This conference is organized by Jeremy Ghez and Olivier Chatain (HEC Paris) and Paul Charon (IRSEM).

A year ago, we asked whether firms were actors or bystanders in a fragmenting world. The conversation has moved on. Trade has not collapsed, but the financial architecture is straining. Industrial policy is back. AI development is pluralizing. Trust in institutions keeps eroding even as companies shoulder more of the social weight that governments once carried. The question is no longer whether the world is fragmenting. It is whether what we are watching is a system breaking apart or a system rearranging itself, and what that distinction means for the firms living through it.

This second edition brings together academics, think tank researchers, business leaders, and policymakers to take stock. Three panels will examine where global risk now sits, how shattered the world really is once you look past the headlines, and what firms are actually doing about it.

This is a unique space for like-minded professionals who don’t necessarily meet elsewhere to share views and insights about what they’re seeing on their side of the planet.

Register here!