on the Move - Francois Fillon with Klaus Schwab
11:15 CET
Three Crucial Questions for Pakistan - with HenRy A. Kissinger
11:45 CET
Open Forum - Welcome & The Comeback of Religion: A Potential Danger for
the Secular State? - Thomas Wipf, Andre Schneider; Mohammad Khatami, Ingrid
Mattson, Ulrich Schlüer, Thomas Wipf with Marco Meier
Orchestrating a New Concert of Powers - Lloyd C. Blankfein, Henry A.
Kissinger, Bernard Kouchner, Alexey Kudrin, Shimon Peres, George Yeo
Yong-Boon with Ricahrd M. Smith
14:30 CET
Faith and Modernisation - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahdi Hadavi, David A.
Harris, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Rick Warren with Tony Blair
Middle East: After Annapolis, After Paris - Ehud Barak, Salam Fayyad, Tzipi
Livni, Shimon Peres, Saeb Erekat and Tony Blair
15:45 CET
Future Shifts: The Voice of the Next Generation - Emma Thompson, 6 young
people selected by British Council and Rebecca Anderson
Special Message and Conversation with Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan of China - Zeng
Peiyan with Klaus Schwab
Systemic Financial Risk - James Dimon, Wes Edens, Robert M. Kimmitt,
Jean-Claude Trichet with James J. Schiro
17:20 CET
Rebuilding Brand America: Five Suggestions for the Future President - Robert
F. Bennett, John F. Kerry, H.H. Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Maurice
Levy, Rupert Murdoch, Martin Sorrell with Moisés Naim
A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century - William H. Gates III with
Klaus Schwab
18:20 CET
Open Forum - Private Equity and Hedge Funds - Friend or Foe? - Paul Fletcher,
Christian Levrat, Christian Noyer, Hans Ruth, Philip Yea with Dirk Schültz
Friday January 25
Should We Fear Slowdowns? - Palaniappan Chidambaram, Timothy P. Flynn,
Takatoshi Ito, Jerry del Missier with Charles Hodson
Three Crucial Questions for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon
Brown - Gordon Brown with Klaus Schwab
10:30 CET
Corporate Global Citizenship in the 21st Century - Gordon Brown, John T.
Chambers, Indra K. Nooyi, H.M. Queen Rani, Peter Sands, Wang Jianzhou with
Michael E. Porter
10:45 CET
The Next Emerging Markets to Explore - Herman Gref, Angel Gurria, Hoang Trung
Hai, Yorihiko Kojima, Alvaro Uribe Velez, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua with David
Schlesinger
Call to Action on the Millennium Development Goals - Ban Ki-moon, Jose Manuel
Barroso, Bono, John T. Chambers, William H. Gates III, Stefan Oschmann,
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua by Gordon Brown
12:15 CET
Open Forum - USA-What Next after the Elections? - Kay Bailey Hutchison, Howard
B. Dean III, Robert Edgar, Olaf Gersemann, Mahdi Hadavi with Casper Selg
Evaluating Financial Risk: To Whom Should Credit Go? - Walter B Kielholz,
Malcolm Knight, Raymond W. McDaniel Jr, Guillermo Ortiz with Maria Bartiromo
14:30 CET
The Future of Mobile Technology - Kim Shin-Bae, Kevin J. Martin, Eric Schmidt,
Sir Howard Stringer, Wang Jianzhou, Jeff Zucker with David Kirkpatrick
New Drivers of Development - Gordon Brown, Willam H. Gates III, Michael
Treschow, Robert B. Zoellick, Jose Manuel Barroso with Indra K. Nooyi
16:00 CET
Presentation of the Crystal Award - Emma Thompson, Yo-Yo Ma with Klaus Schwab
17:00 CET
The Emerging Asian Community: The Role of ASEAN - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,
Stephen Green, Lee Hsien-Loong, Glorai Macapagal Arroyo with David J.
O'Reilly and Klaus Schwab
The Power of Collaborative Innovation - Jacques Aigrain, Carlos Ghosn, Thomas
H. Glocer, Mark G. Parker, Hector de Ruiz with Steve Adler
17:30 CET
Open Forum - What Are Russia's Geopolitical Ambitions? - Charles Grant, Alexei
Pushkov, Horst M. Teltschik with Urs Leuthard
Saturday January 26
Myths and Realities of Private Equity - Donald J. Gogel, Martin C. Halusa,
Josh Lerner, David M. Rubenstein with Kevin Steinberg
09:00 CET
The Global Economic Outlook 2008 - Palaniappan Chidambaram, Christine Lagarde,
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Lawrence H. Summers, John A.Thain, Yoshimi Watanabe
with Martin Wolf
10:30 CET
Special Address by Yasuo Fukuda - Yasuo Fukuda with Klaus Schwab
11:30 CET
Open Forum - Do We Need Economic Growth to Get More Sustainability? - Sharan
Burrow, Pascal Couchepin, Ricardo Hausmann, John Itty, Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke
with Dirk Schütz
Mobile Models for Growth - Viviane Reading, Arun Sarin, Solomon D. Trujillo,
Muhammad Yunus, Edward J. Zander with John Markoff
Adapting to New Champions - Emilio Azcarrage Jean, Mohammad Al Gergawi,
Alexander V. Izosimov, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Aditya Mittal, James T. Riady
with K.V. Kamath
14:00 CET
Europe's Purpose - Joseph Ackermann, Jan Peter Balkenende, Anders Fogh
Rasmussen, Pottering Hans-Gert, Michael Oreskes, Yuliya Tymoshenko
Open Forum - Climate Change Divide - Luiz Femando Furlan, Ichiro Kamoshita,
C.S. Kiang, Christian Mumenthaler, Achim Steiner, Helen Wangussa and Sonja
Hassler
Understanding Iran's Foreing Policy - Khalid Abdulla-Janahi, Manouchehr
Mottaki, Seved Mojtaba Samre Hashemi Shajarech, Lilia Shevtsova with Gareth
Evans
Threats to the Global Trading System - Akira Amari, Celso Amorim, Pascal Lamy,
Doris Leuthard, Peter Mandelson, Kamal Nath, Mari Pangestu, Susan Schwab
with Niall FitzGerald
17:00 CET
Open Forum - Virtual Worlds -- Fiction or Reality? - Reid Hoffma, Joseph
Weizenbaum, Philip Rosedale, Rafael Capurro, Florence Develey with Loic Le
Meur
Open Forum - Concluding Remarks on the Open Forum 2008 - André Schneider
Sunday January 27
Message from Davos: Believing in the Future - Klaus Schwab - Tony Blair, James
Dimon, K.V. Kamath, Indra K. Nooyi, David J. O'Reilly, Wang Jianzhou, Elie
Wiesel with Hala Gorani
10:00 CET
Orchestrating Collaboration - Benjamin Zander
11:15 CET
Note: all times are Central European Time (GMT + 1 hour)
