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What are 'elastocalorics' or 'reconfigurable intelligent surfaces'? In a few years' time these emerging technologies may have transformed the way we heat and cool our homes, and how we transmit ever greater amounts of data.

They are among the technological innovations identified in the World Economic Forum's annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report, which picks the tech that could transform the world in the coming years.

In this video-podcast, the two lead authors of the report take us through each of the 10 on this year's list.

The report is produced in collaboration with Frontiers.

Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication

Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM

Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-2024/

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/

Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives

Top-10 Emerging Technologies 2021

The Top 10 Tech of 2020 - our podcast with Scientific American

2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?

Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero

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Wars, trade tensions and elections around the world are testing humanity's ability to tackle climate change.

Two experts from the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics look at the diplomacy and real-world reality of climate change politics and economics, with a particular focus on the global South.

This episode is published to coincide with the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils, find out more here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-global-future-councils-2024/

Arun Sharma, senior advisor to the Chairman, Adani Group

Varun Sivaram, Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, Council on Foreign Relations

Jessica Margolis, Lead, Geopolitical Agenda, World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum’s network of Global Future Councils: https://www.weforum.org/communities/global-future-councils/ Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-geopolitics/

Shaping Cooperation in a Fragmenting World: https://www.weforum.org/publications/shaping-cooperation-in-a-fragmenting-world/

Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics

How do we ensure the green transition doesn't penalise the poorest?

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"The global economy - it's a complicated picture, in the sense that it's doing better than we expected just six months ago but it's doing much worse than what it was doing six years ago."

World Bank Chief Economist Indermit Gill gives his assessment of the 'glass half-full' global economy.

And as the World Economic Forum publishes the latest edition of its Chief Economists Outlook, the Forum's Head of Economic Growth, Revival and Transformation, Aengus Collins, talks us through the highlights.

Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-world-bank-indermit-gill

How do we ensure the green transition doesn't penalise the poorest?

Globalization is in transition - not retreat, says this analyst of global trade

The long game: how to understand China and how it sees its role in the world

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A new, critically acclaimed documentary follows the fortunes of online investors, including one who made - and lost - $3 million in cryptocurrency. The director of This Is Not Financial Advice hopes his movie will help people understand the risks and potential benefits of investing, and how they can educate themselves.

Co-host: Meagan Andrews, Lead, Capital Market Initiatives, World Economic Forum

Guest: Chris Temple, Film Director at Optimist

Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-financial-and-monetary-systems/home

Film website: https://optimist.co/films/thisisnotfinancialadvice/

Apps, bots and 'finfluencers': how to navigate the changing world of investing

Financial inclusion - how increased access to banking is lifting people out of poverty

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As investors pour money into companies developing or deploying artificial intelligence, what are the steps they should be taking to ensure that AI is safe and responsible?

The Responsible AI Playbook for Investors published by the World Economic Forum and pension fund CPP Investments, sets out real-world examples of how investors can - and must - use their position to promote responsible AI.

Judy Wade, Managing Director, Head of Strategy Execution & Relationship Management, CPP Investments

Responsible AI Playbook for Investors: https://www.weforum.org/publications/responsible-ai-playbook-for-investors/

AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?

'We have the most to benefit, but also the most to lose': how AI could transform human health

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How can cities - with ever growing populations - tackle air deadly pollution and reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Breathe Cities is a global network of cities sharing data, expertise and experience to do just that.

Guest: Jaime Pumarejo, Executive Director of Breathe Cities.

Breathe Cities: https://breathecities.org/

GAEA - Giving to Amplify Earth Action: https://initiatives.weforum.org/giving-to-amplify-earth-action/

Alliance for Clean Air: https://initiatives.weforum.org/alliance-for-clean-air/

World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/

What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster?

It's cheaper to save the world than destroy it: author Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism

COP26: How cities are tackling pollution, congestion and the climate

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Artificial intelligence has the potential to massively improve human health: from developing new drugs to providing more accurate diagnoses and helping people who live with severe disabilities.

But AI also has the potential, if used wrongly or governed badly, to make life worse for people dealing with health problems.

In this episode, we hear from people on the front lines of the technology.

This episode was first published on 29 May, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024.

Victor Pineda, president and founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation/World ENABLED

Alexandra Reeve Givens , CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology

Chris Mansi, CEO, Viz.ai

Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Insitro

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home

Centre for Health and Healthcare: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/

AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?

What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments

Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

Special Meeting 2024: Bridging the Health Gap

Special Meeting 2024: AI Powered Industries

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Theatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism.

WOW is now a global phenomenon, but does the rise of online misogyny pose a threat to progress on gender equality.

Jude Kelly, who spoke to Radio Davos on World Women's Day 2024, says why it is vital to include men in the conversations about an issue that affects us all.

This episode was first published on 28 March, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024.

WOW Foundation: https://thewowfoundation.com/

Gender Gap Report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/

How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023

The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you

Democracy can’t flourish if women are excluded: Nazanin Boniadi on Iran at Davos 2023

Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis

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What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse?

Actor Rainn Wilson joins us in avatar form to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world.

We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points.

And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way.

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu0CO8qT53E

This episode was first published on 15 January, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024.

Global Collaboration Village: https://www.globalcollaborationvillage.org/

Arctic Basecamp: https://arcticbasecamp.org/

For a longer interview with Rainn Wilson and Gail Whiteman, listen to our sister podcast, Meet the Leader:

Reach your changemakers: Arctic Basecamp's Gail Whiteman and Rainn Wilson

Our visit into an earlier version of the Global Collaboration Village:

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

And more...

Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life

The metaverse: how to build something we can all gain from

What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse

So just what is the metaverse? Meta’s Nick Clegg at Davos 2022

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For half a century, Nile Rodgers has been making hit records that have touched people's hearts around the world. The creative force behind disco pioneers Chic, and some of the best known songs of David Bowie, Madonna and Beyoncé, tells us the definition of an artist: someone whose work "speaks to the souls of a million strangers".

But what if generative AI can make music that's just as good? Is AI a threat or a blessing to art and human expression?

We also hear from the head of the Hollywood actors' union on why moviemakers went on strike over the threat posed by AI. And from Refik Anadol, a leading light in AI-generated art.

This episode was first published on 4 April, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024.

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA

Refik Anadol, Media Artist and Director, Refik Anadol Studio

Nile Rodgers, musician and founder of the We Are Family Foundation

Nile Rodgers interview: https://www.weforum.org/videos/ai-nile-rodgers/

What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments

AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?

AM24: The Expanding Universe of Generative Models

'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?

Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World

AI - What could possibly go wrong?: Professor Stuart Russell

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Going green - in energy, agriculture, industry and elsewhere - will have costs and benefits, so how can we ensure the poorest don't pay the price or miss out on the opportunities?

A new report from the World Economic Forum has defined six 'archetype' countries and looks at the differing challenges across the globe, and what policymakers need to know to achieve an 'equitable transition'.

Tarini Fernando, Lead, Equitable Transition, World Economic Forum

Accelerating an Equitable Transition: A Data-Driven Approach: https://www.weforum.org/publications/accelerating-an-equitable-transition-a-data-driven-approach/

How do we ensure the green transition doesn't penalize the poorest? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/07/green-transition-equity-energy-report/

5 key insights into how to accelerate an equitable energy transition: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/5-key-insights-accelerate-the-energy-transition-amnc23/

Why the global energy transition must be just and equitable: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/why-the-global-energy-transition-must-be-just-and-equitable/

Why it's vital to take a people-centred approach to equitable energy transitions: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/06/people-centred-approach-towards-equitable-energy-transitions/

What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster?

How chemicals companies are joining forces to become more sustainable

Where are the innovations that can make mining more sustainable?

Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero

No laughing matter: Can comedy help us tackle climate change?

Incubated at the World Economic Forum, the Global Impact Coalition (GIC) is an organisation that pools the resources of major chemicals companies to develop ways of making their industry more sustainable.

We hear from Charlie Tan, CEO of the GIC, and from two technical experts at the GIC's Research and Development Hub at Netherlands-based research centre TNO.

Jan Harm Urbanus, Lead Scientist Circular Plastics, TNO

Hella Koops, Senior Project Manager and Cluster Lead Circular Plastics, TNO

Charlie Tan, CEO, Global Impact Coalition

Centre for Energy and Materials - World Economic Forum: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/

GIC: https://globalimpactcoalition.com/

TNO: https://www.tno.nl/en/newsroom/2023/05/hub-plastic-waste-world-economic-forum/

What are the 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of climate disaster?

Where are the innovations that can make mining more sustainable?

Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero

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As populists are on the rise in many countries, how should the moderates respond? We hear from Yair Zivan, the author of a new book called "The Centre Must Hold", who argues that centrism is more than just the mid-point between two extremes, and can be a radical force for good.

“The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation,” edited by Yair Zivan: https://eandtbooks.com/books/the-centre-must-hold/

Essay by World Economic Forum President Borge Brende: Why a centrist approach can restore global cooperation

The Second Coming, poem by WB Yeats: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

Ian Bremmer, Rachel Botsman and Azeem Azhar: 3 experts on the state of the world in 2024

Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics

Democracy can’t flourish if women are excluded: Nazanin Boniadi on Iran at Davos 2023

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Climate change is an extremely serious issue, but can comedy help us cope with - and communicate about - it?

We hear from the University of Colorado, Boulder where students can take a course in ‘climate comedy’ that ends in them performing on stage in a comedy club.

And we unpack the power of cartoons from the World Economic Forum’s climate ‘cartoonathon’.

Thumbnail image: Wade Kimbrough (with the help of A.I.) The caption reads: "Changing paths? That's not in this quarter's budget."

Beth Osnes, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder:

Max Boykoff, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

Gill Einhorn, Head, Innovation and Transformation, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum

John Letzing, Digital Editor, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic Forum

Inside the Greenhouse: https://insidethegreenhouse.org/

2024 Inside the Greenhouse Climate Comedy Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QshK_XuGUMg

Earth Decides: https://www.earthdecides.org/community

Cartoonathon: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/11/humour-and-generative-ai-can-help-us-discuss-the-climate-crisis/

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What’s the health condition that affects us all, but is often seen as an add-on for healthcare - and how much is this neglect costing the economy?

Oral diseases affect half the world's population and, according to a new report, have knock-on costs to the economy worth $710 billion every year.

Marko Vujicic of the American Dental Association joins us to discuss 'The Economic Rationale for a Global Commitment to Invest in Oral Health'.

The Economic Rationale for a Global Commitment to Invest in Oral Health: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-economic-rationale-for-a-global-commitment-to-invest-in-oral-health/

Half the world is affected by oral disease – here’s how we can tackle this unmet healthcare need: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/05/oral-health-crisis-global-equity-affordable-dental-care/

Global Health Equity Network: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-health-equity-network/

Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

'We have the most to benefit, but also the most to lose': how AI could transform human health

American Heart Association: How prosperity can bridge health equity gaps

Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic

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Deglobalization, reglobalization, decoupling, de-risking, reshoring friend-shoring, export bans, tariffs and sanctions - is global trade going into reverse, or simply into a new phase?

As the World Economic Forum hosts the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China, we ask an expert about the state of global trade and where it might be heading.

Guest: Simon Evenett, founder of the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade.

Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June, 2024, Dalian, China: wef.ch/amnc24

Geopolitical Rivalry and Business: 10 Recommendations for Policy Design: https://wef.ch/geopolitics-business

Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Trade and Investment: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-trade-and-investment/

Centre for Regions, Trade & Geopolitics: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-regions-trade-and-geopolitics/home

Recharging Growth in China

Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics

Special Meeting 2024: What Kind of Growth Do We Need?

3 shifts all effective collaborators make

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As the World Economic Forum convenes the 'Annual Meeting of the New Champions' in China, this expert helps us better understand how the Asian powerhouse sees its place in the world.

With Markus Herrmann, the Swiss-Chinese co-founder of the China Macro Group consultancy.

Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June 2024: wef.ch/amnc24

Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-regions-trade-and-geopolitics/

Recharging Growth in China

Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics

This founder climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro after a big pivot - and learned a key lesson about patience

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The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006.

Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi talks us through the main finding of the Global Gender Gap Report 2024 and how she sees the progress and challenges in closing the gender gap worldwide.

Global Gender Gap Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2024/

Centre for New Economy and Society: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-new-economy-and-society/

Recharging Growth in China

Cyber has a skills gap. How approaches to tech, hiring – and retaining women - can help

In the age of the 'manosphere', what's the future for feminism? With Jude Kelly of the WOW Festival

What workers really want - and how it can bridge the gender gap: Reshma Saujani, Moms First

Executive coaches share how promotions really happen - and what's needed to tackle the gender gap

Davos 2023: Women’s Leadership: Towards Parity in Power

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Climate 'tipping points' are the dangerous phenomena that could suddenly make climate change even worse than it is already: melting ice sheets that could change ocean currents, thawing permafrost that releases vast amounts of methane, or rainforests turning into dry savannah - events that could completely destabilise the global environment and would be hard or impossible to reverse.

But, according to a growing number of climate scientists, there is also the prospect of ‘positive tipping points’. Things that can happen to speed up the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in ways that humanity has so far failed to achieve.

One of those is Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. As you will hear in the interview, other climate experts use terms such as 'social tipping points' or 'sensitive intervention points' - Professor Lenton says these are similar concepts that altogether should dispel the notion that we are doomed by climate change.

First Movers Coalition: wef.ch/fmc

Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter: https://geography.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/?web_id=timothy_lenton

Davos 2024: First Movers for Frontier Clean Technologies

Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero

COP26: First Movers Coalition

Davos 2024: Transforming Energy Demand

How to talk to a climate change sceptic

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Artificial intelligence has the potential to massively improve human health: from developing new drugs to providing more accurate diagnoses and helping people who live with severe disabilities.

But AI also has the potential, if used wrongly or governed badly, to make life worse for people dealing with health problems.

In this episode, we hear from people on the front lines of the technology.

Victor Pineda, president and founder of the Victor Pineda Foundation/World ENABLED

Alexandra Reeve Givens , CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology

Chris Mansi, CEO, Viz.ai

Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Insitro

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home

Centre for Health and Healthcare: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/

AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?

What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments

Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

Special Meeting 2024: Bridging the Health Gap

Special Meeting 2024: AI Powered Industries

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With the pandemic well behind us, international travel has bounced back. The World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index, a major survey of the state of the sector, gives a clear picture of how things look around the world. Maksim Soshkim, who leads much of the Forum’s work on the issue tells us the headlines, and Jacqueline Gifford, Editor-in-Chief of Travel + Leisure magazine, gives her take on the state of the travel scene.

One of the key areas the TTDI looks at is sustainability - the impact of travel and tourism on the environment and local communities. And in this episode we hear from two people engaged in making tourism more sustainable: a hotel company taking action across its supply chain, and the head of tourism for Rwanda, where income from foreign visitors helps conserve a unique ecosystem and its endangered mountain gorillas.

Speakers:

Maksim Soshkin, Centre for Energy and Materials, World Economic Forum

Jacqueline Gifford, Editor-in-Chief, Travel + Leisure

Neil Jacobs, CEO, Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas

Michaella Rugwizangoga, Chief Tourism Officer, Rwanda

Travel and Tourism Development Index:

wef.ch/ttdi24

Global Future Council on the Future of Sustainable Tourism:

https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-sustainable-tourism/

Where are the innovations that can make mining more sustainable?

It's cheaper to save the world than destroy it: author Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism

"Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity

Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism

Thumbnail photo: Samrat Khadka on Unsplash

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The Netflix documentary 'The Tinder Swindler' is a mind-boggling case of so-called 'romance fraud' in which a charming, handsome - and apparently very rich - man meets women on a dating app - gets them to fall in love with him - and then cons them out of lots of money.

Cecilie Fjellhøy is the Norwegian woman at the centre of the documentary whose life was torn apart by the actions of a conman. A survivor of romance fraud on a grand scale, she now advocates for the rights of, and support for, others who find themselves in similar grim circumstances.

We also hear from Sean Doyle, who works at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity, on just how widespread romance fraud really is, why it’s a multinational, multi-billion form of cyber crime, and what is being done to combat it.

Centre for Cybersecurity: wef.ch/cybersecurity

Cybercrime Atlas: https://initiatives.weforum.org/cybercrime-atlas/

Cecilie Fjellhøy's organisation LoveSaid: https://www.lovesaid.org/

The Tinder Swindler documentary:

Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

Ransomware and ransom-war: why we all need to be ready for cyber attacks

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'Spatial computing', 'blended reality', 'the metaverse'. For those of us who still use screens and keyboards to access the digital world, those phrases might not mean very much. But many experts believe the '2D' internet will soon be a thing of the past, and we will all be, one way or another, in a 3D metaverse.

With Apple's Vision Pro headset renewing interest in virtual reality, we speak to two proponents of the metaverse who see both huge opportunities and significant risks.

Yonatan Raz-Fridman, CEO of Supersocial and host of the podcast “Into the Metaverse”

Brittan Heller, lecturer on International Law, Technology, and Human Rights, Stanford University.

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

Metaverse Identity: Defining the Self in a Blended Reality: https://www.weforum.org/publications/metaverse-identity-defining-the-self-in-a-blended-reality/

Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations: https://www.weforum.org/publications/navigating-the-industrial-metaverse-a-blueprint-for-future-innovations/

Meeting in the metaverse: Actor Rainn Wilson joins us on the virtual polar ice

What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse

Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life

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Mining is an industry that many of us probably rarely think about, but one that provides the raw materials for so many of the things we use, not least the modern technologies such as smart phones and electric vehicles that require certain minerals that are not always in abundant supply.

The International Energy Agency predicts that the demand for minerals will double by 2040. So how can we meet that demand in the most energy efficient and sustainable way?

UpLink, the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum, is inviting entrepreneurs who have answers to that question to take part in its Sustainable Mining Challenge - a competition that aims to pick the most promising startups in the field.

On this episode we speak to Vivek Salgaocar, the founder of Prospect Innovation, which is the leading funder and business partner of the Sustainable Mining Challenge, and to Megan O'Connor, CEO and Co-founder of Nth Cycle, a company which is innovating in ways to better recycle mining waste.

This podcast is published around the World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development. Find more information at wef.ch/specialmeeting24 and across social media using the hashtag #specialmeeting24.

UpLink Mining Challenge:

https://uplink.weforum.org/uplink/s/uplink-issue/a00TE000001FQLNYA4/sustainable-mining-challenge

UN Water Conference: the entrepreneurs on a mission

How can innovation help solve the freshwater crisis?

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What are the new technologies that can help us reach net zero? And how do we bring them to scale fast enough?

World Economic Forum Managing Director Jeremy Jurgens joins us to talk about the Advanced Energy Solutions community, and we hear from three of its members, from widely different sectors and geographies, implementing the energy solutions of tomorrow.

Ann Mettler, Vice President, Europe, Breakthrough Energy

VK Samudrala, President, Amara Raja Energy & Mobility

Maarten Michielssens, Founder and CEO, EnergyVision

This episode is related to the Forum’s Special Meeting on Global Cooperation, Growth and Energy for Development held in Riyadh on 28-29 April 2024.

https://www.weforum.org/events/special-meeting-on-global-collaboration-growth-and-energy-for-development-2024/

Advanced Energy Solutions community: https://www.weforum.org/communities/advanced-energy-solutions-community/

Geopolitics, the equitable transition, and AI: things to look out for in energy in 2024

It's cheaper to save the world than destroy it: author Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism

Davos 2024: Transforming Energy Demand

The energy transition moonshot: innovations that will transform our world

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In a polarised world, with the most powerful nations and the UN unable to prevent or end many wars, could the so-called 'middle powers' step up?

This week's two guests, both members of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics, think so, and say those countries might even consider setting up an 'M-10' of middle powers seeking to resolve conflicts and other problems.

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Susana Malcorra, Senior Advisor at Spain’s IE University and former Argentinian foreign minister and UN Secretary General Chief of Staff.

Bruce Jones, Senior Fellow with The Brookings Institution

Co-host:

Nicolai Ruge, Lead, Geopolitics and Trade at the World Economic Forum.

Davos 2024 session: Middle Powers in a Multipolar World

Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics: https://www.weforum.org/communities/global-future-councils/

Shaping Cooperation in a Fragmenting World: https://www.weforum.org/publications/shaping-cooperation-in-a-fragmenting-world/

Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development: https://www.weforum.org/events/special-meeting-on-global-collaboration-growth-and-energy-for-development-2024/

Ian Bremmer, Rachel Botsman and Azeem Azhar: 3 experts on the state of the world in 2024

The number of refugees could double in the next decade, the head of UNHCR says why

How do vital businesses continue to operate in a war zone? The view from Yemen

Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism

12 leaders share what to prioritize in 2024

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“Climate Capitalism is an antidote to the dominant narrative that because we’ve ignored the climate crisis for so long, it will soon be too late. While it’s true that we’ve not done enough yet, we’re nowhere close to being too late.”

So says Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg’s senior climate reporter and host of the podcast Zero, in his new book Climate Capitalism, which looks at ways business and industry and finance can make, and in some cases are making, real progress on climate change.

Global Risks Report 2024

Geopolitics, the equitable transition, and AI: things to look out for in energy in 2024

Davos 2024: Transforming Energy Demand

Reach your changemakers: Arctic Basecamp's Gail Whiteman and Rainn Wilson

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For half a century, Nile Rodgers has been making hit records that have touched people's hearts around the world. The creative force behind disco pioneers Chic, and some of the best known songs of David Bowie, Madonna and Beyoncé, tells us the definition of an artist: someone whose work "speaks to the souls of a million strangers".

But what if generative AI can make music that's just as good? Is AI a threat or a blessing to art and human expression?

We also hear from the head of the Hollywood actors' union on why moviemakers went on strike over the threat posed by AI. And from Refik Anadol, a leading light in AI-generated art.

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA

Refik Anadol, Media Artist and Director, Refik Anadol Studio

Nile Rodgers, musician and founder of the We Are Family Foundation

Nile Rodgers interview: https://www.weforum.org/videos/ai-nile-rodgers/

What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments

AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?

AM24: The Expanding Universe of Generative Models

'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?

Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World

AI - What could possibly go wrong?: Professor Stuart Russell

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Theatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism.

WOW is now a global phenomenon, but does the rise of online misogyny pose a threat to progress on gender equality.

Jude Kelly, who spoke to Radio Davos on World Women's Day 2024, says why it is vital to include men in the conversations about an issue that affects us all.

WOW Foundation: https://thewowfoundation.com/

Gender Gap Report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/

How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023

The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you

Democracy can’t flourish if women are excluded: Nazanin Boniadi on Iran at Davos 2023

Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis

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A year ago in Davos, energy - particularly the disruption to supply and prices caused by the war in Ukraine - was a top issue at the Forum's Annual Meeting and on Radio Davos we invited two experts in to set out the top lines of the energy discussion.

Roberto Bocca, who heads up energy at the World Economic Forum, and John Defterios, a business professor and former CNN journalist, return this year, as war is an even bigger issue. They also discuss the 'energy transition', especially how that might look in the global South, and they address what was the top issue at this year's Davos: artificial intelligence - which many people believe could play a central role in the energy transition, but which is also itself creating a surge in demand for energy to power all the compute needed to create AI.

Roberto Bocca:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/roberto-bocca/

John Defterios: https://www.weforum.org/people/john-defterios/

Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 - 21 March:

https://www.iaea.org/events/nuclear-energy-summit-2024

SDG-7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all: https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/sustainable-development-goals/why-do-sustainable-development-goals-matter/goal-7

Centre for Energy and Materials: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/home

Global Future Council on the Future of Energy Transition: https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-energy-transition/

The global conversation on energy changed at Davos 2023 - here’s why

The energy transition moonshot: innovations that will transform our world

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using:

Building Equitable Transitions: Green and Fair: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/building-equitable-transitions-can-green-be-fair/

Climate and Nature: Seed Capital Needed:

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/climate-and-nature-seed-capital-needed/

Live from the Deep Sea:

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/live-from-the-deep-sea/

Podcast: Davos 2024: Live from the Deep Sea: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/davos-2024-live-from-the-deep-sea/

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What's in store for 2024?

Ian Bremmer's political risk consultancy predicts an 'annus horribilis' but Exponential View's Azeem Azhar says we are in an 'incredible decade'.

So is the state of the world 'glass half empty, or half full'?

And in an uncertain world, Oxford University's Rachel Botsman, tells why trust is so vital, and how it can be re-built, or rather, re-earned.

Ian Bremmer: https://www.eurasiagroup.net/people/IBremmer

Rachel Botsman: https://rachelbotsman.com/

Azeem Azhar: https://www.azeemazhar.com/

https://intelligence.weforum.org/

https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/

These are the biggest global risks we face in 2024 and beyond

Global Risk Report 2024: Transitions in the age of information

Global Risks 2024: At a turning point - Global Risks Report 2024

Global Risks Report 2024: Risks are growing, but there's hope

Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

'Expect the unexpected': IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva on AI, preparedness - and the global economy in 2024

12 leaders share what to prioritize in 2024

What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments

Annual Meeting 2024: What just happened in Davos?

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The UNHCR, cares for 114 million refugees and displaced people worldwide. Filippo Grandi, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, says that number could double in a decade if the world cannot find ways to stop war.

Refugee Employment Alliance: https://www.weforum.org/projects/the-refugee-employment-and-employability-initiative/

Read more: From fleeing war to finding work: companies aim to help refugees find jobs

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The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees

Helping the unprecedented number of forcibly displaced

Ingka Group's Jesper Brodin: The talent crisis you’re not talking enough about

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If 2023 was the year we all got familiar with generative AI, is 2024 the year when governments will act on the governance of this powerful technology?

At Davos 2024 we spoke to these experts, from the industry and civil society:

Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology

Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere

Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI

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World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA

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Technology is revolutionizing global commerce and investment, and digitalizing the trade ecosystem holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion by 2026 within the G7 alone.

On the eve of the World Trade Organisation's 13th Ministerial Conference, MC13 (26-29 February, 2024) in Abu Dhabi, we speak to the event's host, UAE Minister of State for Trade Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi about MC13 and the TradeTech initiative that the UAE is pursuing with the World Economic Forum.

We also hear from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her hopes for MC13, and from Vincent Clerc, Chief Executive Officer, A.P. Møller-Maersk, with his views on trade tech.

Read more about the TradeTech initiative: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/home

and the TradeTech Forum, 27 February, 2024: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/tradetechforum24

Read Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi's Agenda blog: TradeTech could be the future of international trade – here’s why

The WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference, 26-29 February, 2024: MC13

Watch this session from Davos 2024: TradeTech's Trillion-Dollar Promise

Watch Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi at this Davos Press Conference: Transformation of Global Trade

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"This is going to be the most transformational moment, not just in technology, but in culture and politics of all of our lifetimes."

Three AI pioneers, all of them in Time's Top-100 most influential people in AI, share their views on the past, present and future of this transformational technology.

Guests:

Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO, Cohere

Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder and CEO, Inflection AI

Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist, Meta

World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA

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2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?

What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?

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In an episode recorded before the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, we hear from two private-sector companies involved in the distribution of food, about how they manage to operate in a war zone like Yemen, which has been in a state of civil war since 2015.

Guests:

Mohamed Nabil Hayel Saeed, Senior Strategic Advisor, HSA

Niels Hougaard, Managing Director, Tetra Pak Arabia

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What do social media content creators make of Davos?

We speak to three YouTubers - with a collective audience in the millions - who were given full access to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 to ask who they met and what stories they would be telling.

Featuring: Jacob Beautemps, @BreakingLab Adanna Steinacker, @houseofadanna Gohar Khan, @goharsguide

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The World Economic Forum just held its Annual Meeting - but what impact will it have on the world beyond Davos?

The people who lead the Forum's work throughout the year tackling the world's most important issues pick the highlights of the week that show how Davos 2024 will make a positive impact.

And we hear clips from some of the most impactful discussions from the Congress Centre.

Davos 2024 sessions featured in this episode:

Opening Concert

Technology in a Turbulent World

Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed

When Climate Impacts Your Health

Thinking through Augmentation

The World in Numbers: Gender Parity

The Right Stuff – A New Relationship with Materials

Transforming Energy Demand

2024 Social Innovation Awards

Special Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

Earth's Wisdom Keepers

Forum reports and initiatives mentioned in the episode:

AI Governance Alliance

Edison Alliance - Impact Report

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Network -

The Global Alliance for Women's Health

Future of Jobs Report

Longevity Economy Principles

How Can Cyber Defenders Win?

No Recovery without Trade and Investment.

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Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

Davos 2024: A conversation with Satya Nadella

Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World

Davos 2024: Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed

Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism

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What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse? Actor Rainn Wilson joins us, in avatar form, to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world.

We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points.

And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way.

The environments shown in images and environmental sounds heard in this episode in the Global Collaboration Village's Climate Tipping Points Hub were developed in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft. The Global Collaboration Village is a World Economic Forum Initiative in Partnership with Accenture and Microsoft

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https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/arctic-basecamp-rainn-wilson-gail-whiteman/

What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse

Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

Davos 2023: Day 1 - Cooperation in a Fragmented World

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As leading figures from government, business, academia and civil society head to Davos for the Annual Meeting 2024, what are the big global challenges they will be discussing?

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report sets out the biggest issues over the short and medium terms, based on a survey of more than 1,400 global risks experts, policy-makers and industry leaders.

This year, the impact of artificial intelligence is felt throughout the report, with rising concern about disinformation and cyberinsecurity.

Gayle Markovitz hears from two of the people who put the report together, Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh McLennan, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance.

Read the Global Risks Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/

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Global Risk Report 2024: The risks are growing — but so is our capacity to respond

How to build business resilience in an era of risk turbulence

Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023

Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on

2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?

What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?

Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic

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Radio Davos is a podcast that is as wide-ranging and thought-provoking as the work of the World Economic Forum itself. Rather than being restricted to any one topic, each week it focuses on a particular issue of global importance, such as macro-economics, the environment, technology, health, social inequalities and much more - always seeking solutions to the big problems

On this episode we listen back to a selection of episodes from 2023.

Davos 2023 Day 5: Inflation, AI, and women of influence

Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives

Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic

Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis

Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

"Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity

The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024:

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/

Global Risks Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2023/

The Future of Jobs Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/

AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home

Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/

Global Gender Gap Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/

related podcast episode:

How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023/

Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-coalition-for-value-in-healthcare/home

Centre for Nature and Climate https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/home

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As 2023 draws to a close and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting approaches, we look at an issue that will be on everyone’s lips in Davos: artificial intelligence.

Cathy Li, head of AI at the Forum tells us about the work of the AI Governance Alliance, which has brought stakeholders together to seek the best way for humans to oversee the rapid rise of the technology.

And we hear from a handful of the stakeholders who attended the AI Governance Summit in November:

Sara Hooker, VP of Research at Cohere and leader Cohere For AI

Sabastian Niles, President & Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce

Andrew Ng, Founder, Coursera and DeepLearning.AI

Khalfan Belhoul, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Future Foundation

For more on the AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA

The Presidio Principles

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?

'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?

AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all

Technology that transforms: what an invention from 1450 can teach us about AI

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

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If you’re a ‘digital native’ - someone who can’t remember a world before the internet - you might feel you have a good idea of the role technology will play in your life and perhaps in that of future generations.

But journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of a history of another transformative technology from more than five centuries ago - the printing press - says we can have no way yet of knowing where the internet, and AI, will take us.

The book is called The Gutenberg Parenthesis. Jeff spoke to us at the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Summit.

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https://www.weforum.org/events/ai-governance-summit-2023/

AI Governance Summit 2023: State of Gen AI: Views from the Frontier

AI Governance Summit 2023: Gen AI: New Age of Governance

AI Governance Summit: Transformation on the Horizon

AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all

Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives

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Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem.

Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics.

To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.

Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership

Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty

Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty

Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, Enviu

Jodie Roussell, Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé

João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, The Ocean Cleanup

Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam

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A Paris Agreement for plastics

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When Professor Tom Crowther published research into the massive potential of trees to absorb more carbon than previously thought, he helped spur the Trillion Trees movement to plant, restore and conserve forests. But it also caused massive debate.

As he publishes updated research, Crowther tells Radio Davos that growing trees must increase biodiversity, and not lead to monoculture plantations, and that it must never be an excuse to slow the drive to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.

Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich

Restor, an online platform for the global restoration movement

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Trillion Tree Campaign

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

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How to talk to a climate change sceptic

Climate change and the other global crisis - nature loss

Don't Look Up

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The concept of 'value based health care' - where patient outcomes are monitored and health care services are funded on the basis of the quality of care, rather than the quantity of procedures - has been around for a couple of decades, but has yet to become the norm.

This podcast explores the potential benefits of a shift from 'volume' to 'value', to patients and to health care providers.

Catherine MacLean, Chief Value Medical Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.

Meni Styliadou, Founder and Co-lead of the Health Outcomes Observatory and VP Health Data Partnerships, Data Science Institute, Takeda (featured in thumbnail picture).

Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare

Gene therapy - how can poorer countries benefit from the most expensive drugs in the world?

Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic

Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis

Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives

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This week we’re celebrating 100 episodes of our sister podcast Meet the Leader.

Every week, Linda Lacina interviews leaders - of major companies, organisations, or what we might call ‘thought leaders' in the fields of academia or campaign groups.

If you want to know what makes these individuals tick, and what lessons we might learn from their experiences, subscribe to Meet the Leader - you can find it on our podcast website, wef.ch/podcasts and on any podcast app.

In this episode:

Jane Goodall, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute; Al Gore, Founder, Climate Reality Project; former US Vice President; Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon; Bas Van Abel, Founder, Fairphone; Punit Renjen, Global CEO Emeritus, Deloitte; Caroline Casey, Founder, The Valuable 500; Harmony Jade Wayner, International Arctic Research Center; Andrea Fuder, Chief Procurement Officer, Volvo Group; Yuxiang Zhou, Founder, Black Lake Technologies; John Amaechi, Founder, APS Intelligence.

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Sourcing and scaling viable innovations to decarbonize ‘hard-to-abate’ sectors like mining and aviation will be critical to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals. How can we leverage cutting-edge technologies and adopt novel strategies to accelerate the race to net-zero in these sectors?

This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20.

Watch the session here:https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/innovation-for-tough-to-decarbonize-industries

About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

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Gender parity has recovered to pre-pandemic levels globally, but the pace of change is stagnating. It will take an estimated 131 years to reach full parity at the current trajectory.

How can we boost women’s economic participation and political empowerment and achieve gender parity at all levels of society?

This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20.

Speakers:

Keir Simmons, Chief International Correspondent, NBC News

Thierry Déau, Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam

Reshma Saujani, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moms First

Randall Tucker, Chief Inclusion Officer, Mastercard International Incorporated

Clare Akamanzi, Chief Executive Officer, Rwanda Development Board (RDB)

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/accelerating-progress-on-gender-parity

About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

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Small and medium agricultural enterprises (agri-SMEs) are Africa’s largest employer and economic engine—and the key to transforming food systems and improving food security for the continent. Yet three out of four agri-SMEs can’t access formal bank financing, and are too large for microfinance, creating an estimated $100 billion gap in unmet demand for financing.

How can donor governments, development finance institutions, African governments, and the private sector catalyze action to strengthen food value chains in Africa through innovative financing, and better support small and medium agricultural enterprises?

The event is co-hosted with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This special Leadership Panel on strengthening food value chains was held September 18, 2023 at the World Economic Forum's New York headquarters.

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Speakers: William Samoei Ruto, President of Kenya, Office of the President of Kenya; Scott Nathan, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation; Samantha Power, Administrator, US Agency for International Development (USAID); Rebecca Enonchong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AppsTech;Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, US Department of the Treasury; Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Acumen; Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum Geneva; Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development, Norway Government; Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB).

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/leadership-panel-bridging-the-gap-financing-africas-agricultural-growth

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Amid pressures on the global economy from recent major crises and renewed turbulence in financial markets, stakeholders will need to convert the bright spots of accelerated trade and investment in green and innovative industries into a new paradigm for sustained growth.

How can both government and the private sector draw on the opportunities stemming from this time of change and transition to rewire the models underpinning global growth?

Speakers:

Zhang Yuzhuo, Chairman, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)

Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Viet Nam

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Barbados Government

Chris Hipkins, Prime Minister of New Zealand

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum

Transcript available at:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/amnc23-braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility

Read more:

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility

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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/top-leaders-discuss-managing-economic-hurdles-at-amnc23/

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Against a backdrop of persistently sluggish growth, the global economy and markets continue to be roiled by crisis after crisis. What trends will determine the prospects for the year ahead, and are there grounds for optimism that the worst may be over?

This is the full audio of the Chief Economists Briefing session at the Growth Summit, on 3 May 2023, You can watch it here:

https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/global-economic-outlook-7aefadfe78

Podcast transcript available here:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/growth-summit-2023-chief-economists-briefing

Sandra Phlippen, Chief Economist, ABN AMRO

Paul Donovan, Chief Economist, UBS Global Wealth Management, UBS AG

John Defterios, Professor of Business, New York University Abu Dhabi

Gregory Daco, Chief Economist, EY-Parthenon

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With an estimated shortfall of 10 million workers in the sector by 2030, the health and care economy is under severe stress. What multi stakeholder policies and strategies can help recruit, retain and rethink healthcare jobs?

This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Growth Summit 2023, Future of Work - Health and Care.

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/closing-the-talent-gap-healthcare

Ricardo Baptista Leite

Member of Parliament, Portuguese National Parliament (Assembleia da República)

Howard Catton

Chief Executive Officer, International Council of Nurses (ICN)

Bianca Rothier

International Correspondent, Globo TV

Anjali Bhagra

Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Office of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, Mayo Clinic

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The first UN Water Conference in almost 50 years was a watershed moment to catalyze a series of several key opportunities this year, to assess progress on the SDGs, but what are the major outcomes? How can leaders take the water action agenda forward as an enabler to address the nexus of critical issues including climate, energy, and food systems?

In this session, hosted by the World Economic Forum, high-level public and private stakeholders come together virtually to discuss the main outcomes of the UN Water Conference and the actions required to ensure a water-positive future for people and planet.

This is the audio from a panel discussion that you can watch here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/beyond-the-un-water-conference-leaders-on-whats-next/

Jim Andrew, Executive Vice-President, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo

Beth Koigi, Co-Founder, Majik Water

Usha Rao-Monari, Undersecretary-General and Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs of the Netherlands

Gary White, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Water.org

Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org

UN Water Conference: the entrepreneurs on a mission

UN 2023 Water Conference: water is life, but it’s also politics

Xylem’s Patrick Decker: Purpose, focus - and effective communication

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With growing social polarisation and a lack of trust in the fairness of economic systems, progress on more efficient global taxation mechanisms, such as the OECD's global corporate tax deal, is becoming essential.

How can we address the tax challenges raised by digitalisation and ensure a fairer redistribution of tax revenues across countries?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Joumanna Bercetche, Anchor, CNBC (moderator)

Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Nigerian Minister of Finance

Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Gabriel Zucman, Director, EU Tax Observatory

Faisal Alibrahim, Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/is-global-tax-reform-stalling

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Flows of capital, goods, services and people have boosted productivity and living standards, tripling the size of the global economy over the past three decades. However, tensions over trade and investment are undermining growth and trust.

As the cost of further disintegration severely outweighs the benefits, how can leaders reshape the current system to develop a new agenda for trade, growth and investment?

This session is directly linked to the ongoing work of the Trade and Investment Platform of the World Economic Forum.

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Speakers

Robert Habeck, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany

Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister, Belgium

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization

Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock Inc.

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum (host)

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Investors in natural ecosystems face hard choices to ensure credible outcomes at scale, given the rapid action needed to stabilize Earth systems and legitimate concerns of greenwashing.

An expert panel asks: How can data, regulation and Indigenous knowledge spur investors to channel resources towards quality conservation and restoration at scale?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Earth Fund

Helena Gualinga, Co-Founder, Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders

Suzanne DiBianca, Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce

Luiz Fernando do Amaral, Chief Executive Officer, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

Katherine Garrett-Cox, Chief Executive Officer, GIB Asset Management, Gulf International Bank (UK)

Nicole Schwab, Co-Head, Nature-Based Solutions; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva

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The ties that bind the world economy together have frayed in recent years. From the competition over advanced microchip manufacturing between the US and China to Russia's war in Ukraine, globalization is undeniably entering a new phase. But has globalization reached the end of the line — or is a resurgence on the cards?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023 that you can watch here: De-Globalization or Re-Globalization?

Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group (host)

Adam Tooze, Director, European Institute, Columbia University

Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary

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The engines of global growth are slowing and the number of households and businesses facing economic distress is rising.

What does the future of growth look like and what policies are needed to stabilize the global economy?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023 that you can watch here: Davos 2023: Global Economic Outlook: Is this the End of an Era?

Geoff Cutmore, Anchor, CNBC

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank

Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy, Finance and the Recovery and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty

Kuroda Haruhiko, Governor, Bank of Japan

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Driving growth, equity and transformative solutions to today’s challenges needs more gender-diverse leadership across the economy, politics and civil society. However, progress on parity is stalling globally.

An expert panel asks: How can we create better pathways to advance more women into the highest levels of leadership?

Speakers include: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of the Democratic Forces of Belarus, Republic of Belarus; Masih Alinejad, Journalist and Activist, U.S. Agency for Global Media; Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of the State of Michigan, United States Office of the Governor; Arancha Gonzalez Laya,Dean, The Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po

This session was recorded 19 January at the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

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Europe is facing a slow-growth, high-debt and high-inflation economy, even as labour markets remain persistently tight. With limited fiscal and monetary tools available, where can Europe's leaders find the space to deliver growth?

This conversation was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland 19 January.

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In the face of a 'polycrisis' - an energy crisis, a climate crisis, geopolitical conflict and a potential economic recession, what's needed to ensure global cooperation on climate action continues?

Learn more from this panel held at the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting 18 January with top voices, including: Julia Chatterley, Anchor, CNN; Jesper Brodin, Chief Executive Officer, Ingka Group (IKEA); Helena Gualinga, Co-Founder, Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders; Anna Borg, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vattenfall AB; Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, Federal Foreign Office of Germany; John F. Kerry; Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, National Security Council (NSC).

This session was developed in collaboration with CNN.

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Does tech need a new business model? How can computing power drive the energy transition? How can the tech sector get more efficient? What’s ahead for the tech skills gap? In a special conversation recorded at Davos, the CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella talks to World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab about trends in AI, cybersecurity, economic growth and three trends for the future of work. 

This conversation was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland 18 January.

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Experts ask: Have we seen the worst of inflation? Will the cost of living crisis get worse before it better? What role will productivity play? And do policy-makers need a new toolkit to tackle this challenge?

Learn more from this panel held at the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting 17 January with top economic minds including: Christian Lindner, Federal Minister of Finance for Germany; Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever; and Laura Tyson, distinguished professor, Graduate School of Berkeley. 

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Figures from business, government and civil society share their reflections on COP27, in a discussion hosted by the World Economic Forum just before the climate conference concluded.

Speakers: 

Antonia Gawel, Head, Climate Change, World Economic Forum (moderator)

Janet Ranganathan, Vice-President, Science and Research, World Resources Institute

Jesper Brodin, Chief Executive Officer, Ingka Group (IKEA)

James Mnyupe, Presidential Economic Adviser; Green Hydrogen Commissioner

Office of the President of Namibia

Anish Shah, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Group

Pato Kelesitse, climate activist

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Food production has a huge impact on climate change. And climate change has a huge impact on our ability to produce the food we need.

As the war in Ukraine creates additional challenges to the global food and energy markets, a panel of experts looks at ways food production and consumption can adapt to address some of these huge issues,

This podcast is the audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2022.

Participants: 

Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum Geneva (moderator)

Jason Bordoff, Co-Dean, Columbia Climate School; Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Geraldine Matchett, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Royal DSM NV

Sam Kass, Partner, Acre Venture Partners

Máximo Torero. Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/food-and-energy-tackling-a-global-resource-crisis

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/food-climate-energy-agenda-dialogues

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and across social media, using the hashtag  #SDIM22.

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Disinformation is not new. Examples of disinformation and so-called fake news campaigns are plentiful. But with increasing fears about the cost of living – exacerbated by the pandemic and the energy crisis – it is now more critical than ever to tackle disinformation head-on.This podcast contains the audio from an Agenda Dialogue discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2022 on how the public, regulators and social media companies can collaborate to increase online safety.

Participants:

Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum Geneva (moderator)

Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations

Rachel Smolkin, Senior Vice-President, Global News, CNN Digital Worldwide

Claire Wardle, Professor, Brown University School of Public Health

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/tackling-disinformation-agenda-dialogues

Watch the session: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/tackling-disinformation

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In the run-up to the next climate summit, COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, World Economic Forum President Børge Brende convened a panel of experts at the Sustainable Development Impact Meeting 2022 to take stock of global efforts to tackle the crisis.This Agenda Dialogues episode is the full audio of that session.

Participants:

Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation of Egypt

Svein Tore Holsether, President and Chief Executive Officer, Yara International ASA

Ville Skinnari, Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade of Finland

Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Earth Fund

Watch the session here:https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/the-geo-economics-of-climate-change

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/cop27-climate-change-sdim-agenda-dialogues

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The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook report indicates that cyberattacks increased 125% globally in 2021, with evidence suggesting a continued uptick through 2022. In this fast-changing landscape it is vital for leaders to take a strategic approach to cyber risks.How can leaders better prepare for future cyber shocks? What individual and collective actions will foster a more secure and resilient digital ecosystem?This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos

Moderator:

Karen Tso, CNBC InternationalSpeakers:

Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)

Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information of Singapore

Chander Prakash Gurnani, Chief Executive Officer, Tech Mahindra Limited

Robert M. Lee, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Dragos

Read the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022 here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2022/

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Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/global-cybersecurity-outlook-davos-2022

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Why do we work five days a week? Could we be just as productive, and healthier and happier working four days? Experts from government, academia and industry debate the issue at Davos 2022.

Speakers:

Adam Grant, Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Psychology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Ohood Bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Government Development and the Future, United Arab Emirates Government

Jonas Prising, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ManpowerGroup Inc.

Hilary Cottam, Social Entrepreneur, Centre for the Fifth Social Revolution

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Chief Executive Officer, New America

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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/four-day-work-week-davos-2022

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Can banks and investors shift to climate-friendly business in a way that will have a global impact on slashing greenhouse gases? This panel discussion at Davos 2022 goes into the details of this complex but crucial part of the fight against climate catastrophe.

Speakers:

Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance

Anne Richards, Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity International

Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Celine Herweijer, Group Chief Sustainability Officer, HSBC

David Schwimmer, Chief Executive Officer, London Stock Exchange Group

Moderator:

Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times

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On this panel at Davos 2022:

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Jane Fraser, Chief Executive Officer, Citi

François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor, Central Bank of France

David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group

Moderator: Geoff Cutmore, Anchor, CNBC

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With every crisis people declare the end of globalization, but Thomas Friedman argues that, despite war, economic uncertainty and unrest, there are many reasons to believe globalization is stronger than ever. This is the audio of a conversation he had with World Economic Forum Managing Director Adrian Monck at the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos.

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The recovery from the COVID-19 crisis has been deeply uneven within and between countries, depending on their access to fiscal resources and vaccines. Food, fuel and resource crises now risk further derailing an equitable recovery.

How can a broader set of foundations for growth ensure long-term economic prosperity and a return to international convergence?

This is the full audio from a panel discussion at Davos 2022 with Tom Keene, Managing Editor, Bloomberg Television & Radio; Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman, Siemens AG; Mariana Mazzucato, Professor, University College London (UCL); Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund.

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The climate summit COP26 was seen as a qualified success. As COP27, due to be held in Egypt by the end of the year, draws closer, and in the light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, COP26 President Alok Sharma spoke with the head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Nature and Climate, Gim Huay Neo, to discuss the significance of public-private collaboration in delivering more radical climate action.

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As war rages in Ukraine, leaders from global humanitarian agencies join a World Economic Forum Agenda Dialogue to say what they need from governments and business to tackle the crisis, and explain what the knock-on impacts will be around the world.

Moderated by: Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum, Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

Panelists:

David Beasley, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP);

Kelly Clements, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR);

Catherine Russell, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF);

Inger Ashing, Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International

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Despite the pandemic forcing a rapid digitalization of the economy, 3.7 billion people in the world still do not have internet access. Business and government leaders from around the world meet to discuss how to change this. 

Panellists:

Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information and communications technology and Innovation of Rwanda

Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Application of the United Arab Emirates

Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Tan Hooi Ling, Co-Founder, GrabRobert F. Smith, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Vista Equity Partners

Adrian Lovett, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Wide Web Foundation

Chaired by:

Børge Brende, President, World Economic ForumModerated by:

Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

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US climate envoy John Kerry joins an in-person panel at the World Economic Forum to discuss how companies can lead the way in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The leaders of the world’s biggest shipping and cement companies, Maersk and Holcim, tell us what they are doing.

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From the Sustainable Development Impact Summit, SDIS21, World Economic Forum President Borge Brende hosts a panel discussion looking at how the world can build a sustainable economy as we recover from the pandemic.

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With women’s jobs close to twice as likely to be cut during this recession as those held by men, the pandemic has set the world back 36 years in its quest to achieve global gender parity.

A panel of world leaders explore innovative methods to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on women and ensure a more inclusive and prosperous global economy.

Panellists:

Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations

Anne Richards, Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity International

Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever

Busi Mabuza, Chairperson, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), South Africa

Chaired by:

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum

Moderated by:

Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

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What lessons can we learn from the pandemic to make our health systems more resilient to future shocks?

Speakers:

Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister who co-chairs the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response;

Matt Hancock, former UK Secretary of State for health;

Michael Froman, Strategic Growth and Vice Chairman of MasterCard; Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, India;

Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School

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Former US vice president Al Gore joins World Economic Forum President Børge Brende and a panel of other high-level guests to look at climate change in a pivotal year for governments, policy makers and the global economy.This podcast is the audio from a World Economic Forum Agenda Dialogues event, edited for clarity. You can watch a complete version here.

Speakers:

Al Gore, former vice president of the United States; from Canada, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne; from Washington State in the US, Governor Jay Inslee; from Chad, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, who’s a climate and indigenous rights campaigner from the front line of rising global temperatures; Feike Sybesma, who leads the Forum’s alliance of CEO Climate Leaders and is honorary chair at Royal DSM in the Netherlands; from India, Anish Shah, MD And CEO of Mahindra Group.

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In 2003 - the a year before a 19-year-old Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook - Philip Rosedale launched Second Life - an online virtual world that looked set to transform the internet.

Two decades later, with the Facebook company, now called Meta, and its competitors seeking to develop the metaverse, what does Rosedale see as the future of the still emerging technology?

Interview by Linda Lacina, host of the weekly Meet the Leader podcast.

So just what is the metaverse? Meta’s Nick Clegg at Davos 2022

Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

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Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/metaverse-philip-rosedale-second-life

What is the single most important thing that any individual can do to help alleviate the climate crisis?

Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.

She believes that only if we all talk about climate change will humanity take the right paths to tackle climate change.

But what if the person you are talking to doesn’t believe in climate change? Or what if they do, but they are so depressed or anxious they feel helpless?

Katharine has practical advice.

Episode page and transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-katharine-hayhoe

Radio Davos: Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on

Meet the Leader: Solve the problems you want to solve most: Bezos Earth Fund’s Andrew Steer

Meet the Leader: The nimble tool that can speed climate solutions

Agenda Dialogues: SDIM: Innovation for Tough-To-Decarbonize Industries

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At the start of this year, the World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report - a major survey of sentiment about what are the big things that could go wrong - in the economy, the environment, in health, cybersecurity, geopolitics - and more.

In this podcast, we invite back the two guests who appeared on Radio Davos in January to talk about the report and its conclusion that the world faced a 'polycrisis' - a combination of risks from many sources.

Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group, discuss how the 'risk landscape' has changed in the few months since then.

January's episode on the Global Risks Report: Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023

Read the report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/

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The World Economic Forum has just published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, a regular report based on the views of senior economists around the world. 

This edition shows a glass half full and half empty, with concerns of widespread economic recession easing since the last report in May, but slowing global growth and continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions.

In this episode, Jérôme Haegeli, chief economist at Swiss Re, gives his views on the state of the global economy, and where things may be heading.

Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-september-2023-jerome-haegeli-swiss-re

Where is the global economy heading in 2024? This is what chief economists think

Chief Economist Outlook September 2023

May 2023: Recession fears recede, but inflation's still a big risk - 3 chief economists on the global outlook

Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?

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Semiconductors make the world go round, and the most cutting-edge versions are necessary to propel the artificial intelligence revolution.

Historian Chris Miller, author ‘Chip War’, explains what chips do, how they are made, and why they are so vital to global supply chains and international relations.

Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/silicon-chips-semiconductors-chris-miller

Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/09/silicon-chips-semiconductors-supply-chains-chris-miller

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Professor Stuart Russell shares his concerns about the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence.

Episode 1: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Episode 2: A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Episode 3: Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?

Episode 4: 'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?

Episode 5: AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

The promises and perils of AI - Stuart Russell on Radio Davos

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Designer phages, spatial optics, plant sensors and bendable batteries - just some of the items on this year's World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies that will change our lives in the next 3-5 years.

To talk us through all 10, we hear from the two people who led the work compiling the list: Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication; and Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM.

The report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/

Top-10 Emerging Technologies 2021

Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic 

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Is the metaverse still a thing or has the world’s attention moved on to generative AI? 

On this episode of Radio Davos, we speak to a vice president of the consumer electronics company HTC. Pearly Chen heads Business Development & Content Partnerships for VIVEPORT a subscription plan for virtual reality gaming - immersive video games played using VR headsets.

Pearly is convinced of the potential for metaverse applications for healthcare, social care and education, and believes the advent of generative AI will make us all builders of the metaverse.

Defining and Building the Metaverse Initiative

​​Social Implications of the Metaverse: https://www.weforum.org/reports/social-implications-of-the-metaverse

Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse: https://www.weforum.org/reports/privacy-and-safety-in-the-metaverse

Can mindfulness and critical thinking protect us online

Could the metaverse be more trustworthy than our current internet

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

So just what is the metaverse? Meta’s Nick Clegg at Davos 2022

Risks on Earth, in space and in the metaverse - the Global Risks Report 2022

7 leaders on the tech that will reshape our future

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Claude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today’s refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps.

He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for traumatised young people, and compares the plight of people today forced from their home with his own childhood experience.

The World Economic Forum’s Refugee Employment Alliance, co-chaired by the UNHCR and the Ingka Group,

Transcript available on the podcast episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/refugees-unhcr-sport-claude-marshall

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Can we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, Disease X, author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for the next one.

World Economic Forum’s Website page for the “Centre for Health and Healthcare”. https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home

Regional Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/regional-solution-to-vaccine-inequity-davos23/

Pathogen Surveillance Initiative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/lets-bring-together-countries-and-corporations-to-grow-global-pathogen-surveillance-davos23/

Disease X: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Disease-X/Kate-Kelland/9781912454952

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Lessons that made AstraZeneca's Leif Johansson a better leader

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The final episode of our AI series comes from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’, in Tianjin, China.

Cathy Li, head of AI at the World Economic Forum, says what needs to happen next as the world gets to grips with generative AI, and introduces the AI Governance Alliance.

And we listen in to discussions at AMNC about AI - the opportunities for business and implications for things such as medicine and education.

Follow AMNC here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023

Watch the AMNC sessions quoted in this episode:

Generative AI: Friend or Foe?

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/generative-ai-friend-or-foe

Keeping Up: AI Readiness Amid an AI Revolution

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/keeping-up-ai-readiness-amid-an-ai-revolution

A transcript is available on the episode page on our website: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-5-amnc

The Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI

AI Governance Alliance

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In most parts of the world, the gender gap - the difference in opportunities and outcomes for women compared to men - is closing. But closing so slowly that it would take, at the current rate of progress, until 2154 for men and women to be truly equal.

That statistic comes from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, an extensive, annual survey whose latest edition has just been published.

In this episode, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi picks some highlights from the report - which has lots to say about the state of gender inequality in the post-pandemic, cost-of-living squeezed world.

We also hear from Sue Duke, Vice-President of LinkedIn where she heads public policy.

Sue talks about the challenges facing women in the workplace, particularly in the area of STEM - science, technology, engineering and maths - and how tricky is still is for women to get to the top of companies (the 'C-suite').

For a transcript, go to the episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023

Please note the final episode of our AI series will be published next week.

Get the report here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2023

Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023, by Sue Duke

These are the world's most gender-equal countries

Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023

Gender parity is essential for economic recovery: These five investments will quicken the pace

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"AI will have some form of intelligence that will either compete with us or augment us. This is a question for us as a species. For the past thousands of years, we didn’t have a cousin or a brother and now we may have one. So it is how we understand that and how we deal with it."

On Episode 4 of our special series on generative AI, we consider the options for how we can govern the rapidly growing technology.

Guests: Amir Banifatemi, Director, AI Commons; Cyrus Hodes Co-Founder of AIGC Chain and Stability AI, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Co-host: Lucia Velasco, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, World Economic Forum

Transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-4-governance

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work

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The rise of generative artificial intelligence raises a lot of philosophical questions. So can philosophy help us make AI that serves humanity for the good?

On this episode we hear from 'applied ethicist' Cansu Canca, AI Ethics Lead at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA; and from Sara Hooker, head of Cohere For AI, a research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems.

Full transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-3-ethics

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work

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For a transcript, visit the episode page at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-episode-2-microsoft-hugging-face In the second a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we hear from two companies involved in the AI revolution - one of the biggest and oldest names in computing, Microsoft, and a young startup making waves in this booming industry, Hugging Face.

Speakers: Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft; Thomas Wolf Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder, Hugging Face.

Co-host: Benjamin Larsen, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum.

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work

The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

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In the first of a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we ask why AI is suddenly such big news and where things might go from here.

Speakers: Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse, World Economic Forum; Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research; and Pascale Fung, Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Thumbnail picture: generated by Dall-E with the prompt 'the face of rodin's thinker as a robot'

Transcript available on the episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/artificial-intelligence-ai-episode-1

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We are still in a period of great economic uncertainty, with inflation posing a risk around the world and forcing central banks to tighten policy.

Three chief economists spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Growth Summit. Hear where they think the global economy is headed.

Featuring: Jorge Sicilia of BBVA, Razia Khan of Standard Chartered and Gregory Daco of EY-Parthenon.

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