 Monday, March 31
2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
 Opening General Session with Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London, writing a weekly column on the world economy and a fortnightly column on the UK. He is a Forum Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he has served as a panel moderator.
He is the author of several books and numerous articles on global economics and political economy, including, most recently, Why Globalization Works, in which he explains how globalization works as a concept and how it operates in reality. He has won several prestigious awards for his journalism, including CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 "for services to financial journalism" and the Decade of Excellence Award at the 2003 Business Journalists of the Year Awards.
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 Tuesday, April 1
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
General Session with W. Chan Kim, The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD Business School, France
W. Chan Kim is one of the world's leading authorities on business strategy, innovation and managing the multinational corporation in the knowledge economy. He was selected for Thinkers 50, the global ranking of business thinkers, and was named along with his colleague Renée Mauborgne "the number one gurus of the future" by L'Expansion, France's leading business magazine. He is the co-author of the international bestseller, Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant.
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 Wednesday, April 2
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Closing General Session with Lyn Heward, Ambassador and Executive Producer for Special Projects for Cirque du Soleil
As the President of Creative Content for Cirque du Soleil, Heward was responsible for managing, guiding and channeling the incredible creative force of the company's designers, performers, artisans, and technicians into a product that was both breathtakingly original as well as commercially successful. She has distilled her experience at the company into a her book, The Spark: Igniting the Creative Fire That Lives Within Us All.
Heward is presently working as an ambassador and Executive Producer for Special Projects for Cirque du Soleil; in this new capacity her first mandate was to create and produce the opening ceremonies of the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championship in Montreal. She has also lent her creative expertise to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Organizing Committee as a member of its creative team and associate producer of an eight-minute segment presented during the closing ceremonies of the 2006 Torino Olympic Games.
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