World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008

David Arkless, Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs is participating in the following sessions:

Designing for Resilience
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Businesses operate in increasingly uncertain, uncontrollable and complex environments that limit the extent to which they can predict possible shocks. This session will address how organizations build resilience to absorb shocks and respond to uncertainty.

Moving Goods and People around the Globe
Thursday, 24 January 2008
The efficient and secure transport of millions of travelers and millions of tons of cargo is necessary to keep the global economy functioning. This session will cover the most pressing security concerns threatening to impair the mobility of people and goods worldwide, and how governments, policy-makers and industry stakeholders work together to ensure that a resilient and efficient system is in place to address both security and logistical challenges.

Bridging the Skills Gap
Friday, 25 January 2008
For most of the modern economic history, CEOs, educators, labor leaders and government ministers have all struggled to find solutions to address a perennial skills gap. This session will address how innovative behaviors, processes and models should be implemented to address the skills gap within your organization.

Professional Services Diversified: How Does Inclusion Change the World of High Performance?
Friday, 25 January 2008
Demographic constraints, globalized markets and clients' growing demand for creativity require Professional Services companies to become more diverse and inclusive. This session will address how this trend will change the industry.

Barbara Beck, Executive Vice President and President of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is participating in the following sessions:

Gender Parity Group: Applying "Womenomics"
Friday, 25 January 2008
"Womenomics" tells us that tapping efficiently into the female part of the human resource pool is not only good practice but also good business. In companies, innovation and co-operation require developing a broad reserve of talent and, in countries, long-term progress is difficult if one half of their population is not engaged in the development process. This private interactive, cross-industry, multi-stakeholder workshop of the Gender Parity Group will share new insights into ways companies and countries can leverage women's talents to increase productivity.

The Workforce's New Demographics
Friday, 25 January 2008
The global labor market has several converging trends: people continuing to work past 65 (by choice or necessity), large numbers of women returning to work, and a growing population of very young entrants who are motivated differently than their predecessors. This session will address how companies can attract, manage and retain these disparate groups.

Mara Swan, Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources is participating in the following session:

Working Towards Wellness: Health and Workforce Productivity
Friday, 25 January 2008
Companies have a unique and vital role in improving the health of employees. In this private workshop, leaders from across multiple business sectors will join experts, NGOs and public figures to discuss the latest findings from the joint report with the World Health Organization on the links between health and productivity in the workplace and will call for business-leaders to take global action on helping prevent chronic diseases.

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