Boao Forum
Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018
In 2018 and for the second consecutive year, The European House – Ambrosetti will be coordinating the Italian delegation to the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018 (BFA AC2018), which will take place April 8-11, 2018 in Boao – Hainan, China.
Again this year, The European House-Ambrosetti is heading the italian delegation to the “Boao Forum for Asia annual conference 2018”
In 2018 and for the second consecutive year, The European House – Ambrosetti will be coordinating the Italian delegation to the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018 (BFA AC2018), which will take place April 8-11, 2018 in Boao – Hainan, China.
The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) is a non-profit NGO whose goal is to offer a platform for high-level dialog among government, business and academia to discuss together the most urgent issues for Asia and the world as a whole. The annual conference, in particular, is designed to promote cooperation and coordination among Asian countries and between Asia and the rest of the world, as well as foster networking among the corporate and institutional elite taking part in it. Each year, 10-15 heads of state speak at Boao before an audience of over 2,000 delegates. This year, the plenary session will be held on the morning of April 10th and Xi Jinping is expected to preside.
Among the major issues to be discussed this year are: the renewed challenge of urbanization, the sharing economy, the healthcare sector, the technology blockchain and the future of transport and electric cars.
In a world in which the geo-economic equilibrium is moving steadily eastward, The European House – Ambrosetti believes that the Boao Forum for Asia represents a platform that can offer a preferential overview in understanding trends and how things are evolving, as well as installing new relationships. For this reason, we have pooled our efforts with those of the forum organizers to have a greater Italian presence in Boao and more of our corporate heads as speakers.
The Italian delegation to BFA 2017 was numerically the largest and qualitatively most significant of those from Europe. For 2018, we are proposing to build an even stronger delegation of entrepreneurs and managers.
Paolo Borzatta
Partner, The European House - Ambrosetti