India Global Innovation Connect
The India Global Innovation Connect is a two-day annual meeting to foster and promote technological innovation in India by discussing the issues and policies involved, identifying the openings and challenges brought by disruptive technologies, while creating a channel of interaction between technology developers and business end-users. The India Global Innovation Connect is an opportunity for Bangalore, as a high-tech hub, to join other global event hosts with a top level annual platform for Indian executives and academics to engage in a dialogue with their foreign peers and partners to initiate new ideas and relationships.
The Conrad Bengaluru Hotel
Bengaluru, India
1-2 June 2023
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2022 Executive Summary
Public Program 2022
Confirmed Speakers
Mexico Business Summit
Created by Smadja & Smadja in 2003 for Miguel Alemán Velasco, former Governor of the State of Veracruz in Mexico, The Summit has been going strong for 19 years and is now the premier business event in Mexico.
In the last editions few editions the Mexico Business Summit has attracted some 800 participants per year. It has become the premier, must-attend event on the Mexico business scene, for its networking opportunities and for the high level and forward thinking of its programming. Speakers in the Mexico Business Summit always include top political leaders from Mexico, leading members of Mexico’s corporate, political, and media elites. What sets apart the Summit, however, is its ability to attract international speakers of the highest calibre.
The Mexico Business Summit is produced by Smadja & Smadja.
25- 27 October 2023
Queretaro, Mexico
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Program 2022
Programa 2022
Confirmed Speakers 2022
Oradores Confirmados 2022
Shenzhen Global Marine Economy Forum
Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory has been mandated by the Shenzhen Municipal Government to organize and manage the Forum since 2019.
The Forum is hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China and the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government. It is being held every year in conjunction with the China Marine Economy Expo.
The overall purpose of the International Forum on the Marine Economy is to bring together international and Chinese policy makers, senior executives from major companies involved in maritime activities and issues and top thought leaders and academics in this domain to share their views and insights on:
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- Assessing and discussing the development and growth prospects for the Marine Economy – with the potential economic value of the Blue Economy expected to double by 2030 to reach $3 trillion – and its crucial importance for the global economy, for environment sustainability and for the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world.
- The technology developments helping not only to optimize the economic potential of the Blue Economy but to ensure the sustainability of the world’s oceans and the necessary international cooperation to stop and reverse the environmental degradation.
- The expansion of ocean-based industries – highlighting their growth and innovation potential, and how they could help in our responses to issues such as climate change, energy and food security.
The overall purpose of the Forum is to share views and expertise on these topics, to create some actionable outcomes through discussions and to enhance areas of further international cooperation.
Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China
16 – 17 November 2023
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2022 Program
Roundtable Japan (RTJ)
Created in 2005 in partnership with Forma Corporation, Roundtable Japan is an annual meeting of a unique nature in Japan.
The Roundtable Japan is a brainstorming platform on the key issues and challenges shaping the future of Japan and brings together Japan’s policy making business and academic elites. It has an intentional limit for attendance to 180 delegates to ensure that the goals of genuine, outcome-oriented interaction can be met.
Participants comprise top business leaders, opinion-makers, and relevant academic experts from Japan. A significant number of business executives from US, European, Chinese, and Asian corporations involved in Japan will also be participating.
The Roundtable Japan is positioned as a high-profile event, meant to bring together among the most innovative thinkers and leaders, the greatest amount of positive energy, in order to provide a substantial contribution to the on-going discussion on the future of Japan.
Tokyo, Japan
17-18 November 2022
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Public Program 2022 English
RTJ 2022 Overview
Confirmed Speakers 2021
Executive Summary 2021
Executive Summary 2020
Agora
In ancient Greek city-states, the agora was a central gathering place where citizens would meet to discuss all the issues affecting the life and the future of the city and to attend spiritual and athletic events.
Agora is a two-day annual get-together to help broaden the horizon and stimulate lateral thinking for the new generation of entrepreneurs or who are taking over the family business and are expanding it, leveraging the opportunities opened by globalization and the technology revolutions.
Agora is about thinking together and sharing experiences and perspectives on the new trends reshaping the economic, business technology and geopolitical scene and assessing their impact on business, personal lives and on the way we relate to the world. It is also about creating new, enriching, relationships and generating new business opportunities.
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Dates TBD
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Public Program 2020
Executive Summary 2018
MITA TechTalks
Smadja & Smadja has partnered up with Mita Ventures to host its annual MITA TechTalks on February 9-12, 2020 in Punta Mita, Mexico. The annual MITA TechTalks is the premier technology and venture capital event of the year in Mexico. A flagship invite-only forum captures cross-border tech innovation opportunities to build the economies of the future.
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- 25 Invite-Only Participants
- Talks, Workshops, and Tech-ila
- Oceanside Networking and Deal-making
This year’s edition theme, “LatAm Innovation in the Global Spotlight” will cover opportunities and challenges in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain, what new trends in Innovation investing, best practices end lessons learned from LatAm’s top entrepreneurs on growing a global company and what are the new players in the LatAm tech and startup ecosystem.
Hosted by Mita Ventures and Smadja & Smadja, Mita TechTalks provides a unique platform for investors, corporations with venture initiatives, startups with international ambitions and thought leaders from Silicon Valley to expand business opportunities and address the challenges present in the ecosystem.
Punta Mita, Nayarit, Mexico
9-12 February 2020
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AIMA’s Global Advanced Management Programme
China – and the Chinese economy – have entered a new stage of transition dictated by domestic as well as international developments. On the domestic front, the structural trend of slowing down growth reflects the fact that the country has entered a phase of economic maturation as well as some major issues that the leadership needs to confront such as the need to address significant financial risks borne out, among other factors, of the unmanaged expansion of shadow banking, or the increasingly lower returns on investments in some sectors of activity. At the international level, the trade war initiated by Washington is just one facet of the broader confrontation between the US and a China now seen as a strategic competitor and a threat to America’s prominence.
The conjunction of these two elements creates a new – very complex – context for China’s policies and evolution for the years ahead worth to understand for any business leader given the tremendous impact that China’s actions and policies will continue to have on the global economic and geopolitical environment.
The AIMA Global Advancement Programme in Beijing will allow participants to achieve the following key objectives:
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- Getting an “inside look” at the evolution of the Chinese economy and how the leadership is coping with the domestic and international headwinds that are buffeting it. Where will economic priorities be in the coming years?
- Understanding the policies and actions through which China is accelerating the pace of its technology catch up process and pushing forward towards in the leveraging of disruptive technologies and the digitization of its economy.
- Assessing the impact of the US-China confrontation on the world’s economy and trade and on some key third countries such as India.
- Assessing ways to expand and intensify the India-China business interaction despite the numerous issues between the two countries.
- Getting a better knowledge on how the Chinese system works and how the priority on tight political control and sustainability of the system shape policies in every domain.
Beijing, People’s Republic of China
17-22 November 2019
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Brochure 2019
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