New for 2010
View The Delegate List And Set Up Meetings
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In Advance Of The Geneva Forum With My Geneva Forum Brand new for 2010 we are introducing My Geneva Forum. This is an on-line networking tool whereby: |
Meet The Airline/Lender Speed Networking
In order to facilitate the meeting of airlines and lenders, we will be holding a Meet The Airline Speed Networking Session during the coffee break on Day 2. Each airline will be placed at a different table and a lender will be placed opposite them. You will then spend 1 minute at that table – you will be able to swap business cards and briefly explain your interests before moving on – and then the lender will move to the next table. Then after the session, delegates may choose to revert to some they have met for a longer chat. This is a quick and highly efficient way for lenders and airlines to meet.
New Guest Speakers
Bertrand Piccard - Record Breaking Round the World Balloonist, President & Initiator of the Solar Impulse Project
In 1999, after 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes in the air, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jone’s Roziere balloon landed in the Eqyptian desert, so ending the first non-stop circumnavigation of the earth in a balloon – this after 21 attempts. Aeronautic experts deemed the challenge impossible but Piccard showed them they were wrong, captaining the longest flight in terms of duration and distance in the history of aviation.
Then, in 2003 he teamed up with André Borschberg to officially launch the Solar Impulse project whose object was to fly round the world in a solar aircraft, without fuel or polluting emissions. As chairman of Solar Impulse, he has developed the project's avant-guard philosophy and traced its symbolic reach and the policy that has convinced the financial partners of this challenge. He shares control of this enterprise with André Borschberg, just as he will share with him, alternately, the controls of the solar aircraft.
In a world depending on fossil energies, the Solar Impulse project is a paradox, almost a provocation: it aims to have an airplane take off and fly autonomously, day and night, propelled uniquely by solar energy, right round the world without fuel or pollution. An unachievable goal without pushing back the current technological limits in all fields. Since the June 26 2009 unveiling, testing has taken place with the flight planned for 2011.
Douglas McWilliams, CEO, Centre for Economics and Business Research
Our annual and highly popular session on the outlook for the economy will be addressed this year by a leading forecaster of Europe’s and international economies.
The CEBR provides analysis, forecasts and strategic advice to companies of all sizes, government departments and agencies and trade bodies and the European Commission. They work with clients across the widest range of businesses including airlines and airports, banks and other financial institutions. Since 1992, the CEBR has been at the forefront of research and has pioneered a number of innovative forecasting techniques for combining economic information with business data
Douglas has advised numerous organisations, including Siemens, Vodafone, Oracle, Mercedes, Canary Wharf Group.
Prior to founding the Centre For Economics and Business Research (CEBR), he was a Chief Economist with IBM and has also been Chairman of the Economics Forecasting Group of UNICE, the European federation of employer organisations.
