Session 1 (Auditorium)
Interactive Panel:
The Role of Engineering Education and Innovation in Knowledge Economies: Perspectives of Policy Makers

Reaching out with the goal of aligning current and future engineering education initiatives to maximize their impact in creating and sustaining knowledge economies, the Summit begins with policy makers and government agencies discussing their challenges, needs and perspectives.  

Moderators: María Larrondo-Petrie, IFEES Vice President and Summit Co-Chair, Executive Director, Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, Associate Dean and Professor, Florida Atlantic University, USA; and Duncan Fraser, Secretary General of the African Engineering Education Association (AEEA), and Professor at University of Cape Town, South Africa

Session 2 (Auditorium)
Interactive Panel:
Developing Engineering Education Infrastructure in Support of Knowledge Economies: Initiatives, Best Practices and their Application to the Developing World

Reaching in to its member societies, IFEES spotlights initiatives and best practices, grouping them into 3 interactive panels organized according to IFEES strategic action areas and discusses how they can be applied to the developing world.  This first panel focuses on initiatives aimed at improving engineering education infrastructure.  The format of the panel allows for brief 5-8 minute presentations by each panelists, and schedules time for interaction with the audience.

Moderator: Funso Falade, President of African Engineering Education Association (AEEA) and Professor at University of Lagos, Nigeria

Session 3 (Auditorium)
World Bank Workshop:
Engineering Education in the Knowledge Economy

This highly interactive 5 hour workshop, specially designed for the Summit, aims to give a deeper understanding of the concept of a knowledge economy in theory and in practice, specifically how engineering education - in particular the groups that attendees represent - can be better structured to support this economy in the context of the widely varied regional and sector perspectives.  Participants will formulate immediate and long-term action plans for their own organizations to better support the knowledge economies of their own countries and garner useful contacts - leaders in their own sectors and nations.

Moderators: Bruno Laporte, Manager, Knowledge and Human Development, World Bank Institute;  Anuja Utz, Program Leader of Knowledge for Development Program, World Bank Institute; Lueny Morell, President Elect of IFEES, and Director, Engineering Education Innovation, HP Labs Open Innovation Office, Hewlett Packard

Parallel Interactive Working Groups
Two interactive working sessions will be conducted in parallel to allow small group collaboration to generate short and long term action items.

Parallel Working Groups 1:
World Bank Interactive Working Session:
Integrating Perspectives - Bringing Together the Relevant Stakeholders
Limited to 50 participants working in groups of 8-10 to consider how engineering education can augment the knowledge economy in their own and their group members' contexts, and to generate one immediate action item and one long-term action item that they will implement and report on at next year's IFEES Summit.

Parallel Working Groups 2:
IFEES - Global Student Forum Working Session:
Sustainability and Engineering Education
IFEES Summit participants join 90 global student leaders participanting in  the Global Student Forum to discuss creative solutions related to Sustainability OF Engineering Education, Sustainability IN Engineering Education, and Sustainability THROUGH Engineering Education. 

Session 4 (Auditorium)
Interactive Panel:
Student Attraction and Success, and Lifelong Learning in Support of Knowledge Economies: Initiatives, Best Practices and their Application to the Developing World

This second panel reaching in to its member societies focuses on initiatives aimed at improving engineering student attraction and success and lifelong learning.  The format of the panel allows for brief spotlights (5-8 minutes) of featured initiatives, and followed by round tables discussions. 

Moderator: (invited), Board of European Students of Technology

Session 5 (Auditorium)
Interactive Panel:
Engineering Research, Development, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Support of Knowledge Economies: Initiatives, Best Practices and their Application to the Developing World

This third panel reaching in to its member societies focuses on initiatives aimed at improvement engineering research, development, innovation.  The format of the panel allows for brief spotlights (5-8 minutes ) 0f featured initiatives, and schedules time for round table interaction with the audience.  

Moderator: Jose Carlos Quadrado, Summit Co-Chair and President of Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal, and Representative of IberoAmerican Engineering Education Association  (ASIBEI)