CEO Roundtable

The past few years have seen five major factors influencing global events: the rising economic and social impacts of climate change, less robust economic growth in developed economies, migration-related strains, the evolving U.S.-China relationship, and a more dramatic shift to the Information Economy. Add in a Presidential election and a likely economic slowdown, and 2020 is poised to be a year of volatility and uncertainty. This relatively rare confluence poses new dangers yet also .. continue reading opportunities as geopolitics and global economic dynamics shift. Amid all the forecasts and volatility lies new uncertainty about the policy trajectory across a range of industries – but in particular healthcare, energy, technology, and finance. Hear about the major risks to the 2020 outlook, and break down the ‘signal to noise’ ratio to isolate the most important developments that will shape the outcomes you and the industry can achieve in what will undoubtedly be a tumultuous year. In his forthcoming book, Fox-Penner notes that any real climate solution demands clean electric power. Hear his take on the issues we need to confront to implement large-scale carbon-free power systems, including storage options, generation from nuclear power and gas with carbon capture and storage, large-scale power transmission (including so-called supergrids), and clean energy infrastructure planning and investment.