The CEO Forum
Where the world's most consequential minds gather to confront the defining challenges of our era. Science, power, and the future of humanity — on one stage.
What is the CEO Forum
The room where the future is debated
The IAS CEO Forum is a high-level platform that brings global CEOs, leading scientists, policymakers, and investors face to face with the grand challenges of the 21st century. Every session is a collision of disciplines — where laboratory insight meets boardroom decision, and where Africa's voice belongs at the center of the global conversation.
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Science that moves marketsEach session translates frontier research into the strategic insight that shapes industries and informs the decisions of tomorrow.
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Global voices, African stageWorld-class guests come to Benguerir — and Africa's ambition goes out to the world. This is a forum that reconfigures the map of influence.
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Ideas that become actionNot a conference. A convergence. The conversations that begin here have a way of becoming collaborations, policies, and breakthroughs.
Flagship Annual Challenges
Climate Change, Human Health,
Equity: From Challenge to Convergence
For our inaugural meeting, IAS UM6P brought one of the world's foremost voices on global health to Science Week — to ask a question that matters to every person on the planet: can we solve climate change and the health crisis together?
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Victor Dzau
President, United States National Academy of Medicine
Former Chancellor of Duke University and one of the most influential figures in global health today, Prof. Dzau has dedicated his career to answering the hardest questions at the intersection of science, medicine, and society. His keynote at UM6P was a masterclass in what convergence science means in practice — and why it is the only path forward.
On the Agenda
The questions that cannot wait
Every two months, the Forum zeroes in on one of these defining themes. These are not abstract topics — they are the fault lines along which the next decade will be won or lost. The IAS CEO Forum exists to put the right minds in the same room, and let the conversation begin.
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Be part of what comes next
The IAS CEO Forum is growing. Future meetings will bring new voices, new disciplines, and new challenges to the stage at UM6P. Follow our work, attend Science Week, and be in the room when it happens.
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