Forum of Excellence

FORUM OF
EXCELLENCE
LLORET
2016 EDITION
Asociación Foro de Excelencia Lloret
8-11 June 2016
8 June - Wednesday
17.00
Opening Ceremony
17.30 - 18.00
19.00 - 19.30
Inaugural Conference:
The situation of the world
view from Latin America
Is Earth safe from
meteorites ?
Luis Alberto Lacalle
Former President of
Uruguay
18.00 - 18.30
Passion, Talent and Effort:
Walter Lichem
Former Ambassador of
Austria and President
of the UN Commission
for prevention of falling
asteroids on Earth.
Keys to success
19.15 - 20.00
Pollyana Netherhole
Alumni and Professional
Career Director Barcelona
School of Management
Opening Concert
performed by
Alexei Volodin
Piano
18.30 - 19.00
Supercomputer utility in
business, companies and
research
Mateo Valero
Director of the Barcelona
Supercomputer
21.30
Dinner for speakers,
sponsors and young
people offered by
Enrique Tomás
9 June - Thursday
9 June - Thursday
9.00 - 10.00
10.00 - 10.30
Asilum, Immigration,
Refugees, Human Rights.
Humanitarian problems
of the XXI Century. The
Challenges of the Human
Rights
The Environment and its
global implications
Manuel Carballo
10.30 - 11.00
General Manager at the
International Centre of
Migration, Health and
development
Art and Vision
Vincent de Luise
Ophthalmologist. Professor
at Yale University.
Claudia Arteaga
CEO Fundación Fidal
11.00 - 11.30
12.30 – 13.45
13.45 - 14.30
Ernesto Kahan
Former Vice President of
Physicians against Nuclear
War (Peace Nobel Prize)
Coffee-Break
11.30 - 12.30
Creativity and Emotion:
A Chinese story...
The new Tourism
The unstable situation
in the world: Conflict,
Dramas, terrorism, Risks
and Solutions.
Carlos Cebriá
Entrepreneur
Atlantis Group
Ernest Iten
Former Ambassador of
Switzerland
Presenter: Cristina
Emiliano González
CEO MSC Cruises España
Hamutal Rogel
Spokesman of the Embassy
of Israel in Spain
Taha Sultán Khalifa
Elbarghati
Centre for Cooperation in
the Mediterranean, Cruz
Roja and Red Crescent in
Libia
Walter Lichem
Former Ambassador
of Austria
Presenter: María Victoria
Aledo
International Consultant
Rosalía Arteaga Serrano
Former President
of Ecuador
Javier Gándara
President of Easy Jet
José Regidor
Rector of the University
of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria
Kike Sarasola
CEO Room Mate Hoteles
Joan Josep Juliá
President of Axel Hotels
Helena Egan
Global Director, Industry
Relations, TripAdvisor
Presenter: Ángel Díaz
Director Colonia GüellCripta Gaudí
Inocencio Arias
Former Ambassador
of Spain
Mark Freeman
CEO Institute for
Integrated Transitions
Stephen C. Donehoo
Managing Partner McLarty
Associates
Eduardo Torres Dulce
Former Attorney General
of Spain
Presenter: Lluis Bassets
Journalist
Christian Escribá
Baker
Cabañas
President of Guitart Hotels
14.30 – 15.45
Lunch offered by
the Chef
Pep Arbós
1 Repsol Sun
9 June - Thursday
9 June - Thursday
15.45 – 16.45
16.45 – 17.45
Leading Companies Managing Talents
From earth to Mars:
Motives to leave earth
and explore the stars
Jaume Gurt
Organization Director and
People Development at
Schibsted
Héctor Pérez
Training Director at PIMEC
José Luis Contreras
President - International
Norm SGE 900
Mario Monrós
Partner, General Director
at Tactio
Presenter: Joan Pons
Manager ATI Spain
19.00 – 20.15
Dialogues on Innovation,
Creativity, Science and
Entrepreneurship.
Rafael Rebolo
General Director at IAC
Luis Serra Majem
Professor of Public
Health at the ULPGC and
president of Nutrition
Without Borders
Presenter:
Sonia Fernandez-Vidal
Ph.D in physics
Ellen Baker
Doctor. Former Nasa
Astronaut
Illustrator: Pilarín Bayés
Antonio Bayés de Luna
King Jaime I Prize for
Clinical Medicine
20.15 - 21.00
Presenter: Bianca Pont
Journalist
Valentín Moro - Ilusionist
Jorge Blass - Ilusionist
Donald Pettit
NASA Astronaut
David Reyero
Senior HR Business
Partner - Sanofi
Domenec Espadalé
President at Chamber of
Commerce of Girona
Vincent de Luise
Ophthalmologist. Professor
at Yale University.
Joan Roca - Chef
Jorge Blass - Ilusionist
Presenter: Pere Castells
Scientific
Magic Night
17.45 – 19.00
Future Challenges in
Global Health
José Ramón Amengol
Doctor. Director from the
unit from endoscopy Clínica Quirón
Nicolás Díaz Chico
Professor of Physiology
University of Las Palmas
de Gran Canaria and
Director of Institute of
Cancer Research.
21.30
Dinner offered by the
Chefs
Fina Puigdevall y Pere
Planagumá
2 Michelin Stars
10 June - Friday
9.00-10.15
Competitiveness
strategies and
International growth
Josep Lluis Bonet
President at Chamber of
Commerce of Spain
Josep Lluis Sanfeliu
Partner at Ysios Capital
Lluis Segui
Director Partner at Miura
Private Equity
Nilo García Manchado
CEO Crambo
Pau Herrera
President of the Spanish
Association of Executives
10 June - Friday
10.15 – 11.15
11.45 – 12.45
From Mediterranean to
the World: From local
product to global product
Cities of the Future:
Sustainability and
Livability
Enrique Tomás
President of Enrique Tomás
Luis Pons
Engineer and Professor of
Projects at UPC
Carles Tejedor
Chef- Director of OilLab
Margarita Arboix
Professor at UAB
Judith Viader
General Manager at Frit
Ravich
Pere Castells
Chemical - Food Campus
Torribera of the University
of Barcelona
Adriana Casademont
President of
Casademont SA
Presenter: Oriol Puig
Journalist
Presenter: Esther Vera
Journalist
11.15 – 11.45
Coffee-Break
Cesar R. Martinell
CEO BHS
Albert Bosch
Entrepreneur and Athlete
Mateu Hernández
CEO Barcelona Global
Celia Sánchez Ramos
Inventor and Professor at
UCM
Rosa Rubio
Prosecutor Dean of the
Civil Section TSJC
Leslie Griffith
Neuroscientist
Fina Puigdevall
Chef and Entrepreneur
Cristina Cabañas
Pharmaceutical and
Entrpreneur
Presenter: Sonia Espadalé
Architect
Presenter: Cecilia Kindelán
PhD in Communication
and Advocate
Co-Director of the Forum
of Excellence
12.45-13.45
14.15 – 15.30
Lunch offered by Chef
José Rojano (3 Repsol
Suns)
Women changing the
world
Ada Yonath
Nobel Laureate in
Chemistry
Myrtha Casanova
President at European
Institute for Managing
Diversity
10 June - Friday
15.30 – 16.30
Business: Innovation,
Entrepreneurship
and Risks of Global
Internationalization
Daniel Wagner
President of “Risk
Coperative” and author
of the book “Global
Risk Agility and decision
Marketing”
Jorge Alvar Villegas
Director of the Division
of Infrastructure,
Environment, Energy and
ICT ICEX
Alejandro Molins
International Commerce
Consultant
Juan Roure
IESE professor and
founder of the Network
of Private Investors and
Family Offices of IESE
Rodrigo del Prado
CEO and BQ Founder
10 June - Friday
Efrén Miranda
CEO Club del
Emprendimiento
Presenter: Josep Puigbó
Journalist and CEO of
Undatia Comunicación
16.30 – 17.30
International health
cooperation as a means of
combating inequalities
Luís López Rivero
Thoracic surgeon. Director
of Health Training Program
in Mozambique of ULPGC
Pedro Pablo Cavada
Plastic Surgeon. President
at Cavadas Foundation
Pedro Clarós
Otolaryngologist, Facial
Surgeon and President at
Clarós Foundation
Jorge Saúl García Mendieta
Cardiovascular surgeon
Presenter: Víctor Amela
Journalist
17.30 – 18.00
18.10 – 19.00
Coffee, an aromatic
history of science
and efficiency
Concert
Pere Cornellá
President of Cafés Cornellá
Linda Chaoerton
Flute
Edith Peña
Piano
Presenter: Carmen Salinero
Professor and General
Secretary of the University
of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria
19.30 - 20.15
Transfer to Más Marroch
20.30 - 21.15
Appetizers
21.30 - 23.30
Dinner offered by the chef
Joan Roca
Restaurant Celler de Can
Roca (3 Michelin Stars)
11 June - Saturday
9.00 – 10.30
11 June - Saturday
Investment and
International Investors:
Where, When and Why?
10.30 – 11.30
New technologies:
generators of
unemployment or better
job opportunities?
Verne Harnish
CEO of Gazelles INC USA
Genís Roca
President of Roca
Salvatierra
Hisham-El-Sheriff
CEO of Nile Capital Emirates
Abdul Latif Al Khaja
CEO Gulf Mutual Group
Ricard Huguet
CEO Invenio
Philippe Delespesse
Director of Creative
Intelligence & Binnakle
Innovation Games
Bruno Fernández
CEO ENISA
Christian Meyer
Hari Prasad Kanoria
CEO SREI Foundation
(India)
Joan Carles Peiro
Operations Director at
Presenter: Mónica
Martínez
CEO Columbus Inc.
CEO Emotion Experience
Nike’s Excellence Center
Presenter:
Jacques Bulchand
Professor at University
de Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee-Break
12.00 - 13.30
13.30 – 14.30
Global economy Impacts
and Prospects
Human and Business
Values: Solidarity, Ethics
and Social Responsibility.
Erik Maskin
Nobel Laureate in
Economics
Timothy Kehoe
USA Federal Reserve
University of Minnesota
Xavier Mena
Professor of Economics
(ESADE Business School)
Jordi Gual
G.M of Strategy Group
La Caixa and professor of
economics at IESE
Marcos Urarte
President of Pharos
Consulting
Thierry Warin
Professor of International
Economics Relations,
Harvard University,
University of Montreal
Presenter: Ramón Adell
Professor of Economics at
the University of Barcelona
and Vice of CEDE.
Rahul Varma
Vice Chairman Acid
Survivors Foundation India
Ignacio Doñoro
Founder Hogar Nazaret
Mónica Martínez
Vice Presidente Ricci
Childhood Cancer
Foundation
Josep Santacreu
CEO of DKV seguros
Cristina Salvador
Director of APortada
Hugh Dugan
Former Diplomat at UN
and Advisory International
Olympic Committee .
Professor at the University
of Setton Hall
Presenter: Jordi Grau
Journalist
14.30 – 16.00
Lunch
11 June - Saturday
16.00 - 17.00
Education, Talent and
Innovation
Francisco Michavila
Former Secretary Council
of Universities and
Doctor Honoris Causa of
University of Las Palmas
Alecia Gisella Lokpez
Director of Business
Development Babson
College
Carlos Blanco
Egyptologist- Professor
University of Comillas
Rafael Robaina
Vicerrector of Titles and
11 June - Saturday
17.00-17.30
Climate change and its
economic impact
José María Baldasano
Professor of Environmental
Engineering at the UPC.
Ex-Director of Earth
Sciences of the BSC.
Rey Jaime I Prize for
Environment 1997
17.30-18.00
Smart Cities. A concept
beyond the “smart”
Presenter: Cecilia Kindelán
PhD in Communication
and Advocate
Co-Director of the Forum
of Excellence
Closing conference:
Exemplary Leadership
Alain Paul Martin
Founder of Harvard
University Global System
Presenter:
Juan Francisco Corona and
Rosario Berriel
General director of the
Institute of Family Business
and Vice-Rector for
International Relations of
the ULPGC
Mariola Pina
General Manager of Smart
Cities Hitachi - Europe
19.00 - 19.45
PhD School at ULPGC
Joan Mateo
Professor of Education at
the University of Barcelona
18.30 – 19.00
18.00 - 18.30
The Beauty of Knowledge
Carlos Blanco
Egyptologist- Professor
University of Comillas
Forum Closing
20.00 - 20.45
Lyrical concert
Isabel Rey - Soprano
Nauzet Mederos - Piano
21.30
Closing dinner offered by
the Chefs
José Rojano
Three Repsol Suns
Pep Arbós
One Repsol Sun
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Royal European Academy of Doctors
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