CFA Society Jacksonville

Global Business Luncheon | Mike Bird | An Update from The Economist

Global Business Luncheon | Mike Bird | An Update from The Economist This is a World Affairs Council event & is a member benefit for CFA Society Jacksonville members. Mike Bird is The Economist’s Wall Street editor, leading coverage of topics across the American financial industry, and contributing to coverage of finance globally. He is one of the regular writers of the Buttonwood column, and also the co-host of Money Talks, the paper’s podcast on markets, business and economics. He is based in New York. Mike joined the paper as Asia business and finance editor in 2021, and was based in Singapore, where he wrote about capital markets, economic development and major corporations across the region. Mike previously worked for The Wall Street Journal in London and Hong Kong as a reporter and financial columnist. DATE & TIME Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:00 PM LOCATION The River Club 1 Independent Dr #3500 Jacksonville, FL 32202 PRICE Members Only: $40.00

Spring Book Club Meeting

Join CFA Society Jacksonville for our next book club meeting on Tuesday, March 31 to discuss  The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip  by  Stephen Witt . The Thinking Machine is the story of how Nvidia evolved to supplying hundred-million-dollar supercomputers . It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing, becoming one of the wealthiest men alive. It is the story of a revolution in computer architecture, and the small group of renegade engineers who made it happen. And it’s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, which Huang has billed as the ‘next industrial revolution,’ as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and new movies, art, and books, generated on command. DATE & TIME Tuesday, March 31 6:00 - 7:30 PM LOCATION To be announced PRICE Free to attend; food and drinks available for purchase