Open panel discussions and Q & A

How could today’s CEOs benefit from Dubai 2015 strategy plan?

• Challenges and Opportunities for the CEOs to learn

CEOs Priorities amid the Next Wave of region’s Challenges

• Which way CEOs should go and lead tomorrow's enterprises?
• Defining measures to shape successful CEOs
• Business intelligence for tomorrow’s CEOs
• With WTO and FTAs How Would CEOs Handle the New Global Market Forces?
• What should be the CEOs’ strategies to compete globally?

Can Government & Business CEOs Work Together

• What are the Differences between CEOs in Government and Business?
• The difference in agenda : profit-centric vs. citizen-centric
• The difference in mindset : push for change vs. pushed by change
• Do government org. CEOs have better commitment towards society than business CEOs?

• Leadership under women CEOs
• Challenges before Financial Sector CEOs.

Panelists:

Mr. Suresh Kumar, CEO, Emirates Financial Services, UAE.

Mr. Husam Dajani, Senior Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Oracle Corporation

Mr. Jabir Walji, Strategist and Futurist, Systematic Innovation, UK

Moderated by:
Mr. Ali Al Kamali, MD, Datamatix. 

Thinking of Global CEOs : Are the Region’s CEOs Trend Setters or Followers?

• How CEOs should see the global changes and lead?
• How CEOs should react to failure and success?
• How CEOs should handle ICT?

Mr. Husam Dajani

Senior Vice President, Middle East and Africa

Oracle Corporation

Coffee break and networking 

Preparing Future CEOs: responsibilities to.... accountability

• How an outgoing CEOs should prepare his their successors
• CEO tenure in organisations
• CEOs preparing their successors – successes and failures
• Practical politics and the smooth transition from responsibility to accountability
• Managing transitions in corporate, culture ethos and style

Professor Nick van der Walt

Chief Executive Officer

University of Wollongong in Dubai

Coffee Break

Recruiting for CEO’s

• A strategic framework for hiring above your competitors
• Recruitment is more about Business Marketing than Human Resources

With rare skill becoming increasingly mobile, value adding intellectual capital is ever more difficult to identify. This is a global phenomenon that is becoming a hot topic on board room agendas. Ryan asks the burning question: ‘If you are acquiring talent the very same way your competitors are, how can you expect to remain competitive’? After all, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Mr. Ryan Burns

Management Consultant

Target Search & Selection

 Managing Global Talent for Strategic Success

Professor William Scott-Jackson

Director

Centre for Applied HR Research at Oxford Brookes University Business School

Lunch and Conclusion 

Attending the 4th Middle East CEO awards Ceremony at the Burj Al Arab Hotel