Upcoming Conferences
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 12 pm Eastern / 9 am Pacific
Presented by Forbes and IBM
What are the right leadership skills for the new economic environment?
A company's ability to navigate complexity, unpredictability, and shifting
global and local market demands is determining the success of
businesses worldwide.
Please join us as we launch a special webinar to explore the findings of
the 4th bi-annual IBM Global CEO Study to be released in May. Based
on interviews with more than 1,500 CEOs across 33 industries in 60
countries, the study offers an array of hard-earned insights from CEOs
who are conquering complexity and even making it work for them.
You'll get the newest information and insights on such topics as:
• Navigating the new economic environment
• Reinventing customer relationships
• Seizing the upside of complexity
Register for the video webinar now.
September 28 - 29, 2010
Sydney, Australia
FULL SAIL AHEAD
When the sea is calm, anyone can hold the helm. In volatile times, business
leaders must take on the role of the master mariner. Their challenge is to
set a course through the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the
Great Depression, outwit the forces of nature, keep their ship on an even
keel, and head towards safer ports which promise more growth.
What are the makings of such a voyage and the search for a new
business resurgence?
How should CEOs and entrepreneurs navigate in the face of perils such
as weaker consumption, fluctuating costs, stricter bank lending, increased
government regulation and global competition?
How should they keep their compass on course and steer towards
fertile regions where they can anticipate the needs of a new marketplace,
raise productivity from their crew, and driver better performance with
tighter budgets and fewer resources?
Like captains of an open sea, business commanders are often buoyant
optimists undeterred by turbulence. How can they exercise the power of
innovation to create new goods and services delivered more efficiently?
How best can they address global humanitarian concerns through
sustainable practices of social responsibility and philanthropy?
The journey of the master mariners is ridden with aftershocks from the
crisis, but glory awaits those who surmount them with determination
and help create a better future.
Photo credit: Hamilton Lund, courtesy Tourism New South Wales.
Past Conferences
May 3-4, 2010
Las Vegas, Nevada
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS
Forbes is proud to present the first-ever Forbes Business Leadership
Forum as part of Impact 2010 in partnership with IBM. Lead by Rich
Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, the forum will provide
executives and business leaders fresh thinking and key insights on how
to best compete in today’s fast changing business environment.By bringing
together some of the best business minds from around the world to exchange
ideas and bring peer-to-peer conversations on the most pressing business
issues today, the Forum will encourage you to bring the most innovative
solutions to your company.
“We need insight.” Get smarter about using the wealth of information
already available from multiple sources.
“We need to work smarter.” Maximize effectiveness and drive
innovation and performance through smarter collaboration.
“We need to respond quickly.” Streamline business activities to
eliminate redundancy and reduce costs while creating higher value.
“We need sustainability.” Compete more effectively while optimizing
limited resources for success in the long term.
Choose from over 70+ sessions that deliver solutions for working smarter:
innovative and proven ways to reduce costs and achieve essential
adaptabilitywhile delivering competitive value.
Forbes Global CEO Conference 2009
September 28 - 30, 2009
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A new order is emerging from a credit crisis that put the world on edge.
Capitalism has been the engine of opportunities for innovators and risk
takers, but the system of unfettered free markets is under scrutiny.
Globalization has enabled cross-border connections through technology
and opened the channels for free trade and investment flows. Yet this
model of integration is facing more regulation.
How will the connected world, led by private entrepreneurs,
CEOs and investors as well as policy makers, be transformed?
How best should players adapt to a different playing field
and prosper in a period of less growth and more rules?
What new blueprint will help them better manage credit,
measure risk and invest more productively?
Who will emerge as the new global champions? Winning at a
changing game will determine a defining moment in their leadership.
Join us for a lively discussion, networking and problem-solving.
June 14 - 16, 2009
The Gleneagles Hotel
Perthshire, Scotland
Over a year into the financial slide that began in the U.S., the
great deleveraging continues with worrisome spin-off effects around
the globe: gyrating oil prices and volatile commodity trading, seesawing
currencies, and mortgage-meltdown losses that could exceed $1 trillion
around the world.
But even as these cold winds blow, the global innovation machine fires
up anew. Invention and productivity are booming in pockets around the
globe, showing that growth is possible, even in tough times, for companies
and countries that get innovation right. By harnessing new technologies,
new energy sources and new markets, companies can grow and change
the world.
Join us in Gleneagles, Scotland—home of the 2005 G8 Summit—to discuss
and debate with world leaders, CEOs and entrepreneurs how business is
contending with these challenges and finding opportunity amidst crisis.
