“Together, We are Toyota” - The Toyota 2009 National Dealer Meeting, Las Vegas.
At the most difficult time in the history of the global automotive industry and before a demanding live, in-hall audience of more than five thousand US Toyota dealers and the president of Toyota from Japan, Scott conducted a 90-minute live Q&A session with Toyota’s entire US leadership team: The President of Toyota Motor Sales, the VP for the Toyota Division, the Sr. VP for Automotive Operations, and the President and CEO of Toyota Financial Services.
The US-Africa Business Summit: Scott’s live on-stage and televised Q&A with
five presidents and prime ministers of African countries, plus
seven Bush administration Africa policy leaders, two African trade
and industry ministers, the governor of the Nigerian Central Bank,
and commercial leaders from such giant US-Africa investors as
ConocoPhillips, Mars, Merck, Monsanto, and Cargill contributed
mightily to the enormous success of this largest-ever US conclave
on doing business with Africa.
The ANGEL AFRICA Enterprise Conference 2009 Desmond Tutu Center, New York
End-to-end chairman of The West Africa Investment Forum (WAIF), co-sponsored by the New York Society of Securities Analysts, focusing on opportunities in ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, and The Africa Social Enterprise Forum (ASEF), the first conference on entrepreneurship-based, non-charity business development for social change in Africa. Scott’s chairmanship of these events builds on his long history of event leadership for business and finance events focused on economically less-developed regions, which has seen Scott chair meetings in Egypt, Jordan, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Istabul, St. Petersburg (Russia), Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei.
The HIMSS Thought Leader Summit. The
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
chooses Scott to lead its first “Thought Leader Summit," a CXO-only meeting of executives
in healthcare (hospitals/health systems), health insurers, pharmaceutical
manufacturers, and health industry investors.
The
World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress, co-
sponsored by The Wall Street Journal,
selects Scott to lead its plenary sessions at this first-annual
event, including an interview with AOL co-founder Steve Case and
the meeting’s several ‘Industry Voice!’ interactive
portions. Scott is a specialist in leading ‘audience involvement’
and open Q&A sessions for both industry and governmental events.
Also sponsoring this meeting: Booz Allen Hamilton, for whom Scott
recently led a Dubai event on the development of public infrastructure
in the Middle East.
Information technology : Scott
has chaired nearly every BusinessWeek IT event ever held, plus
meetings for HP, WIPRO, HIMSS, NCR, Texas Instruments, IBM, and
others. Here Scott leads a BusinessWeek panel featuring the CIOs
of Dow Chemical, barnesandnoble.com, J. Crew, and Charles Schwab.
The Aspen Technology Enterprise Operations
Management Executive Forum: This
outstanding, 1.5-day all-CIO and EVP-Operations New York City
event for the largest global companies of the process industries.
Oil and chemical firms of 16 countries attended the most recent
edition. Scott will chair the meeting again this year. Scott has chaired this meeting repeatedly.
The WIPRO Strategyms (US & UK):
The most highly-valued corporation in India, leader of
the offshore outsourcing sector again selects Scott as end-to-end
chairman for its annual series of Strategyms in the US and UK.
The 40-institution Committee of Donor Agencies
for Enterprise Development, comprised of
the aid agencies of 17 nations, the European Commission, private
foundations, plus multiple UN, World Bank and other multilateral
agencies, has Scott lead its international public-private conference
on national policies affecting the business environment of developing
countries in Cairo. Scott is already pre-booked for similar
meetings to be held in future.
The World Resources Institute's "Digital Dividends"
and "Bottom of the Pyramid" global mega-conferences on economic development related topics. End-to-end chairmanship
of both of these high-profile events.
The McGraw-Hill Companies Top Firm Leaders
Forum (2 events): The longtime
chair of CEO-only, CFO-only, and CIO-only summits for BusinessWeek,
Scott continues his many years' leadership of McGraw-Hill events
with this series. The meeting agendas of these McGraw-Hill
events are created en toto by Scott's event development enterprise,
The Shuster
Group, and delivered with Scott as chairman onstage.
Meridian Systems International User Conference:
Annual event of the leading global provider of enterprise
project management solutions for the construction industry.
Technology for Construction, the
Information Technology event of the world's largest construction
industry event. This conference is created annually by The
Shuster Group for Hanley-Wood, a relationship now in its fourth
year.
Embassy of Jordan in the US and the Hashemite
Royal Court: Scott continues to chair periodic US and Jordan
business appearances of the King and Queen of Jordan.
The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Summit,
and the Equity International Homeland and Global Security Summits:
Since 2001, Scott Shuster has become the nation's premiere leader
of homeland security related meetings.
The MCI CIO Forum:
Through repeated changes of the company name, MCI's professional
leadership continues to have Scott Shuster lead its CIO-only retreats.
The S.C. Johnson Global Forum:
First time the world-renowned maker of Windex, Glade, Skintimate,
Saran, Ziploc, etc. has an external moderator for their quadrennial
internal event for senior management. Via The Harry Walker Agency.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers
Annual Conference: End-to-end discussion leadership for
the world's manufacturers of construction, agricultural, mining,
forestry, and utility equipment.
The Middle East CIO Summit, Dubai:
Scott extends his presence on the booming Arab countries conference
scene with his third senior-level leadership event in sparkling
Dubai. End-to-end chairmanship.
