YPS Agenda 2016

16:30 – 17:30      Registration Opens 

                             Location: The Hotel, Brussels

17:30 – 18:15      Orientation

18:15 – 18:30      Official Welcome

• Dr. Karen Donfried, President, German Marshall Fund of the United States

18:30 – 20:00      (Re) Formation: Transatlantic Leadership Amid Crisis

• Mr. Adam Shub, Deputy Chief, U.S. Mission to the European Union
• Ms. Xenia Wickett, Head, US and the Americas Programme and Dean, The Queen Elizabeth II Academy, Chatham House
• Moderator  - Mr. Jonathan Capehart, Editorial Board, Washington Post

20:00 – 21:30      Opening Dinner - The Role of Inclusive Leadership in Times of Uncertainty

• Mr. Trevor Gandy, SVP and Deputy Chief Culture Officer, Chubb
• Mr. Carlton Yearwood, Senior Partner, True Blue Inclusion

Table Facilitators:

• Ms. Kristel Ba, Program Officer, German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Ms. Lora Jane Berg, Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Mr. David Johns, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, U.S. Dept. of Education
• Mr. Alex Johnson, Special Advisor for Russia/Ukraine External Affairs Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy International Security, U.S. Dept. of Defense
• Mr. Adnan Kifayat, Senior Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Ms. Reta Jo Lewis, Director, Congressional, German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Dr. Linda Lopez, Chief, Office of Immigrant Affairs, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Mayor
• Dr. Mischa Thompson, Policy Advisor, U.S. Helsinki Commission
• Mr. Simon Woolley, Co-Founder and Director, Operation Black Vote

21:30 – 23:00      Night Owl sessions

Night Owl: A Changing Middle East: Broader Challenges for the Atlantic

• Mr. Peter Brorsen, External Relations and Europe Director, European Institute of Peace
• Dr. Nada Mohammed Ibraheem Al-Jubori, Member, Council of Representatives, Iraq
• Dr. Kori Schake, Research Fellow, Stanford University
• Moderator –Ms. Charlotte Brandsma, Program Coordinator, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Night Owl: Confronting Populism across the Atlantic

• Mr. Steven Erlanger, Bureau Chief, London, New York Times
• Ms. Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament
• Ms. Zsuzsanna Szelenyi, Member of Parliament, Hungarian Parliament  
• Moderator – Dr. Corina Stratulat, Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre

09:00 – 09:30      Early Bird Coffee

09:30 – 11:00      The Refugee Crisis: The Ultimate Stress Test for Europe?

• Ms. Nisha Agarwal, Commissioner, Office of Immigrant Affairs, City of New York
• Mr. Ali Aslan, TV Host and Journalist
• Mr. Paul Adamson, Founder and Editor, E! Sharp
• Ms. Sara Tesorieri, Deputy Head of EU Office, Oxfam International  
• Moderator –Mr. Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times 

11:00 – 11:15      Short break

11:15 – 12:45      Disrupting the Workplace: Investing In and Retaining Talent

• Mr. Said Abdu, Swedish Center-Right Liberal Party politician and a Member of Parliament 
• Mr. Roger Dassen, Global Vice Chairman, Risk, Regulatory and Public Policy, Deloitte 
• Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America Foundation
• Moderator – Ms. Madeleine Goerg, Program Officer, German Marshall Fund of the United States

12:45 – 13:30      Networking Lunch with Marshall Memorial Fellows

• Edita Hrda‎, Managing Director Americas for the European External Action Service
• Ms. Zsuzsanna Szelényi, Member of Parliament, Hungarian Parliament 
• Mr. Ahmed Larouz, President, The Cedar Network
• Ms. Rana Birden-Corbacioglu, Co-Founder, Women in Foreign Policy Turkey

13:30 – 16:30     Workshop Sessions                       

Amping Up Your Empathy for Decision Making

• Mrs. Geraldine Ide Gardner, Director, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Building your Public Persona

• Mr. Adnan Kifayat, Senior Resident Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Intercultural Development Inventory

• Mr. Carlton Yearwood, Senior Partner, True Blue Inclusion

Power Simulation: Navigating the Architecture of Systems

• Mr. Guillaume Xavier-Bender, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

16:30 – 17:00      Coffee Break 

17:30 – 18:00      Workshop debriefs

18:00 – 19:30      Rethinking Strategies for a Changing Security Landscape

• Ambassador Sorin Dumitru Ducaru, Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO
• The Honorable Hanna Hopko, Head of Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament of Ukraine 
• Ms. Merle Maigre, Security Policy Adviser to the President, Office of the President of Estonia
• Ms. Julianne Smith, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for New American Security
• Moderator – Ms. Cami McCormick, State Department and Pentagon Radio Correspondent, CBS News

19:30 – 19:45      Transport to dinner location

19:45 – 22:00      Informal Networking Dinner Location: Spirito,  Rue de Stassart 18, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium

10:00 – 10:10      Brief presentation on “Opportunity for Europe”

• Dr. James Manyika, Director, McKinsey Global Institute

10:10 – 11:40      The Global Race for Innovation: the Tortoise and the Hare?

• Mr. Carlo D’Asaro Biondo, President EMEA Strategic Relationships, Google 
• Ms. Videesha Kunkulagunta, Principal, Redstone Digital
• Dr. James Manyika, Director, McKinsey Global Institute
• Mr. Simon Schäfer, CEO, Founder, The Factory  
• Moderator - Ms. Sudha David-Wilp, Senior Transatlantic Fellow & Deputy Director, Berlin Office, German Marshall Fund of the United States             

11:40 – 12:30      Networking Lunch      

12:30 - 14:00      Engaging a New Generation of Transatlanticists to Think the Unthinkable 

• Karlijn Jans, Chair Dutch Atlantic Youth Association
• David Lowe, MPA Candidate, London School of Economics
• Erwan Katter, Chief of Staff, Meridiam Infrastructure
• Sarah Anthony, Commissioner Wayne County, Michigan Commissioner District 3

14:00 – 14:30      Transfer and join Brussels Forum. 

                            Location: Steigenberger Wiltchers’s Hotel, Brussels

Young Professionals Summit will join Brussels Forum Program

Location: Steigenberger Wiltchers’s Hotel, Brussels

13:30 – 14:30      Young Professionals Summit - Closing debrief – Steigenberger Ballroom