2025 Agenda
Global Economic Summit 2025 focuses on the key themes below with a carefully curated combination of agenda, speakers AND audience to help drive the conversation in these areas, tackle challenges, define outcomes and craft the future of our societies and economies.
Our sessions, exclusive networking opportunities and meeting brokerage services, with a permanent onsite media presence, mean that this is the room where it happens.
Global Trade and Policy
Driving the important discussions, pushing change with sessions such as A Fresh Era of Global Trade & Finance: Adapting to the Current Economic Reality; and The Data-Driven Economy: Balancing Innovation, Regulation, and Trust
EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection
CEO, TransferMate
Security and Defence
Sessions include Digital Battlefields: Insights from the Cyber Frontline; and Global Security, Cybercrime and Whole-of-Society Resilience, with Mark Mellet, Former Irish Chief of Defense; Barry O’Sullivan, IE AI Advisory Council; and Professor VS Subrahmanian, Northwestern University
Walter P. Murphy Professor – Dept. of Computer Science & Buffett Faculty Fellow Buffett Institute of Global Affairs Head, Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) Northwestern University
Former Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces
Fireside Chats
The real-deal conversations to focus discussions at the forefront of where it’s at. Some of our sessions include Space: An Infinite Economy with Alex MacDonald, NASA’s first-ever Chief Economist, who recently stepped down from his 4-year mandate; and a chat on US-Ireland perspectives with Mick Mulvaney, Former Acting Chief of Staff for the Trump Administration
Former White House Chief of Staff to Donald Trump
NASA’s first Chief Economist
The AI Era
From Discovery to Application:
The Transformative Power of AI in Today’s Global Economy; The AI-Powered Workforce: Redefining Jobs, Skills, and Productivity; and more
Chief Science Officer, Cognovi Labs
General Manager, IBM Ireland
The Health Economy
Why Data Will Revolutionise Women’s Health with Ida Tin, Founder of Clue and mother of the term ‘FemTech’; The Intelligent Age – Cooperation for Better Health Outcomes moderated by Chris Coburn, CIO, Mass General Brigham with Liz Shanahan, Chairperson at RelateCare, Advanced Medical Solutions and
Ryan Mann, Chief Science Officer at CognoviLabs
International Medical Secretary, MSF
Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham