Next Stop Shanghai

THE NUMBERS HIGHLIGHT THE SUCCESS OF THE 3RD EDITION OF THE BOCCONI ALUMNI GLOBAL CONFERENCE, HELD IN LONDON, WHICH SAW 390 PARTICIPANTS ARRIVING FROM CANADA TO NEW ZEALAND. THE NEXT EDITION WILL BE IN SHANGHAI IN 2016

The third edition of the Bocconi Alumni Global Conference, which gathered former students of Università Bocconi in London to exchange ideas with global leaders and top managers on the future of UK-EU relations and Europe’s prospects more broadly, ended with a high turnout. The Conference was organised by the Bocconi Alumni Association.

“Europe at the crossroads: the responsibility to manage the future we all share” was been the title of the London edition of the BAA Global Conference http://www.globalconference.alumnibocconi.it,  which saw the participation, among others, of Peter Mandelson, Mario Monti, Diego Piacentini, Douglas Flint, Ann Cairns and Vittorio Colao.

After five sessions of high-level debates and in-depth analyses, the Bocconi Alumni Global conference closed with a networking cocktail and gala dinner at the Natural History Museum, in the presence of his Excellency Pasquale Terracciano, Italian Ambassador to the United Kingdom.  During the evening Shanghai was announced as the city chosen for the fourth edition of the Bocconi Global Conference, which will take place on 11-12 March 2016.

Key figures of the 2015 Global Conference:

-360 participants at the Conference and 390 attendees to the gala dinner (of whom 55% were men and 45% women);
-18 different countries of origin: UK (over 100 participants), Italy (over 100 participants), Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, continental China and Hong Kong, Singapore, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Luxembourg and France;
T-he longest journey was made by a participant coming from New Zealand (18.360 km);
-12 high-level speakers: Mario Monti, Peter Mandelson, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Vittorio Colao, Douglas Flint, Diego Piacentini, Nikhil Srinivasan, Vittorio Grilli, Neelie Kroes, Ann Cairns, Vittorio Radice and Guido Tabellini;
-Attendees’ average age: 39 years;
-The youngest participant is 23 years old (born in 1993);
-The eldest participant is 84 years old (born in 1931);
-Over 20.000 visits to the London Global Conference website, mostly originating from London;
-Bocconi Alumni in the UK: 2.500 former students, 82% of whom are Italian.




 

by Tomaso Eridani