Keynotes and briefings on economic power
Research-based talks on the forces reshaping markets, technology, and economic power, tailored to your audience.
Boards and leadership teams
Executives who need a shared read on what is changing and why it matters.
Conferences and convenings
Main-stage audiences and curated programs interpreting structural change.
Universities and institutions
Students, faculty, and researchers examining economic and technological change.
Investors and strategy teams
Rooms pricing risk, technology exposure, and strategic opportunity.
Power Curve research, tailored to your audience
The session is designed around what the audience needs to understand, what they already know, and what decisions the discussion should improve.
A useful briefing explains the evidence and its implications for the audience.
In ConversationModerated conversationChoose the format that fits your event
Each format begins with the publication's research base, then adapts the argument to a public audience, a leadership team, or a working session with a live question.
Keynote
A clear main-stage frame for what is changing and why it matters.
Moderated conversation
A public exchange that sharpens the question and models reasoning under uncertainty.
Private briefing
A focused discussion of the evidence, implications, and developments leaders should monitor.
Workshop
A working room that maps scenarios, tests assumptions, and develops a shared way to act.
Power Curve research, adapted for your audience
Each session is adapted to the audience, the format, and the level of prior knowledge.
Economic power and strategic competition
How geoeconomic rivalry is reshaping markets and institutions.
Discuss this topicAI, compute, and energy systems
The infrastructure resetting the basis of economic advantage.
Discuss this topicCapital markets and market structure
How capital, rates, and structure shape strategic choices.
Discuss this topicCities, infrastructure, and institutions
How infrastructure and institutions shape urban resilience and growth.
Discuss this topicRisk signals, resilience, and watch points
What to watch as risks start to reprice across markets.
Discuss this topicTechnology, capital, and economic power
How technology and capital concentrate economic advantage.
Discuss this topicBriefings start with the audience and the question
Every session starts with the audience, the event objective, the level of prior knowledge, and the decision or debate the program needs to advance.
Keynote or moderated session
A tailored talk, briefing call with organizers, audience-specific framing, and prepared discussion prompts for Q&A or moderation.
Shared frame for a senior audience
Leadership meetings, investor convenings, university programs, board retreats, and conferences where the audience needs a clear operating frame.
Fee quoted by format
Fees depend on public versus private use, preparation depth, travel, audience size, and whether a written briefing is included.
From research to decision
Each engagement begins with the audience and the question at hand, then turns complex systems into a clear way to read what is changing.
Define the question
Clarify the audience, the context, and the decision environment the session has to serve.
Build the case
Translate research into a clear argument with mechanisms, trade-offs, and implications.
Deliver the signal
Give the room a sharper way to interpret change and act under uncertainty.
Formats for conferences and leadership teams
Keynote
The audience leaves with a clear frame for what is changing and why it matters.
Request thisModerated conversation
A public exchange that sharpens the question and models reasoning under uncertainty.
Request thisWorkshop
The room maps scenarios, tests assumptions, and develops a shared way to act.
Request thisPrivate briefing
A leadership room leaves with the signal and a clear view of what to watch.
Request thisBrendan Hart
economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisor
FounderBrendan Hart is an economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisor with two decades of experience building organizations and leading transformation across technology, defense, human capital, and government. His work connects economic analysis with the decisions leaders face when allocating capital, building institutional capacity, and setting strategy under uncertainty.
Through his writing, teaching, and advisory work, Hart examines how markets, institutions, technology, and capital shape economic power. He translates structural change into economic intelligence: where power is accumulating, what drives its concentration, and how it affects investment, policy, and competition. His perspective combines an economist’s focus on incentives, constraints, and institutions with an entrepreneur’s understanding of what it takes to build and execute.
Hart began his career as a team leader in the United States Marine Corps’ premier antiterrorism unit before co-founding BMNT and SVA. His experience across government and business informs his approach to turning strategic ambition into organizational capability.
He holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
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