Since 1995, the Fortune Global Forum has convened world leaders and the heads of global business—the chairmen, presidents, and CEOs of the world’s largest companies—on the dynamic frontiers of international commerce. This year’s conference will be held in Toronto, Canada from October 15 to 17.
The Fortune Global Forum creates a valuable opportunity for the CEOs of the world’s biggest multinational companies—the Fortune Global 500—to actively engage with Canada and its leaders from both business and government.
Fortune Global Forum is at capacity but you can watch most of the program right here on this page. (See an abridged version of the agenda below for which sessions we’re streaming.) Though the festivities begin at 8:45 a.m. local time on Monday, Oct. 15, our livestream will begin at 2:30 p.m. local time on Monday with a special session featuring Canada prime minister Justin Trudeau. Don’t miss it.
Monday, October 15
2:30 PM—Welcome remarks
2:35 PM—Justin Trudeau, prime minister, Canada
3:10 PM—Pathways for Inclusive Growth: David McKay of RBC, Dale Ponder of Osler, Chuck Robbins of Cisco
3:50 PM—Alex Gorsky, CEO, Johnson & Johnson
4:10 PM—Trade and Business: Nando Cesarone of UPS, Michael Froman of Mastercard, Annette Verschuren of NRStor
4:45 PM—Global Investment Strategies: Afsaneh Beschloss of RockCreek, Wei Sun Christianson of Morgan Stanley, Mark Machin of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
5:15 PM—Donna Strickland of the University of Waterloo and 2018 Nobel Laureate
Tuesday, October 16
9:00 AM—Kevin Johnson, CEO, Starbucks
9:20 AM—SAP CEO Bill McDermott and PayPal CEO Dan Schulman
9:50 AM—Lynn Good of Duke Energy, Doug Suttles of Encana, Felix Zhang of Envision Energy
10:25 AM—Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser
11:15 AM—New Power and Global Politics: Parag Khanna of FutureMap and economist Dambisa Moyo
11:45 AM—Leadership in an Age of Disruption: Ursula Burns of VEON, Andrew Liveris fmr. of Dow Chemical, Steve Mollenkopf of Qualcomm
12:20 PM—New Models for Entertainment: Shahrzad Rafati of BroadbandTV, Jeffrey Remedios of Universal Music
3:00 PM—Training Employees for a Digital Age: Surya Kent of Tata Consultancy Services, Sheila Mercelo of Care.com, Dan Rosensweig of Chegg
3:35 PM—The New Global Consumer: Andrea Stairs of eBay, Ning Tang of CreditEase
4:00 PM—Data Stewardship: David Kenny of IBM, Sherry Shannon-Vanstone of Profound Impact, Ken Xie of Fortinet
4:30 PM—The Outperformers: Tewolde GebreMariam of Ethiopian Airlines, Anu Madgavkar of McKinsey Global Institute, Harry Susilo of Sekar Group
5:00 PM—Chrystia Freeland, foreign affairs minister, Canada
Wednesday, October 17
9:00 AM—AI Innovation: Navdeep Bains of Canada, Steve Irvine of Integrate.ai, Raquel Urtasun of Uber
9:35 AM—Business of Blockchain: Christine Moy of J.P. Morgan, Julie Sweet of Accenture, Alex Tapscott of Blockchain Research Institute
10:10 AM—Dan Doctoroff, CEO, Sidewalk Labs
10:25 AM—Bill Morneau, finance minister, Canada
10:45 AM—Feeding the World: Murad Al-Katib of AGT Food and Ingredients, Liam Condon of Bayer AG, Carla Vernón of General Mills
11:15 AM—Lawrence Summers, fmr. U.S. Treasury Secretary
