Day 1
08:30 Registration and refreshments plus exhibition
09:30 Welcoming Address
Karen Kelly, Chair of CIPFA in Scotland
09:35 Plenary One: Ministerial Address:
John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth
10:20 Plenary Two: Are you ready for the challenges?
Colonel Ed Hubbard, author, artist, and internationally known speaker
11:30 Refreshments and Exhibition
12:00 Panel Session One: Celtic Tiger, Celtic Lion
Jack Perry, Chief Executive, Scottish Enterprise
Padriac White, MD of Industrial Development Authority
13:15 Lunch and Exhibition
14:30 Workshops Programme Day 1
15:30 Plenary Three: Scotland’s Healthy, Wealth and Wise?
Professor John Frank, Head of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy
16:00 One Scotland, Many Challenges: Scottish Question Time
Speakers to be announced soon.
17:00 Close of Day One
Karen Kelly, Chair of CIPFA in Scotland

Day 2
08:30 Registration and refreshments plus exhibition
09:00 Plenary Four: Recent Developments in the UK Economy
David Watt, Executive Director, Institute of Directors
10:00 Panel Session Two: Solutions to Pressures of Economic growth
Professor David Gray, Professor of Transport Policy at Robert Gordon University
Damien Yeates, Chief Executive of Skills Scotland
John Stocks, CEO of The Carbon Trust
11:30 Workshops Programme Day 2
12:45 Lunch and Exhibition
14:00 Panel Session Three: Investment In Worldclass Infrastructure To Support Economic Growth
Michael Somers, Chief Executive, National Treasury Management Agency
Stella Manzie, Director General, Finance & Corporate Services, Scottish Government
14:45 Panel Session Four: Financial Powers Of Holyrood: A Lever Or Barrier To Economic Growth
Sir Kenneth Calman, Chair of the Commission on Scottish Devolution
Lord David Steel, Former leader of the Liberal Party
Professor David Heald, Professor of Accountancy at the University of Aberdeen Business School
15:45 Plenary Five: Closing Address
Lord Digby Jones, Former Minister of State for Trade & Investment, UK Government and former CEO of CBI
16:30 Chair's Closing Address
Karen Kelly, Chair of CIPFA in Scotland
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