8:30-9:15 Registration & warming up: coffee and tea to start the day

9:25-9:30 Opening remarks by the organizers: Melinda Miklos, WeAreOpen, CEO

9:30-10:10 Diversity Keynote: Confessions of a Diversity Leader

by Jonathan McBride, Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity, BlackRock

10:10-10:40 Leadership Keynote: Corporate leadership beyond classic corporate roles: How an executive's engagement changed the climate of a corporate culture and could set an example for others.

by Benny Higgins, Chief Executive of Tesco Bank, Group Strategy Director for Tesco PLC, Member of the Tesco Executive Committee

10:40-11:20 Panel: Why did CEOs go to Pride?

Alexandre Froment-Curtil CEO of Vodafone Hungary;
Edina Heal Google Country Director;
Kevin A. Murray CEO for Central-Europe and Country Head for Hungary; Member of the Board of Directors, WeAreOpen
Melanie Seymour, Head of BlackRock Budapest
Richard Jacobs, EMEA President, Eaton

Moderator: Csaba Faix, co-founder of Prompt Media communications agency, former PR manager for Prezi

11:20-11:35 Break (coffee, tea, snacks) - Immerse yourself in the work of contemporary artists with OPEN pop-up exhibition!

11:35-12:35 Debate: What do companies have to work for, freedom of speech or safe spaces?

Jonathan McBride, Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity, BlackRock;
Chuck Stephens, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, EMEA, Google;
Maria Bogdan, Media Theorist
Csaba Pleh, Cognitive Psychologist, Linguist; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Central European University, fellow to Stanford, and Collegium de Lyon

Questions from Miklos Ban, WeAreOpen co-founder and Board Member, espell CEO

12:35-13:00 What a Paralympian and top business consultant learned about disability inclusion.

by Claire Harvey, Paralympian; CEO of Diversity Role Models; former Senior Consultant on Inclusive Leadership at KPMG

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Marketing Keynote: Creating ads that support diversity is both a market decision and a moral urge.

by Malgorzata Rokita, Marketing Director, Brands Operations Central Europe, P&G; P&G Polska Board Member

14:30-15:00 The visible Stranger - Roma inclusion and modern racism

by Maria Bogdan, Media Theorist

15:00-15:25 "Why out? Why now?"

by Reinhard Nissl, Director of HR Management, Central and Eastern Europe, Microsoft

15:25-15:45 Break (coffee, tea, snacks) - Immerse yourself in the work of contemporary artists with OPEN pop-up exhibition!

15:45-16:10 A woman leader's route: Crossing the borders between Western and Central Europe

by Melanie Seier Larsen, Principal, The Boston Consulting Group

16:10-16:40 'Engineering' diversity: what a diversity leader learned from trying measure the unmeasurable

by Chuck Stephens, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, EMEA, Google

16:40-17:05 Diversity Matters II - The introduction of McKinsey & Company's latest report

by Eleonora Bacso, Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company

17:05-17:40 Improvisational actors on stage - Forum theatre

by Grund Theatre

17:40-19:00 Networking

Speakers

From now on, we are announcing speakers every second day. Stay tuned!

David Pearson

Director of Global Inclusion & Diversity, KPMG

Claire Harvey

Paralympian; CEO of Diversity Role Models

Helga Sasdi

Managing Director, Saatchi & Saatchi