Thought leadership

Position yourself as a thought leader

Corporate Network not only provides forward-thinking insight for senior business leaders. We also offer a platform to deliver and enhance multiple marketing and communication needs, including brand awareness and visibility, networking and lead generation opportunities and on-going audience engagement.

About Economist Intelligence Corporate Network

Who we are

The Economist Intelligence Corporate Network is membership-based executive event, research, and advisory division of The Economist Group. We are an invitation-only membership based group that leverages the convening power of The Economist brand to bring together leaders from industry, government and academia to discuss the key trends shaping regional economies and the managerial responses to those changes.

EICN provides insights into macroeconomic and business trends via senior-level events, high-caliber research and executive briefing sessions.

Our events

The Corporate Network hosts approximately 16 events per city annually. With nine cities in the Network that means 144 events over the course of a year where your senior executives can attend, network and share views.

Start a dialogue and build relationships with an engaged audience of influential decision-makers and opinion leaders. Across our nine networks, EICN has over 2,400 individual members from across 500+ of the world’s most important organisations.

Brand awareness and visibility

Showcase your expertise by taking advantage of speaking opportunities in our plenary events or by engaging in our closed-door CxO sessions, which are well-attended by the region’s leading senior business leaders.

EICN members also receive a complementary annual briefing, which you can utilise by bringing in one of our senior editors as a keynote speaker to provide macro context to client engagement events.

Corporate Network also offers the opportunity to sponsor any of our on-calendar events, or to create a bespoke event programme to increase the visibility of your company throughout the region.

Businesses also have the opportunity to sponsor our research. EICN regularly survey’s C-suite leaders on their take on current trends, economic and political events and how they expect the business environment will evolve over the short to medium-term.

Recently sponsored events

Supply chain leadership roundtable: Managing supply chain disruption

EICN convened two roundtables for senior executives based in either ANZ or South-east Asia to discuss how to manage supply chain disruption and how to use supply chain management as a tool to grow their businesses.

The fourth industrial revolution: Growth, innovation and the future of work in the Middle East

The executive roundtable addressed three areas of potential impact by the fourth industrial revolution: economic growth, innovation and the future of work. Using that framework, we moderated discussion a with senior leaders.

Clusters of innovation: New technologies and smart economies in Asia

Experts have been pointing to APAC as the region to watch for new hubs of technological and social innovation. This panel discussion examined how new technologies are being leveraged to improve the livability, prosperity and sustainability of cities in Asia.

Climate transparency: Setting standards for climate change disclosure

Regulators around the world have been strengthening their requirements for climate change disclosures for listed companies. During this panel discussion, our speakers discussed what a globally fair set of rules would look like and how Asian companies can have a say.

Explore our research

c-suite survey results

Leading from a distance

In this report, we share findings from a global survey of business leaders to better understand how their current- and post-pandemic outlook is testing and even changing their approach to leadership. The report also explores the risks and opportunities organisations face where hybrid working environments are set to remain long after the pandemic passes.

Event summary

Managing supply chain disruptions

Supply chain disruptions have always existed, but recent years suggest that rather than being exceptions, they represent a new norm of continuous change. While such events can be challenging, they can also create new opportunities for growth, but only if companies manage them well. This paper summarizes the key findings of a virtual event on managing supply chain disruptions.

Report

The view from the bridge: Leading companies through the pandemic and beyond

C-level executives are steering their companies through one of the greatest threats that they are likely to face in their career. Leadership may be forged by crisis, but for CEOs the challenge is to do more than circle the wagons: they need to seek opportunities to grow the business, to emerge out of the crisis stronger than when they went in.