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Event Highlights

Global/International Business

The Implication of the China Supply Shock

Featured Speakers:
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Sourabh Gupta - Senior Fellow, Institute for China America Studies
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Zhiguo He (何治国) - James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business Stanford University

Zhiwei Zhang - President and Chief Economist, Pinpoint Asset Management

Hung Tran - Senior Fellow and Economist, Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center

"The day China becomes the destination for final goods consumption of all the regionally produced goods... that might also be the day when the RMB begins to start even displacing the dollar in the Asia Pacific."

- Sourabh Gutpa

"The real estate crackdown is correct. It's a painful action they have to take and I actually respect Xi, he is pushing it through."

— Zhiguo He

Global/International Business

Economic Tsunami: Can Japan Ride the Wave of Economic Growth

Featured Speakers

Dr. Robert Dekle - Professor of Economics, University of Southern California

‍Dr. Jiro Yoshida - Professor of Business, Pennsylvania State University

‍Michael Wolf - Global Economist & Senior Manager, Deloitte US

Dr.Sayuri Shirai - Professor of Economics, Keio University; Advisor for Sustainable Policies, The Asian Development Bank Institute

"What I see is about the potential is the low productivity sector like service sector and construction sector can change in the future... After five decades of low productivity, now the time when they really have to change the way they do business"

— Dr. Jiro Yoshida

"It's in Japan's interest to play the fence on China and the United States and it's in its economic interest to be closer to China than the US going forward."

— Peter Briggs, Risk Management Guest Speaker

Finance and Economics

Financial Systems Stability

Featured Speakers:

Itay Goldstein - Chairman, Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

‍Ebrahim Poonawala - Managing Director, Head of North American Banks Research at BofA Securities

‍Dani D’Amico - Partner, Financial Institution and Risk Practice, McKinsey

‍Werner Rehm - Partner, S&CF Insights, McKinsey

"The financial system is constantly evolving, and regulators are always looking back and trying to solve the problem that most recently appeared, rather than foreseeing future risks."

— Itay Goldstein

"Despite the dauting valuations of banks, the US banking sector and capital markets are probably one of the best in the world. The question is how to make them better and more resilient without over-regulating."

— Ebrahim Poonawala

Finance and Economics

Risk Management: Models, Policies, and Practices

Featured Speakers

Professor Ed Altman - Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stern School of Business at New York University; Creator of the Altman-Z-Score model for bankruptcy prediction

‍Peter Briggs - Division Executive for Alvarez & Marsal’s Sovereign Advisory Services

‍Patrick D. Pilch - Senior Managing Director, Ankura Consulting Group

"It was great to share the stage with my favorite professor and former partner at Alverez and Marsal!"

— Itay Goldstein

Technology and AI

Workplace transformation: The Future of AI Integration

Featured Speakers

John Langford - Partner Researcher, Microsoft; President, International Conference on Machine Learning(ICML), 2017

‍Ganesh Mani - Distinguished Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; President, The Global Innovation Center Inc.

‍Claudio Silva - Past Elected Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics(2015-2018)

‍Kevin Buehler - Senior Partner, McKinsey

‍Rachel Cummings - ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee; Associate Professor, Columbia University

"When a human is solving a problem... it will try to create an abstraction that then makes the problem
a little bit easier... Humans naturally create abstractions... so far systems are not able to do that."

— Claudio Silva & John Langford

Technology and AI

AI : The Dual Edge of Innovation

Featured Speakers

Dr. David Berman - Assistant Director and Head of AI for Wireless and Digital Services (WDS) at Cambridge Consultants and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London

‍Dr. Tianyi Peng - Assistant Professor, Columbia University and Founding Member of Cimulate.AI

‍Dr. Murari Mandal - Distinguished Responsible AI Researcher and Assistant Professor, School of Computer Engineering at KIIT DU

‍Mr. Nick James - CEO and Chief AI Officer, WhitegloveAI

"AI is a tool that augments design. It's not something where we let it have free reign and then just see
what happens."

— Dr. David Berman

Global/Public Health

Bridging health and economics through policy

Featured Speakers
Dr. Scott Rivkees - Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University; Former State Surgeon General and Secretary, Health of Florida

‍Dr. Howard C. Bauchner - Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

‍Dr. Mariam Hamza - Independent Health Economics Consultant, Aceso Global and World Bank Group

"After certain catastrophes that have happened in the US, there have been different kinds of federal commissions... that still hasn't happened with COVID."

— Dr. Scott Rivkees

"I think the real question is: is AI less biased than physicians, not whether it's biased. It's likely going to be biased in some way, the question is, is it less biased than physicians?"

— Dr. Howard Bauchner

ESG & Sustainable Business

ESG in Action: Sustainable Finance and Climate Leadership

Featured Speakers

Laurie Schoeman - White House Senior Advisor Climate Resilience

‍Shivaram Rajgopal - Chair of Accounting, Columbia University; Vice Dean of Research, Columbia University

‍Dale Jamieson - Professor of Philosophy, New York University; Former Chair of Environmental Studies Department, New York University

‍Elana Lipchak - Director, ABS Strategy, Bank of America

‍Graciela Chichilnisky - Professor of Economics and Statistics, Columbia University; Co-founder and Former CEO of Global Thermostat

"ESG as an idea is fantastic but the implementation is a disaster... The conceptual answer is a carbon tax.
The politics is impossible."

— Shivaram Rajgopal

Speaker  & Attendee Testimonials

"It was great to share the stage with my favorite professor and former partner at Alverez and Marsal - it was great to connect and talk about financial risk with so many interesting people."

— Peter Briggs, Risk Management Guest Speaker

"I really love the energy and having the
opportunity to meet and listen to such
amazing speakers as well as  networking with
other members is amazing!"

— Anonymous Attendee