ABIS Knowledge Into Action Forum 2016 & General Assembly

2nd ABIS Knowledge Into Action Forum and our Annual General Assembly 2016 in Brussels.

Date 19 May 2016

Host ABIS - The Academy of Business in Society

Venue Management Centre Europe, Brussels, Belgium

Focus Connecting our Network to identify exciting Project Opportunities

About

On 19 May 2016 ABIS hosted its Annual General Assembly and 2^nd Knowledge Into Action Forum in Brussels, Belgium.

The General Assembly served as the network’s most important strategy meeting, in which the Board and management presented headlines and achievements from the previous year and outline the priorities, milestones and engagement opportunities for the upcoming months.

The Knowledge Into Action Forum, which followed immediately afterwards, offered a completely different dynamic. The energy and ideas of individual Members underpinned its programme, which included the following three blocks:

Insight Sessions – a corporate focused marketplace where small group or one-to-one meetings enabled corporate members to source new academic insights and thinking around emerging strategic challenges and issues;
Resource Opportunities – a helicopter view on a wide range of funding schemes and key success criteria to support business-academic collaboration;
Engagement Workshops – a series of in-depth roundtable presentations of concrete initiatives in development, through which their champions can find supporting partners, “reality check” objectives and materiality, and build awareness of their project within the network.

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Programme

(All times local)

Programme

08:30

Registration & Welcome

09:15

Annual General Assembly

10:45

Coffee Break

11:00

Introduction & Objectives for the Day

Speakers:

Joris-Johann Lenssen - Managing Director, ABIS

11:15

Plenary Session I: Latest insights from the private sector / philanthropic funding landscape

Speakers:

Gerry Salole - Chief Executive, European Foundation Center
Sherif Hassane - Director Government Affairs - Global Issues, GlaxoSmithKline

12:00

Knowledge Exchange Session: Business-academic dialogues addressing strategic challenges and themes which are shaping current corporate members’ thinking and practice

KS 1 - Accenture: New Skills & Competences for a Circular Economy, and the Implications for Business Education
KS 2 - GlaxoSmithKline: Global Leadership Development: Capacity Building Partnerships between Developed & Emerging Countries
KS 3 - ING: How Business Schools Educate and Develop Future Entrepreneurs for Sustainability
KS 4 - Johnson & Johnson: Stakeholder Strategy and Sustainability: Assessing Collaborative Impact and Defining New Governance Models to Increase Societal Impact
KS 5 - Mazars: The Future Role of Boards in Sustainable Corporate Value Creation
KS 6 - Solvay: Steering Product Portfolios to Higher Sustainability Levels through Science and Education
KS 7 - Unilever: The Sustainable Living Plan and New Models of Purposeful Leadership Development

13:00

Lunch

13:45

Plenary Session II: Latest insights from the public sector / EU funding landscape

Speakers:

Dr. Laurent Ghys - Scientific Collaborator, ERC & MSCA National Contact Point in Belgium
Prof. Nigel Berkeley - H2020 ECO-SOC Panel Expert, Coventry University
Maria Laura Fornaci - Senior Consultant European Projects, ISTUD Foundation

14:30

Room Change

14:35

Engagement Workshops I: Focused project development sessions led by academic members around specific themes and funding opportunities

WS 1

University of Kent:

The Alliance for advanced implementation of collaborative solutions

WS 2

Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences:

Innovating SMEs - segmentation along lifecycle and sectors (analytical research activity)

WS 3

Leuphana University: