< Previouswww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1820KEYNOTE & PANELISTMODERATORKara GoldinCEO & Founder, hint, inc.Annika JostmeierSenior Manager of FDI, Conway AdvisoryKara Goldin is the founder and CEO of hint®, a healthy lifestyle brand that produces the leading unsweetened flavored water, as well as a fruit scented sunscreen spray that is oxybenzone and paraben-free. Kara has received numerous accolades, including being named Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Forbes’ 40 Women to Watch Over 40, EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 Northern California, Fortune Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink 2015 and the Gold Stevie award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Previously, Kara was Vice President of Shopping and E-commerce Partnerships at AOL, where she helped lead the growth of its startup shopping business to a $1 billion enterprise. Kara is an active business speaker and writer, a member of C200, and a member of SFBay YPO, the world’s premier chief executive leadership organization. In 2016, Kara launched The Kara Network, a digital resource and mentoring platform for aspiring and established entrepreneurs, and she recently launched the podcast Unstoppable, where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs and disruptors across various industries.Annika Jostmeier joined Conway, Inc. in 2014 after working for two years for the Volkswagen Group (VW) in India. At VW she was responsible for the coordination, analysis and identification of strategic market opportunities in India, and also contributed to the successful integration of VW India as a foreign subsidiary within the VW Group. Her previous roles include positions with corporate and research institutions in Africa, Middle East and China. Annika’s involvement in corporate decision-making processes and transnational project management has been a valuable asset that strengthens Conway’s ability to deliver results across various industries and geographies.At Conway, Annika assists different government agencies in identifying and attracting investment opportunities and has worked on various projects to develop FDI strategies and applicable analysis for site selection advisory projects. She has profound knowledge of methods, tools and relevant data sources to continuously produce innovative approaches to attract FDI projects from selected industry sectors and geographic source markets.Annika graduated in Business Administration, specializing in International and Strategic Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany and the Universidad Mayor de Santiago de Chile. In addition to German, she speaks fluent English and basic Spanish.PANEL IIThe Investor Perspective: Where Is Investment Going & Why?www.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1821PANELISTPANELISTRene BuckPresident & CEO, Buck Consultants InternationalPatrick V. Fiel, Jr.Head of Corporate Development, EdgeConneXRené Buck is president and CEO of Buck Consultants International, a company he founded in April 1985. More than 32 years later, Buck Consultants International is one of the world’s leading independent manufacturing footprint optimization, location strategy, site selection and supply chain design consulting companies in the world. Buck Consultants International has offices in the US (Atlanta, Bay Area, Los Angeles), Europe (Nijmegen & the Hague - the Netherlands; London, UK; Frankfurt, Germany; Paris, France) and Asia (Shanghai, Singapore). The firm employs 65 dedicated professionals.Buck Consultants International works for a wide range of international companies in various industries: high tech; industrial equipment & products; automotive; medical technology; food & beverage; FMCG; chemicals; (bio)pharma; fashion & apparel; logistics. Industrial clients include Columbia Sportswear, Dell, ExxonMobil, Ikea, Johnson & Johnson, Mondelez, Novartis, Pfizer, Siemens, Sony, Toyota, Unilever and Yamaha.The projects include location studies for production plants, distribution centers, R&D centers and support centers as well as manufacturing and supply chain optimization studies in all regions of the world. Buck Consultants International provides independent, unbiased, tailor-made advise; Buck Consultants International assists more than 900 clients in 50 countries.Patrick Fiel works for EdgeConneX, the only Global Edge Data Center Provider, where he serves as Head of Corporate Development & Initiatives. Patrick is responsible for EdgeConneX’s global corporate development/ M&A and architecting the company’s strategic and growth initiatives. He also supports the company’s continued efforts to deliver innovative Edge Data Center® solutions where in customer demand.Previously, Patrick was with Equinix, the world’s leading interconnection and retail co-location data center provider. He also has served as a public company general counsel/ chief legal officer, in-house counsel to a large financial institution and capital markets advisor at a multinational law firm.PANEL IIwww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1822MODERATORPANELISTAmy La PorteWriter/Producer/Reporter, CNNCarine ClarkPresident & CEO, BanyanAmy La Porte is an Emmy -nominated lead writer, producer and reporter at CNN. She has created curriculum for CNN writers and reporters and has experience coordinating and leading teams of professionals. Before working for CNN, Amy was a television news anchor at one of Australia’s main broadcast networks based in the capital, Canberra. Prior to this, Amy held a full-time academic teaching position lecturing classes in several divergent communication subjects while writing her dissertation.As well as her current work in the field of journalism, Amy is also the founder and President of Softer Streets Inc. a non-profit assisting the U.S. homeless population. Having lived, worked or traveled in almost 50 countries, and having interviewed everyone from crime victims to national lawmakers, Amy has procured the ability to instantly relate and communicate with people from all cultures and walks of life. Carine Clark is a three-time president and CEO of high-growth tech companies, specializing in helping companies scale from $10 million to $100 million or more. Her reputation as a data-driven marketing executive at Novell, Altiris and Symantec opened doors to lead Allegiance, MartizCX and Banyan as President and CEO. She attributes her success to building an abundant team of teams culture, demonstrating that companies accelerate their growth when they multiply their people.As a cancer survivor, Clark channels her deep appreciation for life and relationships into advocating that tech professionals pay it forward by mentoring young people. In addition, Clark serves on the executive boards of GOED (The Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development) and Silicon Slopes, a non-profit helping Utah’s tech community thrive. She has received numerous awards including the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the Utah Region and Utah Business Magazine’s CEO of the Year. Clark earned a Bachelor’s degree in organizational communications and an MBA from Brigham Young University. PANEL IIIWorkforce Development & Talent Acquisitionwww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1823PANELISTPANELISTAnkur GopalCEO, InteraptJon GustafsonPerformance Consultant, Lockheed MartinAnkur Gopal, the recipient of the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award, was named Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame’s 2014 Emerging Entrepreneur and one of Business First’s 40 Business Leaders Under 40. He is a recognized speaker who has addressed audiences at multiple leading conferences, including TEDx, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and Salesforce’s Dreamforce. Gopal studied Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has an MIS degree from University of Dayton, and a business degree from University of Illinois. Gopal currently serves on the board of directors for several organizations and is an active entrepreneur mentor, investor, and philanthropist.Jon Gustafson is Director of Workforce Partnerships & Incentives for Lockheed Martin Corporation. He resides in Fort Worth, Texas, where he leads economic and workforce development efforts to maximize opportunities for public/private partnerships, training grants and other economic development incentives to lower costs and increase the skills of the company’s present and future workforce.Mr. Gustafson serves on multiple regional boards dealing with workforce development and education, including the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Regional Workforce Leadership Council, the Tarrant County Workforce Development Board (Chair), and the DFW Regional Aerospace Consortium. As part of the aerospace industry-led consortium, Mr. Gustafson works collaboratively with regional employer representatives from Bell Helicopter – a Textron Company, Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division, Elbit Systems of America, Airbus Helicopter, Raytheon, Sikorsky - a Lockheed Martin Company, many smaller aerospace and aviation companies, the Arlington and Fort Worth Chambers of Commerce, Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County and the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center to leverage private and public resources to sustain a skilled regional workforce, develop relevant training programs and promote community awareness and future worker preparation for the aerospace industry. The consortium also partners with regional education and training providers and receives support from the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Education Agency.PANEL IIIwww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1824PANELIST Bushra SarawWomen Who Code Leader, AptivBushra Sarwar is a driven and dedicated Global Talent Program Manager for Aptiv, a global technology company that develops safer, greener and more connected solutions, which enable the future of mobility. With proven strengths in Talent Acquisition initiatives supporting a variety of disciplines, Bushra is innovative, resourceful and goal-oriented and has a creative approach to delivering results.Her specialties include: C-Level Communications, Program Management, Employee Experience, Employee Referral Program, Global Internal Mobility, Workforce planning, Succession Planning, Global Talent Acquisition Strategies, Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives, Leader/Spokesperson for Women Who Code - Self Driving TeamPANEL IIIwww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1825MODERATORPANELISTRichard QuestAnchor & Correspondent, CNNLeila Aridi AfasDirector, International Public Policy, ToyotaRichard Quest is CNN’s foremost international business correspondent and presenter of Quest Means Business, the definitive word on how we earn and spend our money. Based in New York, he is one of the most instantly recognizable members of the CNN team. He has regularly reported from the G20 meetings and attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland each year. He has covered every major stock market and financial crises since Black Monday in 1987 and has reported from key financial centers globally, including Wall Street, London, Sao Paulo, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He is also the established airline and aviation correspondent at CNN. He has interviewed all the major airline CEO’s, including Delta, Qatar Airways, AirAsia and Emirates. His coverage of breaking news spanning two decades has seen him report on a range of stories from the death of Yasser Arafat, the Lockerbie Pan AM 103 crash, to the death of Michael Jackson. Prior to joining CNN, he worked at BBC for 12 years, where he was the North American business correspondent based on Wall Street. He is a world class facilitator, as well as a brilliant speaker on business and management issues, and is full of energy, humor and insights.Leila Aridi Afas is responsible for coordinating the work between Toyota and its global consulting firms, think tanks and other organizations as it relates to geopolitical policy issues. She also augments Toyota government affairs operations in emerging markets, such as Southeast Asia and Latin America, where the company has business facilities.Afas most recently served as an appointee for President Obama at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. In that role, she promoted global sales for U.S. companies through market development, client advocacy, interagency coordination and business activities with companies, embassies, trade associations and overseas stakeholders.Previously, she served as USTDA’s Country Manager for the Middle East and North Africa during the Administration of President Bush, managing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of grant funds for infrastructure development projects throughout the region. She also served as a Manager in Grant Thornton’s Global Public Sector practice, helping clients around the world improve efficiency, increase transparency and advance economic growth.PANEL IV Rise of the Robotswww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1826PANELIST Ina BagociuteCo-Founder and Innovation Director, HACKMASTERSIna Bagociute, Co-founder and Innovation Director at Hackmasters, a technology and innovation company working as a network to create futuristic propositions and IP for their clients in record time. Over the last four years, Ina has led more than 11 Hacks worldwide and 25 collective intelligence workshops, developing products and services from a concept to pilot stage for a range of sectors including future of healthcare, education, work, mobility, tourism, energy, wealth, finance and trade. Having worked with AI, Robotics, IOT, smart materials, wearables, embeddables and an extensive range of other emerging technologies, Ina uses systems thinking to enable extremely diverse teams to develop transformational propositions.Recently she’s been leading the strategic/creative direction and development of six DUBAI GOVERNMENT departments’ propositions for the 10X Agenda. Her project Dubai Time was presented at the World Summit 2018 as one of the key products to be taken into the market within the next year.PANELIST Josef GmeinerCEO, RinovasolJosef Gmeiner is CEO of the Rinovasol Group, a large comprehensive group of companies incorporating production, R&D, trade, and consulting into one organic whole with 4 world patents in technology and design. Their products have received the CB Certification and are insured with one of the biggest insurance companies of Germany.With significant investments in the research and application of new techniques, new materials and new designs for crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules, Rinovasol has constantly improved the competitive advantages of its products. Today, Rinovasol is the world’s largest and most specialized defective modules refurbishment group.PANEL IV www.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1827PANELIST Amit Kumar PandeyChief Scientist, SoftBank Robotics EuropeDr. Amit Kumar Pandey is Head Principal Scientist at SoftBank Robotics in Paris, France. Formerly, Amit was a Researcher in Robotics and AI at LAAS-CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) in Toulouse, France. His PHD work on “Towards Socially Intelligent Robots in Human Centered Environment”, is awarded among the best three PHD Theses in Robotics in Europe for the prestigious Georges Giralt Award.He is the founding coordinator of Socially Intelligent Robots and Societal Applications Topic Group of euRobotics, and a contributor in its Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR). MAR aims to shape the future of robotics in Europe in collaboration with the European Commission through PPP SPARC, one of the largest civilian-funded robotics innovation programs in the world.Amit received the 2014 Pravashi Bihari Samman Puruskar for Science, Technology and Education, one of the highest level civilian honors, awarded by the state of Bihar, India.His research interest includes Socially Intelligent Robots and Societal Impact of robotics & AI technologies, Human Robot Interaction, Robot’s Cognitive Architecture & Learning. On these aspects, he has been actively contributing as principal investigator, researcher and industrial scientific coordinator in various national and European Union projectsHe has also published more than 50 scientific research papers and delivered more than 60 invited talks/keynotes/lecture in international venues.PANEL IV www.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1828MODERATORPANELISTMike ChinoySenior Fellow, USC U.S.-China InstituteMariana PereiraDirector, DarktraceMike Chinoy is the creator of the Assignment China documentary film series on the history of American correspondents in China. He is also an independent consultant on media strategy and training for business executives, NGOs, and others.Previously, Chinoy spent 24 years as a foreign correspondent for CNN. He was the network’s first Bureau Chief in Beijing, served as Bureau Chief in Hong Kong and as Senior Asia Correspondent. He has reported on the most important events in Asia since the mid-1970s, including the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of China, the Hong Kong handover, the Soviet and US wars in Afghanistan, the Southeast Asian tsunami, elections and political crises in Taiwan, and developments in North Korea, which he has visited 17 times.Mr. Chinoy has received numerous awards for his journalism, including the Emmy, Peabody, and Dupont awards. As a Director at Darktrace, Mariana works closely with the development, analytics and marketing teams to devise high-impact commercial strategies for promoting Darktrace’s AI technology for cyber defense to technical and non-technical audiences. Her extensive career as an executive includes over a decade of commercial and marketing experience in companies spanning multiple industries, including enterprise software company Autonomy and FMCG global leader Heinz. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and speaks several languages. PANEL V Cybersecurity: Opportunities & Obstacleswww.worldforumforfdi.com | www.conway.com | @conwayglobal | #WorldForum1829PANELISTPANELISTKimmie Rostrup BraunerPrivacy, EU, GDPR, Specialist, IBM GlobalJustin SmithChief Security Officer, Pivotal SoftwareA lawyer specialized in Global Privacy & EU GDPR, with a background in UN human rights and politics; Kimmie Rostrup Brauner works as a Specialist and Senior Consultant with the global consultancy group of IBM (CoC, SSRC). Primarily focusing on large-scale corporate clients within Europe.Selected by Berlingske Business as one of the most promising rising stars under 35 in Denmark, as a part of the annual event ‘Talent 100’; 2018 edition.Justin Smith defends against hackers. He did it for Microsoft. He did it for Google. He’s even spoken to US intelligence agencies about best practices.Focusing exclusively on cloud security for the last 10 years, Justin has been one of the most respected experts in the enterprise software industry for nearly two decades. He’s been accountable for the R&D of security services at both Microsoft and Google and was an early contributor to the gold-standard security protocol used to protect RESTful programming interfaces. In his current role, Justin oversees the security of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the world’s leading open-source cloud runtime. If you use the internet, a smartphone, a tablet or gaming consoles anywhere in the world, you’ve probably been exposed to Justin’s work.Justin’s been a featured speaker at events all over the world and has been published in multiple global tier-one media. He splits his time between San Francisco, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, where he’s raising a young daughter and plotting world domination.PANEL V Next >