Good morning and Happy Veterans Day.
Today also marks the start of the 2024 Fortune Global Forum in New York City. You can check out the agenda here and follow along on the livestream here if you’re not joining us in person.
We will open this morning with two army veterans: Mike Pompeo, former 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 conversation with former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who will no doubt reflect on his role in shaping where Britain is today—and where the U.K. and Europe go from here with President-elect Donald Trump returning to Washington.
In between, we will have a series of compelling discussions, debates, workshops, and special performances. Having recently visited Riyadh, which is transforming itself at a speed and scale unlike any city I’ve seen, I look forward to speaking about the ambitious scope of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 with H.E. Fahd bin Abdulmohsan Al-Rasheed, advisor to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
I get a lot of thought-provoking and insightful comments from the readers of this newsletter, many of whom are leading businesses themselves. So please feel free to reach out to me at the email below with any questions or thoughts you have for our speakers.
My opening panel this morning, for example, will look at the transformative changes that are reshaping business and what may change with a shifting political landscape. I’ll be speaking with Columbia University’s Abby Joseph Cohen, NYSE Group president Lynn Martin, and IBM vice chairman Gary Cohn, who served as director of the National Economic Council and chief economic adviser to Trump.
Later in the day, I’ll speak with McKinsey senior partner Eric Kutcher and Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin about powering the AI revolution. I also look forward to a deep dive into how you really connect culture and performance with Target CEO Brian Cornell and Steven Williams, the CEO of PepsiCo Foods North America—both of whom have also known each other for more than two decades. And my colleagues will be interviewing many other leaders, thinkers, artists, and disrupters on the issues shaping not just business but society and ourselves.
Please do join in the conversation and let me know what you’re curious about.
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Diane Brady
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