9.00 Åbo/Turku Castle Longing for Renaissance! Duke John and his Company

Winners and losers in the global race for creativity?

Introducer and moderator: Alf Rehn, Professor, Organization and management, Åbo Akademi University
Suvi Innilä, Project Manager, City of Åbo/Turku: Cultural Capital of Europe 2011 "Åbo/Turku on Fire"
Olli Hietanen, Project Director at the Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics
Tero-Pekka Henell, Executive Director of the Concet Hall, responsible for the artistic planning for Åbo/Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

14.30 Cocktails at Arken, auditorium Armfelt

15.00 Amos Anderson Lectures on Philosophy, Culture and Management

Daniel Birnbaum, Professor and Rector, The Städelschule Art Academy in Frankfurt am Main
Producing Art: A Frankfurt Experiment



Irina Krohn, Managing Director of the Finnish Film Foundation
Conditions for Film Production in Finland



Krister Ahlström, Dr. hc, Chairman of Finnish Design Round Table
The Economic Impact of Design

First respondent: Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Professor, Stockholm University.

Presentation: Ambassador Karl-Erik Norrman, General Secretary, European Cultural Parliament.

Moderator: Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Amos Anderson Professor of Philosophy, Culture and Management, Åbo Akademi University.

18.00 Dinner at Café Arken

19.30 FILM "The Man Without a Past" by Aki Kaurismäki

21.00 Mingle and dialogue at the Barker Theatre
Inputs from participants