16.30 - Registration

17.00 - Opening with TOGETHER video presentation and introduction by the moderator Katrina Sichel

17.00 – 17.10  TBC

17.10-17.15 - Welcome by Sergei Stanishev, PES President, S&D Member of the European Parliament

17.15-17.25 - Opening claims for “Another future” by graduates of the School of Democracy

17.25-17.45 - Keynote by Udo Bullmann, S&D Group President, European Parliament

17.45-18.15 - Q&A session on “How to achieve a Europe of Sustainable equality” with Louka Katseli & Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Co-chairs of the Independent Commission for Sustainable Equality (ICSE), Progressive Society and Montserrat Mir, ETUC Confederal Secretary

Tuulia Pitkänen, YES Secretary General Conny Reuter, Secretary general, SOLIDAR

18.15-18.25 - Artistic performance by Mousta Largo

18.25-18.45 - Inspirational speech by Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain (tbc)

18.45-19.25 - Open debate with dynamic participation of politicians and academics

Maria Arena, MEP S&D Group

Fabrizio Barca, Lecturer in corporate finance and Italian economy history

Rutger Bregman, Dutch Historian

Nicolas Schmit, former Minister of Labour, Employment and the Social Economy, Member of the ICSE, Luxembourg

19.25-19.45 - Concluding speech by Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission (tbc)

20.00 - Reception