8.00 a.m.    REGISTRATION

9.00 a.m.    Opening of the Symposium
                    Video Welcome Message
                     Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations 
                     Environment Programme, UNEP) and
                     Jane Goodall

9.10 a.m.    Welcome Speech
                    Christian Mokricky, Chairman "die umweltberatung" Österreich
                    (Eco Counselling Austria)
                   
9.25 a.m.     Opening Speech
                     Hans Friederich, 
                    IUCN Regional Director PAN/ EUROPE

9.55 a.m.     Why Care About Biodiversity?
                      Andreas Beckmann, 
                       Director at WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme

10.25 a.m.    COFFEE-BREAK

10.45 a.m.     Biodiversity: Business Risk or Opportunity? 
                        Kristina Jahn, Manager, Sustainable Business 
                         Solutions PricewaterhouseCoopers

11.15 a.m.     The Moral Value of Biodiversity 
                          Professor Franz Wuketits, Institute of Philosophy of Science
                          University of Vienna 

11.45 a.m.    Summary Discussion with the Moderator

12.00 p.m.     LUNCH BREAK*

1.15 p.m.      DISCUSSION FORUMS

• Biodiversity and Economy -  An additional benefit for companies 
  Chair:  Veronika Haunold, Head of Departement, EU-Environmental Bureau
  

    Experts Briefing:      
         Goals of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
            and the contribution of the Private Sector 
               Edgar Endrukaitis, Coordinator of the Business & Biodiversity Initiative

    Practitioners Briefing: 
          From tree to paper – Biodiversity Management 
            at the Axel Springer AG
            Florian Nehm, Corporate Sustainability Officer, Axel Springer AG

• Biodiversity and Spatial Planning – An Interdisciplinary Field of Action
  Chair: Professor Wolfgang Wende, 
                 Leibniz Institut of Ecological and Regional Development

    Experts Briefing: 
        Biodiversity conservation as a Challenge for 
          Interdisciplinary Planning: Spatial Planning in Germany
                Marianne Darbi, 
             Leibniz Institut of Ecological and Regional Development

    Practitioners Briefing: 
        Biodiversity and Spatial Planning: Examples from Germany 
             Ulrich Walz, 
             Leibniz Institut of Ecological and Regional Development

• Biodiversity and Tourism – Contradiction or Symbiosis?
  Chair:  Christian Baumgartner, CEO International Friends of Nature

    Experts Briefing: 
        Effective Nature Conservation as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Tourism 
        Michael Getzner, a.o. Univ.-Prof., Universität Klagenfurt

    Best Practice Lecture: Biodiversity and Tourism – The example of 
           Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal
        Ruth Moser, Coordinator of the Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal

3.15 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. Closing Session  

Conference Chair: Corinna Milborn, Journalist, Author and Moderator

*It is possible to have lunch in the VIC Cafeteria