Thrive Global Forum – Connect. Collaborate. Thrive
About us
Thrive Global Forum is an international non-profit organization committed to building a more connected, dynamic, and collaborative global business community.
We bring together entrepreneurs, founders, business leaders, executives, investors, policymakers, academics, researchers, innovators, and professionals from diverse industries and regions to exchange knowledge, develop relationships, explore opportunities, and encourage collaboration across borders.
Our work is grounded in a simple belief:
Progress happens when people connect with purpose.
In a world where businesses, ideas, capital, technology, and talent increasingly move across borders, meaningful relationships have become more important than ever.
Thrive Global Forum creates platforms that enable people and organizations to connect beyond traditional boundaries and engage in conversations that can lead to new ideas, partnerships, opportunities, and possibilities.
Who we are
Thrive Global Forum was established with the vision of creating an international community where leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, investment, and opportunity come together.
We are a platform for people who are building businesses, leading organizations, developing ideas, investing in the future, advancing knowledge, shaping policy, and contributing to the evolution of the global business environment.
Our community is intentionally diverse.
- Entrepreneurs benefit from experienced leaders.
- Investors benefit from access to new ideas.
- Businesses benefit from international perspectives.
- Leaders benefit from cross-industry dialogue.
- Innovators benefit from collaboration.
- Emerging professionals benefit from experience and mentorship.
By bringing these communities into meaningful interaction, Thrive seeks to create an environment where knowledge can be shared, relationships can develop, and opportunities can emerge.
Our mission
To connect people, ideas, and opportunities that can contribute to a more collaborative global future.
Thrive Global Forum's mission is to strengthen international connections and support the development of a more innovative, entrepreneurial, and collaborative business community.
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Our vision
A connected global community where people, ideas, and opportunities can thrive.
- We envision a world where geographic and professional boundaries do not prevent meaningful collaboration.
- A world where an entrepreneur in one market can connect with a leader in another.
- Where innovative ideas can find new perspectives.
- Where businesses can develop international relationships.
- Where investors can discover emerging opportunities.
- Where experienced leaders can share knowledge with the next generation.
- Where academics, policymakers, entrepreneurs, investors, and industry professionals can contribute to the same conversation.
- And where collaboration across borders becomes a catalyst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable growth.
We want to help build the bridges that make those connections possible.
Our objectives
Turning our mission into action
Our objectives provide the foundation for Thrive Global Forum's programs, initiatives, partnerships, and community activities.
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Build global connections
Create opportunities for people and organizations to connect across countries, industries, sectors, and professional backgrounds.
We seek to develop relationships that extend beyond individual meetings or events and contribute to a lasting international network.
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Promote knowledge exchange
Encourage the sharing of expertise, experience, research, perspectives, and practical knowledge.
We believe that communities become stronger when knowledge moves freely between people and disciplines.
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Support entrepreneurship
Encourage entrepreneurial development by creating platforms where founders and entrepreneurs can connect with experienced leaders, investors, experts, organizations, and potential partners.
Our aim is to help entrepreneurs broaden their perspectives, strengthen their networks, and discover new possibilities for growth.
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Encourage innovation
Create environments where emerging ideas, technologies, business models, and approaches can be discussed and explored.
We encourage curiosity, creative thinking, and constructive dialogue around the forces shaping the future.
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Strengthen leadership
Create opportunities for established and emerging leaders to exchange experiences, perspectives, and knowledge.
We believe leadership develops through continuous learning, dialogue, collaboration, and exposure to different ways of thinking.
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Facilitate international collaboration
Build bridges between people and organizations across borders.
Through our network and initiatives, we seek to encourage partnerships, international engagement, and collaboration between communities that may otherwise remain disconnected.
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Encourage business & investment opportunities
Create environments where entrepreneurs, businesses, investors, and other stakeholders can meet and explore potential opportunities.
Our role is to facilitate relationships and conversations that may lead to partnerships, investment discussions, market expansion, and other forms of collaboration.
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Support sustainable business development
Encourage approaches to entrepreneurship and business development that consider long-term value, responsible leadership, innovation, resilience, and sustainable growth.
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Connect emerging & established leaders
Create opportunities for experienced leaders and emerging entrepreneurs and professionals to learn from one another.
We believe that combining experience with new perspectives creates stronger communities and better possibilities for the future.
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Build a lasting global community
Develop an international network that continues to create value beyond individual programs and gatherings.
Our ambition is to build relationships that evolve over time and create ongoing opportunities for learning, collaboration, and engagement.
How we work
From connection to collaboration
Thrive Global Forum operates through a growing ecosystem of platforms, initiatives, programs, partnerships, and community activities.
International forums
Our forums and business gatherings bring together diverse communities for dialogue, knowledge exchange, networking, and exploration of emerging opportunities.
Leadership initiatives
We create opportunities for leaders and professionals to exchange perspectives, share experiences, and explore the evolving challenges and opportunities of leadership.
Entrepreneurship programs
We support connections among entrepreneurs, founders, business leaders, investors, and other stakeholders who can contribute to entrepreneurial growth.
Knowledge exchange
We encourage conversations, discussions, presentations, publications, and other forms of knowledge sharing that contribute to professional and intellectual development.
Global networking
We create opportunities for members and participants to build relationships beyond their immediate geographic and professional environments.
Strategic partnerships
We collaborate with organizations, networks, institutions, and other stakeholders whose expertise and reach can strengthen our shared objectives.
Our community
Diverse by design. Connected by purpose.
Thrive Global Forum brings together a broad cross-section of the global business community.
Entrepreneurs & founders
Business leaders & executives
Investors
Policymakers & institutions
Academics & researchers
Innovators
Professionals & emerging leaders
The strength of our community comes from the interaction between these different perspectives.
Our values
What guides Thrive
Connection
Collaboration
Openness
Innovation
Entrepreneurship
Leadership
Global perspective
Impact
Our approach
People first, opportunity always
We do not believe that meaningful collaboration can be created simply by putting people in the same room.
It requires the right environment.
- People feel encouraged to share ideas.
- Different perspectives are respected.
- Established leaders can engage with emerging talent.
- Entrepreneurs can meet potential partners.
- Investors can discover new possibilities.
- Professionals can broaden their horizons.
- And conversations are given the opportunity to become relationships.
Our role is to create that environment.
Beyond traditional events
The forum is a platform — not the endpoint.
International forums and gatherings are an important part of Thrive Global Forum's work, but they represent only one element of our broader purpose.
We see every gathering as an opportunity to create relationships that can continue long after the event.
We are interested in what happens after people meet.
Our commitment to the future
Building something that lasts
Thrive Global Forum is not defined by a single event, program, or gathering.
Our long-term ambition is to build an international community and platform that continues to evolve with the needs of the people and organizations it serves.
As our network grows, we aim to expand our international reach, deepen our partnerships, develop new initiatives, and create additional opportunities for knowledge exchange, entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, investment, and collaboration.
The future will bring new challenges.
It will also bring new possibilities.
We want to help ensure that people have the relationships, knowledge, and opportunities to meet both.
Why “Thrive”?
To thrive is more than simply to succeed. It means to grow.
That philosophy is at the heart of our organization.
We believe individuals, businesses, and communities are stronger when they have access to meaningful relationships, diverse perspectives, knowledge, and opportunities.
Thrive Global Forum exists to help create those conditions.
Connect. Collaborate. Thrive.
Our name represents our philosophy.
Connect
Build relationships across borders, industries, and communities.
Collaborate
Exchange ideas, knowledge, expertise, and opportunity.
Thrive
Create the conditions for people, organizations, and ideas to grow.
Connecting people, ideas, and opportunities across borders to shape a more collaborative future.
Join the Thrive community
You can contribute your knowledge.
Share your experience.
Build meaningful relationships.
Discover new perspectives.
Explore opportunities.
And help create a more connected global business community.
