Grüezi mitenand! For this week only, your daily Davos update.
Today’s highlights
We’re webcasting over 120 sessions. Here are some picks from today: (All times in GMT)
1015 Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi opens the Annual Meeting. Watch his speech.
1300 Cate Blanchett: the actor and UNHCR ambassador on the refugee crisis.
1430 Gender & sexual harassment. Women leaders speak out.
1630 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives a special address on corporate responsibility and the role of women in a changing world.
Podcasts: Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain enhancements. Gene editing. This is the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Listen to leading experts in our series of podcasts on the new reality.
A new social contract for a post-financial crisis world. Businesses must lead the way.
How to prepare for the future of work. Nothing less than a reskilling revolution is needed.
Global economic growth is making a strong comeback. But can stronger growth ease rising inequality and economic insecurity?
Society rewards wealth, not necessarily hard work or talent. How can the paradigm be reversed?
2018 will be a year fraught with risk. Here are five geopolitical risks to watch for.
1. Jan 14, 2016 - The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. Now a Fourth Industrial Revolution is building on the Third, the digital revolution ...
How to be a leader in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Jan 19, 2018
The urgency of shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution Jan 18, 2018
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is about empowering people, not ...Jun 14, 2017
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ICYMI: Yesterday’s highlights
Watch Cate Blanchett, Sir Elton John and Shah Rukh Khan accept their Crystal Awards for outstanding artistic and humanitarian contributions.
Listen to Christine Lagarde and senior IMF officials give an update on the global economy.
The World Economic Forum in the news
On our Inclusive Development Index: GDP growth may not be all its cracked up to be (Quartz), and Our fixation with growth is hindering the battle against inequality (CNBC).
Fractured world theme revealing of the challenge of modern leadership (The National)
The future is putting women's jobs at greatest risk (France 24)
Trudeau likely to focus on trade, the US, NAFTA and gender (Global News)
Oxfam: rich-poor gap ever widening (NDTV)
The World Economic Forum in the news
Everyone needs to be in listening mode, says Professor Klaus Schwab (Associated Press)
In Davos, everyone is worried about the forgotten people. (Washington Post)
The paranoid optimism of Davos economic experts (Bloomberg)
The Forum's practical approach to the dangers of big tech (Fast Company)
Mapping connections within and between issues (Japan Times)
A Canadian thinker on ‘the elephant in the china shop’ (Quartz)
A young Zimbabwean-born female engineer’s journey to Davos (Daily Vox)
All that and it's only Wednesday.
Until tomorrow. 🙏
Adrian Monck