INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
The Vatican, May 18-20, 2017
New Synod Hall, Vatican City
(Petriano Gate Entrance, Piazza Sant’Uffizio, left colonnade of St. Peter’s Square)
CONSTRUCTIVE ALTERNATIVES IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL TURMOIL
Job Creation and Human Integrity in the Digital Space – Incentives for Solidarity and Civic Virtue
“It is my hope that your Conference will contribute to generating new models of economic progress more clearly directed to the universal common good, inclusion and integral development, the creation of labour and investment in human resources”
Pope Francis, Address to the Fondazione Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice, May 13th, 2016
Thursday May 18th
10:00 Opening prayer and session
Speakers:
H.E. Cardinal Domenico Calcagno, President of APSA
Domingo Sugranyes Bickel, Chairman of the Board, CAPP Foundation
Giovanni Marseguerra, Coordinator of the CAPP Scientific Committee
10:30 General Introduction on the Conference Themes
Alfredo Pastor, Member of CAPP Scientific Committee
11:00 Session 1: Facing the Scandal of Youth Unemployment: Opportunities and Education in a Digital Age
Chaired by Paolo Garonna, Member of CAPP Scientific Committee
Speaker: James Bessen, entrepreneur and lecturer at Boston University Law School, Author of Learning by Doing. Download slides
Panel:
Carlo d’Asaro Biondo, President, Google Europe-Middle East-Africa
Raúl Gonzalez Fabre SJ, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid
Oliver Röthig, European Regional Secretary, UNI Global Union
Debate among panel members and questions from the floor
13:00 Light Lunch
14:30 Debate: Presentation of local group reports
Chaired by Alois Konstantin Prince of Löwenstein
International ‘Economy and Society’ Award Ceremony
Chaired by H.E. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State
Speeches by H.E. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, President of International Award Jury Award and by author of award winning book
Key note speech by Sister Helen Alford OP, Vice Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), on Catholic Social Teaching in a Digital Age
Social event at Palazzo Doria Pamphilj – Via del Corso 304
Key note speaker Delia Gallagher, CNN Vatican correspondent
Friday, May 19th
09:00 Meditation led by HE Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, International Assistant, CAPP Foundation
09:45 Special briefing on Vatican financial transparency reforms
Speaker: René Brülhart, President, Vatican Financial Information Authority
10:30 Session 2: The fight against Human Smuggling and Economic Crime
Chaired by Antonio Maria Costa, Member of CAPP Scientific Committee
Speaker: Raymond W. Baker, Global Financial Integrity
Panel:
Ernie Allen, former President, International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
Marco Impagliazzo, President of Sant’Egidio and promoter of humanitarian corridors
Max-Peter Ratzel, former Director of Europol
Debate among panel members and questions from the floor
12:30 General debate on the work of the CAPP Foundation
Chaired by Domingo Sugranyes Bickel, Chairman of the Board, CAPP Foundation
Panel:
Giovanni Marseguerra, CAPP Scientific Committee Coordinator
Adrian Pabst, Member and Secretary of CAPP Scientific Committee
Alfredo Pastor, CAPP Scientific Committee
Anna Maria Tarantola, CAPP Board member and Delegate of the Board for the Scientific Committee
13:30 Light Lunch
15:00 Session 3: Incentivizing Solidarity and Civic Virtue
Chaired by Adrian Pabst, Member and Secretary of CAPP Scientific Committee
Speaker: Lord Robert Skidelsky, Economist, author of How Much is Enough?
Panel:
Luigino Bruni, Philosopher and Economist, LUMSA Rome and Sophia Institute, Loppiano
Luigi Gubitosi, Extraordinary Commissioner – Alitalia S.p.A.
Jean Sung, Head of The Philanthropy Centre, Asia J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Bishop Paul Tighe, Adjunct Secretary, Pontifical Council for Culture
Debate among panel members and questions from the floor
16:45 Presentation of VSF Network (Voluntary Solidarity Funds)
Pascal Duval, Chairman of VSF Steering Committee
17:00 Concluding session
Chaired by Domingo Sugranyes Bickel, Chairman of the Board of CAPP Foundation
Speakers:
Marcella Panucci, General Director, Confindustria
HE Mons. Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin
Saturday, May 20th
09:00 Holy Mass celebrated by H.E. Card. Domenico Calcagno – Church of Maria Madre della Famiglia, Palazzo del Governatorato, Vatican
10:30 Presentation of initiatives implemented by the Holy See to protect Christians and other religious minorities in different parts of the world
Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States, Secretariat of State, Vatican – Sala Regia
Private Audience with His Holiness Pope Francis – Sala Clementina
Address to the Holy Father by CAPP Foundation Chairman D. Sugranyes Bickel
Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants in CAPP Foundation International Conference
Summary Report 2017 International Conference
Transfer to Castel Gandolfo for a Special Presentation on the 125th Anniversary of the ‘Specola Vaticana’ (Vatican Observatory)
Fr. Paul Mueller SJ, Vice Director, Vatican Observatory
Radio Vaticana Service – International Conference 2017
The Madrid Conclusions on a Digital Economy for the Common Good
Contribution from CAPP Local groups
Session 1
Contribution from CAPP Bologna Group
Contribution from CAPP Cagliari Group
Contribution from CAPP Germania Group
Contribution from CAPP Madrid Group
Contribution from CAPP Milano Group
Contribution from CAPP Turin Group
Contribution from CAPP UK Group
Session 2
Contributio from CAPP Cagliari Group
Contribution form CAPP Germany Group
Contribution from CAPP Milan Group
Contribution from CAPP Treviso Group
Session 3
Contribution form CAPP Germany Group
Contribution form CAPP Malta Group