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Monday, 26 April 2010 (Day 1)

TIME PROGRAMME
8.00 am Registration / Welcome Coffee & Tea
8.30 am Delegates to be seated
8.45 am Arrival of Guest-of-Honour Mr Gan Kim Yong, Minister, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
8.50 am Welcome Remarks by Representatives from C3A, NUS, ICIP 
9.00am Opening Keynote Address by Guest-of-Honour: Mr Gan Kim Yong, Minister, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
9.20 am Keynote Address 1
Intergenerational Issues at the Workplace
Prof Dr (emer.) Juhani Ilmarinen, Founder of Juhani Ilmarinen Consulting Company and former Director, ‘Life Course and Work’ in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), Helsinki, Finland
9.40 am Coffee & Tea Break
10.00 am Keynote Address 2
Engaging the Generations in the Workforce: New Challenges, New Opportunities
Dr Sandra Timmermann, Director, MetLife Mature Market Institute, USA
10.20 am Keynote Address 3
Leading Effectively Across Generational Groups
Mr Peter Ong
, Managing Partner, Rested Edge Advisory, Singapore
10.40 am Plenary Session 1
Moderator: Dr Susan Feldman, Co-Chair of ICIP Management Committee and Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Ageing Unit School of Primary Care Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia
Prof Dr Juhani Ilmarinen
, Founder of Juhani Ilmarinen Consulting Company and former Director, ‘Life Course and Work’ in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), Helsinki, Finland
Dr Sandra Timmermann, Excutive Director, MetLife Mature Market Institute, USA
Mr Peter Ong, Managing Partner, Rested Edge Advisory, Singapore
11.40 am Lunch – Experiential Learning Segment
1.40 pm Intergenerational Bonding Awards – Presentation by Finalists & Voting by Delegates
3.40 pm Coffee & Tea Break
4.00 pm Presentation on ‘Achieving Intergenerational Fairness in Employment, Policies and Practice’ by
Mr Alan Hatton-Yeo
, Chief Executive, The Beth Johnson Foundation, UK
5.00 pm End of Day 1 Conference
6.30 pm Opening Dinner cum Intergenerational Bonding (IGB) Awards Ceremony
Guest-of-Honour: Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Minister of State, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Singapore
9.00 pm End of Dinner

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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 (Day 2)

TIME PROGRAMME
8.30 am Welcome Coffee & Tea
9.00 am Keynote Address 4
Into the Looking Glass: The Lessons of Age – For the Young and Not-so-Young
Commissioner Rhonda Parker, Aged Care Commissioner, The Office of the Aged Care Commissioner, Australia
10.00 am Coffee & Tea Break
10.30 am Panel Sessions A1 – A4 (concurrent sessions)
  Panel A1: Challenges in Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity
  Panel A2: Intergenerational Transfers and Policies at the Workplace
  Panel A3: Role of Intergenerational Research and Initiatives in Building Community Solidarity
  Panel A4: Promoting Cross-Generational Interactions through Intergenerational Policies and Best                 Practices
12.30 pm Lunch – Experiential Learning Segment
2.30 pm Plenary Session 2
Intergenerational Solidarity Within Families: Culture, Care and Continuity
Moderator: Ms Donna Butts, Co-Chair of ICIP Management Committee and Executive Director, Generations United, USA
Prof Dr Narender K. Chadha, Professor of Psychology, Head and Director, Department of Adult, Continuing education and Extension, University of Delhi, India
Dr Valerie S. Kuehne, Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care and Vice-President External Relations, University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada
Prof Youngwha Kee, Professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Soongsil University and
President, Institute of Korean Local Development Education, South Korea
4.00 pm Coffee & Tea Break
4.30 pm Panel Sessions B5 – B8 (concurrent sessions)
  Panel B5: Improving Perceptions Towards the Older Generation through Service Learning
  Panel B6: Studies on Generational Integration within Families
  Panel B7: Enhancing Intergenerational Relations through Shared Sites and Experiences
  Panel B8: Developing Standards of Practice for Intergenerational Initiatives (Workshop)
6.00 pm End of Day 2 Conference

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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 (Day 3)

TIME PROGRAMME
8.00am

Welcome Coffee & Tea

8.30 am Plenary Session 3
Multigenerational Approaches to Social Inclusion and Community Cohesion
Moderator:Dr Valerie S. Kuehne, Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care and Vice-President External Relations, University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada
Prof Miriam Bernard, Professor of Social Gerontology and founder Director of the Research Institute for Life Course Studies at Keele University, and President-Elect of the British Society of Gerontology, UK
Dr Susan Feldman
, Co-Chair of ICIP Management Committee, and Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Ageing Unit School of Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia
Mr Henry Quake, Chief Executive Officer, Council for Third Age, Singapore
10.00 am Coffee & Tea Break
10.30 am Panel Sessions C9 – C12 (concurrent sessions)
  Panel C9: Enhancing Community Well-being through Intergenerational Learning
  Panel C10: Creative Intergenerational Programmes for Schools and Seniors
  Panel C11: Intergenerational Caregiving in the Family
  Panel C12: Intergenerational Programmes and Community Models
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Poster Presentations(P01-P12)
2.30 pm Site Visits
Site 1: The Tampines 3-in-1 Experience – Instant Harmony
Site 2: The HDB Story – Building the 21st Century Village
Site 3: The Qian Hu Story – Of Fish and Men
Site 4: The Peranakan Museum Experience – Keeping the Peranakan Culture alive
Site 5: The Alexandra Hospital Story – Injecting New Life into a Multi-generational Workforce
Site 6: Way onNet Group Pte Ltd – The Feng Shui Experience: The Yin and Yang of Intergenerational
Living
6.00 pm End of Day 3 Conference

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Thursday, 29 April 2010 (Day 4)

TIME PROGRAMME
8.00 am Welcome Coffee & Tea
8.30 am European Roundtable Discussion (in conjunction with 2nd European Day of Intergenerational Solidarity)
Moderator: Mr Alan Hatton-Yeo, Chief Executive, The Beth Johnson Foundation, UK
Mr Thomas Fischer, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Innovation in Learning (FIM-New Learning), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Ms Iris Marreel, Staff member of the Projektebüro ‘Dialog der Generationen’ (‘Dialogue of Generations’) , National Service Centre for Intergenerational Practice in Berlin, Germany
Dr Ann-Kristin Bostrom, Director of Education, Swedish National Agency for Education and Special Advisor, Swedish Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden
9.30 am Singapore Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Dr Thang Leng Leng,Vice-Chair of ICIP Management Committee; and Member of Steering Committee, Health Research Cluster, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mr Martin Tan, Honorary Secretary, National Faily Council and Co-Founder and Executive Director, Halogen Foundation Singapore, Singapore
Mr Andrew Fung, General Manager, Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices (TAFEP), Singapore
Mr Terence Chia, Chairman, Gold Award Holders’ Alumni (GAHA), National Youth Achievement Awards (NYAA), Singapore
Ms Brenda Yeow, Board member, RSVP Singapore and Chairperson, RSVP Mentoring Programme Committee, Singapore
10.30 am Coffee & Tea Break
10.50 am Delegates to be seated
10.55 am Arrival of Guest-of-Honour: Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore
11.00 am Keynote Address 5
How Will Intergenerational Relations Survive the 21st Century?
Professor Sarah Harper, Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, UK
12.00 nn Closing Plenary Address by Guest-of-Honour: Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore
12.20 pm Closing Remarks by Representatives from C3A, NUS, ICIP 
12.30 pm Lunch and End of Conference

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Thursday, 29 April 2010 - Post-Conference Workshops

TIME PROGRAMME SPEAKERS
2.00 pm to
5.30 pm
Post-Conference Workshops (four concurrent tracks)
(Separate registration and payment – open to conference delegates & non-conference participants; includes a Coffee & Tea Break)
Intergenerational Approaches for Studying and Improving Community Prof Matthew Kaplan
Professor, Intergenerational Programs
and Aging, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Arts and Intergenerational Connection Ms Susan Langford
Director and Founder, Magic Me, UK
Intergenerational Perspective on Engaging Community and Family Mr Alan Hatton-Yeo
Chief Executive, Beth Johnson Foundation, UK
Intergenerational Programmes by Schools (Community Involvement Programmes) Ms Donna Butts
Executive Director, Generations United, USA

* For post-conference workshops, delegates are to only choose one track in which they would like to attend.

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