18th - 21st January
St Moritz
PROGRAM
St Moritz
PROGRAM
FIRST DAY
Thursday,
18 January 2024
12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Plenary Reporting & Discussion
16:30 - 17:30 (Europe/London)
Reporting Plenary & Discussion
SECOND DAY
Friday,
19 January 2024
18:30 - 19:30 (Europe/London)
Wrap Up and Takeaways
Welcome
We are delighted to welcome you to the GRI Global Chairmen’s Retreat 2024.
As always, the GRI Chairmen’s Retreat provides a collegial and informal space for conversations between friends.
It is an opportunity to compare ideas, concerns and hopes with the best and brightest of your peers.
We encourage you to actively participate, interject, comment, question, dissent, and openly speak your mind.
And to have fun while doing so.
Life is too short for anything else.
Welcome to St Moritz.
As always, the GRI Chairmen’s Retreat provides a collegial and informal space for conversations between friends.
It is an opportunity to compare ideas, concerns and hopes with the best and brightest of your peers.
We encourage you to actively participate, interject, comment, question, dissent, and openly speak your mind.
And to have fun while doing so.
Life is too short for anything else.
Welcome to St Moritz.
Agenda
WEDNESDAY 17
12:00 - 24:00
Arrivals
Consider: the train from Zürich Airport to St Moritz with 2 changes at Zürich central station and Chur travels through a scenic Winter Wonderland and is highly recommended, especially during daylight. One can buy train tickets online from the official SBB website. Car service is also available at the Palace concierge.
Evening
19:00 - 19:30
New Members Welcome Orientation
Members Only
[Veranda - Palace]
[Veranda - Palace]
Pop-in Pop-out
Welcome Drinks
Welcome Drinks
Members & Spouses/Partners
[Veranda - Palace]
Option:
21:00
Encounter Dinner:
Join GRI Members’ Table
Join GRI Members’ Table
[Chesa Veglia - Pizzeria Heuboden]
Lucky encounter dinner is under the auspices of the women’s committee. This is an independent members dinner where everybody pays for themselves.
Chesa Veglia (2 minutes from Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge + 41 81 837 2629 [email protected](GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually).
Tip:
Equipment rental
Today if possible (or any other downtime if not) is an ideal quiet time to rent/reserve equipment in the hotel's excellent ski shop before the crunch on activity days.
Equipment rental
Today if possible (or any other downtime if not) is an ideal quiet time to rent/reserve equipment in the hotel's excellent ski shop before the crunch on activity days.
THURSDAY 18
Daylight
08:45 - 17:30
Program
Members Only
Opening debate | Breakout discussions | Keynote | Plenary reporting & dissent | Chairmen's forecasts & votes
Guided Spouse Activities & Lunch
Spouses/Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
9:30 | Skiing
Evening
19:00 - 22:00
Gala Drinks | Dinner
Members & Spouses/Partners
[Le Restaurant - Palace]
*Jacket (tie optional)
FRIDAY 19
Daylight
Guided Networking Activities & Lunch
Members & Spouses/Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
08:30+ | Skiing
(Palace lobby) Last departure: 10:30
10:00 | Curling
St. Moritz Curling Club
(Palace lobby) Departure: 9:30
Independent Activities
Request information at the Concierge
Hiking - all levels
Sledding - Preda-Bergün
Cycling (Electric Bike)
Ice Skating - frozen St. Moritz Lake.
Sledding - Preda-Bergün
Cycling (Electric Bike)
Ice Skating - frozen St. Moritz Lake.
Ice skates can be rented at the Ludains ice arena next to the lake. Familiarity with ice skating is advisable.
Dusk
16:00
Café, Kirsch & Cake
Members & Spouses/Partners
[Le Restaurant - Palace]
17:00 | Keynote
18:30 | Wrapup & takeaways
Option:
20:00
Encounter Dinner:
join GRI members’ table
join GRI members’ table
Matsuhisa Nobu (at Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge + 41 81 837 2629 [email protected]
(GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually).
SATURDAY 20
Daylight
Guided Networking Activities & Lunch
Members & Spouses/Partners
Group departures from hotel entrance:
08:30+ | Skiing
Last departure: 10:30
Independent Activities
Request information at the Concierge
Hiking - all levels
Sledding - Preda-Bergün
Cycling (Electric Bike)
Ice Skating - frozen St. Moritz Lake.
Sledding - Preda-Bergün
Cycling (Electric Bike)
Ice Skating - frozen St. Moritz Lake.
Ice skates can be rented at the Ludains ice arena next to the lake. Familiarity with ice skating is advisable.
Dusk
Guided Networking Activities
Members & Spouses/Partners
16:30 | GRI Mastermind ‘Pub Quiz’ & Teatime
Calling all trivia revelers; from the meek, mighty to downright competitive for a relaxing afternoon, designed to engage and connect with fellow members.
17:30 - 18:30
Goodbye Drinks
Members & Spouses/Partners
[Veranda - Palace]
Option:
20:00
Encounter Dinner:
Join GRI Members’ Table
Join GRI Members’ Table
King's Social House (at Palace): reserve ideally by 16:00 prior day at the Concierge + 41 81 837 2629 [email protected]
(GRI-facilitated independent optional dinner with other members. Not part of program, settled by dining participants individually)
SUNDAY 21
08:00 - 14:00
Departures
If available, members of the GRI Chairmen's Retreat will be extended a 15:00 late checkout upon timely prior request.
Program
THURSDAY 18
08:45
Opening Plenary
10:00
Break
10:15
Breakout discussions
Inflation & Interest rates - Is today the new normal?
[Embassy]
[Embassy]
Offices - Is this down cycle temporary?
[Relais]
[Relais]
Residential - Is this the time to invest big?
[Roni Pieper I]
[Roni Pieper I]
AI - Productivity multiplier or occupancy killer?
[Roni Pieper II]
[Roni Pieper II]
11:15
Break
12:00
Plenary Reporting & Discussion
13:00
Lunch
14:00
GRI 25th Anniversary
Gustavo Favaron, Managing Partner & CEO, GRI Club
14:10
Keynote
China - Awkward co-existence or collision course?
Ian Williams, Journalist and Author
15:00
Break
15:15
Breakout discussions
Debt Funds & Alternatives - Good times or trouble ahead?
[Embassy]
[Embassy]
Real Estate - Not the inflation hedge once thought?
[Relais]
[Relais]
Hotels - How long will revenge travel keep prices high?
[Roni Pieper I]
[Roni Pieper I]
Data, Student, Healthcare, etc - Is “Alternative” where values are?
[Roni Pieper II]
[Roni Pieper II]
16:15
Break
16:30
Reporting Plenary & Discussion
FRIDAY 19
17:00
Keynote
AI - Golden promise, pack of perils?
John Tasioulas, Director, Institute for Ethics AI Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
18:30
Wrap Up and Takeaways
Keynotes
CHINA
Awkward co-existence or collision course?
Ian Williams
Journalist and Author
Ian Williams was business correspondent for The Sunday Times before becoming a foreign correspondent for 25 years for Channel 4 News (1991 – 2006) and then America’s NBC (2006 – 2016), covering Russia and then Asia. He has travelled and worked extensively in China, and has also covered conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine. He won an Emmy and BAFTA awards for his discovery and reporting on the Serb detention camps during the war in Bosnia, and an award from the Royal Television Society for his reporting on international arms smuggling. He is the author of four books – two novels and two non-fiction. His most recent, The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold War, looking at Beijing’s increasing global belligerence, was shortlisted for the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times and The Spectator, and has commented on international affairs for TalkTV, BBC, Times Radio, LBC and numerous podcasts. He is currently writing a book on business in China that seeks to characterise the often surreal, frequently dangerous and for many deeply addictive draw of the China market.
AI
Golden promise, pack of perils?
John Tasioulas
Director, Institute for Ethics, AI Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
John is Professor of Ethics & Legal Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI. He is the co-editor of The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. John is a member of the International Advisory Board, Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA), European Parliament and a member of the AI Consultative Group of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Breakout Discussions Provocateur
David Stubbs
Senior Investment Strategist
Dr. David Stubbs is the Senior Investment Strategist for Blackstone. Former Global Head of Thematic Strategy for J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank. Based in the New York office, he was responsible for delivering research-driven insights on the global economy and thematic investing to ultra-high net worth clients. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN and other major market outlets. David was most recently the Global Head of Market Strategy at the JP Morgan Private Bank and was formerlv member of Asset Management’s Market Insights team, where he was responsible for formulating and communicating the business’s market views to institutional investors and financial advisors across the region and around the world.
Floorplan
BETTER HALVES
Alexander Riches & Omega Poole
Antonio Pereira & Barbara Dias
Aref & Manon Lahham
Bryan Colwell & Allison Wagner
Christian & Victoria Jamison
Christo & Victoria Iliev
Christopher & Mia Murray
Cristina García-Peri & Luis Amusategui
David & Sindhu Pralong
David Stubbs & Westin Ray
Dieter & Carmen Kraeuchi
Dimitri & Alina Chandogin
Emanuele Boni & Sveva Colonna
Eric & Adriana Assimakopoulos
George & Emma Nicholas
Gustavo Nicolau & Cynthia Chalom
Hal & Glenn Shaw
Jaime Enrique Hugas & Esther Levy
Jay Kwan & Elena Cho
Jim Blakemore & Grace Hackmeier
Joanne & Gary McNamara
Jochen & Mary Schaefer‑Suren
John Tasioulas & Rebecca Lowe
Jonathan & Ephy Ofer
Jordi Robinat & Rita Rosés
Josh & Stefanie Lawrence
Antonio Pereira & Barbara Dias
Aref & Manon Lahham
Bryan Colwell & Allison Wagner
Christian & Victoria Jamison
Christo & Victoria Iliev
Christopher & Mia Murray
Cristina García-Peri & Luis Amusategui
David & Sindhu Pralong
David Stubbs & Westin Ray
Dieter & Carmen Kraeuchi
Dimitri & Alina Chandogin
Emanuele Boni & Sveva Colonna
Eric & Adriana Assimakopoulos
George & Emma Nicholas
Gustavo Nicolau & Cynthia Chalom
Hal & Glenn Shaw
Jaime Enrique Hugas & Esther Levy
Jay Kwan & Elena Cho
Jim Blakemore & Grace Hackmeier
Joanne & Gary McNamara
Jochen & Mary Schaefer‑Suren
John Tasioulas & Rebecca Lowe
Jonathan & Ephy Ofer
Jordi Robinat & Rita Rosés
Josh & Stefanie Lawrence
Keith & Lauren Breslauer
Marco & Laureen Zarges
Mark Allan & Joanna Hellen
Martti Savenius & Benedetta Bertazzi
Michael & Christina Zimmer
Nadav & Ronit Zohar
Nebil & Diana Senman
Niko & Ksenia Karstikko
Nikoletta Fouska & Bo Ilsoe
Philippe & Laurel Polleys Camus
Pradeep & Medha Pattem
Rafael Coste Campos & Amelie Mazurier
Riccardo Dallolio & Elisa Astorri
Richard Croft & Hilary Keane
Richard Georgi & Sanae Ishikawa
Roger Orf & Lisa Heffernan
Said Hejal & Katharina Damm
Saul & Laura Goldstein
Tom-Eric & Sabine Möller
Toni & Cecelia Rossi
Tracy & Donald Stroh
Van & Sharon Stults
Vitor & Rute Rocha
Will Andrich & Irina Rozhkova
Will & Krishma Dear
Zsolt & Katie Kohalmi
Marco & Laureen Zarges
Mark Allan & Joanna Hellen
Martti Savenius & Benedetta Bertazzi
Michael & Christina Zimmer
Nadav & Ronit Zohar
Nebil & Diana Senman
Niko & Ksenia Karstikko
Nikoletta Fouska & Bo Ilsoe
Philippe & Laurel Polleys Camus
Pradeep & Medha Pattem
Rafael Coste Campos & Amelie Mazurier
Riccardo Dallolio & Elisa Astorri
Richard Croft & Hilary Keane
Richard Georgi & Sanae Ishikawa
Roger Orf & Lisa Heffernan
Said Hejal & Katharina Damm
Saul & Laura Goldstein
Tom-Eric & Sabine Möller
Toni & Cecelia Rossi
Tracy & Donald Stroh
Van & Sharon Stults
Vitor & Rute Rocha
Will Andrich & Irina Rozhkova
Will & Krishma Dear
Zsolt & Katie Kohalmi
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