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Registration and morning refreshments
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| 9:00
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Welcome from the chair
Chaired by Tom Spencer, Global Public Affairs Network
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| 9:10
- 10:00 |
Keynote session: Developments in global public affairs - reality and rhetoric
Tom Spencer, Convenor, Global Public Affairs Network Roger Hayes, Senior Conselor, APCO Worldwide Robert Mack, Chair, EMEA Public Affairs Practice, Burson-Marsteller Maria Laptev, Visiting Professor, Vietnamese National University
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| 10:00
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Integrating on and off-line strategies to influence decision makers

Rita Balogh, Consultant, APCO Worldwide Ingmar de Gooijer, Director Communications, Eucomed Rasika Krishna, online strategist and information architect, APCO Worldwide Bruno Waterfield, Brussels correspondent, The Daily Telegraph |
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| 10:00
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Reframing public affairs - harnessing reputation to succeed in Brussels
 Anita Kelly, Associate Director, Fleishman-Hillard, Brussels Florence Ranson, Senior Adviser, Communications & PR, European Banking Federation Francoise Humbert, Executive Director, Communications, CEFIC |
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| 11:30
- 11:50 |
Coffee break
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| 11:50
- 13:20 |
More than the sum of its parts - how to build and run coalitions successfully
 Sophie Crousse, Vice-President, European Public Affairs, Consumer Healthcare Europe, GlaxoSmithKline Brendan Hodgson, Strategy Director, Digital, Hill & Knowlton Strategies Thomas Tindemans, Managing Director, EU Public Affairs Alain Berger, Alstom |
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| 11:50
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Trends in EU lobbying
 Iliana Axiotiades, Director Government & Trade Relations Europe for Power Solutions Malte Lohan, Director of Public Affairs, World Federation of Advertisers Catherine Piana, Director-General of the European Vending Association Maria Teresa Scardigli, Vice-President, Kellen Europe Philip Weiss, Founder and Chief Hyperthinker, ZN Alfons Westgeest, Managing Partner, Kellen Europe |
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| 13:20
- 14:20 |
Lunch
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| 14:20
- 15:50 |
Maximising enterprise value: How does public affairs tie into the corporate strategy?
 Julia Harrison, FTI Consulting Hans Hack, FTI Consulting Dan Healy, FTI Consulting Frances Robinson, WSJ Christiaan Smits, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Niels Tomm, Deutsche Borse |
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| 14:20
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Measuring the value of public affairs
 Martina Bianchini, Vice President, EU Government Affairs and Public Policy, The Dow Chemical Company Elaine Cruikshanks, Acumen Public Affairs Abigail Jones, Acumen Public Affairs Veronique Scailteur, Director Government Relations, Procter & Gamble Europe Maximilian von Olenhusen, Policy Counsel, NOVARTIS, Belgium |
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| 16:00
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Best practice in lobbying the European Parliament
Lyn Trytsman-Gray, President, SEAP Gary Titley, Senior Consultant, Hume Brophy, Jos van den Akker, Parliamentary assistant to Esther de Lange MEP Sakib Ershad, Parliamentary assistant to Sajjad Karim MEP
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| 17:00
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Cocktail reception
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