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Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.
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14 Jan 2015
Adrian Monck, Head of Public Engagement, Member of the Management Committee: There's a long tradition of faith leaders like Archbishop Tutu attending.
14 Jan 2015
Davos not a single event. It is the most important leader level summit. Now it is part of a on-going processes during the course of a year and over many years. We don't expect to produce specific outcomes, but to create solutions that continue to develop over time.
14 Jan 2015
Forum members talk about what they want to discuss and as a institution, we have documents we think should be added public/private co-operation.
14 Jan 2015
Samans: The forum of 30 years has become good at cross-cutting benchmarking to get to better growth. There will be concrete debate about social equality.
14 Jan 2015
Rick Samans: These problems are so large that is very clear to those who have been part of it for a long time, that we need to mobilise resources from all places. This is a platform to encourage various platforms that are relevant to focus on the problems. We will place a special cross-cutting on the programme on the post 2015 agenda and climate change. We are one of the most appropriate platforms for these issues.
14 Jan 2015
Issues of underdog and inequality. Is this the right forum, which was famously closed for the rich and powerful, where those issues can be tackled, asks Reuters journalist.
14 Jan 2015
Zahidi: A quarter of the youth are in education or employment. These patterns will be exacerbated with technology. It will distrupt traditional jobs but also create new opportunities. WE need to understand what the future of jobs will look like. How will jobs look like in 20 sectors over time. A third aspect is what can we do in the short term.
14 Jan 2015
Zahidi: Labour unions are also attending and they will be an important voice for labour rights.
14 Jan 2015
Zahidi: Women attendance is also a critical focus point. We bench mark gender gaps around the world, making it clear who is making it and who is not. We have 10 years of data on progress.
14 Jan 2015
Zahidi: A lot of faith leaders who are willing to engage with each other are attending. This is critical to solving the problems we face with extremism and intolerance in the world.
14 Jan 2015
Zahidi: A lot of new organisations who use technology also attending from civil society.
14 Jan 2015
Saadia Zahidi, Senior Director, Gender Parity Programme, Human Capital and Constituents: 150 leaders from civil society attending, like Oxfam, Amnesty International, and many other.
14 Jan 2015
Philipp Rösler, Head of the Centre for Regional Strategies, Member of the Managing Board: Forum is where there is public/private participation. 50 heads of state and broad variety of different portfolios attending. We can create a real stakeholder community. That's the private and public sector.
14 Jan 2015
Helena Laurent, Head of Business Engagement, Member of the Management Committee: New CEO imperative to drive out corruption. That will be a theme at the forum.
14 Jan 2015
Rick Samans, Head of the Centre for the Global Agenda, Member of the Managing Board:
Future of internet will be key at Davos. We will be launching a new effort to advance
progress, which looks at internet governance. There is a growing fear about the internet. Many think it will balkanise and fragment. There is declining trust.
14 Jan 2015
Emma Loades, Senior Director, Programme Development Team, World Economic Forum: South African rural children will benefit from walking challenge
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14 Jan 2015
Schwab: We are living in era of new tech revolution. We need to understand the new context and look for solutions.
14 Jan 2015
Schwab: We're living in
a post-post crisis world. That's why we have chosen the theme: the new
global context.
14 Jan 2015
Schwab: Year
of destiny for human kind. This will be reflected in programme at Davos. Brings
together key stakeholders of the world.
14 Jan 2015
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman:
2015 is a critical year. We're at a cross roads. On the one hand there is disintegration,
hate, fundamentalism. On the other hand there is solidarity and co-operation. Saw both worlds in Paris. Terrorist attack represented the first, and the protest march represented the other.
14 Jan 2015
Leaders are looking to strengthen their situation awareness and contextual intelligence. The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting convenes global leaders from across business, government, international organizations, academia and civil society in Davos for strategic dialogues which map the key transformations reshaping the world.
14 Jan 2015
Complexity, fragility and uncertainty are potentially ending an era of economic integration and international partnership that began in 1989. What is clear is that we are confronted by profound political, economic, social and, above all, technological transformations. They are altering long-standing assumptions about our prospects, resulting in an entirely “new global context” for decision-making.
