17:00 Registration

Registration, Networking and one-on-one meetings, with refreshments & delicacies.

18:00 Welcome

Chairman welcome and opening remarks.

18:10 Women are the future

– Data doesn’t lie: where women excel, and why we’d be foolish to ignore it.
– Dispelling myths about female leadership in business and politics.
– How to create an equal path for women in business.

18:40 Religion in business: a crash course for the uninitiated

– The key ways religion influences business practices around the world.
– Respecting, understanding and working with collaborators of different faiths.
– The business world as an example for harmonious global relations.

19:00 Roundtable Discussions

With peer learning and interaction in mind, these 60- minute breakout sessions are designed to promote the sharing of experiences and brainstorming of ideas in facilitated and balanced discussions.

20:00 Special Networking Dinner

A chance to network in an informal setting and discuss the day’s events over dinner.

8:30 Registration

Registration, Breakfast and Networking and one-on-one meetings.

10:00 Welcome

Chairman welcome and opening remarks.

10:10 The Holy Quran as guidance for family governance

– An ancient text in a modern world: applying the Holy Quran to some very new issues.
– Creating structure and order in family life and family business.
– How to solve and avoid family disputes in a fair and positive way.

10:30 What do your investments say about you?

– What makes a good private equity investment vs a good venture capital investment?
– Red flags to look out for before you invest in either case.
– How to make your start-up or existing business an attractive prospect for investors.
– As a family office, how should you be looking to invest?

11:00 Family Offices lead globalisation by venturing into frontier markets

– Why family offices are perfectly placed to explored new frontier markets.
– A detailed look at frontier markets including Africa, post-Brexit Europe, Asia, South East Asia, India and China.
– Success stories of family offices who have done well in frontier markets of the past.

11:30 Networking Break

Morning networking coffee break.

12:00 All about digital assets

– What exactly are digital assets?
– Why should you store them securely?
– The best ways to organise and access your digital assets.

12:30 The changing face of Corporate Social Responsibility

– What does CSR look like in 2020?
– CSR’s journey from self-regulated good to legal obligation.
– Choosing a CSR strategy that works for you.

13:00 Knowledge is not motivation: how to really change customer, employee and global behaviours

– Environmental issues: why so many businesses talk about them, but so few are taking action.
– Understanding human nature and how to build it into our internal and external communications.
– Carrot, stick, or a new way entirely? Find out what works for motivating your workforce.

13:20 The next big thing

Our pick of the best investment opportunities for the next 6 months.

13:40 Networking Lunch

A chance to meet and discuss the morning’s sessions over lunch.

14:30 Space: the new emerging market

– It’s not all about a dying planet – some positive reasons to look at space exploration.
– Space investment for cross-border unification and financial reward.
– The companies making the most effective and fastest progress in space exploration for business.

14:50 Effective Wealth Preservation and how to achieve it

– How to assess and minimise risks with a smart investment strategy.
– What restriction are you working against? The obstacles you face and how to circumnavigate them.
– Diversification is key: how to use it to your advantage.
– Managing international cash movement for wealth preservation.
– Balancing assets and liquidity for flexiblity and security.

15:20 Digital natives vs digital immigrants: the real generation gap

– How those born after 1980 grew up speaking the language of computers, while previous generations had to learn it from scratch.
– Digital nativism’s impact on education and training, and why yesterday’s systems are failing today’s learners.
– How digital immigrants and digital natives can work together in harmony.

15:40 Real estate investment: established or emerging?

– New builds vs existing developments, which is best for you?
– The up-and-coming global real estate markets and how to get into them.
– Tried and test markets that will continue to maintain their value.

16:00 Networking Break

Afternoon networking coffee break.

16:30 Attracting family office capital for start-ups

– How to approach family offices – do’s and don’t’s.
– Why family office capital is the best option for your start-up.
– Success stories of start-ups and the family offices who invested in them.

17:00 Roundtable sessions hosted by family offices

Table one: The end of ‘a job for life’?: professional diversification and millennial career aspirations.

Table two: The best practice for work-life balance at the highest levels of responsibility.

Table three: The importance of branding for family offices.

Table four: Education – a business, an ideology, and a social good.

Table five: Retail business.

Table six: Venture capital made easier.

Table seven: Sport as an investment prospect.

17:40 Closing Remarks

Closing Remarks For the summit.

17:50 Cocktail Reception

A Cocktail reception with the chance to network in a n informal setting and discuss the summit.