North America Investment Series: Entrepreneurship And Venture Forum
2026 North America Investment Forum
Where Capital Meets Innovation and Global Business Builds for America
A Flagship Forum within the Four-Day North America Investment Series | September 4–7, 2026
Entering 2026, the rules of global expansion are changing.
For years, companies entering the U.S. focused on four things: product, price, supply chain, and distribution. Today, getting into the market is no longer enough.
The bigger questions are:
Will capital believe in you?
Will the market embrace you?
Will people trust you?
On September 6, the 2026 North America Investment Forum brings investors, founders, entrepreneurs, innovators, brands, and cross-border business leaders into one room to explore the forces shaping the next generation of business growth.
This is where Capital × Entrepreneurship × AI × Commerce × Brand × Impact come together.
WHY NOW? WHY NORTH AMERICA?
Capital is becoming more selective. AI is rewriting the economics of growth. Consumer behavior is shifting. Commerce is becoming increasingly driven by creators, communities, and content.
At the same time, global companies entering America are discovering that one of their most valuable assets cannot simply be purchased:
Trust.
The Forum goes beyond connecting projects with funding. It connects capital with innovation, companies with markets, and growth with long-term impact.
Investors will share how they identify opportunities. Founders will talk candidly about building, failing, pivoting, and scaling. Business leaders will explore how AI is transforming growth—and how international companies can build brands that Americans understand, believe in, and
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
01 | CAPITAL & IMPACT
What Are Investors Really Investing In?
The fundraising environment has changed. A compelling story is no longer enough. Investors are evaluating founders, business models, market size, growth, execution, cash flow—and increasingly, the ability to create sustainable long-term value. This all-investor panel goes behind the investment decision.
What makes an investor believe in a founder?
What turns a promising company into an investable company?
What causes investors to walk away?
And how does capital identify enduring value?
For founders raising capital, or preparing for the capital markets, this is an opportunity to hear directly from investors about how investment decisions are actually made.
02 | ENTREPRENEURSHIP
When Vision Meets Reality
Almost every successful company eventually becomes different from what its founder originally imagined.
Great entrepreneurs are not defined simply by their ability to hold onto a vision. They are defined by knowing when to persist—and when to change.
Founders will share the decisions, mistakes, pivots, and turning points behind building their companies from the ground up.
And we will confront one of entrepreneurship’s hardest questions:
What do you do when you realize your original vision may be wrong?
Sometimes the decision to change direction is the decision that builds the company.
03 | AI × MARKETING
AI Is Redefining Growth
AI is rapidly changing how businesses discover, understand, acquire, and engage customers.
From product discovery and audience targeting to content creation, analytics, customer acquisition, and marketing-spend optimization, AI is moving from an experimental tool to a fundamental business capability.
The Marketing Panel will address a highly practical question:
How are high-performing companies using AI to generate more value from every marketing dollar?
For consumer brands, e-commerce companies, and businesses expanding into the U.S., this is no longer a conversation about the future.
It is about competitiveness today.
04 | LIVE COMMERCE
From Scroll to Sold: The Next Generation of Content Commerce
The traditional consumer journey is being rewritten.
Consumers no longer simply see an advertisement, search for a product, and make a purchase. Content, creators, communities, commerce, and brands are converging into a new commercial ecosystem.
From Scroll to Sold explores how:
Creators + Content + Community + Branding
can translate into real-time engagement, stronger consumer relationships, and measurable sales.
Live Commerce has already transformed digital retail in Asia. Now, its evolution in the U.S. is creating an entirely new frontier for brands, platforms, creators, and investors.
FEATURED TALK
How Entrepreneurs Can Earn Trust, Build Credibility & Succeed in the U.S. Market
For international companies entering America, market access is only the beginning. Products can cross borders. Distribution can be built. Advertising can buy attention.
Trust cannot be bought.
This featured session explores how entrepreneurs and global companies can build authentic brands, establish credibility, communicate effectively with American audiences, and create reputations capable of supporting long-term growth.
IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE STAGE.
IT’S ABOUT WHO IS IN THE ROOM.
Some of the most important business opportunities never happen on stage. They happen in the conversation after a panel. During a coffee break. When an investor meets a founder for the first time. Or when someone simply says:
“You two should meet.”
That is one of the defining purposes of the North America Investment Forum: to create a high-value environment where capital can discover companies, founders can meet investors, brands can find markets, businesses can find partners, and global opportunities can find one another.
The September 6 program concludes with an Award Ceremony and dedicated Networking session, creating additional opportunities for meaningful conversations and connections.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Founders raising or preparing to raise capital
Investors, funds, and family offices seeking emerging opportunities
Global companies entering or expanding in the U.S.
Consumer, e-commerce, and Live Commerce brands
AI, technology, and innovation companies
Marketing, brand, and growth leaders
Entrepreneurs seeking North American partners, channels, and resources
Because in today’s business environment, the scarce resource is no longer information.
It is access to the right people, in the right room, at the right time.
FOUR DAYS. ONE FLAGSHIP INVESTMENT FORUM.
The 2026 North America Investment Forum on September 6 is a flagship program within a broader four-day North America Investment Series taking place September 4–7, 2026.
Across four days, the series will explore global brand expansion, cross-border investment, family offices, capital, AI, new consumer markets, and the future of business, bringing together an anticipated 2,000+ attendees, 120+ speakers, and 80+ supporting organizations.
Join the room. Build the connection. Shape what comes next.
Be part of the conversations shaping the next decade of AI, commerce, capital, and entertainment.
The future isn't waiting. Join the leaders creating it.🎟️ Tickets: $99 (admission only; meals not included).