Agenda

Monday, 18 February

13.00 Welcome and Introduction, Marco Schlüter KEDGE alumni representative

13.20 Lobbying in Brussels – An overview - Marco Schlüter, former director of IFOAM EU in Brussels

14.00 Fabio Boscaleri, Representation of Tuscani in Brussels

14.30 A Digital Single Market? Thomas Nortvedt, Policy Officer in the Unit F1 – Digital Policy Development & Coordination, European Commission

15.15 Leaving for European Parliament

15.45 Meeting Diego Cango Fano, head of cabinet of European Parliament President Tajani

16.30 Guided tour European Parliament

17.00 Thirty years experience on agriculture policies in the European Parliament, Hannes Lorenzen, political advisor in the European Parliament

18.00 Visit Brussels grand place

19.00 Dinner

Tuesday, 19 February

9.00 Climate change - Where are we going after Kattowitz? And what can business do?

Thomas Stoerk, European Commission, DG Climate Action

Johanna Nyman , Policy Analyst Institute for European Environmental Policy

10.00 Coffee break

Lobbying in the EU: Examples

10.15 BusinessEurope: Benedikt Wiedenhofer, advisor

11.00 SME United: Luc Hendrickx, director Enterprise Policy and External Relations

11.30 How Brussels really work - A practical look into the practice of networking and lobby", Frank Schwalbach Roth, Networker and Strategist

12.00 Walking Lunch

13.00 Meeting head of cabinet of Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Elżbieta Bieńkowska

14.30 Visit discussion of European Parliament Committee on International Trade

- Exchange of views with Mukhisa Kituyi, UNCTAD Secretary-General, on Trade and Development Report 2018

- EU-Taiwan trade relations

17.00 The Future of the EU: discussion with MEP Elmar Brok, in EP since 1980, former chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs

18.00 KEDGE Evening event: The future of the EU: framed by a new "Cold War" between the US and China?

Laurent Estachy, Professor for Economics KEDGE Business School

19.30 Dinner

Wednesday, 20 February

9.00.Council of the European Union: How does it work and how does its work impact business?, Olaf Prüßmann, Acting Director for Economic and Financial Affairs, Directorate-General for Economic Affairs and Competitiveness, Council of the European Union

10.00 Business cooperation between China and EU, Luigi Gambardella, President ChinaEU

10.45 Coffee

11.15 Horizon 2020 and European Innovation Council: How can EU research and innovation benefit business?, Ramona Samson, Deputy Head of Unit Investments & SMEs, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

11.45 A social agenda for the EU? Experience from trade union, Arnd Spahn, Secretary for the agriculture sector, EFFAT

12.30 Sum up

13.00 Common lunch

KEDGE Alumni Seminar, "EU Policy and Business"

Building the KEDGE Executive MbA alumni community

18-20 February 2019 in Brussels

Agenda