Singapore|5 August 2009
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| Tuesday, 4 August | |
| 3:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Conference Registration and Information |
| Wednesday, 5 August | |
| 7:45 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Conference Registration and Information |
| 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Networking Opportunities
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| 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | General Session: Economic Panel Discussion Transformation of the Global Economy Suman K. Bery, Director-General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, India Dr. Fan Gang, Director of the National Economic Research Institute, China Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist of the Australian Trade Commission Mikael Hagström, Executive Vice President, SAS Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific (panel host) |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. | General Session: Keynote Presentation The Proactive Enterprise: Thriving in Today’s Economy Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of SAS |
| 10:35 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. | Tea and Coffee Break in Networking Hall |
| 11:05 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | General Session: Executive Panel Discussion Sustained Competitive Advantage Through Enduring Leadership Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS Christoph Vilanek, CEO of freenet AG Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman of SMU and Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings Pravir Vohra, Group CTO of ICICI Bank Thomas H. Davenport, author and Presidents’s Distinguished Professor at Babson College (panel host) |
| 11:50 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. | General Session: Keynote Presentation Grown Up Digital Don Tapscott, Chairman of nGenera Insight, author of Grown Up Digital and co-author of Wikinomics |
| 12:35 p.m. – 1:55 p.m. | Networking Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | General Session: Keynote Presentation Judgment in an Age of Uncertainty Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of Outliers, Blink and The Tipping Point |
| 3:05 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Sessions and Talking Points Meetings
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| 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Networking Opportunities and Closing Cocktail Reception |
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