Speakers at the Business Leadership Forum included Fujio Cho, Chairman, Toyota Motor Corporation, Ginni Rometty, Senior Vice President for Global Business Services at IBM. She was followed by Carlota Perez, Professor of Technology and Development at the University of Tallinn in Estonia, Henry Chow, Chairman, Greater China Group of IBM kicked things off and introduced Zhang Jianguo, Vice Chairman, Executive Director and President of the China Construction Bank, Pablo Isla Alvarez de Tejera, First Deputy Chairman and CEO from Inditex, Sol Trujillo, CEO of Telstra Corporation Ltd., Dr. Hirotaka Takeuchi, Dean, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy from Hitotsubashi University, Bruce Harreld, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Strategy from IBM, Bohdan Kupych, Vice President, Business Development from Sitronics, Kirsty Bashforth, Chief of Staff, Refining and Marketing from BP plc, Dr. Victor Fung, Group Chairm, from Li and Fung, Manoj Kohli, President and CEO, Bharti Airtel Ltd., Dr. Pankaj Ghemawat, Professor of Business Administration from Harvard University, Hans Ulrich Maerki, Chairman of the Board from IBM EMEA, Esko Aho, President of Sitra and former Prime Minister of Finland, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of BRUEGEL, and Ambassador John Danilovich, Chief Executive Officer from Millennium Challenge Corporation, Dr. Hans-Joachim Koerber, CEO and Chairman of the Management Board at Metro Group, Rob Close, CEO at CLS Group Holdings AG, Linda Sanford, Senior Vice President, Enterprise On Demand Transformation and Information Technology at IBM, and Dr. Peter Weill, Director & Senior Research Scientist, Center for Information Systems Research at MIT Sloan School of Management.