Businessman Peter Sutherland will be a keynote speaker at the annual Irish Management Institute (IMI) conference, which concentrates this year on "high performance" in the economy.
Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and BP, Mr Sutherland will discuss the challenge posed for the public sector by the need to build a high-performance economy.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will also address the conference.
"The late 1990s was about export-led growth. The early part of this decade was very much about the construction boom.
"If we are to continue to grow the economy we have to build high performance in organisations. There are no cost advantages any more, so it really has to be about high performance," said Dr Tom McCarthy, chief executive of the IMI.
The event takes place on April 3rd and 4th at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.
Speakers include Vodafore Ireland chief Charles Butterworth, the head of computer game software firm Havok David O'Meara, ESB chief Padraig McManus and Tesco Ireland head Tony Keohane. The head of Hewlett-Packard's Irish business Martin Murphy, and the head of Microsoft's Irish unit Paul Rellis, will also address the conference.
Entrepreneurs Cullen Allen and Colm O'Sullivan of food business Cully & Sully will speak, as will writer Daniel Pink and theatre director and management thinker Richard Olivier.
Academics including Prof Bjorn Lomborg of the University of Southern California, and Prof John Roberts of Stanford University.
