Program-Overview WRF 2011

September 18, 2011: 

Registration and informal get-together at the Davos Congress Centre

September 19, 2011:

High-level Opening Session, Plenary Sessions, Parallel sessions, Workshops, Company Exhibition, Poster Exhibition and Welcome Cocktail

Keynotes include (among others): 

• Janez Potočnik (European Commissioner for the Environment)
• Sylvie Lemmet (Director UNEP, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics)
• Bruno Oberle (Director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN) 
• Alice Kaudia (Environment Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Kenya)
  
• Mohan Munasinghe (Prof. of Sustainable Development, SCI, Manchester Univ., UK, and Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute of Development, Sri Lanka, Member UNEP International Resource Panel)
• Jacqueline M. McGlade (Executive Director, European Environment Agency, Member UNEP International Resource Panel)
• Katherina Reiche (Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Germany)
• Mark Swilling (Academic Director, The Sustainability Institute)

September 20, 2011:

Plenary Sessions, Parallel sessions, Workshops, Company Exhibition, Poster Exhibition, Cocktail, Theatre and Congress Banquet 

Keynotes include (among others): 

• Ashok Khosla (Co-President, Club of Rome & President IUCN, Co-chair UNEP International Resource Panel)
• Dajian Zhu (Tongji University)
• Masafumi Maeda (Vice President Tokyo University)
• Keynotes by CEO's of international enterprises

Congress Dinner with performance by world famous Mummenschanz pantomime troupe 

September 21, 2011:

Plenary Sessions, Parallel sessions, Workshops, Company Exhibition, Poster Exhibition, Closing Session, Farewell Cocktail

Keynotes include (among others): 

• Ernst Ulrich von Weizsaecker (Co-chair UNEP International Resource Panel)
• Marina Fischer-Kowalski (President, International Society for Industrial Ecology; Chair of the Scientific Board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Member UNEP International Resource Panel)
• Marilyn Mehlmann (General Secretary Global Action Plan International)
  
• Reinhard Bütikofer (Member European Parliament

September 22, 2011: 

All day: space for various back-to-back side events, bilateral meetings, briefings, workshops and company presentations. Precise program to be confirmed, events upon request.