OPENING REMARKS

9:00 – 9:30 I Room Summit 2

SMART CITIES & FUTURE TECHNOLOGY: Furthering Urban Sustainability and Inclusion

09:30 – 10:30 I Room Summit 2

The concept of Smart City implies improved services, better information and more appropriate infrastructure for a more economically prosperous, inclusive, efficiently governed and sustainable urban life.

FINTECH & BLOCKCHAIN: Leveraging the Promise of Social Inclusion

10:30 – 12:00 I Room Summit 2

With hundreds of millions people lacking access to basic financial services, Fintech’s growing importance is the promise of financial inclusion beyond financial returns.

LUNCH BREAK

12:00 – 13:15 I Room MR331 and MR332

United Nations SDGs: A Framework for a Better Future

13:15 – 15:00 I Room Summit 2

September 2015-September 2018: Three years on, with the SDG agenda occupying all stakeholders minds globally, it is time to assess the changes that it has induced and introduced in both the business and financial sectors.

United Nations SDGs: Advocating Gender Equality and Diversity

I Room Summit 2

“This Is a Man’s World”, one of the most famous pop songs of all time, is typical of the “man-has-done-all attitude”, and hence of everything gender equality, the fifth of seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals, is about. But this UN SDG is that, and much more for it does not stop at advocating that men and women should be treated equally via being granted equal rights in terms of job opportunities, salaries, etc. – which is the least that can be demanded -, but, from domestic abuse through feminicide to sexual harassment and sex trafficking, it also poses the question of the long overdue elimination of all harmful practices against women and girls and to put an end to centuries of “male power” and coercive and oppressive tactics against the so-called “weaker sex”. This panel shall examine and highlight some acute problems that are faced, as well as effective societal changes, on the road to gender equality.

MEDTECH: Disruptive Health Innovations for Inclusive Care

15:00 – 15:40 I Room Summit 2

Technology has allowed for better diagnoses for more personalized care via objective analysis of data, and better medical follow-up on patients via connected devices.

COFFEE BREAK

15:30 – 15:45 I Room Summit 2

IMPACT INVESTING: Merging Social Impact with Financial Returns for Good

15:45 – 17:00 I Room Summit 2

The growing importance of Impact investment has allowed for the implementation of some of the most disruptive solutions to key challenges in such areas as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and affordable housing, healthcare, and education.

FUTURE ENERGY: Clean & Synchronized

17:00 – 18:15 I Room Summit 2

As the transition towards the provision of cleaner energy is finally on the rails, the question of production standards and synchronized distribution arises.

CLOSING REMARKS

18:15 – 18:30 I Room Summit 2

CLOSING COCKTAIL

19:30 – 21:30 I Room MR331 and MR332