Ambassador Emerson delivered a keynote presentation on October 29 at the opening of the 2015 Transatlantic Business Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, co-sponsored by AmCham Germany, Frankfurt Business Media, and the Trans-Atlantic Business Council (TABC). He emphasized the mutually beneficial aspects of continued transatlantic economic cooperation and coordination, the importance of German leadership in Europe, and how a TTIP agreement would reinforce shared beliefs in democratic values and open markets.