GE Institute
Waukesha WI
China's impact today on all Americans is the greatest it has been in our lifetimes. It is of key strategic importance to US companies as a procurement source, as a manufacturing base and increasingly as a market for US goods and services. Its cheap labor has allowed us to buy more for less, but its voracious appetite for raw materials has contributed to the inflation that all of us are seeing at the checkout counter. After its massive 'Coming Out Party', how will China be different? To what extent is it insulated against the economic slowdown in the developed world? How should we position ourselves to take full advantage of China's double-digit growth, and its 1.3 billion consumers?

Our keynote speaker is Roger Heng, Managing Director and Country Head, Bank of Montreal China, and General Manager of the bank's Beijing branch. The program will be led by ICE member, Richard Waple, Bank of Montreal's China Coordinator based in Chicago.