The Forbes Global CEO Conference will discuss some weighty topics over the three days. With its theme of 'Reassessing the business blueprint', the conference has been loosely framed on the way shifts in policies, markets and technologies are changing the business environment.
According to Forbes, shareholders and consumers are becoming more sophisticated and demanding, bringing corporate responsibility to the fore.
The first speaking event on the conference agenda promises to set the tone for the remainder of the three days. 'A meeting of minds' will be a three-way discussion between Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, Forbes president Steve Forbes and Caspar Weinberger, Forbes chairman and former United States defence secretary.
Mr Weinberger delivers the keynote presentation on the second day. 'The Art of War and Politics - one year on' will be a discussion of the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the US response from a man with direct experience of the US defence apparatus.
Later on the first day, Financial Secretary Antony Leung Kam-chung joins Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, Chang Sun, managing director of Warburg Pincus Asia and Clark Winter of Citigroup Private Bank in 'reassessing the global financial outlook'.
The panelists will examine the strength of the US economic recovery, the future for beleaguered Japan and China's continuing rise as a global trade and manufacturing power.
Scheduled directly after the global economy session is what promises to be a lively exchange of ideas from two well-known high-technology authorities - George Gilder, chairman of Gilder Publishing and an accomplished technology author, and Guy Kawasaki, an Apple Computer pioneer and now chief executive of Garage Technology Ventures.