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It Takes All of Us: Winning the War of Ideas Against the Extremists

Ideological extremists have operated in Asia for decades. They remain undefeated, even though Asian governments have spent billions of dollars, partnered in large, multi-national coalitions, and manipulated social media to their advantage...
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Farah Pandith

Author, "How We Win"; Former US Diplomat and Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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Digital Ecosystems Are the Future for Successful Companies

When the average company life span on the S&P 500 has dropped from 61 years to 18, spotting change is more critical than ever for a company’s long-term stability and growth. Disruption has made old business models redundant and bankrupted a...
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Gonzalo Luchetti

Head of Asia Pacific and EMEA Global Consumer Banking, Citi
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Asian Consumers Will Redefine the World

Pocketbooks, not politics, will help Asia influence economies around the world. The region’s sway will come from the oncoming wave of consumers it’s unleashing upon global markets. But increased consumption is only the initial impact...
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Bob Baur

Chief Global Economist, Principal Global Investors
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Redefining Asia: The Middle East

The world is changing. Digital disruption is sweeping the world at breakneck speed. The global balance of power oscillates in line with technological advancements and whoever is currently setting the pace. Against a backdrop of increasing...
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Simon Galpin

Senior Advisor, Investment Promotion, and Former Managing Director, Bahrain Economic Development Board

Tech Innovation Need Not Be 'Made in the USA'

Lessons from California for Asian entrepreneurs and start-ups In the fast-paced world of technology, innovation need not be limited to one side of the Pacific Ocean. Advances are clearly happening all around the Pacific Rim. But Asia...
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Technology: Catalyst for a New Era of Aging in Place

In Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Hal, the defiant onboard computer, foreshadows a future of runaway artificial intelligence. More recently, fears about machines making work obsolete and apocalyptic visions of robot...
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Setting the Course for a Positive Future of Health

A convergence of advances in medicine, technology, and behavioral science will shape the future of health and health care to look dramatically different than they do today. The fundamental health-care challenge of the 21st century is no...
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Mark Hyman

Head of Strategy and Innovation, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
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Is AI the New Health-Care Reform?

Experts at McGraw Hill define artificial intelligence (AI) as the study of how to make computers do things that, at the moment, people do better. A number of AI techniques have transformed various enterprises over the last decade...
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James Golden

CEO, WorldQuant Predictive Technologies