Rana Foroohar is Global Business Columnist and an Associate Editor at the Financial Times. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst. Her first book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business (Crown), about why the capital markets no longer support business, was shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Book of the Year award in 2016. Her most recent book Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles And All of Us (Crown) is the Porchlight Business Book of the Year for 2019. In 2019, Foroohar was awarded a SABEW award for her tech and policy coverage at the Financial Times. Prior to joining the FT and CNN, Foroohar spent 6 years at TIME, as an assistant managing editor and economic columnist. She previously spent 13 years at Newsweek, as an economic and foreign affairs editor and a foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. During that time, she was awarded the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting. She has also received awards and fellowships from institutions such as the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs and the East West Center. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the advisory board of the Open Markets Institute. Rana Foroohar graduated in 1992 from Barnard College, Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the author John Sedgwick, and her two children.
The virtual VL Summit 2020 was a huge success. Our members praised the two and a half hours video event. However, they mentioned that the one thing they missed was the social aspect.
As it would be a demanding exercise to arrange an international concert bringing together musicians from the USA, Great Britain, and Denmark to perform together, the Virtual VL Summit required intense preparations to make sure everything went smoothly. Participants in the online conference met by video link co-ordinated from a studio in Copenhagen, in co-operation with Jyske Bank.TV.
After all the work that went into preparing the event, the sense of relief was tangible in the steering committee the following day. The VL Summit had gone according to plan and without a hitch even down to the smallest detail. In fact, it only added to the intensity of the experience that members had to participate from a distance.
“Of the total of 1100 people who had signed up, 700 participated, and that is beyond our best expectations. The virtual meeting was a really good alternative to the traditional VL Summit, and I was impressed with the great level of engagement and the many good questions from our members,” says Ida Bratting Kongsted, CEO of the Danish Management Society (VL).
“This success is making us consider if we should change the way we will arrange meetings in the future,” she adds.
“It’s definitely food for thought. Maybe the future of the Summit will be a strong combination of physical and virtual meetings,” says Ida Bratting Kongsted, who appreciates the many positive evaluations she has received from attendees. Evaluations show that 94 per cent of participants were “very satisfied” or “satisfied” with this year’s virtual VL Summit.
Guests
Rana Foroohar
INTERVIEW Outlook for the Global Economy - Are we facing the Perfect Storm?
Prof. Sir Ralf Speth
KEYNOTE How can Responsible Business be squared to what we are seeing today?
Henrik Andersen
KEYNOTE How do we make Sustainability and Renewable Energy part of the recovery after Covid 19? And where does it fit in with a global corporation like Vestas?
Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen
KEYNOTE The Global Economy and Systemic Challenges after the crisis: New Balance of Power and Megatrends
VL Summit 2020
Thomas Hofman-Bang
PANEL with Henrik Andersen and Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen
Clement Behrendt Kjersgaard
Sir Nick Clegg
Fireside Chat
Lisbeth Knudsen
Welcome & introduction
Theresa Blegvad
Welcome & introduction
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