Pre-event to the 8th International Conference on Sustainability and Responsibility

Location: IHK (Chamber of Commerce) Cologne

Address: Unter Sachsenhausen 10-26, 50667 Cologne, Germany

 

19:00-21:30: Welcome Reception at the Chamber of Commerce (IHK) Cologne (Moderation: Giselle Steinhauer, WDR)

• Werner Görg, President IHK
• Lisa Fröhlich, President

• Wayne Visser, BASF | Port of Antwerp | Randstad Chair in Sustainable Transformation and is Professor of Integrated Value at Antwerp Management School: The Values Dividend: Making What Matters Count by Creating Integrated Value

• Extended Elevator Pitch by Industry Pioneers
• Networking Opportunities including Food and Drinks

 

Location: Flora Cologne

Address: Am Botanischen Garten 1a, 50735 Cologne, Germany

 

8:00-8:45: Registration & Surprise

 

8:45-10:30: Official Opening & Keynote Speeches (Moderation: Monika Kolb, Conference Coordinator & René Schmidpeter, Conference Chair), Lower Floor

• Felix Gottlieb, Voice of the Next Generation
• Andreas Pinkwart, Minister of Economy, Innovation, Digitization and Energy in the Ministry of Economics NRW, Germany
• Lize Booysen, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Leadership in the Graduate School of Leadership and Change at Antioch University
• Timm Duffner, Social Activist at Ben & Jerry’s

 

10:45-12:30: Parallel Sessions

12:15-13:30: Lunch & Networking

Press-Conference (internal)

 

13:30-15:00: Parallel Sessions

 

15.00-15:30: Cake & Coffee

 

15:30-16:15: Discourse on the Future of CSR and Sustainable Management (Moderation: TBA), Lower Floor

• John Elkington, Writer, Thought-leader and Business Strategist, a Serial Entrepreneur and Environmentalist
• René Schmidpeter, Advocate for Sustainable Management as New Business Paradigm

 

16:15-17:00: Collaboration Opportunities (Moderation: Monika Kolb, Conference Coordinator & Marina Schmitz, Academic Coordinator), Lower Floor

Pitch your idea for collaboration to everybody in 60 seconds! Please send your short pitch description to Silvia Damme () until October 31.

 

17:00-17:45: Lifetime Achievement CSR Award 2018 (Key introduction: Gerhard Prätorius, Joachim Schwalbach, René Schmidpeter), Lower Floor

• Honoree: Robert G. Eccles, Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and former Professor at Harvard Business School
• Laudator: Georg Kell, Chairman of Arabesque and Founding Director of the UN Global Compact

 

Interactive Space: Individual Networking & Startup Mentoring (Facilitator: Hilke Posor, Heldenrat GmbH.)

 

17:45-18:00: Interactive Wrap-Up (Moderation: René Schmidpeter), Lower Floor

 

19:00-21:30: Evening Event                                               

Reception at the Historic Town Hall, Cologne

Address: Rathaus, 50667 Cologne (Entrance: Alter Markt)

• Henriette Reker, Mayor of Cologne
• Lisa Fröhlich, President
• CSR Award Ceremony & Book Launch
• Cologne Carnival Experience
• Food and Drinks

Location: Flora Cologne

Address: Am Botanischen Garten 1a, 50735 Cologne, Germany

 

8:00-9:00: Registration

 

9:00-10:30: Opening Day 2 & Keynote Speeches (Moderation: Patrick Bungard, Director CASM & Monika Kolb, Conference Coordinator), Lower Floor

• Ed Freeman, American Philosopher and Elis and Signe Olsson Professor for Business Administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia
• Tobias Menne, Head Global Digital Farming Unit, Member of the Executive Leadership Team BASF Agricultural Solutions
• Günter Nooke, German Chancellor’s Personal Representative for Africa in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

 

10:45 – 12:15: Parallel Sessions

12:15-13:30: Lunch & Networking

 

13:30-15:00: Parallel Sessions

15:00-15:30: Cake & Coffee

 

15:30-17:00: Parallel Sessions

17:00-18:00: Keynotes Speeches, Outlook and Interactive Wrap-up (Moderation: René Schmidpeter), Lower Floor

• Theo Pagel, Director of the Zoological Garden of Cologne
• Kalpona Akter, CEO of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity (BCWS)
• Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-Chair of the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management and Co-president, Club of Rome: Sustainability and Responsibility – a new enlightenment is needed

Outlook 2019-2020

• Danica Purg, President of the IEDC-Bled School of Management, President of CEEMAN
• Florencia Librizzi, Speaker, PRME Secretariat
• Sam Idowu, Vice-President of GCGI
• Wolfgang Schuster, Chairman Deutsches CSR-Forum
• Teng-Tsai Tu, President of EDUA

 

19:00-21:30: Conference Gala Dinner

10:00-14:00: Doctoral Workshop

Address: Hardefuststrasse 1, 50677 Cologne

Facilitators: Ingo Pies , Philipp Schreck, (Martin-Luther-University Halle- Wittenberg), René Schmidpeter (), in cooperation with Ed Freemann (University of Virginia, Darden School of Business), Bernd Irlenbusch (University of Cologne) and Laura Marie Schons (University of Mannheim)

 

10:00-17:00: 1-2 excursions (Company Visits, Sightseeing, Cologne Cathedral Tour, Sports Event, Virtual Reality Experience Cologne)

 

17:00: Cologne Brauhaus Experience