The opening session is devoted to the main theme of the Conference: "Intercultural Communication".
There will be a simultaneous translation service into French, English, Spanish and Catalan.

Ours is an open invitation to speak about Intercultural Communication from every key speaker's point of view. Our starting point was to invite a plurality of key speakers (not a single one), women and men, coming from different areas or disciplines and with different cultural (and linguistic) backgrounds.

Mr. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, with a long trajectory dealing with "intercultural" problems or conflicts, alongside with a strong commitment in favor of culture of peace. Former Director-General of Unesco.
Chairman of Fundación Cultura de Paz (Culture of Peace Foundation) seated in Madrid. Catalan-born.

Ms. Rossana Reguillo. Research professor. Working on youth, urban culture, communication and mass media. Interested on human rights and communication as a cultural relation. Departamento de Estudios Socioculturales. Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). Guadalajara, Mexico.

Mr. Anthony Giddens, sociologist with a wide and influent work in social theory and in the political field (specially Third Way politics). Some of his works are dealing with globalisation, democracy or inequalities, relevant issues for Intercultural Communication analysis.
Director of London School of Economics.

Ms. Taslima Nasreen. Writer, with personal experience and analyses on some conflicts related to "intercultural communication" problems as Bangladesh and India; Islam and Hinduism; Islam and Atheism; the fundamentalisms; women and public life or, more generally, the rights of the women. Public defense of principle's and publicly reporting on what she thinks to be wrong. Bangladesh-born.