the Southgerman newspaper streams selected parts of the SZ economic summit in Berlin on its website – namely the appearances of the leading forces of the traffic light coalition and the Union parties as well as the opening speech by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. If you want to follow the entire, three-day congress in a live stream, with over 60 top executives from German and European business, you can go to www.sz-wirtschaftsgipfel.de Log In. You can find the entire program here. Those parts that can be seen in the live stream have been highlighted.
The program of the SZ economic summit
Monday, November 15, 2021
10.30 am Opening and introduction: Judith Wittwer, Editor-in-Chief, and Marc Beise, Head of Economics and Conference Leader – LIVESTREAM
10:45 Europe! Opening speech Ursula von der Leyen, President of the EU Commission – LIVESTREAM
11.15 What the new government has to do: Panel with Herbert Diess (VW), Marianne Janik (Microsoft) and Reinhard Ploss (Infineon)
12.00 Lessons from the pandemic: Panel with Achim Berg (Bitkom), Michael Diederich (HVB / UniCredit Bank), Michael Fratzscher (DIW) and Berit Lange (Helmholtz Center for Infection Research)
13.45 Cross-examination Roland Busch (Siemens)
14.15 How Germany is getting back on track: Powertalks with Joachim Schreiner (Salesforce.com Germany), Hanno Renner (Personio), Ivo Totev (Suse) and Paul Kaffsack (Myra Security)
15.15 Politics, economy and climate protection: Panel with Antje Boetius (Alfred Wegener Institute), Karl Haeusgen (Hawe / VDMA) and Dirk Messner (Federal Environment Agency)
4.30 p.m. SMEs in trial: Panel with Joachim Kuhn (Va-Q-tec), Eva van Pelt (Eppendorf) and Ralf Wintergerst (G + D)
5.15 p.m. One year of Biden – the interim balance sheet: Interview with Adam S. Posen (Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington)
17.45 Review of 15 years of the economic summit with Marc Beise and Ulrich Schäfer, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
7.30 pm Night of the European Economy: From Vice Chancellor to Chancellor – Conversation with Olaf Scholz (SPD) – LIVESTREAM
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
09.00 Italian breakfast with Frank Appel (Deutsche Post)
9.30 am The future of the CDU: Conversation with Carsten Linnemann (Deputy Chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group) – LIVESTREAM
10.00 Does German industry have a future? Panel with Martin Eisenhut (Kearney), Maria Ferraro (Siemens Energy), Carla Kriwet (BSH) and Simone Menne (multi-supervisory board member)
11.15 The digital financial industry: Panel with Karolina Decker (Finmarie), Christian Hecker (Trade Republic) and Markus Pertlwieser (Penta)
12.00 noon tour and change: mixed doubles with Carsten Knobel (Henkel) and Tina Müller (Douglas)
12.30 pm Innovation Talks with Thomas de Buhr (DAZN), Heike Freund (Marvel Fusion) and Tobias Warweg (GGW Holding)
14.15 Living, working and traveling in the future: CEO-Powertalks with Kathrin Anselm (Airbnb), Michael Kliger (Mytheresa), Nicole Gerhardt (Telefonica) and Niklas Östberg (Delivery Hero)
15.45 How do companies succeed? Panel with Robert Friedmann (Würth), Uwe Fröhlich (DZ Bank) and Ursula Gather (Krupp Foundation)
16.30 Opposition – how does it work? Conversation with Markus Söder (Prime Minister Bavaria) – LIVESTREAM
17.00 Europe panel with Mairead McGuinness (EU Commissioner), Mathieu Klein (Mayor of Nancy), Martin Kocher (Austrian Minister of Labor) and Daniel Risch (Prime Minister Liechtenstein)
17.45 for an aperitif with Michael Otto
8 p.m. Talk evening: Marc Beise in conversation with Pinar Atalay (TV presenter) and Carola Rackete (captain and activist)
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
09.15 Corona and then? Conversation with Jens Spahn (Federal Minister of Health) – LIVESTREAM
9.45 am Wake-up call with Manfred Knof (Commerzbank)
10.10 AI – the most exciting area of digitization: Spotlight with Udo Littke (Atos) and Victoria Ossadnik (Eon)
10.40 Is hydrogen the solution? Mixed doubles with Pierre Godart (ArianeGroup) and Veronika Grimm (Economics, Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg)
11.15 New start: Conversation with Annalena Baerbock (Chair of Alliance 90 / The Greens) – LIVESTREAM
11.45 The Roaring 20ies: What’s Coming? Future talks with Sophie Boissard (Korian), Wolfgang Fink (Goldman Sachs), Clemens Fuest (Ifo), and Suzanna Randall (astrophysicist and astronaut)
13.15 Conversation with FDP leader Christian Lindner – LIVESTREAM
13.45 New start – the messages of the 15th SZ Economic Summit: Marc Beise and Judith Wittwer