Why We Need Immigrants

Immigrants have founded a third of the world’s most transformative companies, but global discourse still frames migration as a crisis rather than an opportunity to drive innovation. In this powerful discussion, one of the world’s leading strategy experts, Rita McGrath, is joined by Thinkers50 Radar Award Winner Neri Karra Sillaman and Forbes 30-under-30 entrepreneur Mursal Hedayat to explore how immigration unlocks new forms of creativity, resilience and organisational reinvention. From frontier technologies to future-of-work models, the speakers reveal how migrant entrepreneurs overperform not despite adversity but because of it, reframing migration as the most underused competitive advantage of our times.