Introduction: Dr. Ivar Björkman, President of Konstfack,
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm

Session 1: The Future of Art.
Will there be visual art as we know it in fifty years?
Considering how art and entertainment are blending and how museums are developing one could imagine a future where the "visual industry" evolves into a new phenomenon with novel parameters.
Avant-garde art is expected to break rules. This logic of radical innovation and transgression is now more than a century old. How does this notion of art fit into the art worlds of today and tomorrow?

Moderator: Dr. Daniel Birnbaum, Director and Professor, Städelschule Art Academy and Portikus Gallery, Frankfurt am Main.
Keynote speaker: Peter Weibel, Professor, Chairperson and CEO of ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Panellists:
Marysia Lewandowska, Artist, and Professor of Fine Art, Konstfack, Stockholm and London
David Neuman, Founding Director of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
Matthew Slotover, Director of Frieze Art Fair, Publishing Director of frieze magazine, London
Maria Finders, Curator, Art Basel Conversations, Art Basel, Basel
Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Artist, Stockholm

Session 2: When Good Science Leads to Bad Results
Science is the domain in which controversial practices around innovation have come into particularly sharp focus in recent years, and in the past. It's enough to think back to recent debates on cloning, DNA sequencing, the development of certain classes of drugs, to know that science remains in the foreground of ethical debates about progress. With the acceleration of research and technology, and truly groundbreaking developments in biotechnology, information technology, medicine, chemistry, and other fields -- coupled with a political and cultural environment in which religion and fundamentalism are reviving their hold on the public imagination -- the near future promise to bring more of the same. And where ethical debates around science go, similar debates in the arts, humanities and every day life will follow.

Moderator: Dr. András Szántó, Visiting Scholar, New York University, New York City
Keynote speaker: Dr. Hans Wigzell, Professor, Senior Strategic Advisor, Karolinska Institutet, Chairperson of Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Stockholm

Panellists:
Soki Choi, IT-entrepreneur and Medical Doctor candidate, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Nadia Danhash, Intellectual Property Manager, Royal College of Art, London
Teo Enlund, Designer and Professor of Industrial Design, Konstfack, Stockholm
Viveka Åberg, Chariperson of Svenska Sällskapet för Pharmaceutical Medicine, Stockholm

Session 3: McWorld or My World?
Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of Creative Destruction has never been more relevant than at the intersection where culture and commerce meet; it is producing flamboyant debates, but few conclusions. Schumpeter described Creative Destruction as “the process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one…” While it shadows a description of the 'avant-garde', in an era of globalization and cross-cultural trade some worry that Creative Destruction is no more than a form of cultural imperialism threatening to destroy ingenious culture, rather than promoting cultural diversity.
Can the worlds of culture and business work together to avert this risk? Is it really a risk?This question becomes especially poignant now that corporate recruiters are hiring MFAs – not to make art or design – but to be thinkers, innovators and change agents. The Harvard Business Review has decreed that the “MFA is the new MBA.” What realistic expectations can we have that business and culture will create appropriate innovation from this new alliance? Or do we?

Moderator: Dr. Ronald Jones, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Konstfack, Stockholm
Keynote speaker: Ma Qingyun, Architect and urban theorist, MADA s.p.a.m, Shanghai

Panellists:
Fanny Aronsen, Designer and Professor of Textiles, Konstfack, Stockholm and Hertogenbosch
Reed Kram, Co-founder and Partner, Kram/Weisshaar, Stockholm and Munich
Michel Sabouné, Vice President, Creative Design Center , Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Lund
Daniel Sachs, CEO, Proventus, Stockholm
Ole Scheeren, Partner of OMA, Rotterdam and Beijing

Summary discussion by the moderators
Dr. Daniel Birnbaum, Dr. Ronald Jones, Dr. András Szántó

17-17.20                  Summary Discussion of the Day One´s Sessions

17.20-19.30              The Forum: Testing the Limits of Innovation

The Forum: Testing the Limits of Innovation
A hypothetical takes the issues identified in our intensive research and weaves them into a scenario that will raise a dilemma for our participants. Before the event, the hypothetical "roadmap" is mastered by our moderator but not shared with the panellists, who must deal with the dilemmas raised on the spot as the moderator unfolds the scenario. The result is a discussion that is relevant, spontaneous, and compelling.

Moderator: Dr. András Szántó, Visiting Scholar, New York University, New York City

Panellist:
Inga-Britt Ahlenius, Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, United Nations
Theo Martins, Partner of K Street Advisors, Stockholm
Ma Qingyun, Architect and urban theorist, MADA s.p.a.m, Shanghai
Eva Redhe, CEO of Erik Penser Fondkommission AB, Stockholm
Dr. Emma Stenström, CEO of Arts and Business, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm
Olle Wästberg, Director-general of The Swedish Institute, Stockholm
Peter Weibel, Professor, Chairperson and CEO of ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Dr. Hans Wigzell, Professor, Senior Strategic Advisor, Karolinska Institutet, Chairperson of Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Stockholm