Dear Participants, we proudly present our Agenda for the Transcultural Leadership Summit 2018. If you want to know more about our speakers, you can read about them here: Speakers!
Day 1 – November 8th, 2018
13:00 – 13:15 pm Welcome Address | Student project leads
13:15 – 13:45 pm Opening Address | “Transculturality and Innovation”; Prof Josef Wieland, Director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin | LEIZ
Part I Cooperation
13:45 – 14:15 pm Keynote | “Brazil and Germany – Potentials for Economic Cooperation”; Thomas Timm, Executive Vice-President and Member of the Board, German Chamber of Commerce São Paulo
14:15 – 14:45 pm Keynote | “Transcultural Cooperation – The example of Zeppelin”; Ricardo Borges Dos Santos, Managing Director of Zeppelin Systems Latin America
14:45 – 15:00 pm Open discussion
15:00 – 15:45 pm Coffee, Cake & Culture | “Ambassadors of the Future”, German Chancellor Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Part II Leadership
15:45 – 16:30 pm Keynote | “Leadership and Integrity in Brazil“; Bruno Brandão, Executive Director of Transparency International Brazil
16:30 – 16:45 pm Open Discussion
16.45 – 17:30 pm Coffee, Cake & Culture | Exhibition : “The future we want ! A child’s perspective”, a project in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Brazil and the Primary School Friedrichshafen-Fischbach
Part III Transculturality and Leadership Development
17:30 – 19:00 pm Panel Discussion, chaired by Prof. Josef Wieland, Director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin | LEIZ
- Dr Rolf-Dieter Acker, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Deutsch-Brasilianische Gesellschaft; Advisory Board Member of the Business Association for Latin America (LAV); Former CEO of BASF S.A. in Brazil & Regional Head South America
- Prof Mario Monzoni, Coordinator of the Center for Sustainability Studies at São Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP) at Fundação Getúlio Vargas
- Dr Flávia Rocha, Senior Director for Institutional Policy and Strategy at Conservation International Brazil and member of the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network in Brazil (SDSN Brazil)
Conference Dinner
19:00 pm Dinner Speech | “Transcultural Leadership and Innovation Management in Practice”, Dr Martin Teigeler, Executive Vice President R&D at Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG
Day 2 – November 9th, 2018
08:00 – 09:00 am Arrival | Breakfast
Part I Transcultural Leadership in Practice
09:00 – 10:00 am Panel Discussion, chaired by Prof Josef Wieland, Director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin
- Peter Gerstmann, CEO of Zeppelin GmbH
- Dennison John, Managing Director of SAP Labs Latin America
- Martin Kunze, Director President of TÜV Rheinland Brazil & Executive Vice-President for TÜV Rheinland in South America
Part II Workshops “Success Stories from Brazil”
10:00 – 11:15 am Introduction & first session of workshops
- “Responsible Leadership Practices – Case Studies from Brazil”; Prof Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, President of the Latin American Business Ethics Network (ALENE); Retired Associate Professor at São Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP) at Fundação Getúlio Vargas
- “Learning from a Start-up from Rio de Janeiro”; Henrique Drumond; Social Entrepreneur and CEO of Insolar
- “Sustainable Business Strategies in Brazil”; Achim Lohrie, Chief Sustainability Advisor at Tchibo GmbH & Martin Kunze, Director President of TÜV Rheinland Brazil & Executive Vice-President for TÜV Rheinland in South America & Thomas Timm, Executive Vice-President and Member of the Board, German Chamber of Commerce São Paulo & Dominik Fischer, Researcher at the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin
- “Transcultural Innovation Management – Success Stories from SAP”; Dennison John, Managing Director of SAP Labs Latin America & Carlo Bevoli, Managing Director of SAP Sustainability Labs
- “Working in Transcultural Teams”; Dr Jutta Nübel, Director Diversity & Inclusion at Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG & Julika Baumann Montecinos, Head of Transcultural Management Studies at the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin
11:15 – 11:45 am Coffee, Croissant & Culture
11:45 – 13:15 pm Second session of workshops
13:15 – 14:15 pm Lunch
Part III Transculturality and Urban Development
14:15 – 14:45 pm Keynote | “UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network: The Brazilian focus on Sustainable Cities“; Dr Flávia Rocha, Senior Director for Institutional Policy and Strategy at Conservation International Brazil and member of the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network in Brazil (SDSN Brazil)
14:45 – 15:15 pm Keynote | “Social Start-ups and Urban Development”, Henrique Drumond; Social Entrepreneur and CEO of Insolar, Rio de Janeiro
15:15 – 15:30 pm Open Discussion
15:30 – 16:00 Closing remarks | Prof Josef Wieland
16:00 pm Thanks and Goodbye | Student project leads
16:15 pm Coffee, Cake & Culture