Events

PROGRAM:

9.30 – 9.35: Welcome: Michel de Fabiani, Chair of ecoDa’s Policy Committee

9.35 – 9.45: Keynote speech: How companies should articulate their long-term strategy?  Luc Vansteenkiste, Chairman EuropeanIssuers

9.45 Table 1: Long-term value creation: Towards a stakeholders’ oriented-capitalism? – Moderated by Odile de Brosses, Director of the AFEP Legal Department and Chair of the Policy Committee EuropeanIssuers

• 9.45 – 9.55: Introductory remarks: Corporate interest: a legal myth? Odile de Brosses, EuropeanIssuers
• Testimonies: Companies in action:
  • 55 – 10.10: Romas Švedas, Member of the Supervisory Board at RB Rail (tbc)
  • 10 – 10.35:Cyril Rolling, from the Legal Department of L’Oréal
• 35 – 11.15:Discussion: Should all stakeholders be put on a closer footing with shareholders? 
  • Heidi Hautala, MEP, Group of the Greens (tbc)
  • Gorazd Podbevšek, Chair of the Slovenian Directors’ Association;
  • Marcello Bianchi, Vice Director general at Assonime and Member of the Board of EuropeanIssuers.
  • Professor Steen Thomsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Professor of Enterprise Foundations at the Center for Corporate Governance, Member of ecoDa’s Policy Committee

11.15: Table 2: Is a paradigm shift in terms of accountability needed? Moderated by Sandra Gobert, Guberna

• 11.15 – 11.25: Introductory remarks: From a controlling role towards a more incentive role of shareholders Sandra Gobert, CEO, Guberna
• 11.25 – 11.40: Testimony: How investors can instill more transparency in ESG matters?
  • Isabelle Cabie, Global Head of Responsible Development, Candriam
• 11.40 – 12.20: Discussion: What sharing of responsibilities and what accountability systems in companies of tomorrow ?
  • Lara Wolters, MEP, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
  • Leena Linnainmaa, Secretary General of Directors’ Institute Finland
  • Philippe Lambrechts, BusinessEurope

12.20: Speech: Maija Laurila, Head of Unit, European Commission – Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers – Civil and commercial justice – Company law (JUST.A.3)

12.30 – 12.40 : Concluding remarks : Michel de Fabiani, Chair of ecoDa’s Policy Committee

Speakers:

• Rudy Hoskens, Partner at PwC on Forensic Services , Dispute Analysis & Investigations,
• Anne-Hélène Monsellato, Independent Director,
• Emmanuel Plasschaert, Partner in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office and head of the Brussels Corporate, Commercial & Employment Practices.

Moderator

•  Michel de Fabiani, Chair of ecoDa’s Policy Committee.

In April, ecoDa, AIG and The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) launched a pan Europe handbook on cyber risk management for corporate boards of directors in Europe. Since then many companies across Europe are now working in a ‘new normal’.
What does this mean for their cyber security and risk management ? With increasing importance on the digital channel what steps do companies need to make to help protect their resilience ? What are the opportunities that emerge by getting it right ?
Nowadays, cybersecurity is perhaps the most dangerous threat companies are facing, and the reality is that cybercriminals do not discriminate by size, and the aftermath of an attack can devastate small businesses as well as bigger ones.

The current environment makes it even more urgent to address the challenges of cybersecurity as cyber criminals around the world are capitalizing on this crisis to multiply their attacks. The crisis is transforming working methods in a way that is likely to be lasting, and means that businesses and board members must be all the more vigilant when it comes to cyber attacks.
Our panelists will discuss the issue and investigate how boards could integrate cybersecurity in their strategy to ensure the safety of their companies.

Speakers:

• Troels Ørting Jørgensen, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Board Leadership Society, Centre for Cyber Competences, Copenhagen Business School,
• Klara Jordan, Executive Director, EU and Africa, Global Cyber Alliance,
• Carolyn Dittmeier, President of the Board, Statutory Auditors of Assicurazioni Generali SpA,
• Sebastian Hess, Cyber Risk Advisor, EMEA AIG.

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Michael Hilb, International Board Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees.

Speakers confirmed: Benoît van den Hove, Head of Listing at Euronext Brussels, Kerrie Waring, ICGN, Chief Executive Officer, Jose Luis del Valle, Non Executive Chairman of a Listed company as well as Independent Board Director in two Listed companies, Andrea Bischoff, Managing Director, Morrow Sodali, Mark Simms, Chief Executive Officer, CMi2i  – Moderator: Alessandra Stabilini, ecoDa Board Member

Global value chains have been best practice for many years. This counts also for professional services where people have been travelling the World, to advice, educate and manage. It went into a full stop when confronted with COVID-19. We need to keep trust in supply chains in that context? How to mitigate interdependence and pressure for production relocation? What role for board members?
What production models are we seeing emerging? What are the arbitration criteria in the choice of location? Has the current crisis created a certain resilience in supply chains or has it on the contrary reinforced a certain distrust?
Speakers confirmed: Benoît des Cressonnières, CEO Euler Hermes Reinsurance AG, Matthew Burton EMEIA SC&O Leader, EY, Thomas Thune Andersen, Chairman & Independent Board Director Companies, Oersted, VKR Holdings, Lloyds Register Group and Foundations, Tom Behrens-Soerensen, Chairman & Independent Board Director Companies Danish-Chinese Business Forum, ECCO Group A/S, RAK Ports, WSS Ltd, Thomas Plenborg, Chairman & Professor, DSV Panalpina A/S, COWI A/S, Rosemunde Aps, Copenhagen Business School – Moderator: Tom Jacobsgaard, ecoDa Board Member & Steen Thomsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Professor at Copenhagen Business School.