Why AI Is a Good Fit for Finance

Interacting with artificial intelligence was once the stuff of science fiction, but the reality is that AI and machine learning have become intertwined with everyday modern life. Anyone who’s ever searched Google for an answer, or browsed Netflix for something to watch, has tapped into the advanced computational technology that powers this technology. AI and […]

Coming Disruptions in the U.S. Tower Industry

The business of owning towers is great. Data usage keeps rising, and the customers of tower owners — telecommunications carriers — must continuously add tower capacity. There is little churn because users rarely leave, and there is little obsolescence risk; many tower structures built 70 or 80 years ago are still doing just fine. But […]

What’s Next for India’s E-Commerce Leaders?

E-commerce shoppers today want the same things that shoppers have always wanted: wide selection, reasonable prices, and convenience. The same is true in India as in the rest of the world. Nowadays, a handful of massive companies are, quite literally, delivering for those customers. And entertaining them. And managing their payments. And getting orders fulfilled […]

Social Commerce Is an Avenue for E-commerce Players to Grow Bigger in India

Most Indians know someone who sells products from their home. This is pure social commerce. Startups saw the problem that these entrepreneurs experience, including managing their supplies and payment management, and hence social e-commerce came into being. The ubiquity of smartphones equipped with 3G and 4G propelled the category further. The most popular platforms for […]

What Are E-Commerce Enablers, and What Challenges Do They Face in Southeast Asia?

Why doesn’t a brand build its own offline distribution? It’s too expensive and actually not in its interest. Better to build the branding and marketing, and have good products. Similarly, building online capabilities is very expensive and requires a big team, with graphic designers, content producers, online store managers, customer service, and account managers. For […]

Hyper-Realistic MetaHuman: The “Bridge” to the Metaverse in Web 3.0

[This article was translated from Mandarin] The digital human, MetaHuman, has emerged and is now one of the most mature commercial applications in the metaverse. Because it was born in the metaverse, the MetaHuman already excelled in various applications, including virtual models and brand spokespeople. So how did digital humans evolve? What is the industry […]

NVIDIA Is the Key to the Metaverse

NVIDIA might be the best-positioned company to help grow the metaverse alongside giants like Meta, Google, and Amazon. NVIDIA’s core competency, producing powerful graphics hardware with chips capable of running huge calculations in parallel, is the same stuff that allows massive metaverse projects to run. More technological advancements and more massive scale is coming to […]

Telecommunications in 2022 Australia: 5G

Demand for internet connectivity has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns, with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) reporting data traffic in Australia hit an all-time high in 2020 and 2021. The Growth of 5G The number of global 5G networks has multiplied over the past two years and is expected to […]

Metaverse Evolution: A Five-Year Timeline

The metaverse, purported to be an immersive technology that will change the way humans interact, has attracted significant attention just in the past year. Goldman Sachs analysts predict that the metaverse could be an $8 trillion opportunity, driven by a new wave of technological innovation across augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), in addition […]

Cybersecurity Risks and the Russia/Ukraine Conflict

With Russia’s war on Ukraine showing few signs of ending anytime soon, Michele Landes of GLG’s Tech, Media, and Telecom team hosted Andy Grotto, Director of Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at Stanford University and the Former Senior Director for Cyber Policy at the National Security Council under President Obama and President Trump, to […]

NFTs, the Metaverse, and How They Fit Corporate Strategy

From NFTs (nonfungible tokens) to virtual real estate, blockchain-based assets have exploded in the past year. The phenomenon is driven partly by tech and international brands that anticipate people living a part of their lives in the future in the virtual world. This naturally draws corporations to take a closer look at ways to get […]

Metaverse Outlook and the Current Trends

This article was adapted and translated from Mandarin. In 1992, science fiction writer Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in the novel Snow Crash. In the novel, humans employ programmable avatars to interact with each other in a three-dimensional virtual space that is a metaphor for the real world. Stephenson saw the metaverse as the […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.