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Werner Vogels, Vice-president and CTO of Amazon and John Linwood, Chief Technology Officer, BBC will join an array of discussion leaders at the CIO Agenda in June this year.
Werner Vogels is in charge of technology innovation at Amazon, and is an expert on cloud computing. He has his own blog about distributed systems and is considered to...
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An invited audience of senior finance decision-makers, leading strategists and influential commentators will come together in May to discuss the evolution of the CFO role and its associated challenges.
As they emerge out of the recession, CFOs find themselves with far more influence within their organisations. Technical accounting skills are less...
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On January 28th 2010, Economist Conferences, in association with Accenture, held its third Davos breakfast forum, based on the results of an ongoing research programme on globalisation conducted by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit. To watch the full discussion, please click here
The twin forces of globalisation and technology will...
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The Global Agenda 2009 was held at The Dorchester in November 2010. Although the meeting was strictly off the record, we present the essence of the discussions in this summary paper below. We thank all participants for their contributions and look forward to bringing you news of future Global Agenda meetings.
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Watch the summary video of the 2009 Pharma Summit featuring Andrew Hotchkiss, Managing Director at Lilly UK; Richard Barker, Director General at ABPI and Wim Leereveld, Chair of the Access to Medicine Index.
This video briefly covers the discussions surrounding "agility and innovation in emerging markets".
For information on this year's Pharma...
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Governments around the world are struggling with how to regulate markets in order to avoid a repeat of the recent financial crisis, but without hampering economic recovery or hindering the competitiveness of their financial services. Following US President Barack Obama’s recent proposals - which surprised the global banking industry with their...
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On April 13th 2010, The Economist welcomed George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and founder of The Open Society Institute to the stage to address the city of London at The Economist's third city lecture.
WHAT OUR ATTENDEES SAID:
“Broad ranging conversation with George Soros. Networking opportunities were excellent and...
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Economist Conferences is delighted to announce Sir John Chisholm, Executive Chairman, Qinetiq, as guest speaker for our Manufacturing's Operational Opportunities dinner forum on March 18th 2010.
Sir John will be joining Iain Scott, Senior Editor, Economist Intelligence Unit and 20 senior executives in the manufacturing and high-tech industries for...
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The Manufacturing's Operational Opportunities dinner forum will gather an audience of 30 senior executives to discuss the opportunities available to the manufacturing industry in the aftermath of the recession. The findings of a research report will be discussed at the dinner.
ThemeIn recent years, there has been increasing discussion about the...
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In the last five years we have seen the role of IT in the business evolve almost beyond recognition. No longer a discrete entity, technology is present throughout the workforce but not necessarily integrated. Social media are driving a major shift in the way our society interacts and collaborates, and one of the key challenges for the CIO is to...
