Agenda

May 1, 2025 | 4 – 6 pm CET / 10 am – noon EDT

10:00 – 10:10 am EDT Welcome and Introduction

• Grant Schreiber, General Manager, WAAS
• Peter Schlosser, Vice President & Vice Provost of Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab, ASU
• Iveta Silova, Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab, ASU

10:10 – 10:35 am EDT Enabling Conditions and Symptoms – Presentation & Discussion

• Presenter: Garry Jacobs, President & CEO, WAAS
• Moderator: Eden Mamut, Secretary General, Black Sea University Network

10:35 – 11:00 am EDT Root Causes & Deep Drivers of the Turbulence – Presentation & Discussion

• Presenter: Ketan Patel, Chair, Force for Good; Executive Director, WAAS
• Moderator: Isabella Bunn, Professor, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
• Panelists: Francis O’Donnell, Amb & UN Resident Coordinator, Ukraine 2004-9
• Lawrence Ford, Founder & CEO, Conscious Capital Companies

11:00 – 11:35 am EDT Solutions, strategies and initiatives – Moderated Discussion

• Moderator: Mila Popovich, Dir. Gen. Directorate for Interculturalism, Montenegro
• Panelist: Eden Mamut, Secretary General, Black Sea University Network
• Ralph Wolff, President, World University Consortium

11:35 – 11:50 am EDT Relevance to Education and G-FORCES event

• Moderators: Steven Hartman, Executive Director, UNESCO Bridges
• Amanda Ellis, Sr Dir., Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab, ASU

11:50 – 12:00 noon EDT Closing Remarks

• Peter Schlosser, Vice President & Vice Provost of Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab, ASU
• Garry Jacobs, President & CEO, WAAS
• Grant Schreiber, General Manager, WAAS