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.

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