Saturday, November 30

Fortune Global Forum opens in New York

Great early morning and Happy Veterans Day.

Today likewise marks the start of the 2024 Fortune Global Forum in New York City. You can have a look at the program here and follow along on the livestream here if you’re not joining us personally.

We will open today with 2 army veterans: Mike Pompeo, previous secretary of state and CIA director in the Trump administration, and Leon Panetta, who was secretary of defense and CIA director under Obama. We will end the day in discussion with previous U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who will no doubt assess his function in forming where Britain is today– and where the U.K. and Europe go from here with President-elect Donald Trump going back to Washington.

In in between, we will have a series of engaging conversations, disputes, workshops, and unique efficiencies. Having actually just recently gone to Riyadh, which is changing itself at a speed and scale unlike any city I’ve seen, I eagerly anticipate discussing the enthusiastic scope of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 with H.E. Fahd bin Abdulmohsan Al-Rasheed, consultant to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

I get a great deal of thought-provoking and informative remarks from the readers of this newsletter, a lot of whom are leading organizations themselves. Please feel totally free to reach out to me at the e-mail listed below with any concerns or ideas you have for our speakers.

My opening panel today, for instance, will take a look at the transformative modifications that are improving service and what might alter with a moving political landscape. I’ll be talking with Columbia University’s Abby Joseph Cohen, NYSE Group president Lynn Martin, and IBM vice chairman Gary Cohn, who acted as director of the National Economic Council and primary financial consultant to Trump.

Later on in the day, I’ll consult with McKinsey senior partner Eric Kutcher and Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin about powering the AI transformation. I likewise anticipate a deep dive into how you actually link culture and efficiency with Target CEO Brian Cornell and Steven Williams, the CEO of PepsiCo Foods North America– both of whom have actually likewise understood each other for more than twenty years. And my associates will be talking to lots of other leaders, thinkers, artists, and disrupters on the problems forming not simply organization however society and ourselves.

Please do participate the discussion and let me understand what you’re curious about.

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Diane Brady
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