organizing and conducting confidential meetings and symposiums involving active and direct participation of top political and/or societal leaders, and/or top management from opinion or market leading companies, institutions, agencies and/or other non-client entitles to assess underutilized or new products, services and/or technologies by assessing value and uniqueness, determining, key applications and end-uses addressing significant market needs and possessing maximum business potential for commercialization; and to provid access to industry leading, prospective end-users and/or alliance partners (e.g., joint development) to accelerate commercialization; or, to identify relevant emerging technologies to secure through licensing, acquisition or other means; or, for the purposes of obtaining targeted market and technology forecasts