- Ninth ECB Statistics Conference
20 years of ESCB statistics: What's next?
- 19:00
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   Welcome reception 
 Conference dinner hosted by Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank
- 20:00
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   Keynote speech by Sabine Lautenschläger20 years of ESCB statistics: Past achievements and future challenges
- 8:30
- Registration and coffee
- 9:00
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   Opening addressMario Draghi, President, European Central Bank 
- 9:30
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   Session 1 New data needs for monetary policyChair: Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank - Jan Smets, Governor, Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique
- Pablo García, Member of the Board, Central Bank of Chile
- Ewald Nowotny, Governor, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
 Discussant: Natacha Valla, Deputy Director General, Monetary Policy, European Central Bank 
- 11:00
- Coffee break
- 11:30
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   Session 2 New data needs for financial stabilityChair: Ardo Hansson, Governor, Eesti Pank - Philip R. Lane, Governor, Central Bank of Ireland and Chair, Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board
- Richard Berner, Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
- Luiz Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager, Bank for International Settlements
 Discussant: Hans-Helmut Kotz, Goethe University, Frankfurt 
- 13:00
- Buffet lunch
- 14:00
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   Session 3 Can technology and innovation help? New data-generating possibilitiesChair: Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank - Alberto Pace, Head of Data Management, European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Claudia Buch, Vice-President, Deutsche Bundesbank
- Mariana Kotzeva, Director General, Eurostat
- Werner Bier, Deputy Director General Statistics, European Central Bank
 
- 15:30
- Coffee break
- 16:00
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   Session 4 Data: sharing and communicatingChair: Aurel Schubert, Director General Statistics, European Central Bank - Andréa M. Maechler, Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank
- Alan Smith, Data Visualisation Editor, Financial Times
- Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Bruegel and Peterson Institute for International Economics
 Discussant: Brian Blackstone, Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal 
- 17:30
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   Concluding remarksStatistics as an indispensable signpostDanièle Nouy, Chair of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank End of conference 
This programme may be subject to change without notice.
General information
European Central Bank 
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 60314 Frankfurt am Main 
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 Fax: +49 69 1344 6000 
 info@ecb.europa.eu 
English
Participants are requested to arrange their own transfers, unless indicated otherwise.
Vitaliana Rondonotti 
 Directorate General Statistics
 +49 69 69 1344 7132 
 vitaliana.rondonotti@ecb.europa.eu
Alina Muresan 
 Directorate General Statistics
 +49 69 69 1344 5163 
 alina.muresan@ecb.europa.eu