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eG8 Forum

The Internet: Accelerating Growth
eG8 Forum

May 24-25, 2011, Paris

May 24, 2011

Welcome [PDF]
Maurice Lévy, Chair & CEO, Publicis Groupe, Chair of e-G8 Forum

Opening Keynote and Discussion [English] [Français]
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, President of the G8

"Internet Matters" [PDF]
James Manyika, Director, McKinsey & Company, and Matthieu Pélissié du Rausas, Director, McKinsey & Company

Plenary I: The Internet and Economic Growth [PDF]
John Donahoe, President & CEO, eBay
Christine Lagarde, Minister of Finance, France;
Jean-Bernard Lévy, Chief Executive Officer, Vivendi;
Hiroshi Mikitani, Chair and CEO, Rakuten
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chair and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chair, Google Inc.
Moderator: Ben Verwaayen, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent

Plenary II: The Internet and Society [PDF]
Tom Glocer, CEO, Thomson Reuters
Andrew Mason, Founder and CEO, Groupon
Stéphane Richard, Chair and CEO, France Telecom - Orange
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chair, World Economic Forum
Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
Moderator: Maurice Lévy

Special Talk Digital’s Next Frontier: Education [PDF]
Rupert Murdoch, Chair and CEO, News Corporation

Plenary III: Future Net: What’s Next? [PDF]
Peter Chou, CEO, HTC
Paul Hermelin, CEO, Capgemini/
Danny Hillis, Co-chair and CTO, Applied Minds
Paul Jacobs, Chair and CEO, Qualcomm
Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft
Michel de Rosen, CEO, Eutelsat
Moderator: David Rowan/Editor, Wired UK

Plenary IV: Intellectual Property and the Culture Economy in the Digital Age [PDF]
Antoine Gallimard, Chair, Éditions Gallimard
Jim Gianopulos, Chair, 20th Century Fox
Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture andCommunication, France
Pascal Nègre, CEO, Universal Music France
Hartmut Ostrowski, Chair and CEO, Bertelsmann
Moderator: Bruno Patino, Director-General, Digital and Strategy, France Télévisions

Conversation [PDF]
Andrew Mason, Founder and CEO, Groupon, with Gilles Babinet, Entrepreneur and Chair, Conseil National du Numérique

May 25, 2011

Conversation [PDF]
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, with Ben Verwaayen

Plenary V: Fostering Innovation: How to Build the Future [PDF]
Introduction: Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Harvard Law School
Eric Besson, MInister of Industry, Energy and Digital Economy, France
Charles Chao, Chair and CEO, SINA Corp.
Yuri Milner, CEO and Managing Partner, Digital Sky Technologies
Xavier Niel, Founder and Chair, Iliad
Sean Parker, Managing Partner, Founders Fund
Niklas Zennström, CEO and Founding Partner, Atomico
Moderator: John Gapper, Chief Business Commentator, Financial Times

Plenary VI: Digital Transformation: Reinventing Traditional Businesses [PDF]
Franco Bernabè, Chair and CEO, Telecom Italia
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard Business School
Eric Labaye, Chair, McKinsey Global Institute
Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chair and CEO, The Blackstone Group
Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC
Moderator: Jeff Cole, Executive Director, USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future

Workshops I [PDF]

Building Blocks: The art of the start-up
Samir Arora, Chair andCEO, Glam Media
Luca Ascani, Co-founder and Chair, Populis
Bruce Golden, Partner, Accel Partners
Rick Marini, Founder and CEO, Branch Out
Shaukat Shamim, Founder and CEO Buysight
Moderator: Esther Dyson/Chair, EDventure

King Content: Entertainment in the Digital Age
Carolyn Reidy, President andCEO, Simon & Schuster
David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Google
Martin Rogard, General Manager, France, Dailymotion
David Kenny, President, Akamai
Mikael Hed, CEO, Rovio Mobile
Patrick Zelnik, CEO, Naïve
Moderator: Spencer Reiss, Program Director, Monaco Media Forum

Electronic Liberty: New Tools for Freedom
Introduction: John Perry Barlow, Vice Chair, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Alec Ross, Special Advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Jean-François Julliard, Secretary-General, Reporters Without Borders
Tony Wang, General Manager Europe, Twitter
Hassan Fattah, Editor-in-Chief, The National
Jamal Khashoggi, General Manager, Alwaleed 24News channel
Susan Pointer, Director, Public Policy and Government Relations EMEA, Google
Nadine Wahab, Egyptian activist
Moderator: Olivier Fleurot, CEO, MSLGROUP

Workshops II [PDF]

Be Here Now: Mobility Changes Everything
Alexandre Mars, CEO, Phonevalley and Head of Mobile, Publicis Groupe
George-Édouard Dias, Head of L’Oréal Digital Business Group
Bart Decrem, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Disney Mobile
Rich Wong, Accel Partners
Eric Hazan, Partner, McKinsey
Tod Cohen, Deputy General Counsel and Vice President, Government Relations International, eBay
Olivier Roussat, Director-General, Bouygues Telecom
David Jones, Global CEO EuroRSCG Worldwide
Moderator: David Barroux, Les Echos

Disinter-Media: Is Internet Killing – or Relaunching – the Press?
Robert Thomson, Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones
Robert Shrimsley, Managing Editor, FT.com
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chair and CEO, The New York Times
Norman Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg LLC
Carlo De Benedetti, Chair, Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso
Moderator: Frederic Filloux, CEO E-Presse

Open Government – Open Data: For the People, By the Internet
Laurent Blanchard, Vice President, European Markets and General Manager, Cisco France
Carlos A. Primo Braga, Special Representative, World Bank
Jean-Philippe Courtois, President, Microsoft International
Séverin Naudet, Director, ETALAB
Andrew Rasiej, Founder, Personal Democracy Forum
Nigel Shadbolt, Professor, University of Southampton
Moderator: Stanislas Magniant, Co-founder, Netpolitique.net

Workshops III [PDF]

The Disrupters: Extreme Innovation
Lars Bjork, CEO, QlikTech
Jacques-Antoine Granjon, CEO and Founder, vente-privee.com
Brent Hoberman, Co-founder, PROfounders Capital & Chair, mydeco
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Co-founder and CEO, PriceMinister
Xavier Niel, Founder and Chair, Iliad
Marc Simoncini, Founder and CEO, Meetic
Yossi Vardi, Chair, International Technologies
Martin Varsavsky, Founder and CEO, FON Wireless, Ltd.
Moderator: Loic Le Meur, Founder and CEO, Seesmic & Le Web

Sharing Value: How to Divide the Digital Bounty among Creators, Distributors -- and Governments?
Frank Esser, Chair and CEO, SFR
Gabrielle Gauthey, Execuive Vice President, Global Government and Public Affairs, Alcatel
Reed Hundt, Chair, Aspen Institute IDEA Project
Alain Minc, President, AM Conseil
Ezra Suleiman, IBM Professor in International Studies, Princeton University
Moderator: Gilles Babinet

The Data Dilemma: Privacy in a Networked World
Alain Lévy, CEO, Weborama
Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine
Christopher Wolf, Partner, Hogan Lovells
Mitchell Baker, Chair, Mozilla
Christian Morales, Vice President and General Manager EMEA, Intel
Andrew Keen, Author, Digital Vertigo
Steve Baker, Author, The Numerati and Final Jeopardy
Moderator: Curt Hecht, CEO, VivaKi Nerve Center

Closing Conversation [PDF]
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Facebook, with Maurice Lévy

Closing Plenary [PDF]
Messages to Deauville

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