Shaping Davos is an initiative of the World Economic Forum led and developed by Global Shapers with the support of the Rafael del Pino Foundation. For the first time, parallel sessions to the Davos Forum are organised in 40 cities around the world, including Madrid, around the topics on the Davos 2015 agenda, with leaders and experts from different countries. In Madrid, these activities were held on 21, 22 and 23 January at the Foundation's headquarters, the same dates as the Davos Forum.
Nine panels were held with experts and leading professionals from the business, political and social spheres who reflected on democratic regeneration, the digital economy, energy, health, inequality, sustainability, Ibero-America and leadership today. The last panel, Rethinking politics: new actors and new tools to deepen democracy, connected live with the Davos Forum. The moderator and speaker of this debate, Yolanda Román, Director of Public Affairs at Inforpress, shared with the Davos Forum the most important conclusions and proposals of the debates held during those three days in Madrid.
The Forum was organised according to the following programme:
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
09:00 hours
Welcome and opening of the Forum
9.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.
Round Table I. Leadership, What qualities should a leader have today? with the following speakers
- Francisco Román, President. Vodafone
- Asunción Soriano, CEO. Infopress
- Mario Alonso Puig, Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Rosa García, President. Siemens
- Rodrigo Martín, Executive Chairman. Randstad Spain and Latin America
- Krista Walochik, President. Talengo
- Pilar Jericó, writer and lecturer. Partner of BeUp.es (moderator)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Round Table II. Cooperation. "Fight against poverty" with the following speakers
- Gonzalo Fanjul, impulsol. porcausa.org
- Gumersindo Lafuente, journalist
- Santiago Zannou, film director
- Elsa Carmona, star of NoJobLand
- Montserrat Domínguez, Director of El Huffington Post (moderator)
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Round Table III. "Energy. The future of energy: competitiveness and risks" with the following speakers
- Carlos Sallé, Director of Regulation. Iberdrola
- Gonzalo Escribano, Researcher. Royal ElCano Institute
- Javier García Martínez, Rive Technology, Princeton
- Pedro Linares, ICAI, EforEnergy
- Claudio Aranzadi, Former Minister of Industry and Energy, Spanish Government
- Luis Jesús Sánchez Tembleque, Deputy Assistant Director at CNMC, MEDREG, ARIA
- Pedro Antonio Merino, Repsol's Director of Research and Environmental Analysis
- Sebastián Feimblatt, CNMC (moderator)
Thursday, 22 January 2015
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.
Round Table IV. "Digital power. Economy and information in society" in which the following will participate
- Ricardo Forcano, Director of Strategy, Planning and Finance, BBVA Digital
- Joeroen Merchiers, Country Manager Spain for AirBnb
- Francisco Ruiz, Public Policy and Institutional Affairs Manager. Google Spain and Portugal
- Alfonso Armada, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of ABC Newspaper. Director of FronteraD
- Enrique Dans, Professor at IE School of Business (moderator)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Round Table V. "Alternatives to extreme inequality" with the following speakers
- Vanessa López, Director of Salud por Derecho
- Teresa Cavero, Head of Research at Oxfam Intermón
- José Moisés Martín (Mac), member of Economists facing the crisis.
- José Antonio Sanahuja , Professor of International Relations at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Virginia Alonso, Vice-Director of the 20 Minutos group (moderator)
Friday, 23 January 2015
9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.
Round Table VII. "Ibero-American Context. Keys to the political, social and economic transformation of Ibero-America", with the following speakers
- Fernando Carrillo Flórez, Ambassador. Embassy of Colombia
- Tomás Poveda, Director General. Casa de América
- Roberta Lajous Vargas, Ambassador. Embassy of Mexico
- Enrique V. Iglesias, economist, politician and writer
- Nuria Vilanova, President of Infopress and CEAL Iberian Chapter (moderator)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Round Table VIII: "Sustainability - Can we grow without growing?
- Carlos Mataix, Director. Centre for Innovation in Technology for Human Development of the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
- Vincent Rosso, Country Manager. Blabacar Spain
- Francisco Hortiguela, Director of Institutional Relations and Political Affairs. Samsung Spain
- Luis Miguel Barral, Founding Partner. Twomuch Institute for Social Research
- José Illana, Founder. I want to save the world by marketing
- Joan Fontrodona, Professor of Ethics. IESE (moderator)
1.15 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.
Roundtable IX. "Rethinking politics. New actors and new tools to deepen democracy", with the following participants
- Meritxell Batet, Secretary for Studies and Programmes. PSOE
- Rafael Rubio, Professor of Constitutional Law. UCM and political advisor
- Soledad Gallego-Díaz, journalist. El País
- Belén Barreiro, Director of MyWord and the FundaciónAlternativas Lab. Former President of the CIS.
- David Cabo, Founder and Director. CIVIO
- Yolanda Román, Director of Public Affairs. Inforpress (moderator)
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
LIVE CONNECTION TO THE DAVOS FORUM
Yolanda Román, Director of Public Affairs. Inforpress
