Welcoming remarks:

Miquel Valls, president of the Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Barcelona

Doris Pack, chair of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament

Odile Quintin, director-general for Education and Culture of the European Commission
Jordi Hereu, mayor of Barcelona
Ángeles González-Sinde, minister of Culture of Spain

Opening conference

Eduard Punset, write and science commentator, Spain

Presented by Pere Vicens, publisher and president of the Culture Commission of the Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Barcelona

Presentation of the strategic lines of the European Commission's Green Paper on Cultural and Creative Industries.

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture will present the Green Paper on Cultural and Creative Industries. This will be the first public presentation of the work developed by the Commission from prior reflexions shared by the cultural industries platform and the ad hoc governmental working party. The president of the Culture Commission of the European parliament will then reflext on the proposals made and on the challenges faced by contemporary cultural industries in Europe.

• Odile Quintin, director-general for Education and Culture of the European Commission
• Doris Pack, chair of the Commitee on Culture and Education of the Euoepean Parliament

Initial reflections: Mercedes Elvira del Palacio, under-secretary, Ministry of Culture, Spain

Presentation of the five lines of discussion of the Forum:

Lluis Bonet, general coordinator of the Forum, university of Barcelona, Spain

LINE 1: Financing.

• Pierre-Jean Benghozi, executive director, Chair on innovation and regulation of Digital services, Research Pole in Economics and management, Ecole Polytechnique, France

LINE 2: Professionalisation.

• José Ruiz Navarro, chair of Business Management, University of Cadiz, Spain
  

LINE 3: Internationalisation.

• Gillian Doyle, president, Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI); professor, Glasgow University, United Kingdom
  

LINE 4: Intellectual property and management of rights.

• Françoise Benhamou, professor of Economics, Paris 13 University, France
  

LINE 5: Territorial development.

• Pier Luigi-Sacco, professor of Urban Cultural Planning, University of IUVA of Venice, Italy

Presenter: Pere Roca, TVE Cultura, Spain

LINE 1-1. Financing in the light of the transformation of the various business models.

Presentation of "Satellite account opf culture in Spain"

Mª Ángeles Pérez Corrales, director of the Department of Statistics, Ministry of Culture of Spain

• Philippe Chantepie, head of Department of Studies, Statistics and Foresight of the Ministry of Culture and Communication of France
• Fabio Donato, professor in Management of Cultural Organisations, University of Ferrara, Italy
• Xavier Marcè, vice-president for Business Development, Grup Focus, Spain

Moderator: Pierre-Jean Benhozi, executive director, Chair on Innovation and Regulation of Digital Services, École Polytechnique, France 

LINE 2-1. Profiles and skills of professionals of the cultural industries.

• Harriet Buxton, responsible for creative industries, Ministry of Culture, United Kingdom

• Àngel Mestres, general director, Trànsit Projectes, Spain
• Ritva Mitchell, director, CUPORE, Finland
• Jaka Primorac, research fellow, Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for International Relations (IMO), Croatia

Moderator: José Ruiz Navarro, chair of Business Management, University of Cádiz, Spain

LINE 3-1. Local and European production in a world of global markets.

• Philippe Kern, managing director, KEA European Affairs, Belgium

• André Lange, head of the Department for Information on Markets and Financing, European Audiovisual Observatory, France
• Andy Pratt, professor of Culture, Media and Economy; director, Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries Research (CMCI), King's College London, United Kingdom

Moderator: Gillian Doyle, president, Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI); professor at Glasgow University, United Kingdom

LINE 4-1. Copyright in the light of the new technological and market challenges.

• Francisco Cabrera, analyst, Department for Legal Information, European Audiovisual Observatory, France

• Jaime Stapleton, associate research fellow, School of Law, Birbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom
• Gueorgui Stoimenov, member of the Council for Electronic Media, Independent Broadcasting Regulatory Authority, Bulgary
• Magdalena Vinent, president, International Federation of Reproduction Roghts Organisation (IFRRO), Spain

Moderator: Françoise Benhamou, professor of Economics, Paris 13 University, France

LINE 5-1. Culture in the European local and regional development programmes.

• Kevin Brownridge, senior partner, Perfect Moment, United Kingdom

• Pierre Godin, policy analist, DG Regional Policy, European Commission
• Robert Marijnissen, researcher and policy advisor, City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Telmo Faria, mayor of Óbidos, Óbidos Creative Cluster, Portugal

Moderator: Vladimir Sucha, Directorate General for Education and Culture, European Commission

LINE 1-2. Financial mechanisms in the light of the prototyping industries.

• Fred Mendelson, Creative Capital Fund, United Kingdom
• Josep Miquel Piqué, managing director, 22@ Barcelona, Spain

• Sébastien Saunier, head of the Cultural Industries Department, France

• Susana Serrano, general manager, Audiovisual Aval S.G.R, Spain
• Moderator: Antoni Lladó, director, Catalan Institue of Cultural Industries, Spain

LINE 2-2. Training challenges and occupational mobility.

• Bernd Fesel, advisor for the German UNESCO Commission and the German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

• Lotta Lekvall, director, Nätverkstan, Sweden

• Cristina Ortega, president, ENCATC-European Network of Cultural and Administration Training Centres, Spain

• Riitta Seppala, director, Finnish Theatre Information Centre, Finland

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Moderator: Antoni Nicolau, Spain

LINE 3-2. Intra-European internationalisation and cooperation strategies.

• Carlos Alberdi, head of Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Spain

• Irina Blomqvist, director, Culminatum Innovation Ltd. and DIGIBUSINESS, Finland
• Ricard Robles, co-director, Sónnar Festival, Spain
• Ragnar Siil, head of Development Department, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonia

Moderator: Peter Inkei, director, Budapest Cultural Observatory, Hungary

LINE 4-2. Generation of rights and management models.

• Michel Bauwens, founder, P2P Foundation, Belgium

• Santiago de la Mora, director, Print Content Partnerships for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Google, United Kingdom

  Lorenzo Silva, writer and lawyer, Spain
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• Moderator: Françoise Benhamou, professor of Economics, Paris 13 University, France

LINE 5-2. Creativity and the cultural industries in territorial development

• Darko Brlek, artistic and general director, Ljubljana Festival; president of the European Festivals Association, Slovenia

• Mercedes Giovinnazzo, president Culture Action Europe; director, Interarts Foundation, Spain

• Michel Guerin, research director, Observatory of Cultural Policies, Belgium

• Barbara Wendling, head of department, Zollverein Business Services, Zollverein Foundation, Germany

Moderator: Pier Luigi-Sacco, professor of Urban Cultural Planning, University of IUVA of Venice, Italy

Governmental strategies for support of the cultural industries.

The session will begin with a brief presentation of the study "Culture in regional development".

• Mike Coyne, directir of the study and partner at the Centre for Strategy and Evaluation Services (CSES), United Kingdom

Subsequently, and analysis will be made of the various visions, strategies, paradoxes and experiences derived from the action that has been taken in each country with respect to its policy for support of the cultural industry. The discussion will be centred on the diverse strategies implemented in each country according to its particular historic, geographical, cultural and industrial context, and a presentation will be made of the various governmental policies according to the sector involved, the strength of the business fabric, the characteristics of the country and the size of its domestic and international markets.

• Michael P. Franz, head of the Department for Culture, Ministry of Culture of Austria
• Guillermo Corral, director-general for Cultural Policies and Industries, Ministry of Culture of Spain
• Judith van Kranendoonk, director-general of Culture and Media, Ministry for Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands

Moderator: Jesús García Calero, head of culture, ABC, Spain

A sectoral look at the transverse challenges.

The session will begin with a brief presentation of the study "The enterprising dimension of the cultural industries".

• Giep Hagoort, directir of the study and professor of Art and Economics at Utrecht University/ Utrech School of the Arts, The Netherlands

Subsequently, an analysis will be made of the evolution of the business models in the various cultural industries, and of how the different lines of the Green Paper on cultural and creative industries interact in this models, in terms of financing, professionalisation, internationalisation, intellectual property and management of rights, and territorial developement. A reflexion will be made from a transverse perspective of the various dimensions, visions, paradoxes and experiences derived from the activity of each sector.

• Michel Lambot, co-president, PIAS Entertaintment Group, Belgium
• Federico Motta, Federation of European Publishers
• Richard Pulford, president, Performing Arts employers Associations League Europe (PEARLE); director, Solt/TMA
• Gilberto Sánchez, secretari general DEV, Spain

Moderator: Eduard Voltas, culture secretariat, Department of Culture and Media of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain

The ministers of Culture reflect upon the frame of development of the European cultural industries.

• Ángeles González Sinde, minister of Culture of Spain
• Fadila Laanan, minister of Culture of the French Community of Belgium
• Bernd Neumann, minister of State of the Federal chancellor, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Germany
• Marcus Rantalla, minister designated for Culture of Finland
• Gabriela Canavilhas, minister of Culture of Portugal
• Androulla Vassiliou, European commissioner on Culture and Education

Moderator: Milagros Pérez Oliva, defensora del lector, El País, Spain