Our summit connects people, ideas and opportunity

More than 4,000 delegates brought the energy – and our Global Investment Summit (GIS) provided the platform to explore the new networks shaping the global economy.

For three days in Hong Kong, the summit - the largest of its kind in Asia - was the super-connector for corporate, institutional and wealth clients seeking opportunities and insight into today's trends in trade, finance and technology.

Our Group CEO Georges Elhedery called out the GIS's power to bring people together for agenda-setting discussions, igniting new insights, firing imaginations and inspiring ideas.

Diverse perspectives

Across panel and breakout sessions, featuring more than 70 international leaders and experts - along with more than 7,000 client meetings and engagements - the summit offered a diverse range of solutions, perspectives and knowledge from markets worldwide.

Our Group Chairman Sir Mark Tucker introduced the GIS with reflections on this year's theme - ‘New Networks Connecting the Global Economy’ - identifying great opportunities, as well as risks, and considering a significant reconfiguration of globalisation as we know it.

Georges identified five factors shaping new networks of finance and trade in his remarks; while Michael Roberts, CEO, HSBC Bank Plc, and CEO of Commercial and Institutional Banking, touched on the huge impact of AI on the corporate world, from the boardroom to the shop floor.

Later in the summit, International Wealth and Premier Banking CEO Barry O'Byrne addressed 460 clients at the GIS Private Wealth Sessions.

Sparking debate

Other speakers included:

• Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former US Trade Representative
• Kumar Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
• Bonnie Chan, CEO, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
• Mario Draghi, former Italian Prime Minister and ex-President of the European Central Bank
• Sir Niall Ferguson, historian, author, filmmaker and Managing Director, Greenmantle
• Arvind Krisha, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM
• The Rt Hon George Osborne, former British Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Sanna Marin, former Prime Minister and Head of the Government of Finland
• Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of Blackstone
• Joe Tsai, Chairman, Alibaba Group

This was the second HSBC Global Investment Summit – an event launched in 2024 and built on the power of our international networks.

As Pam Kaur, our Group Chief Financial Officer, put it: “Nobody connects the world better than HSBC – it’s at the heart of who we are and what we’ve been doing for the last 160 years.”