May 30, 2018
17:00 – 19:00
Welcome of participants and handing out of Congress bags at the Palais des Congrès de Liège
19:00
INAUGURATION OF THE CONGRESS & WELCOME COCKTAIL – Palais Provincial de Liège
- Paul-Émile MOTTARD, President and Provincial representative of Liège
- Leona DETIÈGE, President of CIRIEC-Belgium
- Albert CORHAY, Rector of the University of Liège
- Alain ARNAUD, President of CIRIEC
May 31, 2018
08:00 – 9:00
09:00 – 10:45
Welcome coffee
OPENING SESSION
Chair: Alain ARNAUD, President of CIRIEC
- Willy DEMEYER, Mayor of the city of Liège, President of the Liège Port Authority
- Kris PEETERS, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Employment, Economy and Consumer Affairs, in charge of Foreign Trade (Belgium)
- Oliver PAASCH, Minister-President of the German speaking Community of Belgium
- Jean-Claude MARCOURT, Vice-President and Minister for Higher Education, Research and Media of the French Community, Federation Wallonia-Brussels
- José VIEIRA DA SILVA, Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security (Portugal) (to be confirmed)
- Fátima BÁÑEZ, Minister of Employment and Social Security (Spain) (to be confirmed)
- Message from Elżbieta BIEŃKOWSKA, European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (to be confirmed)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee-break
11:15 – 12:00
PLENARY SESSION 1
Chair : Jacques FOURNIER, Honorary President of the France’s national rail operator SNCF and Gaz de France (GDF); Honorary President of CIRIEC-France
« The Public Investment, Spearhead of the Digital Development in the Service of the Community »
- Digitization of Local Public Services in Rural Environments in Japan: Perspectives and Challenges by Munenori NOMURA, Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan)
- Information technology – The Nervous System of the Smart City by Ulrike HUEMER, Chief Information Officer in charge of the digital, City of Vienna (Austria)
12:00 – 13:00
PLENARY SESSION 2
Chair : Hilde VERNAILLEN, President of The International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF), Chairman of the Management Committee at P&V Group (Belgium)
« Digital Innovation and Enterprise Development »
- When Cooperatives encounter Digital Revolution in China by Haibo LI, CEO – Founder of Bihu Technology Co., Ltd (China)
- Theme to be announced by Rémi QUIRION, Chief Scientist of Québec (Canada)
- Development of ‘Apps’ for the optimization of commercial networks between peasants and citizens: the Colombian experience by Rafael GONZÁLEZ, Director of the Special Administrative Unit of Solidarity Organizations (Colombia)
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 16:00
WORKSHOP A:
Collaborative Economy and Cooperative Platforms
Animator: José Luis MONZÓN CAMPOS, Executive Director of CIRIEC-España; President of the Scientific Commission of CIRIEC-España
- Collaborative economy and cooperative model by Jacques DEBRY, Managing Director of Febecoop (Belgium)
- The blockchains: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Louis MARTIN, Professor at Université du Québec in Montréal (UQAM) (Canada)
- N… by Social Economy Europe (to be confirmed)
WORKSHOP B:
The Health Sector in the Digital Revolution
Animator: N…
- Home care: digital evolutions and the challenges of reorganizing hospital care by Julien COMPÈRE, Managing Director of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Liège (Belgium)
- Digital Revolution, Revolution or Evolution for Health Mutual? New roles, new challenges by Alain COHEUR, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC); Director of European and International Affairs at the National Union of Socialist Mutual Health Funds (UNMS)/Solidaris (Belgium)
- Issues of the digital healthcare by Jean-Marie FESSLER, Associate Professor at Stanford University, Former Advisor to the President of the General Mutual for National Education Service (MGEN) (France)
WORKSHOP C:
The Water, Gas and Electricity Sectors in the Digital Revolution
Animator: Heidrun MAIER-DE KRUIJFF, Secretary General of VÖWG – CIRIEC-Austria
- Digitalization – chances and challenges of interconnecting water technology and administrative systems in water management
by Robert HOLLÄNDER, Professor at Universität Leipzig (Germany) - From smart meters to big data – how public water operators’ mission is evolving in light of the digital revolution by Milo FIASCONARO, Executive Director of Aqua Publica Europea
- Smart meters and mission of public service (RUE, social missions, …) par N…, Eandis (Belgique)
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee-break
16:30 – 17:30
WORKSHOP D:
The Development of the Social Economy within the framework of the Digital Revolution
Animator: Jorge DE SÁ, President of CIRIEC-Portugal
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Social Economy by Marietta BUCHELI GÓMEZ, Director of the Institute of Rural Studies at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)
- Digital development, what are the challenges for the SEE? by José Pablo PUZINO, President of IAIES – CIRIEC-Argentina
- Analyses : issues of the ICTs on the SEE by Adoración MOZAS MORAL, Professor at Universidad de Jaén; President of CIRIEC-España
WORKSHOP E:
The Digital Revolution and the Transformation of the Social Relations
Animator: Rainer PLAßMANN, Director of personnel and of local public services policies of the Stadtwerke Köln GmbH Holding Company (Germany)
- Theme to be announced by N…, by Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund or IG Metall(Germany) (to be confirmed)
- Digitalisation and its impact on labour relations by Pavlos KALOSINATOS, Director General of the Cyprus Labor Institute (INEK-PEO) (Cyprus)
- Theme to be announced by Marc CHENAIS, President of Technologia (France)
18:30
19:30
Shuttles’ departure from the Liège Congress Center and hotels
GALA DINNER at the Cristallerie du Val Saint-Lambert and visit of the museum (Seraing)
June 1, 2018
09:30 – 10:45
PLENARY SESSION 3
Chair: Léopold BEAULIEU, President and CEO of FondAction (Development Fund for Cooperation and Employment of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CNTU); President of CIRIEC-Canada
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: WHICH SOLUTIONS TO OFFER TO PUBLIC AND SOCIAL ECONOMY ORGANIZATIONS
- Digital initiatives for the citizen by Pascal LAFFINEUR, CEO of NRB (Belgium)
- If it’s Digital, it will be Cognitive by Koen DE LAET, Vice-President of IBM – Global Technology Services – Strategic Sales Europe
- The Public Sector as Operator of Digital Infrastructure – supporting mobility in Vienna by Gerald STÖCKL, Head of Business of Upstream, Vienna (Austria)
ISSUES OF THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION. BETWEEN GPDR AND CYBERATTACK: GADGET, THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY? ELEMENTS OF RESPONSE THROUGH THE INSIGHT OF AN INSURER
by Patricia CORDONNIER, Solution Sales Cyber Security at Sogeti (Belgium) & Valerie KRIESCHER, Head of Underwritting at Ethias (Belgium)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee-break
11:15 – 12:30
PLENARY SESSION 4
Chair: Koen ALBREGTS, Ex-Secretary of ACW (Algemeen Christelijk Werknemersverbond)-Limburg (Confederation of Christian Trade Unions) (Belgium)
ROUND TABLE on “THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION IN THE SERVICE OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY AND THE CITIZEN”
With the interventions of:
- Dorothea GREILING, Professor at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Autstria)
- Jean-Marc MONTEIL, Inter-ministerial Delegate for Education and Digital, Ex Rector, Former Director General of Higher Education (France)
- Jane LETHBRIDGE, Professor at University of Greenwich, (United Kingdom)
- N…, Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) (Tunisia)
12:30 – 13:00
Intervention of Willy BORSUS, Minister-President of the Walloon Government
13:00 – 13:30
CLOSING SESSION
Chair: Alain ARNAUD, President of CIRIEC
13:30
Walking Lunch