Annual Presidents Forum 2024: Competitive Europe – Paradise Lost or a New Drive

IEDC
15.11.2024 09:00 AM
€ 500 without VAT
The IEDC Annual International Presidents’ Forum is a premier event that gathers top executives and governmental representatives from the region and beyond. Addressing the most pressing business and economic issues, it features thought leaders and experts, making it an ideal platform for exchanging ideas and fostering new collaborations. This year the forum will examine Europe's competitiveness in the global economy, exploring challenges such as geopolitical shifts, technological advancements, and sustainability.

About the Forum

The IEDC Annual International Presidents’ Forum is the event of the year that regularly attracts numerous top executives and governmental representatives from the region and beyond. The topics of the forum reflect the most current issues impacting business processes and world economies. The speakers of the forum are prominent thought leaders and experts in their respective fields. Consequently, the forum serves as an excellent platform for exchange of opinions and creation of ideas, as well as an ideal setting for networking and establishment of new cooperation. 

About the Topic

Competitive Europe – Paradise Lost or a New Drive

The Annual Presidents Forum this time will explore the evolving landscape of Europe's competitiveness in the global economy.

The fact that the EU has fallen behind the US and China is so many critical sectors comes as no shock to anyone familiar with the strengths of the world’s two superpowers. What is a surprise is that fair assessments of the EU’s current trajectory of decline are so absent from the public discourse. Europe’s leaders, and the business and political elites of its nation states, lack a clear vision on how to re-start the engines of value creation. The “in-depth analysis and recommendations” of Mario Draghi’s report, The Future of European Competitiveness, is a case in point.

The keynote speech of Prof. Casas-Klett will review some of the key elements that Europe is missing: genuine risk-taking; strategic thinking; creative destruction; European elite business models and a European elite system; geopolitical power; and narratives for the world. Prof. Casas-Klett will stimulate the discussion with a prescient, provocative, and constructive analysis of the current state of Europe, framed by the Elite Quality Index (EQx2024) and its underlying theory, assessments of the sustainable value creation of European organizations, and the general benchmarks that the US and China provide. Theoretical disquisitions will shed light on the potential inadequacies of a ‘club of nation states’ facing major 21st century challenges and will be complemented by practical insights on areas ranging from the manufacturing industries to AI technology.

 

When

Start date: November 15, 2024 at 9:00 AM

Schedule

09:00 – 09:30

Registration and welcome coffee

09:30 – 10:00

Welcome address

Address of the President of the Republic of Slovenia TBC

10:00 – 12:00

Keynote addresses by

  • Dr. Tomas Casas i Klett, Senior Lecturer in International Management with focus on China, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • Kerstin Jorna, Director-General, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission 

Q&A 

12:00 – 12:30

Coffee break

12:30 – 13:30

Roundtable discussion of business and political leaders, moderated by the keynote speaker

  • Matteo Ferrazzi, Senior Economist, European Investment Bank
13:30 - 13:45

Conclusions

13:45 - 14:30

Presentation of Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

14:30 -

Reception

 

Media partner

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Speakers

Kerstin Jorna 160_184
Kerstin Jorna
European Commission's Director-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Tomas Casas i Klett 160_184 2024
Dr. Tomas Casas i Klett
permanent faculty at the University of St.Gallen and the Director of the China Competence Center (CCC) at the Research Institute for International Management (FIM-HSG)

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