Sponsors and partners
Headline Sponsor
AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.
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Headline Sponsor
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 63 offices in 38 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 2% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
Lead Sponsor
Bellwethers is building an expanded generation of leaders lighting the way to a green economy that works for everyone. Launched in February 2024, we combine skills in talent management with world-class insights and intelligence, alongside effective narrative formation, all aligned to building the future climate and nature economy.
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Associate Sponsor
In an era of constant technological disruption and transformation, many TMT companies are trying to keep up with change, but at Deloitte we work alongside our clients to disrupt, innovate, and see around corners. Deloitte is trusted by companies to offer our point of view on the future of industries. With our IndustryAdvantageTM framework, we bring together thinking from across Deloitte and our leading ecosystem of alliances—from those at the forefront of emerging technologies to sector-specific operational experience—to advise our clients as they drive targeted commercial, product, and operations transformation.
Associate Sponsor
DLA Piper is a global law firm with offices in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. Our full-service multidisciplinary media, sport, and entertainment group represents established and emerging clients in all aspects of these industries around the world. Our clients include major studios, broadcasters and networks, distributors and production companies, music companies, sports clubs and leagues, social media platforms, brands, talent agencies, and video game and interactive companies, as well as private equity firms, hedge funds, and banks engaged in various aspects of these industries. We guide and counsel our clients through corporate and M&A transactions, financings, and key commercial transactions core to these industries, while resolving conflicts through negotiation and crisis response and, where appropriate, litigating or arbitrating disputes.
Associate Sponsor
The Raine Group is a leading global merchant bank with an integrated focus on both advisory and principal investments in the TMT ecosystem. Founded in 2009, Raine has advised on some of the largest, most impactful, and most innovative transactions across its core sectors and has leveraged that same breadth and depth of intelligence to be an active, strategic value-add growth and venture capital investor. Based in New York, Raine has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Associate Sponsor
STARZ, a Lionsgate company, is a leading media streaming platform committed to delivering premium content that amplifies narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences. STARZ is home to the highly rated and first-of-its-kind STARZ app that offers the ability to stream or download STARZ premium content, as well as the flagship domestic STARZ® service, including STARZ ENCORE, 17 premium pay TV channels, and the associated on-demand and online services. STARZ is available across digital OTT platforms and multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, and telecommunications companies. In February 2021, STARZ launched #TakeTheLead, a multi-faceted and innovative inclusion initiative expanding its existing efforts to improve representation on screen, behind the camera and throughout the company.
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Associate Sponsor
Tencent is a global technology and entertainment company, connecting users to unparalleled content and services through innovative platforms. WeChat and Weixin serve over one billion people globally, helping this community connect with family, friends, and their favorite brands and merchants. Tencent Video and Tencent Music deliver the best in TV, cinema, sports, and music to millions worldwide, and Tencent Games has developed and published some of the world’s most popular video games.
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