The Third Wave of global digitization has reached an inflection point. The conditions and technology born in Silicon Valley have now spread, evolved, and matured worldwide, creating billions of digital natives and numerous unicorns in all corners of the globe. With the developing world’s swelling middle class of youthful online consumers as the catalyst, new innovative companies are now poised to go public and spark a golden age of digital transformation for emerging markets.

Kevin Carter, the Founder & CIO of The Emerging Markets Internet & Ecommerce Index (NYSE:EMQQ) will share why we’re entering a unique inflection point for Emerging Market investors being on the cusp of a massive IPO wave for the “Silicon Valleys” of the developing world.

 Kevin has worked alongside Princeton Economist Dr. Burton Malkiel for over two decades focused on China/Emerging Markets that’s culminated in the creation of EMQQ and the best overall performing EM Index for the 1yr, 3yr, and 5yr periods according to ETFdb. Now he has just launched FMQQ, the Next Frontier Internet & Ecommerce Index targeting the ex China part of the digital revolution story.

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With the internet becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, billions of people in the developing world are now leapfrogging traditional consumption patterns and starting to consume online for the first time. The result of this rising middle-class consumer wave has transformed economies and produced new internet giants equal to or larger than their U.S. counterparts. While the Emerging Market internet and ecommerce story has been largely focused on China thus far, the story is evolving and accelerating to companies and consumers in India, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa.

Kevin will delve into the greater influence of this new consumer wave and the fundamental changes taking place in developing economies beyond China, their preference for online services and shopping via the smartphone and how Gen-Z will drive the next wave of this growing digital revolution.

With the internet becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, billions of people in the developing world are just now going online for the first time via smartphones. As the majority of the worlds population shifts their consumption patterns increasingly online, a rising middle-class consumer wave has begun to transform entire economies, producing new internet giants on par or even larger than their U.S. counterparts. Kevin will delve into the greater influence of this new digitized generation, the companies positioned at the front of these trends and ways for investors to gain targeted exposure to this growth story.

With the internet becoming increasingly affordable and accessible, Billions of people in the developing world are now leapfrogging traditional consumption patterns and starting to consume online for the first time. The result of this rising middle-class consumer wave has transformed economies and produced new internet giants equal to or even larger than their U.S. counterparts. Kevin will delve into the greater influence of this new consumer wave and the fundamental changes taking place in developing economies, their preference for online shopping via the smartphone and ways for investors to gain targeted exposure to the rapidly expanding sector.