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Engage directly with other family business leaders, practitioners, and champions to explore the opportunities, challenges, and best practices for managing change, innovation, and sustainable growth.

Get a first look at the bridge between academia and practice, with highlights from the collaboration between STEP Project Global Consortium and KPMG Private Enterprise. The 2023 Global Family Business Report “The Road to Sustainability. Why family businesses are in the driver’s seat” will be released to the public on April 28, 2022, during the Global Summit.

But, before then, Summit attendees have the opportunity to preview the insights from the report and take part in a lively Q&A discussion following a presentation of the insights by Andrea Calabrò (STEP Project Global Consortium Academic Director and Director IPAG Entrepreneurship & Family Business Center, IPAG Business School) and Tom McGinness (Global Leader, Family Business, KPMG Private Enterprise, KPMG International Partner, KPMG in the UK). 

Here are some highlights that you won’t want to miss:
   •    Stakeholder capitalism is becoming mainstream – how will family businesses differentiate themselves?
   •    Sustainability leadership vs. digital leadership – can they/should they co-exist?
   •    How will business families define ‘wealth’ in the future?
   •    How digitalization can drive the sustainability agenda
   •    What it takes to become a sustainability leader
   •    The ‘X’ principles of sustainability leadership for business families
   •    Getting fit for the future: How to become a sustainability leader in a digital economy

Participating to the Global Summit provides unique networking opportunities with other family business owners and managers, family business practitioners and academics through panel discussions, ad-hoc executive sessions, “onstage interviews”, and mindful keynotes. Potential themes may include:

   •    Future proofing your business
   •    Transferring business and family wealth
   •    Next-gen and developing responsible owners
   •    Digital and financial transformation
   •    Diversification strategies for the family business
   •    Investing through a recession
   •    Role of family offices

Learn about the latest breakthroughs in academic research related to the growth of family businesses research. You will get an introduction to some of the current research themes and trends and get access to specific academic articles that are presented during the Global Summit by top international scholars. Some of the main themes are: 
   •    Managing change and innovation in family firms
   •    External forces & family firms’ Regener@tion
   •    Renewing governance through professionalization models
   •    Top management teams in family firms
   •    Talent management in family firms 
   •    Businesses, families & entrepreneurship
   •    Renewing business models - sustainability / digitalization
   •    Family governance structures, practices, and tools
   •    Transgenerational entrepreneurship
   •    Managing and extending the family legacy
   •    Succession planning and processes
   •    New or uncommon family structures
   •    Generational stages
   •    Ownership structures
   •    New trends in funding and capital structure