25th Global Forum
Program
Sunday, 20 March, 2022
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Optional Tour of Dubai
Panoramic city tour with a Guide, with photo stop
USD 40.00 per participant
Venue
Bus tour starting from the Grand Plaza Mövenpick
Group
Guests, Partner, Participants
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Global Forum Opening Reception
Venue
Grand Plaza Mövenpick | TWENTY THREE 23rd floor
Group
Guests, Partners, Participants
Monday, 21 March, 2022
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Session 1
Welcome and Introduction to the Future
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus | Plenary Room: 1.54
Speaker (*indicates to be confirmed)
Chairperson, Global Forum Organizing Team, and CEO, Global Executive Learning (Canada)
Professor, Head of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai (UAE)
CEO, Bridgeway Group of Companies and Global Forum community member (UAE)
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Session 2
Leading and Implementing Strategic Transformations: Lessons Learned for the Future (Part 1)
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Galleria Walk
Plenary Room 1.54
Breakout Room 1.29 + 1.43 + 1.49 + 1.50
Speakers
Topic 2.1
Redefining Risk and Business Transformations
Venue
Plenary Room 1.54
Formerly with DPDHL, Co-Founder of Magnifor and the Risk Leadership Society (USA)
Topic 2.2
UPS in Transformation and Its Impact on Present and Future Leaders
Venue
Breakout Room 1.43
Executive Development Program Manager, UPS (USA)
Managing Director, Middle East, Central Asia & Indian Subcontinent, UPS (UAE)
Topic 2.3
Present and Future Transformations in the Finance Sector
Venue
Breakout Room 1.29
CEO, Coinsilium Group, pioneer investor in Blockchain, Regional Director Asia Pacific, IOVLabs (Singapore)
Co-founder and CEO of Indorse, and Blockchain, Metaverse and NFT expert. (UK)
Topic 2.4
Perspectives of the Future in Social Media
Venue
Breakout Room 1.49
Professor, Head of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai (UAE)
Topic 2.5
A Crisis Leadership Model for the Future: An International Study of Lessons Learned During the COVID Pandemic.
Venue
Breakout Room 1.50
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Director, Middlesex University Dubai (UAE)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
Venue
Foyer
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session 3
Leading and Implementing Strategic Transformations: Lessons Learned for the Future (Part 2)
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Galleria Walk
Plenary Room 1.54
Speakers
Topic 3.1
The Future of Work and Its Impact on Leaders and Human Resource Business Partners
Venue
Plenary Room 1.54
Molster International; Partner, ForChiefs; formerly HR Talent and Capability Manager, Global Sales, Mars (Germany)
Chief People Officer at TuneIn (USA)
Topic 3.2
The Future of Innovation Thinking and Practice
Venue
Breakout Room 1.29
Professor of Marketing and Innovation, University of Cincinnati, co-author of Inside the Box: The Creative Method that Works for Everyone, author of Adding Prestige to Your Portfolio: How to Use the Creative Luxury Process to Develop Products Everyone Wants (USA)
Topic 3.3
On Leading Sustainable Transformation: Lessons Learned for Others and the Future
Venue
Breakout Room 1.43
Board Member and Managing Director, Group Vossloh Cogifer (France)
Head of Transformation, Vossloh Cogifer (France)
Topic 3.4
Lessons for the Future from Transformation Experiences at South Africa's Nedbank
Venue
Breakout Room 1.49
Executive Head, Transformation and Strategy, Nedbank Limited (South Africa)
Topic 3.5
Imperial Logistics: Form Truckers + Trader to an Intergrated Supply Chain in Africa
Venue
Breakout Room 1.50
SJW Associates; formerly, CEO at SABMiller (Czech Republic), President, SABMiller (Romania); COO, SAFEmap International; Chief HR Officer, MillerCoors, Global Chief People Officer, Imperial Logistics (South Africa)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Session 4
The Future of Entrepreneurship
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Panel
Plenary Room 1.54
Speakers
Founder, WomenX, Executive Board Director of the Environmental Society, Davos Lab Task Force Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum (Oman)
Sessional Lecturer, Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Toronto (Canada)
Partner, neue.se and Resident, Autodesk (USA)
CEO, Bridgeway Group of Companies (UAE)
President & Founder Business Gate & I Am Africa Platform /Business Incubators for SME / President Women And Youth Empowerment REFAI NGO - International Diplomatic Relations for AACID (UAE)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
Venue
Foyer
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Session 5
How to Develop Learning Societies, Organizations and Businesses Fit for Future Purpose, People and Sustainability
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Galleria Walk
Plenary Room 1.54
Speakers
Topic 5.1
How to Develop a Learning-Driven Business and Organizational Learning Ecosystem
Venue
Plenary Room 1.54
Senior Teaching Fellow, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, co-author of The Learning-Driven Business: How to Develop an Organizational Learning Ecosystem (UK) (To be confirmed)
Topic 5.2
Coaching and Preparing the Next Generation
Venue
Breakout Room 1.29
Next-Gen Transformational Leadership Coach, founder of Awesome Walkers (leaders who walk their talk), and author of Awesome Cup (UAE-UK)
Topic 5.3
Learning Organizations in Practice: A Compass to Unleash Learning Dynamics
Venue
Breakout Room 1.43
Former Head of Leadership & Development, Danone, and Founder of Learning Futures (France)
Topic 5.4
What Will the Future of Learning be Like?
Venue
Breakout Room 1.49
CEO and President META M&A (Germany)
Topic 5.5
The Role and Future of Management Education
Venue
Breakout Room 1.50
Professor, author, and President of IEDC-Bled School of Management; President of CEEMAN, the International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies; and President of Alliance of Management Development Associations in Rising Economies, co-founded by CEEMAN (Slovenia)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Session 6
The Future of Leadership
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Galleria Walk
Plenary Room 1.54
Topic 6.1
Future Talent: Who and What Skills and Mindsets Will Businesses Need to Nurture?
Venue
Plenary Room 1.54
Speakers
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Seco Tools (Italy)
Topic 6.2
Future Talent: Who and What Skills and Mindsets Will Governments and All Sectors Need to Nurture?
Venue
Breakout Room 1.29
Founder, Institute for Leadership Action, formerly Chief Learning Officer, and Head, Eskom Leadership Institute, co-editor, Leadership Perspectives from the Front Line (South Africa)
Topic 6.3
Leaders Need to Shape the Future by Developing Excellent Teams
Venue
Breakout Room 1.43
Organizational and Executive Coach at Be Leaders Executive Consulting (Mexico)
Topic 6.4
The Necessity of Having and Nurturing a Curiosity Mindset
Venue
Breakout Room 1.49
Founder, Global Curiosity Institute, and author, The Curiosity Manifesto: How Curiosity Helps Individuals and Workplaces Thrive (forthcoming) (Belgium)
President and Co-Founder of Area9Lyceum, an edtech company focusing on adaptive learning, and President, Strategic Initiaves (Denmark)
Topic 6.5
Revisiting the Future of Leadership in a Redefined VUCA World
Venue
Breakout Room 1.50
CEO, Executive Ownershift, and author, Executive Ownershift: Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams (Germany)
7:00 PM
Session 7
Refreshments and Global Forum Awards Dinner
Presentation of the 2022 Global Forum/Gen. Robert L. Dilworth Awards for Outstanding Achievement
Venue
Grand Plaza Mövenpick | BYTES Pool Lounge 4th floor
Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Session 8
Briefing on Tuesday’s EXPO 2020 and organization of Global Forum/EXPO Transformational Learning Expedition groups
Venue
Mövenpick - Grand Plaza
Room: Sirocco 3rd floor
Facilitators
UPS Vice President Expo 2020 Sponsorship & Operations (UAE)
Yury Boshyk (Canada)
Karl-Georg Degenhardt (Germany)
Chantal Fleuret (France)
9:00 AM
Private bus transfer from the Grand Plaza Movenpick hotel to EXPO 2020
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM
Session 9
8:45 Bus departure from Movenpick
10:00 German Pavilion No. 109 / Map B4
11:00 US Pavilion No. 229 / Map B2
12:30 DP World No. 240 / Map B2
13:30 Club 2020
The Future of Sustainability, Mobility and Collaboration: Future Opportunities for Business and Society
All day and evening at Expo 2020. Organized Transformational Learning Expeditions (T-LEXs) in small, guided and GEL facilitated action learning groups focusing on real issues of concern for Global Forum community members; including lunch and special group dinner on sight .
Special Guest:
* H.E. Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan
UAE Cabinet Minister, and Minister of Tolerance (*To be confirmed)
Venue
Groups
Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Session 10
Debriefing and Cross-Sharing of Tuesday’s EXPO 2020 Global Forum Transformational Learning Expedition teams
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Plenary
Plenary Room 1.54
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Session 11
The Future of Business and Work-Based Education and Training
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Panel
Plenary Room 1.54
Speakers
Lecturer, Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, and Senior Partner, Global Executive Learning (USA)
Business Action Learning, and Action Learning Institute, Co-Founder of myLeadershipMap, and Director, Cother Digital (Tasmania, Australia)
Professor for Change Management and Action Learning at the University of Applied Management; owner of bhcg.impact.network; and author. (Germany)
Managing Consultant, LTA People (formerly Leadership Talent Australia) (Australia)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Break
Venue
Foyer
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Session 12
Personal Reflections and Future Forward
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Panel
Plenary Room 1.54
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Lunch
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Session 13
Sharing Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Creating a More Positive, Collaborative and Inclusive Future
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus
Panel / Retrospectives Workshop
Plenary Room 1.54
Speakers
Vice President, responsible for international trade, Intel Corporation; Board of Directors, Campbell Scientific; Executive Advisor and Coach (USA)
Executive Director, Light it Forward (UAE-The Philippines)
CEO, midge medical, (Germany)
Managing Director, Compassion Communication, Associate, Global Executive Learning, and author, Accelerated Learning (forthcoming) (Sweden)
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Session 14
26th Global Forum, 2023 venue
Venue
Heriot-Watt University - New Campus | Plenary Room 1.54
3:00 PM
Departure to the Desert for the Global Forum Final Dinner and Bedouin cultural event
Venue
Bus Transfer to the desert from the Grand Plaza Mövenpick