Apurv Bagri, Managing Director of the Metdist Group of companies and Chairman of TiE Global, opened the TiECON East 2006 conference in Boston with a talk on globalization and what it means in a flat world. To sum up his fifteen-minute-long talk, Bagri said, “Globalization in a flat world will be a moving dynamic that will be driven by value-creation for all stakeholders.”