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Article snippet: What do you get when you combine more than 100 heads of state, a few hundred chief executives and several thousand hangers-on in Midtown Manhattan? Besides a traffic jam, it is the United Nations General Assembly week in New York, also known as #UNGA. Or it’s the Concordia Summit. Or it’s Climate Week. Or it’s the Clinton Global Initiative, except now that event is gone, replaced this year by the inaugural Bloomberg Global Business Forum. “I don’t even know what to call this week anymore,” said Valerie Keller, head of the Beacon Institute, a division of EY, the accounting firm. “It’s everything.” What began as a bureaucratic gathering of diplomats at the United Nations has in recent years morphed into a business and political free-for-all, a champagne-soaked workweek of panel discussions, private dinners and high-minded pronouncements of important initiatives. Among the many business leaders making appearances are Tim Cook of Apple, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba. For those who fancy themselves important actors on the world stage, the gravitational pull to New York City this week is strong, and each year, more new events are added to an already overstuffed schedule, providing more excuses to show up, and adding a few more black S.U.V.s to the crowded streets. Ms. Keller made her own contribution to the social circuit. On Monday night, the Beacon Institute hosted a “nightcap” at the Museum of Modern Art in conjun... Link to the full article to read more