Thursday, February 10
19:00	Tour of Valletta Bastions, View of Grand Harbour, Baracca Gardens
20:00 - 22:00	Welcome Drinks at Castille Wine Vaults, Valletta

Friday, February 11
09:30 - 10:00		Official Opening Welcome by Professor Dietrich Kappeler, President of DiploFoundation Opening Address by The Hon. Dr. Francis Zammit Dimech, Minister for Tourism and Culture
10:00 - 10:30		Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00		Keynote Address H.E. Professor Guido de Marco, President Emeritus of Malta
11:00 - 11:45		Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:30		Multistakeholder Diplomacy: Foundations, Forms, Functions and Frustrations  Brian Hocking, Coventry Business School
12:30 - 14:00		Lunch
14:00 - 14:45		Emergence of Multistakeholder Diplomacy at the OECD: Origins, Lessons and Directions for the Future John West, OECD
14:45 - 15:30		The Role of the IRCRC in a Multistakeholder World Chris Lamb, International Federation of Red Cross
15:30 - 16:00		Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45		UN Conferences on the Spot - Voices from Civil Society: Whispering, Talking and Shouting Out Britta Sadoun, UNRISD
16:45 - 17:30		Post Cold War Diplomatic Training: The Importance of a Multistakeholder Approach to Inter- and Intra-state Conflicts Victor Shale, Government of Lesotho

Saturday, February 12
09:00 - 09:45		Internet Governance: An Example of Multistakeholder Diplomacy Jovan Kurbalija, DiploFoundation
09:45 - 10:00		Coffee Break
Panel on Multistakeholder Diplomacy Model for Internet Governance
10:00 - 13:00		Moderator: Alex Sceberras Trigona Methodologies and IT Tools for Multistakeholder Diplomacy: The WSIS as Test Bed Bertrand de la Chapelle, wsis-online.net Desiree Miloshevic, Afilias From Geneva (2003) to Tunis (2005): The Business Perspective on WSIS Ayesha Hassan, International Chamber of Commerce Theresa Swinehart, ICANN Petru Dumitriu, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania
13:00 - 14:30		Lunch (Group Photo)
Global Knowledge Partnership Panel on Multistakeholder Partnerships for Development
14:30 - 16:00		Moderator: Rinalia Abdul Rahim, GKP Clotilde Foncesa, Omar Dengo Foundation Subbiah Arunachalam, M.S. Swaminathan Research Paul Greener, Foundation for Development Cooperation
16:00 - 16:30		Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:15		Global Idea Networks: The Impact of Policy Collaboratories on Transnational Advocacy Networks and Multistakeholder Participation in the Global Governance of Cyberinfrastructure Derrick L. Cogburn, Syracuse University (Video Conference)
17:15 - 18:00		Development Diplomacy and Multistakeholder Negotiations - Case Example: Decent Work Agenda (DW) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Raymond Saner, CSEND
19:00		Tour of Three Cities
20:00 - 23:00		Conference Dinner - Villa Bighi, Kalkara

Sunday, February 13
09:00 - 09:45		Multistakeholder Public Diplomacy of Small and Medium-Sized States: Norway and Canada Compared Jozef Bátora, University of Oslo
09:45 - 10:30		Says Who? Diktat and Dialogue in Public Diplomacy Biljana Scott, DiploFoundation
10:30 - 11:00		Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30		Multistakeholder Diplomacy as an Aspect of the Cybernetic Governance for the Information Society Ljupco Gjorgjinski, Kiro Gligorov Foundation
11:30 - 12:45		Research on Multistakeholder Diplomacy Yasmeen Ariff and Valentin Katrandzhiev, DiploFoundation Presentation of Multistakeholder Research Projects Diplo - GKP Interns
12:45 - 13:00		Official Closing Jovan Kurbalija and Professor Dietrich Kappeler, DiploFoundation
13:00 - 14:30		Lunch

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