In meetings with regional leaders Barack Obama talked about Ebola, Islamic State and tension in the South China Sea; Mr Xi talked development and infrastructure and backed it up with tens of billions of dollars that China is ready to invest.
As Assistly co-founder and vice president and general manager, Desk.com, Alex Bard and explains, the customer service platform has been completely rebuilt from the ground up, including the infrastructure and back-end.
Financial services firms are big spenders on technology already, but typically they're spending on infrastructure and back-end systems rather than on customer-facing tools, says Sha. "What they're missing is access to the right kind of technology," Sha says.
Therefore, the idea of a single government body responsible for evaluating, assessing and backing infrastructure investments can only be a good thing," said Nick Chism, head of KPMG's global infrastructure practice.
Beyond plans for a new infrastructure commission, freezing business rates and backing a British Investment Bank, is the big offer for business.
Or so hopes VMware, which on Monday announced a series of products for computer server and data storage infrastructure and management, backed up by its engineers and consultants.
With a charismatic leader and clever politics (two things currently missing), and relying on tribal Labour loyalty that remains in parts of the country, this approach could gain the support of 15%to20%0% of the public and possibly, with the infrastructure, money and backing of the big trade unions, up to 25%to28%8% of the vote.
The IOC snubbed Chicago because Obama refused to commit to taxpayer funding for the games, preferring instead to rely on Chicago's already substantial sports infrastructure and private backing.
Second, he advocates more investment in infrastructure at the European level and backs a better mix of fiscal retrenchment, focused more on cutting current spending than on axing investment and raising taxes.
But as the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh has learned over the past two decades, it is possible to build new infrastructure and bounce back from shocks big and small.
