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  • August 9, 2022
    3:00pm - 4:30pm
    Session Type: Meeting
    Session Capacity: N/A


    Enjoy conference welcoming remarks and join VCIA in celebrating this year’s recipients of the coveted Captive Crusader, Honorary Member, and Industry Service awards followed by an informative and engaging session with keynote speaker Michael Weidokal, president and founder of International Strategic Analysis (ISA), a leading provider of economic forecasting, international market intelligence, and geopolitical analysis.  

    Michael is an internationally recognized economic and geopolitical forecaster who helps business leaders, policy makers, and the wider public to understand the issues and trends that are impacting the world today and in the future. Michael combines an acumen of international economics and geopolitical history to contextualize and make prescient predictions on worldwide issues and events. 

    The ISA Global Economic and Risk Outlook, Michael Weidokal’s most sought-after speech, is a tour-de-force taking the audience around the world to look at the factors that are driving or hindering economic growth in all the world’s major economies. In addition, the Global Economic and Risk Outlook speech provides the audience with an in-depth analysis of all the important issues and trends that will impact their activities in the United States and in international markets, both in the year ahead and over the long-term.  

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Session Speakers
Organization: ISA (International Strategic Analysis)


Michael Weidokal is an internationally-recognized economic and geopolitical forecaster who helps business leaders, policy makers and the wider public to understand the issues and trends that are impacting the world today, and will shape the world in the years to come. He is the president and founder of International Strategic Analysis (ISA), a leading provider of economic forecasting, international market intelligence and geopolitical analysis with clients all around the globe. Michael’s ability to combine international economics, geopolitics and history allow him to have a unique perspective on the issues and events that are taking place throughout the world. His areas of expertise include the fields of international economic competitiveness, global market selection and geopolitical risk assessment. Furthermore, he has repeatedly proven to be able to accurately predict important trends and developments before they happen. A prolific writer, Michael is a leading contributor to a wide range of ISA’s best-selling publications, including ISA’s monthly Country Reports, Risk Forecasts and many more. In addition, Michael’s new book “The Need For Growth” will be released in 2022 and details the growing challenge that the global economy will face in terms of generating growth in the 2020s and beyond, and what this means for the planet and its inhabitants. He is also a frequent speaker and appears often in the media, speaking on a wide variety of topics. After a career that took him to more than 60 countries, Michael founded International Strategic Analysis in 2003. Today, ISA is one of the world’s most respected economic and geopolitical research firms, providing research and support for thousands of the world’s leading businesses, governments and universities.


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