In recent years, Malaysia has grown in prominence with both financial and corporate investors. The rapid transformation of the country’s economy has created opportunities in sectors like healthcare, retail, education, and business services, among others, while the regulatory climate is considered friendly to business and safe for investors.
The Bloomberg Malaysia Conference will give investors “A New Look at a Transforming Economy.” Bloomberg is honored to host Senator Dato’ Sri Idris Jala, and his delegation from Malaysia. The CEO of Pemandu is responsible for driving the Prime Minister’s $444 billion Economic Transformation Programme, with the goal of making Malaysia a high income nation by 2020.

The Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit is a two day conference Bloomberg Link is building in partnership with Bloomberg West and Bloomberg News. The summit convenes the most influential investors and entrepreneurs in technology, science and data to examine the future of technology, business and how innovation is changing the human experience. The program will look at the hunt for the ‘Next Big Thing,’ the future of money, mobile, design and the technologies that are reshaping industries.

The Bloomberg Hedge Funds Summit will gather managers and investors in New York for what has become one of the most significant annual gatherings for the industry. The program will examine a range of alternative investments, as hedge funds, real estate, credit and private equity make the jump into the mainstream, attracting new classes of investors looking for returns unavailable in traditional markets. We’ll hear how the biggest names in asset management are transforming their businesses to meet that challenge and take stock of a critical moment in the multi-trillion hedge fund business.

The Bloomberg Canada Economic Summit will convene government officials, business leaders and industry titans in banking, energy, commodities and technology and examine Canada’s role as a major destination for investment and a supplier of capital around the world.

The Bloomberg Washington Summit will gather key administration officials, CEOs, governors, lawmakers, and economists to assess the economy and debate the path beyond the fiscal cliff. We’ll explore the ongoing debate around budgets and the debt, the future of banking, and assess the state of the markets and the U.S. Economy. The Summit will address government spending, revenues, the corporate tax debate, job creation, and give insight for investors looking at opportunities in markets so closely correlated to fiscal and monetary policy moves.

Innovations in enterprise technology are disrupting the financial marketplace from trade execution, to complex event processing to making sense of big data. Don’t get left behind. The Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit convenes an audience of the biggest procurers of enterprise technology from the public and private sectors with a focus on financial services companies. The program looks at how corporations and governments are leveraging the cloud, addressing mobility, and handling data storage challenges like disaster recovery in the wake of Super Storm Sandy.

The Bloomberg Australia Economic Summit will examine key issues confronting the nation in 2013. We will convene government officials, business leaders and industry titans in banking, economics, energy and commodities and examine Australia’s position as standout performer in a world economy that’s struggling to find a leader.

CEOs, asset managers, Investors and notable regional decision makers convene for a two-day conference examining the biggest challenges that face asset managers as they globalize. We’ll analyze the region’s fast-growing infrastructure and influence on everything from the consumer economy, the flow of money into alternative asset managers, the 2022 World Cup and the rising role of women.

A new era begins as President Enrique Peña Nieto sets the agenda for his first term in office. Peña Nieto’s inauguration on Dec. 1 returned the Institutional Revolutionary Party to power after a 12-year hiatus from seven decades of uninterrupted rule. Peña Nieto, who led the country’s most-populous state to an investment-grade credit rating during his tenure as governor of the State of Mexico, proposed a balanced budget for his first year in office on Dec. 7. Investors remain optimistic that President Enrique Peña Nieto will succeed in pushing through legal changes that will boost growth. The Bloomberg Mexico Economic Summit will gather the country’s most influential political, financial and corporate minds to take stock of this vital regional and global player.

CREATING VALUE FROM BIG DATA: The Bloomberg Big Data Conference will explore how big data and the power of analytics in the cloud can be exploited as a great transformer for how leaders think and how businesses innovate. Organizations—both public and private—are grappling with the challenge of how best to take advantage of this new capability, while trying to make wise technology investments that pay off in terms of productivity gains and operational value. How can executives build a business case for big data investments? How do smart companies quantify benefits and hidden costs from failure to monetize data assets? We’ll examine how big data can be optimized in three key sectors: healthcare, energy and financial services. The conference will look at advances in storing, accessing and analyzing massive amounts of data, the emerging issues industry and government leaders face in implementing big data strategies, and identify best practices that apply across industries