All sessions are indicated in local time.

8.00 - 9.00
Registration and breakfast

9.00 - 9.05
Welcome address by ALFI

Speaker
Serge Weyland
Serge Weyland
ALFI

CEO

9.05 - 9.15
Opening by the Master of ceremony of the morning sessions

Master of Ceremony
Sébastien Danloy
Sébastien Danloy
Securities Services - BNP Paribas

Global Head of Sales & RM, Institutional Investors

9.15 - 9.30
The age of AI, risks and opportunities

Gen-AI, often hailed as “The Next Big Thing”, is enabling a major digital transformation in which Artificial General Intelligence could soon surpass humans. But this transformation goes beyond technology by impacting our society in a broad manner and therefore raises fundamental questions: Will humans be augmented or diminished? Are we overly enthusiastic or excessively apocalyptic? How will strategic choices orient AI towards enhancing our lives and humanity?

Keynote speaker
Marco Landi
Marco Landi
Institut EuropIA

Chairman

10.15 - 10.50
A closer look at global corporate governance trends

Corporate governance is dynamic. Keeping up with the ever-changing trends in global corporate governance is no easy task. Boards around the world are spending more time on their own composition, seeking to build and support boards with important subject-matter expertise, international perspective, cultural and social diversity, and generational balancing. Boards that adopt a forward-thinking approach, embrace agility, and prioritize a stakeholder-centric mindset will be best equipped to navigate the coming years ahead. This panel will explore key global governance trends, focusing on the US, Asia-Pacific and Luxembourg.

Moderator
Sheenagh Gordon-Hart
Sheenagh Gordon-Hart
The Directors' Office

Partner

Panellists
Carine Feipel
Carine Feipel
Independent Director

Independent director

Andrew Owen
Andrew Owen
Allspring Global Investments

Head of Global Fund Governance

Kavitha Ramachandran
Kavitha Ramachandran
Apex Fund Services S.A.

Chief Operating Officer - Luxembourg

10.50 - 11.20
Networking coffee break

11.20 - 11.55
Where are boards heading in the face of innovation?

Boards are confronted with an increased velocity of technological developments that disrupt business models, impact regulation and change societal trends. We will explore how boards can build a vision for new opportunities while adapting governance to new types of risks. More concretely, we will discuss how to guide transformational strategies in an environment with fast-rising Gen-AI, maturing tokenization, new AI-Data and similar legislation as well as geopolitical tensions…

Moderator