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12

Thursday
12 December 2024

Thusday

12:00-12:45 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

1:00-1:45 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Ice Breaker & GLC Overview Session

Meet GLC Members from around the world and share your story with your peers.

1:00-2:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

2:00-3:00 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

GLC virtual Opening Ceremony from the University of Oxford

Welcome remarks, followed by a moderated conversation on leadership and global challenges
Dr Edward Brooks (Executive Director, Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford),


Yemi Adamolekun, Executive Director of Enough is Enough and awarded with a Global Citizen Prize in 2022.

2:15-3:15 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

3:15-4:15 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Senior Advisor Dialogue: SDG Challenges

What's our latest knowledge regarding this year's three GLC challenges related to SDGs 3, 4, and 13? And what are some promising ways to address them? Meet your first Senior Advisor and engage in a thought-provoking dialogue.

Senior Advisors:

Susana Frazao Pinheiro, Lead, Healthcare and Life Sciences, University College of London School of Management for SDG 3,
 

Kennedy Odede, CEO, Shining Hope for Communities for SDG 4 and
 

Kaya Axelsson, Head of Policy and Partnerships, Oxford Net Zero for SDG 13.

3:30-4:30 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

4:30-5:30 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Design Thinking Session

Enter the world of Design Thinking to have all the rights tools to later start developing your project idea. This session will give you an introduction into Design Thinking to move from a broad SDG towards defining a specific problem to address through your project.

with
Dr  Rachel Brooks, Head of Executive Education CSI-HSG

13

Friday
13 December 2024

Friday

12:30-1:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

1:30-2:00 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

How GLC Talks Works:
Important Preperation Session!

1:00-2:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

2:00-3:00 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

GLC Talks:
Celebrating our differences

Engage with someone from another part of the world who has a very different perspective. In collaboration with ZEIT ONLINE, this session will match GLC Members with a conversation partner with different views from your own on controversial questions, to cultivate empathy and cross-cultural understanding.

2:15-3:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

3:15-4:00 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Systems Change Workshop


Adopt a systems approach to tackle complex, interconnected problems. This session will equip you with the necessary skills to incubate new ideas and generate collective action to drive transformative change.


with Kate Simpson (Director of the Systemcraft Institute)

3:00-4:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

4:00-5:00 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Virtual
Global Fireside Chat 2

Engage with the UNESCO director,

Zazie Schäfer, the Director of the Bureau of Strategic Planning at UNESCO

4:00-5:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

5:00-6:00 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Virtual
Global Fireside Chat 3

Engage with leaders from business and technology to explore what responsible leadership looks like in the private sector.
 

with

Alan Flower, EVP and Global Head of AI and Cloud Native Labs, HCLTech, &

Prof Dr. Christina Niklaus, Databases and Data Engineering, School of Computer Science at the University of St.Gallen

14 & 15

Weekend
14 & 15 December 2024

Self-managed Group Work
We advise you to coordinate with your group and use some of this time to develop your project

Weekend

16

Monday
16 December 2024

Monday

12:00-12:45 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

1:00-1:45 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Responsible Leadership Workshop

Develop a deep sense of purpose and responsibility that will drive and direct your actions as a leader. Building on research at the University of Oxford, this session will focus on questions and values that form the core of responsible leadership.

With
Corey Crossan (The Oxford Character Project)
Anjali Sarker (The Oxford Character Project)

12:45-1:30 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

1:45-2:30 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Finishing Your Project

Finalise your project using the presentation template provided and submit it on time!

Be ready to pitch your project in the last Senior Advisor Session.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT:

1:30pm GMT / 2:30 CET

1:30-2:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

2:30-3:00pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Short break

Have a drink and a snack, take a short break, and join the SDG Project Pitch session with Senior Advisors.

2:00-3:30 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

3:00-4:30 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Senior Advisor Dialogue &
SDG Project Pitch Session

Get another chance to talk to a Senior Advisor who is an expert in your SDG and ask them questions.

After a brief input from the Senior Advisor and a Q&A, it's your group's turn: Pitch your SDG project to the Senior Advisor and convince him or her so that you make it to the final pitching round in the Closing Ceremony!

Senior Advisors:

Judith Van Hunsel - Konermann, Group Head of Leadership, Culture & Inclusion at Coca-Cola HBC for SDG 3,

Roland Hehn, CHRO Group/ Schwarz Corporate Solutions for SDG 4

and

Christian Mumenthaler, frm. CEO of the Swiss Re Group for SDG 13

3:30-4:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

4:30-5:00 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Internal Preperation of Three Finalists

The GLC organising team will be in touch with the three finalists to present their projects in the Closing Ceremony. Other GLC Members can take a short break before joining the ceremony.

4:00-5:00 pm

GMT (Oxford time)

5:00-6:00 pm

CET (St. Gallen time)

Virtual
GLC Closing Ceremony


Award Ceremony, with the three final pitches and a GLC Members Reflection slot on this years GLC 2024 before we listen to the final remarks of the Jury on the final pitches.

With

Nikita Schönenberger, Project Manager GLC at the St. Gallen Symposium and

Andreas Nef, Head Communiuty & Partnerships at the St. Gallen Symposium

 

and the Award Jury Members;

Dr. Claudia Suessmuth Dyckerhoff (Board Member of Hoffmann La-Roche) and

Dr Edward Brooks (Executive Director, Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford),

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