But is that daily gathering of power brokers over $24 omelets and $8 coffees a movable feast?
The gathering of power brokers from the public and private sectors yesterday in the Blue Room at City Hall was extraordinary.
Steadily, though, her movements begin to expand into wheeling circles, which are so fast that they flash light, and this intense gathering of power dramatises Guillem's body in an entirely new way.
She and Mr Zardari also received an amnesty from corruption charges in Pakistan.Whatever Mr Zardari's past reputation, optimists hope that the gathering of power in his hands as president might, just possibly, bring a little more political stability to Pakistan.
Vienna was more of the same: a gathering of power brokers who seemed only dimly interested in ending the suffering.
After attending the recent gathering of power players in the philanthropic world, known as the Global Philanthropy Forum my head was spinning with facts and figures documenting the magnitude of the seemingly intractable problems the world faces today.
The Geneva meeting was the second major gathering of world powers this year to discuss the looming threat or possibility of fully self-operating lethal weapons.
SINCE its first meeting 50 years ago, the Bilderberg conference, a secretive gathering of global power brokers, has inspired layer upon layer of conspiracy theories, which it has done little to dispute.
But this year none of the big names attending the gathering of the power elite at Davos have made the 10-minute walk up the hill to pretend to be a refugee.
It's a sign of the times that some Arab journalists attending the gathering of international power brokers here were spending their free time scanning Twitter messages about political protests back home.
And over the weekend, the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of global power players, convened a panel on the question, "Is Zero Possible?" The panelists, who included former defense officials from Russia, India and Germany, as well as Senator John Kerry, answered unanimously in the affirmative.
