Your unique opportunity to cross borders without crossing borders.
On May 28 and May 29, the fully digitalized Global Communication Summit GCS 2020 with its cutting edge content and oustanding speakers was a huge success.
Well beyond 400 attendees from around the globe got and discussed current communication insights, valuable for any organization, from high profile experts, featuring blue chip companies and major brands like Microsoft, Huawei, Merck, Kaspersky, Manchester United and Siemens Energy.
Use your chance now to get access to the complete GCS 2020 recordings including
- keynotes from K. Corley Kenna (Patagonia) and Heino Falcke (University Nijmegen)
- panel discussions like “Comms Stepping Up in a post-Covid World” and “China and the West, 2020 and beyond”
- best cases for instance from Covestro, RB and Essent
- insight sessions, talks fireside chats and trend reports
Keynotes
Finding the sweet spot between activism and business
Director of global communications at responsible business pioneer Patagonia, Corley will share how communications and culture help achieve change while also underpinning growth.
K. Corley Kenna
Director, Global Communications and Public Relations
Patagonia
Navigating a complex media landscape in the face of adversity
Huawei is never far from the headlines. Its SVP of Public Affairs will discuss how her team strives to nurture a positive relationship with the media in the face of adversity in the U.S
Joy Tan
Senior Vice President of Public Affairs
Huawei Technologies
Black holes and revelations: Seeing the impossible
Chief Scientist of the team that made the first image of a black hole, Heino is also a lay pastor: how can we reconcile science and faith – and what exactly is a black hole, anyway?
Heino Falcke
Professor of Astrophysics
Radboud University Nijmegen
Trends and transformation
One of the world’s top trend spotters, Marian will put tomorrow’s transformational trends in the context of a world that can seem to be spinning out of control.
Marian Salzman
Senior Vice President, Communications
PMI
WHAT ELSE TO EXPECT
- Focus on China: 2020 and beyond
- Special track for Comms in a (post-) Covid world
- Take part in discussions like „Social Media: global vs. local“
- Connect with people, who share the same problems but different approaches
- Get your body in the flow online: yoga and meditation sessions with Sophie Bachmann
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Christof E. Ehrhart
K. Corley Kenna
As Managing Director and Chief of Staff to the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, Corley built and maintained global client and media relationships at one of the world’s leading communication agencies. As Vice President for Public Affairs and Corporate Communications at Ralph Lauren Corporation, she led media response and strategy for all corporate affairs and crisis situations. She founded and co-lead the supply chain Traceability Working Group, a company-wide initiative to improve sustainability with respect to raw materials.
At Patagonia, Corley oversees all product, brand and internal communications. She led the media strategy around the 100% for the Planet Black Friday initiative, which resulted in $10 million in donations to environmental nonprofits worldwide. She currently leads all communication strategy around the company’s initiatives—from public lands to progressive family policies.
Zipporah Maubane
Carmen Romero
Prior to this, Carmen had a long career as the Foreign Affairs Correspondent for EFE News Agency based at the United Nations in Geneva, Moscow and Paris, covering events such as the revolution in Romania, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the war in Chechnya, the crisis in Kosovo, and the NATO campaign in the former Yugoslavia. From 2001 to 2004 she was the Defence and Foreign Affairs Correspondent for EFE News Agency to the European Union and NATO. During that period she was also special envoy to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tomas Kellner
Cynthia Chan
Brian Lott
Byung-Hun Park
Peko Wan
Kirstin Simons
Anna Beranek
Prof. Dr. Heino Falcke
Jenni Field
Mike Klein
Rachel Fraser
Karina Furga-Dąbrowska
Sandra Macleod
Ambassador to the International Integrated Reporting Council
Manuel Vigilius
Simon Überheide
Marian Salzman
Marian moved to Switzerland in 2018 to head global communications at PMI as it accelerates its mission to build a smoke-free future. As part of her proactive, multilayered communications program, Marian is forging active and productive alliances with NGOs, advocacy groups, regulators, and other parties involved in shaping the environment in which a smoke-free future can be realized.
Dr. Yu Jie
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Daniel Mittler
Markus Leutert
Veronica Fresneau
Prof. Thomas Hundt
Thiane Loureiro
Jia Song
Brian Carroll
Janet Hitchen
Jo Osborn
Prior to RB, Jo spent 7 years at GE Oil & Gas, in Italy and later in London, where she led customer communications globally. In 2016 – 2017, she led the 360-degree communications for the integration and launch of Baker Hughes, a GE company (now Baker Hughes).
Jo’s professional passion is marketing and communications and her career spans several sectors from investment banking, to foreign direct investment, to energy, pharmaceuticals and consumer health. She has worked both in-house and as a consultant, in government and for blue-chip businesses. A graduate in Film, Media and Cultural Studies, she started her career in her hometown Hong Kong, before moving to Italy and then onto London. She has an MBA and is fluent in Italian.
Hannah Peech
Noah Barkin
Olga Podoinitsyna
Gitte Gravengaard
Dr. Sandra Busch-Janser
Prof. Daniel Supervielle
Jo Sullivan
Louis de Schorlemer
Anders Monrad Rendtorff
Stephen Welch
Monique Zytnik
Alexandra Drobysheva
Ernst Weijers
Christiane Schulz
Before joining Edelman in November 2019, she led Weber Shandwick as CEO in Germany for six years and was a member of the EMEA Strategy Board. Christiane was responsible for external communications at Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg and was a member of the German board at Ketchum Pleon for many years.
Christiane has been working in the PR industry for over 20 years and has extensive experience from corporate communication to marketing. She has many years of experience in advising clients from the pharmaceutical, financial, FMCG, F&B, mobility and logistics industries, as well as the energy and chemical industries.
As a thought leader, Christiane was included by w&v in December 2019 in the list of "100 Brains: the brains of the industry" and received the HR Excellence Award in the category New Work in 2018.
Since May 2017 Christine has been President of the GPRA, the association of leading agencies in Germany.
Sven Spöde
Bhavna Singh
Co-Hosts
Public Affairs, FinTech, Diplomacy, 5G, Branding, Crisis and more
The Global Communication Summit 2020 includes a special focus on China: the world’s most fascinating market presents special challenges and opportunities for corporate communications professionals, and our programme this year includes expert first-hand insights into communications and business in China, from both a Chinese and Western perspective.