INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, VATICAN CITY 18 – 20 MAY 2017

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 13^th, 2016

Thursday May 18^th

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

Palazzo Cancelleria, Piazza della Cancelleria 1

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 19^th

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 20^th

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