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I. EVENT OVERVIEW
Title

Global HR Forum 2015

Slogan

Global Talent, Global Prosperity!

Diverse Talent, Changing Societies

Theme

Date

Globalization is increasing rapidly, driven by technological advances and

demographic changes, and as a result, the flow of goods and capital has become
easier. The demand for human resources has increased equally, and the challenges
of developing, managing, and hiring talents have become key issues in this era of
globalization. In response, the Global Human Resources Forum 2015 intends to
create spaces where leaders from business, government, civil society, NGOs, and
academia around the world come together to share their visions and actions
through open and insightful discussions, specifically focusing on how to develop
and manage human resources in order to create sustainable and enduring global
prosperity. The annual Global HR Forum will be held from November 3 to
November 5, 2015 at Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas located in Samseongdong of Gangnam District in Seoul.
November 3(Tue) ~ November 5(Thu), 2015
Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas

Venue

521, Teheran-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea

Tel: +82-2-555-5656

Hosts
As globalization has rapidly changed our lives, the boundaries between countries have
disappeared and movement of human resources from one country to another has
become commonplace. Accordingly, international organizations, governments,
corporations, and individuals are required to be globally competitive.

Background

The reason global competitiveness of human resources is a key issue is that now
everyone, and not just a small number of elites in specialized fields, must compete
against one another in order to survive in the world. Because human resources are
the foundation where the prosperity of individuals, businesses, society, and the world
is built upon, the governments, businesses, and educational institutions must join
efforts to improve the education, training, and utilization of human resources.
In response, the Korean Ministry of Education, the Korea Economic Daily, and the
Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training recognized the needs
for international cooperation and collaboration, and initiated the Global HR Forum in
collaboration with the private sector in 2006.

Objectives

Find solutions for the major on-going global issues that the entire human race is
facing
Share creative, valuable experiences and cases of human resources development in
public and private sectors
Discuss significant factors of human resources development for the future
generations in terms of global perspectives

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World Bank, OECD, UNESCO, British Council, MERCER, KORN FERRY, Korea Student Aid

Program Partners

Foundation, Korea Council for University Education, Korea Invention Promotion

Association(KIPA), National Institute for Lifelong Education(NILE)

Media Partners

Open University Network(OUN), daumkakao

Participants Profile

Ministers of related fields and high ranking officials from international organizations
and human resources divisions
CEOs of global businesses and HR Executives
Presidents of the world's top universities and experts from academia
Heads from industries, research institutions, and economic development agencies
Other human resources-related agency representatives and many others

Official Language

English & Korean (Simultaneous interpretation provided)

Official Website

www.ghrforum.org
Address:

13F, 463, Cheongpa-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea

Forum Secretariat
Information

The Korea Economic Daily

Telephone:

+82-2-360-4083 | Fax: +82-2-360-4085

E-mail:

ghr@ghrforum.org

II. HISTORY
The government of Republic of Korea recognized the need for international cooperation and collaboration,
and as a result, initiated the Global Human Resources Forum 2006 in collaboration with the private sector.
Over 3,000 people including the heads of renowned universities and leaders of private, public, and
international institutions attended the inaugural Global HR Forum. Notable speakers included Bill Gates,
the Founder and Chairman of Microsoft; Paul Wolfowitz, the former President of the World Bank; Bertel
Haarder, the Education Minister of Denmark; and Robert Barro, the Paul M. Warburg Professor of
Economics at Harvard University.
The Global HR Forum 2007 started off with video lectures by Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the
United States, scar Arias Snchez, the former President of Costa Rica, and Ki-Moon Ban, the eighth
Secretary-General of the United Nations. Over 4000 participants gathered to hear the messages from more
than 150 prominent global leaders from 35 countries. Speakers included Richard Holbrooke, the former
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Francis Fukuyama, Professor of Johns Hopkins University; and
Ben Verwaayen, the President of British Telecom. Furthermore, some notable high-ranking government
officials were present, including the Minister of Culture of Sudan, the Minister of Education of Iraq, Vice
Minister for Education of Bulgaria. The CEOs and CHOs of global companies such as Goldman Sachs,
BMW, Boeing, and Walt Disney Studios, as well as top executives of international organizations
including OECD, World Bank, and ALECSO also participated as speakers.
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The 3rd Global HR Forum held in 2008, kicked off with video speeches by Jack Welch, the former CEO
of GE, and Craig R. Barrett, the CEO of Intel. Other participants included Martin Feldstein, the former
Chairman of the NBER; Jean Robert Pitte, the President of the University of Paris-Sorbonne; Jozef M.
Ritzen, the President of the University of Maastricht; Nicolas R. Burnett, Assistant Director-General of
Education for UNESCO; and the CEOs and CHOs of companies such as Pfizer, HP, IBM, Motorola,
Dupont and Corning.
The Global HR Forum in 2009 began with a video presentation by Myung-Bak Lee, the 10th President of
the Republic of Korea. Other speakers included Gerhard Schroeder, the former German Prime Minister;
Fred Bergsten, Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics; Dave Ulrich, Professor at
the University of Michigan; David Skorton, President of Cornell University; Tan Chorh Chuan, President
of the National University of Singapore; and Atsushi Seike, President of Keio University. Furthermore,
the forum invited other senior government officials and experts from sectors of education, culture, science,
and technology from over 65 countries, including presidents and deans of prestigious universities, worldrenowned scholars, and the CEOs of multinational firms.
The theme for the 5th Global HR Forum held from October 26-28, 2010 was Open and Ready for
Tomorrow. 200 speakers from 52 countries participated in the forum and notable speakers included
Allan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States; Jacque Attali, the
President of PlaNet Finance; Joseph Polisi, President of the Julliard School; Tony Little, the Headmaster
of Eton College; Robert Mundell, Professor of Economics at Columbia University as well as the Nobel
Economics Prize Laureate; Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University;
and Franci Phelan, the CHRO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They discussed important issues
such as new world economic order post-crisis, balanced growth, development of creative talent, and
management of a just society. Responses from the participants of the forum were very positive and many
of the participating companies found the forum helpful in establishing their vision and gaining insight
necessary for finding solution for human resource development. In particular, financial support from the
World Bank and UNESCO made it possible to invite 50 state level officials from 12 Asia-Pacific region
countries to hold a forum for Education Ministers of developing countries together with a training
program for policy makers in the East Asia and the Pacific region. The two events opened a channel to
extensively discuss the ways in which governments could harness education and develop human
resources to combat problems such as hunger, disease, income disparities, high elderly population, low
economic growth, climate change, and energy supply issues in order to improve the quality of life.
Smart Education: Reinventing the future was the theme of the 6th Global HR Forum, which was held
on the first three days of November in 2011. This year, renowned world scholars and CEOs of global
companies noted that increasingly rapid social change has made the process of predicting the future
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more difficult, and consequently it has become necessary to abandon hidebound practices and ways of
thought. Instead, they discussed possible ways to develop human resources, prepare for the future, and
identify global economic trends and prospects. The potential talent development-based solutions in
dealing with future uncertainties proposed by participants of the last forum were collected and distilled
into seven articles and published as the Seoul Initiative, to further promote human resource
development. The Seoul Initiative contains possible ways to develop talent through close collaboration
among government, institutions of higher learning, and businesses, and details several approaches to
increase global cooperation by utilizing talent and information sharing. During the forum, major
universities and institutions of learning around the world expressed their interest in participating in the
Global Leadership Program (GLP), a program initiated by the Korea Economic Daily. Furthermore, a
policymaker training program, funded by the World Bank and UNESCO, was offered to 80 senior
ranking officials of developing nations from 18 Asian and African states.
During the 7th Global HR Forum, again, inspiring discussions and presentations were made under the
theme of Better Education, the Best Welfare. We live in the midst of a global economic downturn and
increased polarization of wealth. And our organizers believed that the best way for the socially and
economically disadvantaged group to escape poverty was to equip them with the means to survive on
their own and that the best form of welfare could be achieved through better education policies and
practices. In order to share the experiences and discuss the solutions, we invited renowned experts and
heads of organizations from various fields including Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom; Daniel Shapiro, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University; Anne Krueger, Professor at
Johns Hopkins University as well as the first female Deputy Managing Director at IMF; Elisabet Dahle,
the Deputy Minister at Norwegian Ministry of Education; Feridun Hamdullahpur, the President of
University of Waterloo; Roger H. Brown, the President of Berklee College of Music; Andr J. Cointreau,
the President of Le Cordon Bleu International; Sujitha Karnad, the Senior Vice President of Tech
Mahindra; Toyohiko Aoki, the President of Aoki Co., LTD; and Mmantsetsa Marope, the Director of
Basic to Higher Education and Leaning, UNESCO.
The theme of the 8th Global HR Forum was Beyond Walls. At this 8th Global HR Forum, the former
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak delivered a keynote speech, and Francis Fukuyama one of the most
influential social & political philosophers of our time joined as a special speaker and shared his
thoughts and perspectives on the future of Northeast Asia and the World. Celebrating 130th anniversary of
Korea-United Kingdom amity, Paul Thompson, the Rector of Royal College of Art and six other top U.K.
college vice-chancellors and rectors visited Korea and participated in an open forum discussion on how
U.K. universities lead creative industries by converging art and science and cooperating closely with the
companies. Besides, many other brilliant speakers around the world joined our forum and shared their
knowledge and experience including Hans Paul Buerkner, the Chairman of Boston Consulting Group;
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Lazlo Bock, the Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google; Madan Nagaldinne, the AsiaPacific Head of HR at Facebook; Eric Alexander, the Vice President of Flipboard; Regis Kelly, the
Director of California Institute for Quantitative Bioscience (QB3); Pradeep Khosla, the President of
University of California-San Diego; Timothy Trainor, the Brigadier General & Dean of U.S. Military
Academy at West Point; and Christian Lettmayr, the Director of European Center for the Development of
Vocational Training(CEDEFOP).
The 9th Global HR Forum was held with great success under the theme Human Resources for Trust and
Integration. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, delivered his keynote speech on
creativity and education systems along with Sungmo Steve Kang, President of KAIST, who spoke as the
interlocutor. Dr. Kims live interview was followed by the second keynote speech by John Gottman,
Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington, who spoke on the Science of Trust.
Over the three days from November 4 to 6, more than 120 prominent scholars and global corporate
executives as well as 5,000 participants gathered from 60 different countries in order to share their ideas
on human resources development. Speakers include Youngsuk Chi, the Chairman of Elsevier; Kevin
Sneader, the Chairman, Asia of McKinsey & Company; Robert Brown, the President of Boston
University; Eric Kaler, the President at University of Minnesota; Timothy OShea, the Principal & ViceChancellor at University of Edinburgh; Michael Karnjanaprakorn, the CEO & Founder of Skillshare; Phil
Rosenzweig, the Professor at International Institute for Management Development; Arief Rachman, the
Executive Chairman at Indonesia National Commission for UNESCO; and Sangeet Chowfla, the
president & CEO of the Graduate Management Admission Council.

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III. PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Nov. 3 (Tue)

Nov. 4 (Wed)

Nov. 5 (Thu)

Registration

Registration

Opening Ceremony

Track A

Track B

Track C

Track D

- Opening Speech
- Welcome Speech
- Congratulatory Speech

Keynote Speech

World Bank
EAP
Workshop
Education

Plenary
Session
PS-1

Special
Session

A-1

B-1

C-1

D-1

A-2

B-2

C-2

D-2

SS-1

Tour
Lunch

Lunch

PS-2

SS-2

A-3

B-3

C-3

D-3

PS-3

SS-3

A-4

B-4

C-4

D-4

Welcome
Reception

Wrap-Up Session

IV. PROGRAM (*subject to change)

Day 2 (Wednesday, November 4)
Keynote Speech & Plenary Session
Time

08:3009:00

Session & Topic

Moderators/Speakers/Discussants

Opening Ceremony

Opening Speech Kiwoong Kim President and Publisher,

The Korea Economic Daily
Welcome Speech Wooyea Hwang Deputy Prime Minister
& Minister of Education
Congratulatory Speech VIP (TBA)

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Interlocutor

09:0010:00

[KN-1]
Changing Society, Changing Education

10:0010:30

[KN-2]
The Leadership Crisis:
Fixing the BS of Leadership

Yeoncheon Oh President, University of Ulsan

Speaker
Goh Chok Tong Emeritus Senior Minister, Republic of
Singapore
Speaker
Jeffrey Pfeffer Professor of Organizational Behavior,
Stanford University

Moderator

11:0012:30

14:0015:30

16:0017:30

[PL-1]
Breaking Through Limitations:
Strategies of Global Companies

[PL-2]
Student Mobility and the
Internationalization of Higher Education

[PL-3]
Growing Diverse Talents
Approaches from Australian Universities

Sungchull Junn CEO, Institute of Global Management

Speakers
Peter Zec Founder & CEO, Red Dot Design Award
Christine Pambianchi Senior Vice President,
Human Resources, Corning Inc.
Umran Beba Senior Vice President & Chief HR Officer,
PepsiCo AMENA Sector

Moderator
Guwuck Bu Chairman, Korean Council for University
Education
Speakers
John Sexton President, New York University
Michael Arthur President & Provost, University College
London
Steven D. Lavine President, California Institute of the
Arts

Moderator
Richard Fogarty Counsellor, Education and Science,
Australian Embassy, Seoul
Speakers
Paul Johnson Vice-Chancellor, University of Western
Australia
Margaret Sheil Provost, University of Melbourne
Tyrone Carlin Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of
Sydney
David Ward Vice President, Human Resources, University of
New South Wales

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Special Session
Time

Session & Topic

Moderators/Speakers/Discussants

Moderator

11:0012:30

14:0015:30

Sungmo Steve Kang President, KAIST

Speaker

[SS-1]
The 21st Century Skillset:
What You Need to Succeed

Jake Schwartz CEO & Co-Founder, General Assembly

Managing Innovation in China

George Yip Professor of Strategy & Co-Director, Centre on

China Innovation, China Europe International Business
School

[SS-2]
Building High Performance Organizations
and Cultures

Moderator
Wonsik Choi Country Head & Senior Partner, McKinsey &
Company
Speakers
Jeffrey Pfeffer Professor of Organizational Behavior,
Stanford University

Creating Inclusive Workplaces:

A Future Growth Engine For Businesses

16:0017:30

Deborah Gillis President & CEO, Catalyst

Moderator
Sunhye Hwang President, Sookmyung Women's
University
Speakers
Larry Cooperman Associate Dean for Open Education,
University of California, Ivrine

[SS-3]
Digital Technology and the Future of
Smart Learning

Robert Gehorsam Executive Director, Institute of Play Inc.

Milton Chen Senior Fellow & Executive Director Emeritus,
George Lucas Educational Foundation

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Day 3 (Thursday, November 5)

Track A: Diversity in Education and Creative Talent
Time

Session & Topic

Moderators/Speakers/Discussants
Moderator
Changwoo Jeong Professor, Seoul National University

09:0010:30

Speakers
Yen-Hsin Chen Associate Professor, National Taichung
University of Education, Taiwan

[A-1]
Character Education Focused on
Practice and Experience

Hyemin Han Researcher, Stanford University

Discussant
Kyungwon Son Senior Researcher, Center for Education
Research, Seoul National University
Sanghoon Bae Professor, Department of Education,
Sungkyunkwan University
Moderator
Chyul-Young Jyung Professor, Seoul National University
Speakers

11:0012:30

14:0015:30

TBA

[A-2]
A Dual System of
Vocational Education and Training

Jay Rojewski Professor of Workforce Education,

University of Georgia
Discussants
Wonsup Chang Professor, Department of Education,
Yonsei University
Christin Brings Senior Research Fellow, Human Resources
Development Service of Korea
Moderator
Jinsoo Kim Professor, School of Business, Chung-Ang
University
Speakers
Michael Morris James W. Walter Eminent Scholar Chair,
University of Florida
Michele Orzan President, European Chamber
Discussants

[A-3]
Entrepreneurship,
the Power to Change the World

Jake Schwartz CEO & Co-Founder, General Assembly

Michael Lee President, Young Entrepreneurs Society of
Korea

Moderator
Margaret Sheil Provost, University of Melbourne
Speakers
Kenn Ross Managing Director for Asia, Minerva Project

16:0017:30

Tae-Eog Lee Professor, Department of Industrial &

Systems Engineering, KAIST
Discussant
Hae-Deok Song Professor, Department of Education,
Chung-Ang University
Larry Cooperman Associate Dean for Open Education,
University of California, Ivrine

[A-4]
Innovating University Education

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Track B: Diverse Workforce and Company Competitiveness
Time

Session & Topic

Moderators/ Speakers/ Discussants

Moderator
Taeyoung Kang Professor, Yonsei Institute of
Convergence Technology
Speakers
Chad Evans Executive Vice President, Council on
Competitiveness

[B-1]
09:0010:30

How Can Technology Leadership Enhance

Global Competitiveness
Managing Talent in Emerging Markets

Paul Evans Shell Chaired Professor, Emeritus, INSEAD

Moderator

11:0012:30

Richard Davies Vice-Chancellor, Swansea University

Speakers
Vivien Jones Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Education,
University of Leeds

[B-2]
University-Industry Collaboration
Growth Gene for a Global University

Martin Halliwell Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor,

University of Leicester
Dinah Birch Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and
Knowledge Exchange, University of Liverpool
Hai-Sui Yu Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Nottingham
Mark Spearing Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International),
University of Southampton

Moderator
Daebong Kwon Professor of Education and HRD, Korea
University
Speakers

[B-3]
14:0015:30

Creative Confidence: Designing an Engaging

Diana Rhoten Associate Partner, IDEO
Workplace
Search Inside Yourself

Marc Lesser CEO, Search Inside Yourself Leadership

Institute

Moderator

16:0017:30

Peck Cho Distinguished Professor, Dongguk University

Speakers
Lorenz Kaiser Director of Research & Development
Contracts and Intellectual Property Rights,
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

[B-4]
Intellectual Property Based Future Creative
Jeffrey Lim Head of Campus Seoul, Google Korea
Entrepreneurs
Discussants

Jea Huh CEO, Hardware Accelerator N15

Sangwook Park CEO, DRE@M
Jun Kim Partner, K Cube Ventures

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Track C: Relationship between Learning and Employment
Time

09:0010:30

Session & Topic

Moderators/ Speakers/ Discussants

Moderator
Yongsoon Lee President, Korea Research Institute for
Vocational Education and Training(KRIVET)
Speakers
Yangok Ahn President, The Korean Federation of
Teachers' Associations
Philip Loveder Head of Research Operations & Director
International, National Centre for Vocational Education
Research(NCVER)
Discussants
Ricardo Guisado Head of International Relations,
Fundacin Tripartita para la Formacin en el Empleo
Philippe Gnaegi Chairman, Swiss Federal Institute for
Vocational Education and Training(SFIVET)

[C-1]
Strategies for Working Overseas
to Increase Youth Employment

Moderator

11:0012:30

Youngpyo Choi Professor Emeritus, Dongshin University

Speakers
Birgit Thomann Head of Department of
Internationalization of VET/Knowledge Management,
Federal Institute for Vocational Education and
Training(BIBB)
Bernhard Seliger Resident Representative, Korea Office
Hanns Seidel Foundation
Discussants
Ilgue Kang Senior Research Fellow, Korea Research
Institute for Vocational Education and Training(KRIVET)
Youngmoo Kim Member of Board of Directors,
Committee for the Democratization of North Korea/
North Korea Strategy Center

[C-2]
Vocational Education in a Unified Korea

Moderator
Jeongtaik Lee President, APEC Study Association of Korea
Speakers
Philippe Gnaegi Chairman, Swiss Federal Institute for
Vocational Education and Training(SFIVET)

14:0015:30

[C-3]
Human Resources Development Strategy
in a Multicultural Society

Andreas Schleicher Director for the Directorate of

Education and Skills
Discussants
Philip Loveder Head of Research Operations & Director
International, National Centre for Vocational Education
Research(NCVER)
Jai Kwak Director, Migration and Diaspora Research
Institute

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Moderator

16:0017:30

Andreas Schleicher Director for the Directorate of

Education and Skills
Speakers
Hiromi Sasai Director, Research Division of
Lifelong Learning Policy, National Institute for
Educational Policy Research of Japan
Ricardo Guisado Head of International Relations,
Fundacin Tripartita para la Formacin en el Empleo
Discussants
Kisung Lee Professor, Department of Lifelong
Education, Soongsil University
Meeryoung Kim Professor & Director, Institute of
Aging Society, Daegu University

[C-4]
Lifelong Learning in an Aging Society

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Track D: Preparing for the Future through Innovation
Time

Session & Topic

Moderators/ Speakers/ Discussants

Moderator
Seunghwan Kim President, Korea Foundation for the
Advancement of Science and Creativity
Speakers
Alan Weisman Author of Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope
for a Future on Earth?
Dennis Hong Professor, Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los
Angeles

[D-1]
09:0010:30

The Slowdown of Population Growth:

Key to a Sustainable Future
Can Robots Replace Workers?

Moderator
Sang Kyun Cha Director, Big Data Institute, Seoul National
University
Speakers

11:0012:30

James Gwertzman CEO & Co-Founder, PlayFab

[D-2]
Software Education and Talent

Yasmin Kafai Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Discussants
Jungyun Seo Professor, Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, Sogang University
Hyeoncheol Kim Professor, Korea University
Taemin Kim Principal, Sunhwa Girls Middle School

14:0015:30

Moderator
Youngwha Kee President, National Institute for
Lifelong Education
Speakers

[D-3]
Globalization, Job Market and
University Education for Adults

Merodie Hancock President, SUNY Empire State College

Vivien Jones Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Education,
University of Leeds
Libing Wang APEID Coordinator & Senior Programme
Specialist in Higher Education, UNESCO Asia and Pacific
Regional Bureau for Education

Moderator
Sungeun Baek President, Korean Educational
Development Institute
[D-4]
Speakers
16:00- Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
Milton Chen Senior Fellow & Executive Director Emeritus,
17:30
George Lucas Educational Foundation
Global Race for Scientific Talent
Michael Teitelbaum Senior Research Associate, Labor and
Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

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VI. Session Descriptions

Keynote Speech
Keynote Speech 1 Changing Society, Changing Education
As the scope of globalization is widening and technology is developing at an unprecedented rate, the
society demands new skills and knowledge for diverse career trajectories and jobs that did not exist in the
past. The truth calls for a paradigm shift in education in order to train the future workforce to have a clear
understanding of the rapidly evolving world and to be prepared to respond to changes. Applying todays
standards and traditional education system to tomorrows generation seems inappropriate. Young students
in school today will be joining the workforce in ten to twenty years time, and the world will be largely
different from what it is now. Therefore, we need to propose a new direction of education, one that can
guide how we educate and train leaders of tomorrow and hence strengthen national competitiveness.

Keynote Speech 2 The Leadership Crisis: Fixing the BS of Leadership

For literally decades the world has seen books, blogs, Ted talks, executive development efforts,
conferences, and similar activitiessome estimates place the size of the leadership education and
development budget in the U.S. at $20 billion annually. Nonetheless, almost every piece of evidenceon
job satisfaction, trust in leaders, employee engagement, leadership success, the efficacy of leadership
development effortsshows persistent failure and problems with leader tenures getting shorter and things
getting worse. Why? And more importantly, what might organizations do to fix the ongoing crises in
leadership? This lecture takes on the simplistic nostrums that have beset the leadership industry and offers
evidence-based, practical suggestions for enhancing both personal and organizational success.

Plenary Sessions
Plenary Session 1 Breaking Through Limitations: Strategies of Global Companies
Exchange rate and commodity price volatility along with changing government policies around the world
have made it nearly impossible for businesses to predict the future thus, plan ahead. Amid this uncertain
business environment, however, the breakthrough companies' such as Google, Apple, Illumina, Tesla,
Southwest Airline, SpaceX, Xiaomi and Fujifilm continue to create new growth. What is driving the
success of these breakthrough companies? The answer lies in the ability to step out of the box and to see
the world through reframing. Many companies tend to settle for the status quo, blinding themselves from
seeing where their businesses are actually going. Companies that are ready to face new challenges and to
push themselves beyond limits will lead innovation. This session will present cases of breakthrough
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companies that have successfully challenged their own limits through reframing and exploring creative
possibilities.

Plenary Session 2 Student Mobility and the Internationalization of Higher Education

Globalization and rapid technological development gave us the environment to travel, study and work in
multiple different countries and cultures other than our own. Over the last decade, the number of
students studying outside of their home country grew at an unprecedented rate. With the rise of student
mobility, the institutions of higher education need to become more international in order to operate
effectively in the global education market and to prepare graduates with new skills to succeed in this
global environment. In this session, we will look into recent trends in global higher education as well as
challenges and new opportunities it presents for institutions, policy makers and students. Speakers in this
session will also discuss what kind of policies or practices are undertaken by academic institutions to
attract the increasing flow of international students and how they nurture those high-potential talents to
be competitive on a global stage.

Plenary Session 3 Growing Diverse Talents Approaches from Australian Universities

In the strongly multicultural society of modern Australia, a broad variety of cultures and approaches are
present in both staff and student university populations. The considerable number of international students
present on Australian campuses contributes further to the diversity of the university experience in
Australia, as does the universities active engagement with foreign partner organizations and institutions
around the globe. In achieving their aim to deliver targeted and effective service to the broadly various
communities they serve, Australian universities have adopted a variety of approaches which seek to add
value to the university experience through engagement with the diversity present both within their
organizations and their broader communities. This involves the use of new technologies to facilitate new
interactions on both the global and local level, and the recognition of the university as a community-based
locus of communication and activity for a broad range of interests. This panel presentation will consider a
variety of Australian approaches which aim to harness the value of diversity to optimize both learning
experiences and research outcomes for all.

Special Sessions
Special Session 1
The 21st Century Skillset: What You Need to Succeed

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In todays dynamic economy, the skills needed to succeed in the workplace are evolving, and there is a
tremendous need for talent in the technological workforce. Companies ranging from small startups to
Fortune 100 corporations require a broad base of skills in subjects like web development, design, business,
marketing and more. These fields are constantly changing, however, and colleges and universities are
struggling to keep up. New educational models are emerging, continually updating their curriculum and
the way skills are taught. General Assembly is pioneering this model of skills-based education, and cofounder and CEO Jake Schwartz is leading the way. In this session, he will discuss how skills-based
education is helping people accelerate their careers and how it is allowing companies like Google,
McKinsey, Spotify and more to find the talented workforce they need.
Managing Innovation in China
The buzzword in the ICT industry in 2014 is the tectonic changes brought about by Chinese companies.
Not only companies such as Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo but also smart-phone manufacturers including
Xiaomi and OPPO are recording remarkable progresses. Moreover, three Chinese giants in web services
companies BATshort for Baidu, Alibaba, Tencentare innovating their way out as new global leaders
in the industry. This session will look into the secret of Chinese companies approach to innovation and
explain why China has advantages for innovation both on the supply and demand sides. The talk is based
on a three-year program of research conducted by the China Europe International Business School
(CEIBS) Centre on China innovation.

Special Session 2
Building High Performance Organizations and Cultures
The data are clear: success does not come from mergers and consolidations to increase size, from being in
high technology, from being in the right industry, or even from being first to market with an ideaafter
all, Xerox invented the first personal computer, Lipitor (from Pfizer) was the third statin drug to hit the
market, Diners Club predated Visa (credit cards) by decades, and Amazon was at least the fourth
company to begin selling books on line. Studies of companies in numerous industries ranging from
automobile manufacturing to semiconductors, studies of companies in multiple industries, and research in
countries including the United Kingdom, Korea, Japan, Spain, and Germany demonstrate the strong
correlation between how companies manage their people and their profits, productivity, and customer and
employee retention. In this session, Jeffrey Pfeffer will identify the essential elements of high
performance or high-commitment work arrangements, why these practices are effective, and what this
means for building management systems and organizational culture.
Creating Inclusive Workplaces: A Future Growth Engine for Businesses
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Deborah Gillis, President & CEO of Catalyst, will speak about the current status of women in corporate
management and propose solutions for increasing inclusion in the workplace. She will share Catalyst
research, best practices, and personal stories related to advancing women in business and explain why
doing so is not only the right thing but also the smart thing to do, with the potential to transform
businesses, families, and entire societies.
Special Session 3: Digital Technology and the Future of Smart Learning
The rapid development of digital technology and social change requires a new education method called
smart learning or smart education. Smart learning, a creative method of teaching and engaging the
tech-savvy youngsters, has become the keyword for education policymakers around the world and seeks
to offer a new classroom environment different from the traditional school system. In this session, we will
look into how the current education system is integrating the role of technology into learning/ teaching
and how this type of education will unfold in the future.

Track A: Diversity in Education and Creative Talent

A-1: Character Education focused on Practice and Experience
We need to foster individuals who have competent social - emotional skills, attitudes, and morality as
well as intellectual abilities, which are necessary in the future society. Unfortunately, the reasons we
cannot achieve the improvement of character education at the national level mainly derive from the
convention merely requiring formal result reports rather than fruitful educational implementations
focusing on students practices and experiences. Furthermore, we also lack cooperative relationships
between schools, families, and communities. For these reasons, in this session, presenters will provide
visions and useful ideas for the improvement of character education in Korea through introducing good
examples of character education programs practiced in other countries such as the U. S. and Taiwan.

A-2: A Dual System of Vocational Education and Training

A growing number of countries, including South Korea, are expected to suffer a shortage of working-age
population in the near future due to low birth rates and population aging. In response, we need a plan to
effectively use the existing manpower. As part of the plan, it is being discussed to introduce a system of
early employment and promote youth employment. Vocational training that fosters work skills applicable
directly at the workforce and skills demanded by businesses is part of the plan to better tap into the existing
manpower.
Countries are looking at Switzerland and Germany as role models to improve their own education systems.
Switzerland's dual education system gives youth a choice to pursue education with apprenticeship, apart
from a purely academic path. This education system is one of the contributing factors to a low youth
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unemployment rate of below 10 percent in Switzerland. However, even in Switzerland, there is concern,
especially in the industrial sector, that academicization is growing.
In this session, speakers and discussants will look into the Swiss apprenticeship system and discuss how to
introduce specialized high schools to pursue an apprenticeship system, which combines education with
skills training.

A-3: Entrepreneurship, the Power to Change the World

Recently, society has its focus on entrepreneurship in order to create new jobs by enhancing growth
environment. In 1930, American economist Joseph A. Schumpeter declared entrepreneurship as the effort
of an entrepreneur whom which that destroys the existing economic order by introducing technological
innovation. Many developed countries are already making the transition from managed economies to
entrepreneurial economics since the 1980s. Entrepreneurial economies put emphasis on entrepreneurship and
the role of small businesses to spark economic growth and job creations, whereas managed economies focus on
economies of scope and the role of industrial businesses such as conglomerates. In addition, students with higher
education that have received education on entrepreneurship are more likely to start their own business. Therefore
the concept of entrepreneurship is a necessity even for those who are not seeking to start their own business for
individual growth. Entrepreneurship, although known as an innate trait or talent of those who make
extraordinary achievements against all odds, ought to be understood as a characteristic that can be cultivated
by all people through adequate training and education. In this regard, both students and adults are to benefit
by learning from successful practices abroad of fostering entrepreneurship and are to discuss with experts
about how the entrepreneurship education will evolve in the future.

A-4: Innovating University Education

As the industrialized society, which highly valued efficiency, is giving way to the era of creative economy,
which puts emphasis on personal characteristics, the necessity of higher education is increasingly being
called upon to foster talented people that the society truly needs. With time, the role of professors
transforms from lecturers to coaches. Realistic alternatives that could reduce costs but at the same time
improve the quality of higher education are also being demanded. Recently, student-centered and active
learning education models using IT technologies are emerging across the world such as the
implementation of MOOC and Flipped Learning. In this session, we will look into the positive and
negative effects of this new paradigm shift in university education and discuss the future direction and
strategies to innovate higher education in order to foster creative human resources.

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Track B: Diverse Workforce and Company Competitiveness

B-1
How Can Technology Leadership Enhance Global Competitiveness
Exploring characteristics of a nation with a competitive advantage in a particular industry reveals
meaningful implications on corporate strategy and government policy. A systematic approach to
competitiveness can offer insightful and inspirational ideas to companies while providing a framework for
new thinking to governments. Such studies can also help find a way to bridge the gap between the
government and private sector. Chad Evans, the Executive Vice President of Council on Competitiveness,
will discuss how countries with technological leadership can gain a competitive edge in certain industries,
how this can lead to global competitiveness and what the underlying patterns and implications are.
Managing Talent in Emerging Markets
Overseas expansion and global business operations became prerequisites for companies to thrive in
today's challenging business environment. With emerging markets such as China and India showing
sustained growth momentum, global talent management in emerging markets is becoming ever more
important. Yet, a shortage of skilled local workers and high-potential talents is a persistent problem to
organizations willing to seize growth opportunities. This session will look into talent competitiveness in
emerging markets and discuss how to cultivate, secure and use those talents effectively.
B-2: University-Industry Collaboration Growth Gene for Global University
A Review of BusinessUniversity Collaboration (2012, Professor Sir Tim Wilson DL) was released in
February 2012, a decade after the Lambert Review in 2003. The Wilson Review takes a close look
through the existing eco-system that the government, university and industry have developed over the last
ten years where the business-university collaboration achieved a growth in both the quantum and the
quality. And this change has not only been stimulated by government funding initiatives but also by a
growing realization, within both business and universities, of the central role of universities in providing
high-level skills, a world-class research base and a culture of inquiry and innovation. This Review visits a
variety of current business-university collaborative programs and projects, and provides recommendation
for the next ten years to put the UK in the global leadership of the business-university collaboration. This
session looks at the industrial growth strategy that UK universities are implementing with a support of the
UK government and industry. Represented universities are some of best examples of the existing
business-university partnerships in up-skilling of students and research and innovation. The session will
provide an opportunity to share and present the strategy and approaches of UK universities toward
business collaboration, as well as challenges that both UK and Korean universities may face in fulfilling
businessuniversity collaboration.
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B-3
Creative Confidence: Designing an Engaging Workplace
As motivated and committed workers are crucial to a companys success, it is increasingly becoming a
priority for companies to provide an engaging workplace where workers are encouraged to bring out their
best. In this session, Diana Rhoten, the Associate Partner at IDEO, will introduce us principles and
strategies to unleash creativity within employees and increase productivity through designing an engaging
workplace.

Search Inside Yourself

After Apples cofounder Steve Jobs found himself laid off by his own company, he encountered
meditation in India and began practicing it ever since. Google's engineer Chade-Meng Tan shared his
meditation methods with his colleagues through the emotional intelligence program after he experienced
firsthand the amazing stress-relieving results of meditation. This session will provide insight into how we
can effectively use our mind to enhance inner peace, self-control, motivation, and how this affects social
skills and business performance in a larger framework.

B-4: Intellectual Property Based Future Creative Entrepreneurs

This session is to introduce and shed a light on the growing importance of the young generation who
dream to become future creative entrepreneurs and lead the world. The role of the future creative
entrepreneurs became more than essential as creativity and convergence arose as keywords in this fast
changing and diversified society. Unlike typical talented youth gifted in math and science area, Future
Creative Entrepreneurs can be defined as atypical, new conceptual gifted youth equipped with intellectual
property mind, entrepreneurship and humanity knowledge base altogether. Regardless of diversified area
of their interests and talents, future creative entrepreneurs acknowledge the differences in them and grow
their potential to the fullest through collaboration and team work. In this session, how creative young
leaders initiate changes and what they are preparing to change the world for the better will be deeply
discussed. Essential competences sought after and what it takes to become creative leaders to become
world-leading human resources will be reviewed as well.

Track C: Relationship Between Learning and Employment

C-1: Strategies for Working Overseas to Increase Youth Employment
Youth unemployment is unlikely to improve in the short term and there is a limit to find solutions within
Korea in terms of job creation. It is time to establish fundamental measures that can strengthen the
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Korean economy in a low fertility and aging society rather than focusing on short term policies to reduce
youth unemployment. Despite various advantages of working overseas which creates jobs for young
people, the current system and programs of working overseas are not well organized and do not bring the
expected results. To increase the employment of young people, more job opportunities abroad, not only
domestic jobs, should be promoted through cultivating global leaders and reinforcing national
competitiveness. As globalization is progressing at an unprecedented pace, this session seeks to explore
measures that could boost youth employment through creating more job opportunities overseas.

C-2: Vocational Education in a Unified Korea

Since emancipation from Japan, the Korean peninsula has been divided for more than half a century amid
military tension. It is a challenge for us to end the era of national division and open a new era of
reunification. Fortunately, a unification-friendly atmosphere is being created both internally and
externally. Internally, the government has reiterated a peaceful reunification, suggesting unification
daebak (jackpot) theory. Also, positive discourses on Korean reunification have been made
internationally. In accordance with the positive atmosphere, it is necessary for each section of the society
to be equipped with appropriate policies aiming at reunification. Vocational education cannot be excluded
as it will be closely related to human resource cultivation, vocational competency development and
vocational stability in the process of unification or in a unified Korea. In preparation for a unified Korea,
policies that can ensure social stability and national competitiveness should be established in order to
build emotional and cognitive identification by developing and improving vocational skills. Thus, this
session will discuss policy directions and challenges surrounding vocational education and training in the
new era of unified Korea and strategies we have to prepare at this point.

C-3: Human Resources Development Strategy in a Multicultural Society

The Park Geun-Hye administration has set tailored employment and welfare as a national goal, under
which, strategies such as welfare tailored to different life stages and enhancing support for
multicultural family have been presented. The Korean society has transformed into a multicultural
society with more than 1.5 million immigrants and the number is expected to continually increase. In
order to assist smooth adaptation and settlement, and facilitate mediumand long-term economic
activities of multicultural families, HRD emerged as a critical issue. Thus, the administration has laid out
the legal foundation and suggested a new phase of multicultural family policies. However, the Korean
government is facing difficulties in fully embracing various economic needs of multicultural families
and changes in life stages. In this session, national strategy measures through human resources
development of multicultural families in Korea will be discussed, especially in the context of decreasing
fertility and labor force participation rate.
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C-4: Lifelong Learning in an Aging Society
Many countries are turning into an aging society or have already moved into an aged society where
the elderly population (people aged 65 and over) reaches 14% or more. The more a society is aged, the
more the burden of supporting the elderly falls on the working-age population. While there was a
distinct line among education, work and leisure time in the past, the traditional boundaries between them
have become blurred in modern society with the influence of life extension. Despite Koreas high speed
of aging and high rate of labor force participation, there is a lack of lifelong learning opportunities
including vocational competency development for the working-aged group. Being aware of this situation,
the central government set the construction of a national lifelong learning system for the era of 100-years
life expectancy as one of Koreas national tasks in order to contribute to happiness for the people
policy. This session will discuss integrated plans for harmonizing work and personal life with effective
learning by sharing the best practices of lifelong learning abroad for labor participation even after
retirement.

Track D: Preparing for the Future Through Innovation

D-1
The Slowdown of Population Growth: Key to a Sustainable Future
During the past century, the numbers of humans on Earth abruptly quadrupled: the most abnormal
population spurt, aside from microbial blooms, in the history of biology. Alan Weisman, author of The
World Without Us and Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, will discuss how this
happened, and why our current rate of increaseanother million people every 4 days, all requiring
energy, food, and resourcesundermines realistic hopes of sustainability. His talk will address how many
people can safely fit on this planet without destabilizing it; how much nature we need to insure our own
survival; how we might humanely bring our numbers back to a sustainable balance with the Earth without
resorting to culturally unacceptable, draconian measures; and how economies might prosper without
constant growth, on a planet that doesnt grow.
Can Robots Replace Workers?
Many fear that one day robots might take over jobs from human faster than we can possibly adjust to. In a
decade, computers will become something we think of as completely out of the range, a machine even
more intelligent and sophisticated. Carl Benedikt Frey, an economist, and Michael Osborne, Associate
Professor in Machine Learning at Oxford University estimate that about half of American jobs will
disappear due to automation. Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, Bill Gates also talked about
workers being replaced by software saying technology over time will reduce demand for jobs,
particularly at the lower end of skill set. 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be
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substantially lower. Software substitution or automation seems like an evitable future across the society
and economy, including areas such as manufacturing, education, medicine, national defense, finance, law,
silver industry, environment and entertainment. Dennis Hong, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering at UCLA, will explain how automation will affect the labor market and how we can prepare
for such future to minimize the side effects it brings upon us.

D-2: Software Education and Talent

With the development of information technology, software has been leading changes in economic and
social fields introducing internet of things (IoT), robots, self-driving cars, and so on. Developed countries
like the U. S. and the UK make software (coding) education as compulsory to achieve software-centered
society while Korea will designate and operate software education as a required course in elementary and
middle schools under the National Curriculum (2015 revision). This session aims to establish policies and
future directions as well as right systems of software education all over the world including Korea by
discussing various insights in terms of the present situation and direction, global future talents,
suggestions for international communication and cooperation.

D-3: Globalization, Job Market and University Education for Adults

Through this session, we intend to propose a new role and function for universities in order to equip them
to better respond to globalization, changes in population demographics and socioeconomics changes. As a
result of the growing number of older populations continuing to work later into their lives and the
increasing demand for skilled laborers following enhancements in the industrial structure, the need for
continuing education for adults is rising to the fore. Therefore, how will higher education institutions
accept the lifelong learning demands of the times? Is it possible for universities to satisfy these demands
with their existing educational methods? What types of services should be offered to support the
continuing education of adults? Are professors adequately prepared to face adult students? Along with the
emergence of these and other diverse issues, we will discuss the future of adult education in higher
education.

D-4
Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
Our lives today are largely different from what it used to be just ten years ago. Have our schools
transformed to meet the changing needs of the society? Is our school system keeping up with the
technological advancement? Dr. Milton Chen, an educational innovator who has had extensive experience
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in media, technology and education, answers no. If we believe that school educationthe very setting for
our children to learn and growmatters, then the latest technology should be applied to classrooms as
well. This session will delve deeply into the six edges in education that have been featured on
edutopia.org: the thinking edge, curriculum edge, technological edge, time/place edge, co-teaching edge
and finally youth edge or the 21st learner edge.
Global Race for Scientific Talent
In the 21st century, a nation's competitiveness is increasingly dependent on its competitiveness in science
and technology. Therefore, decisions involving how to make effective investment in this field can
determine the countrys competitiveness level. In this regard, nurturing and attracting talented individuals
in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is crucial which explains why countries
around the world are greatly investing their resources into securing high-quality talents. This session will
look into the current global supply and demand of STEM talents, the quality of STEM workforce in
advanced economies and future dynamics of demand in different regions, countries and economies.

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