Agenda
Please note this is a draft agenda and is subject to change.
| Session | Topic | Speakers |
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| 9.00 - 9.30 | Coffee and registration | |
| 9.30 | Introduction | Chair: Greg Clark, Chair of the OECD LEED Forum on Development Agencies and Investment Strategies and Advisor on City & Regional Development, CLG |
| 9.40 | Driving economic growth: What will drive national economic prosperity over the next decade? | What is the next business cycle likely to look like? Which industries and jobs are likely to grow? Where will they grow? What role will cities and regions have in driving change at the national level? And what are the policy levers that will make a difference? Keynote Speaker: Will Hutton, The Work Foundation Panel Respondents: Charles Blundell, Rolls Royce (invited) Jonathan Kestenbaum, NESTA (invited) |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Coffee | |
| 11.15 - 12.15 | Local economic development as a driver for national growth. | Sergio Arzeni, OECD LEED Programme (invited) Jan Hendeliowitz, Director, Employment Region Greater Copenhagen (invited) Additional speakers to be confirmed |
| 12.15 - 13.15 | How do cities and regions deliver economic development strategies that make a contribution to economic performance? | Over the next decade, employment growth is likely to be slow and public spending - on which so many cities and regions have relied for jobs in the last decade - is going to be cut drastically. How can cities and regions deliver more coherent economic development strategies that recognise the drivers of growth and deliver jobs? Panel Speakers: Boris Johnson, Mayor of London (invited) Jordi William Carnes, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona (invited) Additional speakers to be confirmed |
| 13.15- 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Workshops: | What tools and competencies do cities and regions need to respond to these challenges and contribute to national economic performance? |
| 1. Driving growth through green jobs? From rhetoric to policy | The low carbon economy is heralded as a source of future economic growth and jobs - but what will it look like in practice? What are the opportunities created for different cities and regions? What tools do they need to most effectively capitalise upon them? Speakers: Charles Levy, The Work Foundation (invited) Chris Pywell, One North East (invited) Gabriela Miranda, OECD (invited) |
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| 2. Leadership and investment: what tools do cities and regions need? | Investment and innovation will be critical to rebuilding cities and regions over the next decade. But, in a climate of constrained public and private expenditure, how can cities and regions access investment? Speakers: Debra Mountford, OECD Urban Land Institute (invited) Ray Mills, PricewaterhouseCoopers (invited) |
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| 3. Making the most of ‘anchor institutions’ as tools for driving economic growth: universities, healthcare and knowledge transfer | Education and healthcare are already contributing to raising skills levels, spin-out companies, knowledge transfer, technical innovation and more in their regions and beyond. How can cities and regions make the most of their public sector assets? Speakers: Alice Frost, HEFCE (invited) Colin Riordan, Vice-Chancellor, University of Essex (invited) |
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| 15.30 - 16.30 | Rising to the challenges | How will national governments respond to these challenges? What can be learned from across the OECD? Keynote speaker: Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (invited) Keynote speaker: Aart de Geus, Deputy Secretary General, OECD (invited) |
| 16.30 | Close | Chair |
Exhibition space
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