Crisis or Opportunity? Rethinking Canada’s Path Forward with Amy Karam | NSB Engage Virtual Webinar
“Let’s champion a collaborative industrial strategy that unites government and industry around shared priorities.“
– Amy Karam
As organizations and governments confront a shifting world order, Amy Karam helps audiences fill the gap between policy and business strategy.
Designed for those programming leadership, strategy, or current affairs content, Amy delivers sharp insights on how Canadian businesses and sectors can respond to today’s global disruption.
Consider hosting Amy for:
Events on global trade and exporting, geopolitics and economic transformation, innovation strategy and policy, digital transformation, global competitiveness, future-facing Canadian strategy
As a strategist and advisor, Amy tailors her sessions to your industry and audience, drawing insights from her expertise in technology, geopolitics & global affairs.
Her former clients include: Teams in over 50 countries including CapitalOne, Visa, Nationwide, Bank of Canada, Silicon Valley venture capitalists, Google, Apple, Cisco, the U.S. Senate and the U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Committee, where she counselled on their renewed 5G and innovation strategy, and more.
Key highlights from this session include:
- Global Trade Has Changed, And Canada Needs a New Playbook — Canada’s overreliance on the U.S. (76% of exports) has become a strategic vulnerability; this highlights the importance of diversifying trade partnerships and paying attention to early warning signs (like past U.S. tariffs or China’s embargoes) so organizations can be better prepared for longer, more complex, and riskier sales cycles in global markets.
- Underperforming on Innovation Outputs — Canada excels in research and discovery, ranking high on innovation inputs. But when it comes to outputs–commercialization, monetization of IP, and the like–we lag. In other words, we generate strong ideas, but more entrepreneurial nations often commercialize them—gaining a competitive edge while we fall behind.
- “Industrial Strategy 2.0”: Public-Private Sector Collaboration — Canada must operate more like a company—with a clear strategy, asset inventory, and a defined global value proposition. This includes championing a collaborative industrial strategy that unites government and industry in deciding on Canada’s targeted priorities and centers of excellence in areas like AI, semiconductors or food sources that impact national security, as well as economic security.
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About Amy Karam
An incidental visionary, Amy Karam has a three-decade track record of instinctively identifying the next transformational market shift far in advance of popular adoption, connecting the dots, and creating competitive strategies for companies and governments to capitalize on the opportunity.
Drawing on her 15 years of Silicon Valley experience, and extensive international expertise in high-tech and other industries (she’s worked with over fifty countries in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa), she advises C-suite executives and guides execution-level management in creating focused, innovative, global expansion strategies.
Applying from a breadth of experience in business development, marketing, international trade, sales operations, and policy, Karam is a trusted authority on globalization, innovation, competitive strategy, and shifting global power dynamics—particularly the geopolitical impact of China’s rise and other emerging nations.
Karam is a leading voice on the rise of China’s Huawei, the strategic significance of 5G, and the resulting economic and national security implications. She is the author of The China Factor, a guide on leveraging emerging business strategies to compete, grow, and win in the new global economy.
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