1. 2012 Women’s Forum Global Meeting
Wanted: 360° growth
Oct. 10-12, Deauville
As of 12 March
Wednesday, 10 Oct.
14:00-14:30 Forum welcome
Auditorium The Women’s Forum team welcomes newcomers and interested participants with a briefing on
the Global Meeting program, Forum and partner initiatives, and the Official delegation and other
remarkable groups and how to meet them.
14:30-15:30 Opening plenary
Auditorium What has fame brought to your advocacy?
How has the work of some of the world's leading women's rights advocates been changed for the
better, and sometimes the worse, by their receiving global recognition?
15:30-16:00 Networking break
16:00-17:30 Debate
Has the Arab Spring become a Desert Storm?
Bread, dignity, respect, freedom, and an end to state corruption: if the Arab Spring isn’t achieving
its original goals, what is its likely legacy?
16:00-17:30 Debate
What kinds of financial innovation do we need today?
Can we learn from the destructive extremes of the financial collapse, and manage to keep the
good parts of financial innovation without being stuck with the bad?
16:00-17:30 Side meetings
Breakout rooms
16:00-17:45 Discovery sessions
Discovery Hall
and Agora
18:00-19:45 Plenary brainstorming
Auditorium Women’s visions for 360° growth
What are the economic policies and growth models which can enable our and our children’s
prosperity and well-being? Interactive discussion and reflection led by some remarkable women.
20:30-22:30 Opening dinner
Thursday, 11 Oct.
09:00-10:15 Plenary debate
Auditorium Must we stop growing?
Is consumption growth an unnecessary evil? What are the alternatives?
10:15-10:45 Keynote address
Auditorium Creating growth from the bottom up
A discussion involving some of the world’s most innovative social entrepreneurs.
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2. 10:45-11:15 Networking break
11:15-12:45 Plenary debate
Auditorium Why has growth become so inequitable, and what to do about it?
Where and why have economic inequalities most increased, and what steps, if any, need to be
taken to make economic growth more socially just?
13:00-14:30 Roundtable
How can Africa create more high-potential entrepreneurs?
(with lunch boxes)
Everyone says that Africa needs more entrepreneurs. But how to encourage high-potential
entrepreneurship on a continent with so few entrepreneurial societies?
13:00-14:30 Debate
Is austerity reversing women’s empowerment?
(with lunch boxes)
A European debate on the issue and possible solutions.
13:00-13:45 Workshop
Defend your digital rights !
(with lunch boxes)
How should technology be structured and governed to support the rights and liberties of all the
world’s Internet users?
14:00-14:45 Workshop
How to tell an effective business story
(with lunch boxes)
Facts and figures alone will never persuade your audience, you need to know how to tell a good
story.
13:00-14:30 Official Side meetings
(with lunch boxes)
13:00-14:45 Discovery sessions
Discovery Hall
and Agora
13:00-14:45 Networking lunch
15:00-16:30 Roundtable
Is China becoming the world’s market?
What are the challenges and opportunities as China attempts to make the transition from being
the "world’s factory" to becoming a leading consumer market?
15:00-16:30 Roundtable
Gen Y women: What employers need to learn and unlearn
(with lunch boxes)
15:00-15:45 Workshop
How 3D printing could eliminate mass-market manufacturing
It’s not going to happen tomorrow, and this could be only a transitional technology – but still you
should know how3D printing could disrupt most industries making consumer goods.
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3. 16:00-16:45 Workshop
Practical business uses for LinkedIn
Beyond simply looking up contacts, how LinkedIn can be used to recruit and generate business
for companies.
15:00-16:45 Discovery sessions
Discovery Hall
and Agora
16:45-17:15 Networking break
17:15-17:45 CEO Champions
Auditorium
17:45-19:00 Plenary roundtable
Auditorium What are the right growth models for Africa?
What sets of economic policies and arrangements will enable African countries to grow in a way
that will best serve Africans and work for their geography and demographics?
19:00-20:00 Break
20:00-23:00 Gala dinner
Friday, 12 Oct.
09:30-11:15 Keynote and plenary roundtable
Auditorium How could a new regime change China’s governance?
A change in leadership is coming in China. Could this create an opening for new ideas and
approaches for managing China’s economy and for governance and justice under state
capitalism?
11:15-11:45 Break
11:45-13:30 Discovery sessions
Discovery Hall
and Agora
11:45-13:15 Debate
Should China’s one-child policy be removed?
(with lunch boxes)
What are the pros and cons of this policy, now thirty-one years old? How else could China
manage to effectively control its population?
11:45-13:15 Debate
Should we put a price on water?
Would putting a price on water make us more responsible in our local and regional uses of this
most precious of our natural resources?
11:45-13:15 Roundtable
Girls and the future of work
(with lunch boxes)
What are the forces shaping the future of work over the next twenty-thirty years, and how can we
best prepare the coming generations of girls to participate as full equals?
11:45-12:30 Workshop
Finding the right brand voice on Twitter
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4. (with lunch boxes)
How to think about your “brand voice” on Twitter: one that is appropriate for what a business
wants to say and who it wants to reach.
12:45-13:30 Workshop
How collaborative consumption is creating a consumer revolution
(with lunch boxes)
It’s not just car sharing and EBay! Discover how collaborative consumption is taking off on a scale
and in ways never imagined thanks to network technologies and socially networked consumers.
11:45-13:15 Official Side meetings
(with lunch boxes)
12:00-13:30 Networking lunch
13:45-15:15 Roundtable
How to bridge Africa’s gender divide?
Why is progress been made so slowly in Africa, and what can be done to change this?
13:45-15:15 Roundtable
Create more social cohesion in companies to unlock growth
13:45-15:15 Workshop
Gender marketing
(with lunch boxes)
Women are 85% of the consumer market. But how do you reach them?
13:45-15:15 Roundtable
Will the social media revolution remain contained in China?
13:45-15:15 Official Side meetings
13:45-15:30 Discovery sessions
Discovery Hall
and Agora
15:30-16:00 Networking break
16:00-17:00 Plenary roundtable
Auditorium What new leaders and leadership for new growth models?
Are people willing to support any kind of leadership today? By whom and via what system or
systems do we wish to be governed?
17:00-17:30 Closing keynote
Auditorium
17:30-17:45 Last words from the Forum
Auditorium
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