Sponsors

McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps leading corporations and organisations to make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance. Over the past eight decades, the firm's primary objective has remained constant: to serve as a company's or organisation's most trusted external advisor on the critical issues facing senior management. With consultants deployed from more than 90 offices in 50 countries, McKinsey advises on strategic, operational, organisational, and technological issues in the public, private and non-profit sectors.

Shell is a global group of energy companies with operations in over 110 countries and 100,000 employees worldwide. Our aim is to meet present and future energy needs in ways that are economically, socially and environmentally viable.
 
Our Energy Scenario studies reveal the great difficulty the world faces in reducing the role of fossil fuels during the next 50 years.  We encourage research into and development of, new technologies that may reduce or eliminate the environmental impacts derived from fossil carbon.

Polycom is the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere. Polycom can help facilitate project reviews, training, remote trial observation and faster decision making. All of which will enable pharmaceutical and biotech companies to bring products to market sooner and more efficiently.

Companies choose Polycom solutions because they allow geographically dispersed workforces to communicate more effectively and productively over distances. Using Polycom voice, video, and telepresence products and services, people connect and collaborate with one another from their desktops, meeting rooms, class rooms, and mobile settings rather than traveling to one place to solve problems.

Philip Morris International (PMI) is the leading international tobacco company, with seven of the worlds top 15 brands including Marlboro, the number one cigarette brand worldwide. PMI has more than 75,000 employees and its products are sold in over 160 countries. The Company held an estimated 15.6% share of the international cigarette market outside of the United States in 2007.