A Marketplace for Global Projects: The Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum, an infrastructure marketplace, brought the Top 100 global projects together with 500-600 infrastructure executives -- from finance, policy, engineering / construction, and equipment / technology.  Key countries included: the US, the BRIC countries, and infrastructure hot spots like Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam as well as key countries in the Middle East and Africa. Projects were confirmed across 17 countries, and 8 sectors, including ports & logistics, oil & gas,water & wastewater, electricity generation, urban mass transit, digital infrastructure, and highways. The total estimated project value was $300+ billion.

The Forum combined the following key elements:

• Project Presentations: Project sponsors delivering rapid-fire project presentations that highlighted their project's scope and business opportunities that can be realized within a 3-12 month period. In addition to project presentations, the Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum provided participants with:
• Private Meetings: Up to 14 pre-scheduled private meetings with project sponsors through our exclusive online private meeting manager.
• Keynote Addresses: first-hand insight into the crucial role that infrastructure would play in the next 24 months as we work through a global financial crisis
• Targeted Workshops: Sector-Specific and Regional-focused workshops that focused on constructive dialogue.

Critical Players:The Global Forum's theme was "The Champion's that are Remaking our World," and leading the Forum were 'champions' like the Managing Director of JBIC, Masaki Omura; Alfredo Elias Ayub, the CEO of Mexico's national electricity company; Peter Barker-Homek, the CEO of Abu Dhabi's national energy company; and John Mizroch, the US Undersecretary of Energy for Renewables. View last year's 1st Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum to get a sense of the high-level participation from both the public and the private sectors.