• Josef Ackermann (Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG)
• Wulf H. Bernotat (Chief Executive Officer, E.ON AG)
• Anne Lauvergeon (Chief Executive Officer, AREVA)
• N.R. Narayana Murthy (Founder and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd.)
• James S. Turley (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ernst & Young)
• Dieter Zetsche (Chairman of the Board of Management, Daimler AG)

Moderators:

• Henrik Müller (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, manager magazin)
• Frederik Pleitgen (Berlin Correspondent, CNN)

• Antonio Borges (Chairman, Hedge Fund Standards Board Ltd. and European Corporate Governance Forum)
• Alexander Filatov (Executive Director, Independent Directors Association)
• Hanns Ostmeier (President, BVK – German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association)
• Stefan Reichelstein (William R. Timken Professor of Accounting, Stanford GSB)
• M. Suresh Sundaresan (Director of Research, Capula Investment Management, London)

Moderators:

• Jörg Rocholl (Associate Professor, ESMT)
• Michal Grajek (Assistant Professor, ESMT)

Panel II: Beyond Deleveraging: New Perspectives for Banks and Corporations

• Elizabeth Corley (Chief Executive Officer, Allianz Global Investors Europe)
• Lutz Diederichs (Member of the Management Board, Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG)
• Heinz-Walter Große (Vice Chairman of the Executive Board, B. Braun Melsungen AG)
• Martin Hellwig (Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Professor of Economics, University of Bonn) (tbc)
• Jonathan Rosenthal (European Finance and Business Correspondent, The Economist)

Moderator:

• Jan Hagen (Head of Practice Group Financial Services and Member of the ESMT Faculty)

Panel III: Improving Decision Behavior

• Gerd Gigerenzer (Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
• Dan Goldstein (Assistant Professor of Marketing, London Business School)
• Robin Hogarth (ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
• Stephan Meier (Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School)
• Martin Weber (Chair of Business Administration and Finance, esp. Banking, University of Mannheim)

Moderator:

• Luc Wathieu (Full Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty, ESMT)

Panel IV: Leading in Turbulent Timesss

• Manfred Kets de Vries (Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Leadership Development Research, ESMT and the Raoul de Vitry d’Avaucourt Chaired Clinical Professor of Leadership Development, INSEAD)
• Fred Luthans (George Holmes Distinguished Professor of Management, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Editor, Organizational Dynamics)
• Charles O’Reilly (Frank E. Buck Professor of Management, Hank McKinnell Pfizer Inc. Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research, Stanford GSB)
• Wilfried R. Vanhonacker (Dean, The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO)
• Georg Graf Waldersee (Managing Partner EMEIA GSA, Ernst & Young)

Moderator:

• Konstantin Korotov (Associate Professor, ESMT)