EuROpE in ThE faCE Of gROwing sOCial inEqualiTy

europe in the face of growing
social inequality, radicalism
and geopolitical threats
SOPOT | 30 SEPTEMBER – 2 OCTOBER 2015
international congress
of business communities
The European Forum for New Ideas is a meeting place of
business leaders, representatives of the sciences, politics and
culture as well as NGOs. It is an event that wishes to actively
participate in shaping the future of our continent. It is a place of
confrontation of non-standard opinions and bold ideas. Each event
offers an intellectual challenge as well as an opportunity to meet
interesting people and recognised experts.
During the Forum, we are looking for solutions to the major
challenges placed before Europe. The heated debates are aimed
to develop ideas for a strong Europe and a competitive economy,
a Europe open to civilizational and technological trends.
Conclusions and ideas formed during the Forum are communicated
as recommendations to the EU and Polish authorities and
to relevant organisations and media.
EFNI has been organised since 2011 by the Polish Confederation
Lewiatan in cooperation with BUSINESSEUROPE, the city
of Sopot, as well as Polish and international companies
and organisations.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This year’s EFNI will focus on what is most important for economy
and society, for Europe and Poland, for development and the future.
It will offer debates on what endangers, shapes and influences the
economy, and what can and should be impacted by entrepreneurs.
This year, in addition to the debate about the evident issues that
are now important to Europe (i.e. financial crisis in the Eurozone,
youth unemployment, investment to stimulate growth), we would
also like to talk about the threats to business and economy posed
by the dramatic income inequality. In respect to social inequality,
the world has regressed to the beginning of the 19th century.
The disproportion in income distribution is so large that it may seriously
compromise economic growth. Renowned economic experts also point
out the escalation of geopolitical conflicts as a threat to economic
expansion and business development. These would include the conflict
in Ukraine, especially troubling for Poland, and the increasing activity
of radical groups, in particular Islamic. Polish entrepreneurs cannot act
as if the issues important for the world today are of no concern to them.
We would like to actively join that debate.
Henryka Bochniarz
President of the Polish Confederation Lewiatan
Vice-President of BUSINESSEUROPE
european forum for new ideas
• Ideas that shape the future of politics and global business • Recommendations for politicians • Conversations with outstanding minds and experts • Meetings with decision-makers and visionaries • Business networking • Attention of Polish and international media •
europe in the face of growing social inequality,
radicalism and geopolitical threats
This year, our focus will go beyond the issues named in the conference title. We will address the question
of how to fix capitalism, and we will debate the economic impact of trends such as the sharing economy,
sustainable development, philanthrocapitalism, and shared value. Also high on the agenda will be the key
challenges of the EU: the future of the eurozone, the digital single market, and the European energy union.
efni 2015 programme
WEDNESDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2015
THURSDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2015
FRIDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2015
10:35 – 13:50 08:00 – 09:30
08:00 – 09:30
INSPIRATIONS
Presentation of profiles
and discussions with the invited
entrepreneurs - authors of daring
ideas and business success.
09:30 – 10:00 NETWORKING BREAK
10:00 – 11:30 PLENARY SESSION
New Business Models
For New Times
11:30 – 12:00 NETWORKING BREAK
12:00 – 13:30 PLENARY SESSION
How Can Capitalism Be Fixed?
13:30 – 15:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:45 – 15:15 EUROPEAN PUBLICISTS’
FORUM
How To Rescue Europe From
the Rise of Radicalism and
Inequalities? How (if at all)
Should the Media Participate
in This Crusade? | part 2 |
16:00 – 16:30 16:30 – 18:00 THE TRAIN TO IDEAS
Trip to Sopot on a Pendolino train
and a warm-up debate:
Inequality – Democracy – Free
Market. Will Social Inequalities
Cause a Political Crash in
Europe?
WELCOME OF EFNI 2015
ATTENDEES
PANEL
❙❙ Company=Idea?
19:00 – 22:00 EFNI OPENING GALA
22:00 – 00:00 NIGHT OWL DISCUSSIONS
50 hours of
programme events,
including
• plenary sessions • panel
discussions • special report
premieres • industry breakfast
and lunch debates • night owl
discussion • important book
premieres •
09:30 – 10:00 NETWORKING BREAK
10:00 – 11:30 PLENARY SESSION
End of Post-Cold War Illusions:
Does Europe Need a New Order?
11:30 – 12:00 NETWORKING BREAK
12:00 – 13:30
LUNCH BREAK
13:45 – 15:15 EUROPEAN PUBLICISTS’
FORUM
How to Rescue Europe from
the Rise of Radicalism and
Inequalities? How (if at all)
Should the Media Participate
in This Crusade? | part 1 |
associated
events
Panel and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna award
ceremony for managers in recognition of
business vision, determination, and courage.
Friday, 2.10.2015 | 17:30–19:00
BAYS OF DIALOGUE
Informal conversations with EFNI panellists,
open to the residents and visitors of Sopot.
Thursday, 1.10.2015 and Friday, 2.10.2015
15:30–16:30 | 17:30–18:30
LUNCH DEBATE
How to Revitalize the Eurozone?
15:30 – 17:00 PLENARY SESSION
European Single Market
– How to Put It Right
and Make It Single Indeed?
17:00 – 17:30 NETWORKING BREAK
17:30 – 19:00
A sports event for EFNI attendees:
a 5 km run in park Północny (Northern Park),
a 5 km Nordic Walk on the beach, running
events for children and youth around Skwer
Kuracyjny, meetings with athletes, charity
events, and other attractions.
* The programme is subject to change
ROUND TABLE
Mobility and Low Emission
Transport: Trends and Solutions
for Urban Development
PZU RUN OF NEW IDEAS
Saturday, 3.10.2015
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
❙❙ What Turns Us On?
Trends and Implications
of Change in Media
Consumption
❙❙ EU Digital Single Market:
How Single, How Common,
How Joint?
❙❙ The Economy in Times
of Uncertainty
13:30 – 15:30 VISIONARIES 2015
ROUND TABLES
❙❙ Energy for the Region.
What does Energy Solidarity
Mean in Central and Eastern
Europe?
❙❙ How Can a Modern Approach
to the Extractive Industry
Transform Contemporary
Economies?
❙❙ Cybersecurity: a Problem
Across the Board? Strategies
of EU Member States Towards
the Challenges of Online
Data Access
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
❙❙ Big Data: The Driving
Force Behind the Economy
in the 21st Century?
❙❙ More Digital, Less Traditional
Economy. How can Europe Avoid
Becoming a ‘Digital Colony’?
❙❙ Investments in Innovation
– Who Is Taking the Risk
and for Whom?
20:00 – 01:00 EFNI NETWORKING EVENING
23:00 – 01:00 NIGHT OWL DISCUSSIONS
LUNCH DEBATE
What About Europe?
Debate of the 1990s
transformation leaders
and change leaders
– New Europe 100 laureates
LECTURE
Radicalisms in the Brain:
Recommendations for Politicians
15:30 – 17:00 17:00 – 17:30 17:30 – 19:00
20:00 – 23:00 PANEL DISCUSSIONS
❙❙ How Will Modern Technologies
Influence the Health Care
Systems?
❙❙ Digital Security in Sectors
of Strategic Importance:
How to Protect Critical
Infrastructure and Key Data?
NETWORKING BREAK
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
❙❙ Presentations by Knowledge
Partners
❙❙ Chances and Challenges
of the Transatlantic Trade
and Investment Partnership
(TTIP)
EFNI CLOSING GALA
inspiring
discussions.
no labels, no
indoctrination
efni 2015 panellists and guests
Each year, THE EUROPEAN FORUM FOR NEW IDEAS invites about 150 panellists – business leaders, political leaders and the
most outstanding minds from the world of science and culture. THIS YEAR, OUR GUESTS IN SOPOT WILL INCLUDE, AMONG OTHERS:
Emma Marcegaglia
Loïc Armand, Vice President of MEDEF, France
Salvatore Babones, Professor of sociology
& social policy, University of Sydney, Australia
Markus J. Beyrer, Director General
of BUSINESSEUROPE
Elżbieta Bieńkowska, European Commissioner
for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship
and SMEs
Jeffrey Sachs
Elżbieta Bieńkowska
Michał Boni
Rafał Ohme, Professor, SWPS (University of
Social Sciences and Humanities), Poland
Łukasz Kalinowski, CEO, General Director of
MetLife, Poland
Piotr Piętka, President & CEO, Starcom
MediaVest, Poland
Teresa Kamińska, President of the Pomeranian
Special Economic Zone, Poland
Thomas Pogge, Director of the Global Justice
Program, Germany
Jacek Karnowski, Mayor of Sopot, Poland
Peter Pomerantsev, author, TV producer,
Great Britain
Jakub Karnowski, CEO, PKP SA, Poland
Kasia Kieli, President and Managing Director at
Discovery Networks CEEMEA, Poland
Michał Boni, Member of the European
Parliament
Andrzej Klesyk, President of the Board,
PZU SA, Poland
Wojciech Borowski, CEO of McCann
Worldgroup, Poland
Jacek Krawczyk, President of Employers’ Group,
European Economic and Social Committee
(EESC)
Jerzy Buzek, Chair of Committee on Industry,
Research and Energy, European Parliament
Caroline de Camaret, Editor-in-Chief,
FRANCE 24, France
Judy Dempsey, Nonresident Senior Associate,
Carnegie Europe, Great Britain
Lutz Finger, Director of Data Science, LinkedIn,
USA
Luciano Floridi, Director of Research and
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of
Information, University of Oxford, Great Britain
Roland Freudenstein, Deputy Director, Head of
Research, Wilfried Martens Centre for European
Studies, Germany
Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, Director General
at the Directorate-General for Development
and Cooperation-EuropeAid, European
Commission
Leszek Grabarczyk, Deputy Director, National
Centre for Research and Development, Poland
Maroš Šefčovič
Leszek Jażdżewski, Editor-in-Chief, LIBERTÉ!,
Poland
Henryka Bochniarz, President of the Polish
Confederation Lewiatan, Vice-President of
BUSINESSEUROPE, Poland
Marek Borzestowski, Partner, Giza Polish
Ventures, Poland
Maria Morris
Jacek Krawiec, President & CEO,
PKN ORLEN SA, Poland
Cornelia Kutterer, Director of Digital Policy,
Microsoft EMEA, Germany
Vytautas Landsbergis, former President
of Lithuania, Lithuania
Luigi Lovaglio, President of the Management
Board, CEO of Bank Pekao S.A., Poland
Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Foreign
Affairs Committee, Bundestag, Germany
Olivier Roy, Professor, European University
Institute in Florence, France
Eugene Rumer, Director of Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, USA
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute,
USA
Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President
of the European Commission, European
Commissioner for Energy Union
Sławomir S. Sikora, President of the
Management Board, Citi Handlowy, Poland
Stanisław Speczik, CEO, General Director
at Miedzi Copper Corporation, Poland
Andrzej Lubowski, economist, Poland
Wojciech Szpil, CEO, Totalizator Sportowy,
Poland
Fedor Lukyanow, Editor-in-Chief, Russia
in Global Affairs, Russia
Magdalena Środa, Philosopher, ethicist,
University of Warsaw, Poland
Aleksandra Magaczewska, President of
the Industrial Development Agency (IDA JSC),
Poland
Donald Tusk, President of the European Council
Lev Manovich, Director, Software Studies
Initiative, USA
Emma Marcegaglia, President
of BUSINESSEUROPE
Justin McGuirk, writer, critic and curator,
Strelka Press, Great Britain
Natalia Hatalska, Expert in Alternative
Marketing Communication, Poland
Piotr Moncarz, Consulting Professor at
Stanford University, Academic Director of TOP
500 Innovators Program, USA
Jerzy Hausner, Member of the Monetary Policy
Council, Poland
Maria Morris, Executive Vice President,
MetLife, USA
Danuta Hübner, Chair of the Committee on
Constitutional Affairs, European Parliament
Rainer Münz, Head of Research and Knowledge
Center, Erste Group, Austria
Julián Ugarte, Founder & Executive Director,
Socialab, Chile
Lech Wałęsa, former President of the Republic
of Poland, Poland
Maciej Witucki, Chairman of the Supervisory
Board, Orange Polska, Poland
Danuta Hübner
Donald Tusk
efni 2015 organizers and partners
Organizer
co-organizers
Honorary Patronage
Institutional Partners
Honorary patronage of the President
of the Republic of Poland
Strategic Partners
Opening gala partner
Main Partners
Supporting Partners
Knowledge Partners
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opinions about efni
EFNI has quickly gained reputation in Europe. It is no coincidence
that the Forum guests include outstanding European politicians,
intellectuals, entrepreneurs and managers.
Donald Tusk, President of the European Council
EFNI, organized on a great scale, is a place that stimulates all
participants and pushes them to reflect critically on their own
patterns of thinking. (…) Fantastic view onto the sea in Sopot
and very efficient and discreet organisation give the entire event
a unique character.
Paul H. Dembinski, Director, Observatoire de la Finance, Geneva,
Switzerland
Nowhere in the world have I seen more animated discussions,
more innovative ideas and more serious debate about the state
of the modern institutions. So, if it is really true that ideas can
change the reality we live in, it is a given that the ideas hatched
during the Forum will be able to do it.
Benjamin R. Barber, President of the Interdependence
Movement / CivWorld, USA
Open debates at EFNI make it possible for the representatives
of the state and public sector to discuss European issues in a global
context. (…) Please continue to organise this fantastic, efficient
and productive Forum.
Irene Natividad, President, Global Summit of Women, USA
Each panel or session I have attended bristled with new ideas.
Zygmunt Bauman, philosopher, United Kingdom
I was in awe of the organisation of this event.
Sylvie Goulard, MEP
It is a great meeting, and it is very important to business.
Not only to Poland, but to all of Europe.
Bernhard Welschke, Secretary General of BIAC – OECD
Here at EFNI ideas are coined, and you can meet people
who are starting to think ’afresh’.
Lech Wałęsa, former President of the Republic of Poland
The Forum is a valuable input to the innovative thinking and to
seeking political and economic solutions for the post-crisis Europe.
The Sopot debates have become a Polish brand, a model for debates
about major challenges for Europe and the world.
Danuta Hübner, Head of the Committee on Regional Development
of the European Parliament
A meeting with European citizens who have a personal
and emotional attachment to the European Union was
a valuable and eye-opening experience.
George Friedman, President, Stratfor, USA
Initiatives like EFNI will allow for combining the forces of politics
and business to defend the competitiveness of Europe.
Mirosław Kachniewski, President of the Management Board, SEG, Poland
sopot
The European Forum for New Ideas is held in Sopot,
one of the most picturesque Polish resorts by the Baltic Sea.
For the duration of the conference, New Ideas Pavilion is built
directly on the beach for that occasion. Forum participants
also use the conference centre located in the state-of-the-art
Sheraton hotel and the rooms at the Grand hotel.
EFNI’s location near the international Gdańsk airport,
near one of the largest railway hubs in Poland, as well as near
the newly commissioned A1 motorway is an additional asset.
contact
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