Schedule 1st day

9.30-10.00	Reception with coffee and tea, handing out of congress documents.
10.00-10.15	Welcoming address, congress opened by the moderator Joachim Gutmann, Board member, GLC Glücksburg Consulting AG
10.15-10.30	Welcoming address by the host Hans-Werner Scherer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KG EOS Holding GmbH & Co
10.30-11.15	Keynote – making safe decisions Dr Markus Merk, Football referee of the year in 2004, 2005 and 2007
11.15-11.30	Questions and discussion
11.30-12.00	Break with coffee and tea
12.00-12.30	On the anatomy of the financial crisis Causes and course of the financial crisis What can and what must be done? Is economic policy on the right track? Prof. Dr Gustav A. Horn, Director, Macroeconomic Policy Institute, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
12.30-13.00	Ways out of the ratings crisis Chain of dependency and chain reaction in the ratings field The ISO standards’ relevance for ratings IOSCO, CESR and EU regulation of ratings Perspectives for qualitative ratings in the near future Why will the topic of receivables management become even more important in the future? What is required of receivables management from the point of view of professional rating agencies Dr Oliver Everling, Managing Director, RATING EVIDENCE GmbH
13.00-13.15	Questions and discussion
13.15-14.45	Lunch
14.45 - 18:15	Parallel forums Forum A: Banking and Insurances Forum B: Services and Production

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