World Statistics Day 2015
Preliminary programme
Official statistics:
New opportunities for transformation – innovation and cooperation
Budapest, 20–21 October 2015
20 October (Tuesday)
| 08.30–09.30 | Registration |
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| 09.30–09.50 | CEREMONIAL OPENING Message of the President of the Republic of Hungary, Dr János Áder Opening speech of the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dr László Lovász |
| 09.50–10.00 | WELCOME Professor Gabriella Vukovich President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office |
| Chair of the morning session: Professor Gabriella Vukovich | |
| 10.00–10.40 | Professor Enrico Giovannini Chair of the UN Secretary General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development Towards a comprehensive global policy agenda: what does it mean for statistics? |
| 10.40–11.30 | COFFEE BREAK (Academy Club: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ground floor) |
| 11.30–12.00 | Professor Vijay N. Nair Former President of ISI Cooperation between Academia and official statistics: opportunities and challenges |
| 12.00–12.30 | Mr Walter Radermacher Director General of Eurostat Opportunities for transformation of official statistics from an ESS perspective |
| 12.30–13.00 | Mr Konrad Pesendorfer Director General of Statistics Austria Cooperation among Statistical Institutes and with other partners to enhance innovation and transformation in official statistics |
| 13.00–14.30 | LUNCH (Academy Club: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ground floor) |
| Chair of the afternoon session: Mr Walter Radermacher | |
| 14.30–15.00 | Mr Pádraig Dalton Director General of the Central Statistics Office of Ireland Modernisation: Evolution or revolution – opportunities for a paradigm shift in the cooperation of NSI’s |
| 15.00–15.30 | Mr Marko Krištof PhD Director General of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics Benefits of sharing good practices with other NSI’s- from the perspective of a new EU member state |
| 15.30–16.00 | Discussion |
| 16.00–16.30 | COFFEE BREAK (Academy Club: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ground floor) |
| 16.30–17.40 | Round-table discussion 1 Topic: Sustainability of statistics: from data sources to the image of official statistics Facilitator: Mr György Sándor (Advisor to the President, Hungarian Central Statistical Office) Further participants: ● Mr Dieter Sarreither (President, DESTATIS) ● Dr Barteld Braaksma (Innovation Manager, Statistics Netherlands) ● Prof Gabriella Vukovich (President, HCSO) |
| 18.30– | SOCIAL EVENT (Dinner and river cruise on Zsófia Event Ship) |
| Departure from the building of HAS at 18.10, boarding until 18.30. The duration of the river cruise is 3 hours, no stops in between. Arrival at 21.30 at the building of HAS. | |
21 October (Wednesday)
| Chair of the morning session: Professor Vijay N. Nair | |
| 08.30–09.30 | Registration |
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| 09.00–09.30 | Mr Aurel Schubert Director General of the Statistics Department of the European Central Bank Central bank statistics – New opportunities and initiatives for innovation and cooperation |
| 09.30–10.40 | Round-table discussion 2 Topic: Microdata exchange in international trade, migration and banking statistics Facilitator: Mr János Gerendás (Statistics Department, Central Bank of Hungary) Further participants: ● Mr Walter Radermacher (Director General, Eurostat) ● Mr Jens Olin (Deputy Director at the Economic Statistics Department, Statistics Sweden) ● Mr Attila Melegh (Senior Research Fellow, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute) ● Mr Ioannis Ganoulis (Head of the Statistics Development and Coordination Division, European Central Bank) |
| 10.40–11.10 | COFFEE BREAK (Academy Club: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ground floor) |
| 11.10–12.20 | Round-table discussion 3 Topic: HR and Organisational modernisation Facilitator: Mr Martin Lagerström (Executive Coach in Human Resources of Statistics Sweden – excused) Further participants: ● Dr Lucy Fallon-Byrne (Assistant Director General, Central Statistics Office of Ireland) ● Mr Zoran Jančić (Assistant Director, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia) ● Mr József Kárpáti (Head of Kecskemét Section, Hungarian Central Statistical Office) |
| 12.20–14.00 | LUNCH (Academy Club: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ground floor) |
| Chair of the afternoon session: Mr János Gerendás | |
| 14.00–15.10 | Round-table discussion 4 Topic: Training the new generations and rejuvenating the older generations of statisticians Facilitator: Professor Maurizio Vichi (President of the Federation of European National Statistical Societies) Further participants: ● Mr Antonio Ottaiano (Chief of Unit “Human resource development and training for Istat and Sistan staff” at Italian National Institute of Statistics) ● Éva Sándor-Kriszt PhD (Rector, Budapest Business School) ● Prof Tamás Rudas (Head, Department of Statistics, Eötvös Loránd University) ● Dr Péter Kovács (Head, Department of Statistics and Demography, University of Szeged) |
| 15.10–15.40 | COFFEE BREAK (Academy Club: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ground floor) |
| 15.40–16.50 | Round-table discussion 5 Topic: Dissemination and communication Facilitator: Mr Stephan Moens (Advisor General of Statistics Belgium) Further participants: ● Dr Henriëtte de Jong-de Heer (Head of Press Office, Statistics Netherlands) ● Ms Maria Jesús Vinuesa Angulo (Deputy Head, Dissemination Unit, National Statistics Institute of Spain) ● Mr Aurel Schubert (Director General of the Statistics Department of the European Central Bank) ● Mr Dávid Németh (Chief Economist of K&H Group) |
| 16.50–17.00 | Closing of the Conference |