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 The Khazanah Megatrends Forum is an annual gathering of Malaysian corporate leaders, policy makers, think tanks and practitioners from the public and private sectors as well as civil society. It is well attended by about 400-500 senior leaders. It coincides with the year-end planning cycle and typically addresses topical matters of interest. The two-day KMF2007 conference will be structured into four distinct sessions, with each session addressing a particular sub-theme. The four sub-themes are as follows :
- Macroeconomic Outlook and Competitiveness
- Sustainable Regional Development
- People and Execution
- Firms and Strategy
For each of the four sessions, speakers for that particular session will be invited to deliver their presentations, at the end of which they will take questions from the floor. After the completion of all the presentations for a session, the session Chairperson will summarise the key points from each presentation, and the speakers from the session will be invited to provide further comments and discuss points raised throughout the session.
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 The objective of introducing the “National Development Seminar” within the Khazanah Merdeka Series is to highlight the wealth of thinking and experience which formed the building blocks in developing Malaysia as a nation.
The leadership of thought and experience as manifested in these lectures aim to add depth of understanding, self-reflection and a renewed sense of direction of where Malaysia is heading or should head into the future. These lectures attempt to provide a more deliberative, contextual framework for the development of Malaysia and discuss Malaysia in a cultural, social, political and an economic-historical context. These lectures invite current and future policy makers, leaders, stakeholders and interested observers of Malaysia to engage in a forum for debate and public intellectual activity on issues that matter, or should matter, to Malaysians.
This seminar should also evoke public interest and assist to create a sense of belonging, accountability, and responsibility in Malaysians regardless of race, religion and culture in the development of their own country.
As one political scientist has said, “The secret of development of a country, whether politically or economically, is that it comes from the people itself and not outsiders” – Francis Fukuyama
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