Arenas are fast-growing, dynamic industries where competitive positions shift rapidly and advantage compounds quickly. Increasingly, these arenas are cutting across traditional industry boundaries and reshaping how and where value is created. Join Bruce Delteil, Antoine Montard, and Kevin Russell as they share the implications for strategy and value creation.

The rise of agentic AI has fundamentally changed what a transformation office needs to look like, and how fast it can operate. Join Chase Covington, David Pralong, and Tomer Slaney as they share a practical playbook for deploying agentic tools to run end-to-end transformation workflows: generating performance insights, maintaining a single source of truth, and driving the right conversations at the right cadence.

Join us for a discussion on why this is a critical strategy moment and how to address it. During the session, Carolyn Dewar, Laura LaBerge, and Andy West will explore the changing basis of competitive advantage, how long-held assumptions are being rewritten, and why strategic choices have become more foundational and consequential.

Few things a CEO can do are more powerful than leading strategy well. The success of a strategy ultimately depends on the CEO's close involvement—and on their ability to fulfill six roles they cannot delegate without putting at risk the value a strategy can create. Join us as Carolyn Dewar, Kurt Strovink, Andy West, and Whitney Zimmerman discuss the six roles and how leading CEOs fulfill them effectively.

Critical infrastructure is facing an increasingly complex threat landscape of risks that are testing organizational resilience. Join Alfonso Natale and Andreas Raggl as they examine where this infrastructure exposure is highest, how organizations are preparing, and the key gaps in enterprise risk management, investment, technology dependencies, and resilience.

Artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the M&A landscape, driving deal activity and creating unprecedented value. Join Benjamin Houssard and Alex Liu as they explore recent research on how AI can help drive deal volume, unlock more synergies and accelerate deal cycles. They will also examine the key archetypes of AI-related acquisitions and the strategic imperatives for leaders to build an AI-ready M&A engine.