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Welcome Remarks

Manuel Sosa, Chairman of the INSEAD Technology and Operations Management Faculty
Javier Gimeno, Dean of the Faculty, INSEAD
 

Session 1: Bob’s Perspectives on Energy, Materials, and Industrial Ecology

The Economy as an Island of Order far from Equilibrium
Bob Ayres, The Novartis Chaired Professor Emeritus in Management and the Environment.

Gara Villalba Mendez, Full Professor of the Department of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Steven Miller, Professor Emeritus of Information Systems and Founding Dean, SMU School of Information Systems

Moderator: Ludo Van der Heyden, INSEAD Chaired Professor Emeritus in Corporate Governance

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Session 2: Energy and the Economic Sciences

Energy and Materials as Fundamental Inputs to the Economy and Why Neo-Classical Economics has it wrong and finds it so difficult to reform itself
Steve Keen, Economist and Author of Debunking Economics

Respondent: John Elkington, Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans and top CSR leader with his book Cannibals with Forks, which popularised his famous Triple Bottom Line concept.

Moderator: Uwe Schulte, Senior Advisor for the European Governance and Sustainability Center at the Conference Board & Member of the Organizing Committee

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Session 3: Wealth Creation, GDP Accounting, and Sustainable Life on Planet Earth

The Growth Debate in an Era of Climate Change
Jeroen van den Bergh, ICREA Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the VU University in Amsterdam

Respondent: Stanislav Shmelev, Founder and CEO at Environment Europe

Moderator: Prashant Yadav, Affiliate Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD and Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development

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Networking Luncheon – CEDEP Restaurant

Session 4: Transformation, Technology, and Production in the Climate Change Economy

Achieving Speed and Scale in the Path to Net Zero
Thomas Casten, Founder and Chair of Recycled Energy Development LLC, Clean Energy Entrepreneur, founder of several companies advancing more efficient production of usable energy, author of Turning off the Heat

The Way to Net Zero – Recent Progress and Challenges Ahead
Paolo Frankl, Head of the Renewable Energy Division at the International Energy Agency

Respondent: Ernst Worrell, Professor of Energy, Resources and Technological Change, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; and former editor-in-chief of Resources, Conservation & Recycling

Moderator: Eric Williams, Professor, Department of Sustainability, Golisano Institute of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Closing Remarks

Luk Van Wassenhove, The Ford Chaired Professor Emeritus in Manufacturing & Member of the Organizing Committee

Cocktails and Dinner in Honor of Bob’s 90th Birthday