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Wednesday January 23

Welcome to the Annual Meeting - Pascal Couchepin and Klaus Schwab

17:45 CET

Opening Remarks - Hamid Karzai, Rajendra K. Pachauri with Klaus Schwab

18:00 CET

Opening Address - with Klaus Schwab

18:20 CET

Opening Plenary with all the Co-Chairs - Tony Blair, James Dimon, K.V. Kamath, Henry A. Kissinger, Indra K. Nooyi, David J. O'Reilly, Wang Jianzhou with Klaus Schwab

18:45 CET

Thursday January 24

A Unified Earth Theory: Combining Solutions to Extreme Poverty and the Climate Crisis - Bono, Al Gore with Thomas L. Friedman

Myths and Realities of Sovereign Wealth Funds - Richard Fuld Jr, Kristin Halvorsen, Muhammad S. Al Jasser, Aleksey Kudrin, Bader M. Al Sa'ad, Stephen Schwarzman, Lawrence H. Summers, Robert M Kimmit with Martin Wolf

09:00 CET

Time is Running Out for Water - Ban Ki-moon, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, E. Neville Isdell, Ichiro Kamoshita, Fred Krupp, Andrew N. Liveris with Ralph R Peterson

10:15 CET

The Quest for Peace and Stability - Fakhruddin Ahmed, Ilham Aliyev, Hamid Karzai with Nik Gowing

France on the Move - Francois Fillon with Klaus Schwab

11:15 CET

Three Crucial Questions for Pakistan - with HenRy A. Kissinger

11:45 CET

Open Forum - Welcome & The Comeback of Religion: A Potential Danger for the Secular State? - Thomas Wipf, Andre Schneider; Mohammad Khatami, Ingrid Mattson, Ulrich Schlüer, Thomas Wipf with Marco Meier

Orchestrating a New Concert of Powers - Lloyd C. Blankfein, Henry A. Kissinger, Bernard Kouchner, Alexey Kudrin, Shimon Peres, George Yeo Yong-Boon with Ricahrd M. Smith

14:30 CET

Faith and Modernisation - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Mahdi Hadavi, David A. Harris, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Rick Warren with Tony Blair

Middle East: After Annapolis, After Paris - Ehud Barak, Salam Fayyad, Tzipi Livni, Shimon Peres, Saeb Erekat and Tony Blair

15:45 CET

Future Shifts: The Voice of the Next Generation - Emma Thompson, 6 young people selected by British Council and Rebecca Anderson

Special Message and Conversation with Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan of China - Zeng Peiyan with Klaus Schwab

Systemic Financial Risk - James Dimon, Wes Edens, Robert M. Kimmitt, Jean-Claude Trichet with James J. Schiro

17:20 CET

Rebuilding Brand America: Five Suggestions for the Future President - Robert F. Bennett, John F. Kerry, H.H. Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Maurice Levy, Rupert Murdoch, Martin Sorrell with Moisés Naim

A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century - William H. Gates III with Klaus Schwab

18:20 CET

Open Forum - Private Equity and Hedge Funds - Friend or Foe? - Paul Fletcher, Christian Levrat, Christian Noyer, Hans Ruth, Philip Yea with Dirk Schültz

Friday January 25

Should We Fear Slowdowns? - Palaniappan Chidambaram, Timothy P. Flynn, Takatoshi Ito, Jerry del Missier with Charles Hodson

Three Crucial Questions for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown - Gordon Brown with Klaus Schwab

10:30 CET

Corporate Global Citizenship in the 21st Century - Gordon Brown, John T. Chambers, Indra K. Nooyi, H.M. Queen Rani, Peter Sands, Wang Jianzhou with Michael E. Porter

10:45 CET

The Next Emerging Markets to Explore - Herman Gref, Angel Gurria, Hoang Trung Hai, Yorihiko Kojima, Alvaro Uribe Velez, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua with David Schlesinger

Call to Action on the Millennium Development Goals - Ban Ki-moon, Jose Manuel Barroso, Bono, John T. Chambers, William H. Gates III, Stefan Oschmann, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua by Gordon Brown

12:15 CET

Open Forum - USA-What Next after the Elections? - Kay Bailey Hutchison, Howard B. Dean III, Robert Edgar, Olaf Gersemann, Mahdi Hadavi with Casper Selg

Evaluating Financial Risk: To Whom Should Credit Go? - Walter B Kielholz, Malcolm Knight, Raymond W. McDaniel Jr, Guillermo Ortiz with Maria Bartiromo

14:30 CET

The Future of Mobile Technology - Kim Shin-Bae, Kevin J. Martin, Eric Schmidt, Sir Howard Stringer, Wang Jianzhou, Jeff Zucker with David Kirkpatrick

New Drivers of Development - Gordon Brown, Willam H. Gates III, Michael Treschow, Robert B. Zoellick, Jose Manuel Barroso with Indra K. Nooyi

16:00 CET

Presentation of the Crystal Award - Emma Thompson, Yo-Yo Ma with Klaus Schwab

17:00 CET

The Emerging Asian Community: The Role of ASEAN - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Stephen Green, Lee Hsien-Loong, Glorai Macapagal Arroyo with David J. O'Reilly and Klaus Schwab

The Power of Collaborative Innovation - Jacques Aigrain, Carlos Ghosn, Thomas H. Glocer, Mark G. Parker, Hector de Ruiz with Steve Adler

17:30 CET

Open Forum - What Are Russia's Geopolitical Ambitions? - Charles Grant, Alexei Pushkov, Horst M. Teltschik with Urs Leuthard

Saturday January 26

Myths and Realities of Private Equity - Donald J. Gogel, Martin C. Halusa, Josh Lerner, David M. Rubenstein with Kevin Steinberg

09:00 CET

The Global Economic Outlook 2008 - Palaniappan Chidambaram, Christine Lagarde, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Lawrence H. Summers, John A.Thain, Yoshimi Watanabe with Martin Wolf

10:30 CET

Special Address by Yasuo Fukuda - Yasuo Fukuda with Klaus Schwab

11:30 CET

Open Forum - Do We Need Economic Growth to Get More Sustainability? - Sharan Burrow, Pascal Couchepin, Ricardo Hausmann, John Itty, Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke with Dirk Schütz

Mobile Models for Growth - Viviane Reading, Arun Sarin, Solomon D. Trujillo, Muhammad Yunus, Edward J. Zander with John Markoff

Adapting to New Champions - Emilio Azcarrage Jean, Mohammad Al Gergawi, Alexander V. Izosimov, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Aditya Mittal, James T. Riady with K.V. Kamath

14:00 CET

Europe's Purpose - Joseph Ackermann, Jan Peter Balkenende, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Pottering Hans-Gert, Michael Oreskes, Yuliya Tymoshenko

Open Forum - Climate Change Divide - Luiz Femando Furlan, Ichiro Kamoshita, C.S. Kiang, Christian Mumenthaler, Achim Steiner, Helen Wangussa and Sonja Hassler

Understanding Iran's Foreing Policy - Khalid Abdulla-Janahi, Manouchehr Mottaki, Seved Mojtaba Samre Hashemi Shajarech, Lilia Shevtsova with Gareth Evans

Threats to the Global Trading System - Akira Amari, Celso Amorim, Pascal Lamy, Doris Leuthard, Peter Mandelson, Kamal Nath, Mari Pangestu, Susan Schwab with Niall FitzGerald

17:00 CET

Open Forum - Virtual Worlds -- Fiction or Reality? - Reid Hoffma, Joseph Weizenbaum, Philip Rosedale, Rafael Capurro, Florence Develey with Loic Le Meur

Open Forum - Concluding Remarks on the Open Forum 2008 - André Schneider

Sunday January 27

Message from Davos: Believing in the Future - Klaus Schwab - Tony Blair, James Dimon, K.V. Kamath, Indra K. Nooyi, David J. O'Reilly, Wang Jianzhou, Elie Wiesel with Hala Gorani

10:00 CET

Orchestrating Collaboration - Benjamin Zander

11:15 CET

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