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• 10.00 – 11.00

  Hotel Golf

  REGISTRATION

• 11.00 – 11.15

  Hotel Golf

  Opening remarks by Uroš Hakl, Head of Pristop Corporate

• 11.15 – 12.45

  Hotel Golf

  KEYNOTE SPEAKER

  (chair: Ajša Vodnik, executive director of AmCham Slovenia)

  • Can We Reach Public Trust and Confidence and How?
    • Jerry Swerling, M.A., USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, USA
    • Ansgar Zerfass, University of Leipzig, Germany
• 12.45 – 14.00

  Lunch Break

• 14.00 – 15.30

  Hotel Golf

  ROUND TABLE

  • Can we build public trust in our organization?
    • Moderator Peter Frankl, director and editor in chief of newspaper Finance
    • Important regional CEO’s*:
      • Emil Tedeschi, president and chief executive officer, Atlantic Grupa, Croatia
      • Riccardo Illy, chairman of Gruppo Illy
      • Zenel Batagelj, partner at Valicon, Slovenia
      • Wilhelm Okresek, managing partner at Port Consult, Austria
• 15.30 – 16.00

  Coffee Break

• 16.00 – 17.30

  Hotel Golf

  SPECIAL SESSION IN HONOUR OF JAMES E. GRUNIG & LARISSA A. GRUNIG

  Introduction by Dejan Verčič

  • Our life in public relations
    Honorary lectures by
    • Larissa A. Grunig, University of Maryland
    • James E. Grunig, University of Maryland
  • Address by the Honorary Sponsor
    • Dr. Danilo Türk, President of the Republic of Slovenia
  • Closing remarks by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh
    • Felicitations to Larissa A. Grunig and James E. Grunig
    • Release of books based on past BledCom themes
• 19.00 – 21.00

  Standing Dinner (Panorama Hall, Hotel Toplice)

• 21.00 –

  Panorama Hall, Hotel Toplice

  THEORY MEETS PRACTICE PARTY