Global Agenda World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 Preliminary Programme
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland 20-23 January Programme Pillars Programme Icons Programme Co- Chairs
Mastering the Fourth Industrial Televised session Mary Barra, Chief Executive Officer, General Motors Company, USA Revolution Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, The Fourth Industrial Revolution is distinct Interpretation International Trade Union in the speed, scale and force at which it Confederation (ITUC), Brussels; Meta- transforms entire systems of production, Council on the Circular Economy distribution and consumption. How is On the record technology changing our lives and that of Satya Nadella, Chief Executive future generations, and reshaping the Officer, Microsoft Corporation, USA economic, social, ecological and cultural Sign-up required contexts in which we live? Hiroaki Nakanishi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hitachi, Japan
Addressing Global Security Issues Tidjane Thiam, Chief Executive Officer, Credit Suisse, Switzerland The humanitarian tragedy of the unfolding refugee crisis and reverberations from Amira Yahyaoui, Founder and Chair, terrorist acts are reminders of how Al Bawsala, Tunisia; Global Shaper geostrategic competition, renewed regionalism and new antagonists are eroding global solidarity. How can public- and private-sector leaders prepare for a rapidly changing security landscape in which emerging technologies also play a key role?
Solving Problems of the Global Commons
Geosecurity tensions exacerbate the challenges of governing at a global level even as the urgency increases to pursue environmental and social sustainability, financial system reform and openness of the internet. How can problems of the global commons be tackled through new models of public-private cooperation and the application of breakthrough science and technology solutions?
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 2 Programme Tuesday 19 January
18.00 - 18.10 18.10 - 18.30 18.30 - 19.30 Congress Centre - Congress Hall Congress Centre - Congress Hall Congress Centre - Congress Hall
welcome message crystal awards special concert/musical perspectives Welcome Message by The 22nd Annual Crystal Musical Perspectives on the Executive Chairman Awards Global Cultures
Simultaneous interpretation in all languages The World Economic Forum's Crystal Award Acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma brings together a honours artists whose important contributions world-class ensemble of master musicians, This session is webcast live. are improving the state of the world and who including from his award-winning Silk Road best represent the ³spirit of Davos´ Ensemble, for a globe-spanning concert celebrating intercultural dialogue and trust. Simultaneous interpretation in all languages Yo-Yo Ma is joined by Sérgio and Odair Assad This session is webcast live. (Brazil), Sandeep Das (India), Johnny Gandelsman (USA), Cristina Pato (Spain), Kathryn Stott (UK) and Wu Tong (China) in a Silk Road collaboration.
The concert is held in partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 3 Programme Tuesday 19 January
19.30 - 21.30 Congress Centre - Congress Hall Lobby
welcome reception Welcome Reception
Professor Klaus Schwab and Mrs Hilde Schwab, together with the Managing Board, invite you to a welcome reception to reconfirm the spirit of friendship and community that defines the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
The reception is held in partnership with the Italian Trade Agency.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 4 Programme Wednesday 20 January
08.00 - 08.30 08.45 - 09.45 08.45 - 10.00 Congress Centre - Dischma Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone Congress Centre - Jakobshorn
morning mindfulness 1 betazone/industrial revolution institutional/social innovation Mindfulness Meditation A Brief History of Advancing Corporate
Mindfulness meditation is the art of paying Industrial Revolutions Social Innovation attention in the present moment, intentionally and non-judgementally. The First, Second and Third Industrial While more and more corporations are exploring Revolutions were characterized by game- social innovation as a strategy, many find it Start your Annual Meeting 2016 with changing technological, economic and political difficult to realize tangible benefits such as mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn to learn and shifts. What can leaders learn from previous market entry, value-chain risk mitigation or experience the benefits of meditation. eras of disruptive technological change to attracting talent. How can social innovation prepare for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? serve the bottom line?
This session is for Forum Members and Partners active or interested in the Global Challenge Initiative on Economic Growth and Social Inclusion and the Advancing Corporate Social Innovation project.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 5 Programme Wednesday 20 January
08.45 - 09.45 08.45 - 09.45 08.45 - 10.00 Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena Congress Centre - Sertig Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange
security context transformation/finance humanitarian challenge The New Security The Transformation of A Crisis of Humanity Context Finance How is the largest migration and refugee crisis How is the international security landscape What trends and uncertainties are shaping the since World War II changing politics, economies transforming in the wake of violent extremism, future of financial services? and societies worldwide? regional rivalries and proxy wars? Transformations to be addressed: This session is webcast. On the agenda: - Digitization and new business models - Hybrid threats to safety and security - Regulatory requirements and new client needs - Prognosis for the conflict in Syria - Data privacy and systemic connectedness - Rising tensions among regional powers
This session is webcast.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 6 Programme Wednesday 20 January
09.00 - 09.30 09.00 - 10.00 09.00 - 10.00 Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Pischa
earth time-lapse/water 1 long-term thinking transformation/arab world Earth Time-Lapse: The The Long-Term Regions in War on Water Imperative Transformation: Arab
Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the How can business leaders effectively shift to World Arctic, oceans and freshwater crises. The longer decision horizons? session features high-resolution satellite images Examine the drivers of political, economic and from NASA's Landsat Program, which provides On the agenda: societal change that are shaping the future of the longest continuous global record of the - Acknowledging culture as competitive the region. Earth¶s surface. advantage - Removing known biases from decision-making Transformations to be addressed: Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the - Responding to the rise in investor activism - Iran¶s emerging role in the region Earth Space. - Geo-economics of shifting oil prices This session is webcast live. - Renewed efforts towards dialogue in Syria and Libya
Simultaneous interpretation in English and Arabic
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 7 Programme Wednesday 20 January
09.00 - 10.00 09.00 - 10.00 09.00 - 10.00 Congress Centre - Aspen 1 Congress Centre - Parsenn Congress Centre - Sanada
transformation/energy transformation/healthcare nyt/digital transformation The Transformation of The Transformation of The Transformation of Energy Healthcare Business and Society
What trends and uncertainties are shaping the What trends and uncertainties are shaping the The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming future of energy value chains? future of healthcare? entire systems of production, distribution and consumption. From education to healthcare, will Transformations to be addressed: On the agenda: it also transform the way we address humanity's - Digital and renewable energy innovation - Shift from treatment to augmentation greatest needs? - Price and demand uncertainty - Human-centric and value-based healthcare - New oil and gas suppliers - Role of business in global health security This session was developed in partnership with The New York Times. This session is webcast live. This session is televised and webcast live. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 8 Programme Wednesday 20 January
09.00 - 09.30 09.15 - 11.30 09.45 - 10.15 Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Rinerhorn Mountain - Base Camp Congress Centre - Congress Hall
virtual reality 1 base camp/hintsa 1 betazone/solar impulse Virtual Reality: Collisions Reaching Peak Around the World without
Join a group experience of the virtual reality film Performance Fuel or Fear Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia to discover what Rising to the top requires performing under Learn how breakthroughs in clean technology happens when indigenous tradition meets intense personal pressure. Physician Aki Hintsa can take us to new heights with the explorers Western science. has worked with Formula 1 world champions, who broke the record for the world's longest Olympic-level athletes and top executives to solo flight using only solar energy. Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette help them reach their performance goals. Join Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an this workshop to learn how to reach your peak Simultaneous interpretation in all languages indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by performance by focusing on your overall well- the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute being. This session is webcast live. and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt VR. Enhance your performance potential on this alpine retreat at the Forum¶s Base Camp on You can also experience the film on your own nearby Rinerhorn Mountain. A direct shuttle will and at your own pace outside of scheduled take participants from the Congress Centre to session times. the session.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 9 Programme Wednesday 20 January
10.00 - 10.30 10.15 - 11.00 10.15 - 11.15 Congress Centre - Robot Space Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone The Loft - Loft BetaZone
meet the developer 1 betazone/mass extinction loft/betazone thriving in uncertainty Meet HUBO's Developer The Sixth Mass Thriving in Uncertain
Discover how advanced robotics will transform Extinction Times disaster response with Professor Oh Jun-Ho, 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge winner and Explore how the phenomenon of disappearing Discover how the neuroscience of perception developer of HUBO, a multifunctional walking species raises concerns about our own survival and adaptation is changing the way we think humanoid robot. and how to bring endangered species back from about uncertainty, creativity and innovation in the brink, with photographer Joel Sartore. our daily lives.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 10 Programme Wednesday 20 January
10.15 - 11.15 10.15 - 11.30 10.15 - 11.15 Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena The Loft - Loft IdeasLab Congress Centre - Sertig
debate/global values loft/ideaslab nature cybersecurity Forum Debate: Clash of Building an Intelligent Designing in Cyber- Modernities? Machine: The Nature Resilience
The idea of flourishing cosmopolitan IdeasLab What should be the priorities when it comes to democracies has given way to the reality of protecting critical infrastructure against future competing and sometimes clashing modernities. How are advances in artificial intelligence and cyber-threats? Can global challenges be solved without robotics bringing us closer to a world in which universally shared norms? humans and robots live and work together? On the agenda: - Global and national warning systems This session is part of the Forum Debate series Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: - Proven determinants of infrastructure on today¶s dilemmas in economics, politics and Idea 1: Machines that can read human emotions resilience society. Idea 2: The rise of social robots - Emergency response planning and protocols Idea 3: Moral-making machines As this session involves voting, the doors will be Idea 4: The trouble with super-intelligent closed at the scheduled time. machines
This session is webcast.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 11 Programme Wednesday 20 January
10.30 - 11.45 10.30 - 11.45 10.30 - 11.45 Hilton Garden Inn - - Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab Congress Centre - Jakobshorn
refugee experience 1 ideaslab/berkeley institutional/gender parity A Day in the Life of a Manufacturing Preparing for the Future Refugee Reimagined: The of Gender Parity
Take part in this powerful experience to University of California, The Fourth Industrial Revolution will affect male- understand the struggles and choices that and female-dominated professions differently refugees face to survive each day. The Berkeley IdeasLab while creating new opportunities for both. How experience is developed by the Crossroads can businesses collaborate to reap the Foundation and designed with refugees, From nano to neurological, how are emerging opportunities and mitigate the challenges internally displaced persons and NGOs. technologies reinventing the nature of ahead? manufacturing? This session is for Forum Members and Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Partners active or interested in the Global Idea 1: The factory of the future fits in your Challenge Initiative on Gender Parity. home Idea 2: Manufacturing clean fuels with microbial refineries Idea 3: Battery-free devices nano-engineered to scavenge energy Idea 4: Engineering thoughts, dreams and memories
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 12 Programme Wednesday 20 January
10.30 - 11.30 10.30 - 11.30 10.30 - 11.30 Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Aspen 1 Congress Centre - Parsenn
business and climate business series/digital enterprise extractive industries A New Climate for Doing Going Digital A New Era for Extractives
Business How are systemic shocks disrupting business in What big bets are companies making in the resource-extractive industries? What are the opportunities and responsibilities digital transformation of their business models in terms of business, innovation and and organizational structures? On the agenda: entrepreneurship that have emerged from the - Prolonged downturn in commodity prices and Paris Climate Conference? On the agenda: demand - Defining digital transformation - Underinvestment and the risk of stranded On the agenda: - Making the right investment decisions assets - Cross-sectoral collaboration along value - Designing the chief digital officer role - Pressure to accelerate clean growth and chains sustainable development - Mitigation of exposure to climate risks This session is webcast live. - Coalitions for a carbon price
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 13 Programme Wednesday 20 January
10.30 - 11.30 10.30 - 11.30 10.30 - 11.45 Congress Centre - Pischa Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange
transformation/production fox/financial markets technology governance The Transformation of Preventing Future The Governance of Production Shocks Progress
What trends and uncertainties are shaping the From monetary tightening to rattled bond As the Fourth Industrial Revolution transforms future of manufacturing and production? markets, what are the trends and society at an unprecedented pace, what transformations reshaping financial markets in leadership and governance systems can foster Transformations to be addressed: 2016? responsible decision-making without stifling - Advanced robotics and automation progress? - Circular economy business models This session was developed in partnership with - Digitization of supply chains Fox Business. Session objectives: - Discuss approaches to technology-related This session is televised and webcast live. decision-making Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will - Test value and applicability of those be closed at the scheduled time. approaches for responsible decision-making - Extract key learning from different approaches
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 14 Programme Wednesday 20 January
10.45 - 11.15 11.30 - 12.00 12.00 - 13.00 Congress Centre - Earth Space The Loft - - Congress Centre - Sanada
earth time-lapse/forests 1 loft/touch our future al jazeera/employment Earth Time-Lapse: The Installation: Touch Our The Promise of Progress
Future of Forests Future While technology enters its next golden age, the percentage of adults working or looking for work Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the An introduction to Touch Our Future, the web is the lowest in almost 40 years in countries alarming acceleration of deforestation globally in and mobile interactive art installation by Drue such as the United States. Is the Fourth our lifetime. The session features high- Kataoka, located in The Loft on the Promenade. Industrial Revolution failing the middle class? resolution satellite images from NASA's Landsat Program, which provides the longest continuous Each person's digital rendering of their hand This session was developed in partnership with global record of the Earth¶s surface. evolves into a tapestry of connected hands that Al Jazeera. acts as a collective commitment to create the Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the conditions for future generations to thrive. This session is televised and webcast live. Earth Space. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 15 Programme Wednesday 20 January
12.15 - 12.45 12.15 - 12.45 12.30 - 13.45 Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Hilton Garden Inn - -
earth time-lapse/resources 1 virtual reality 2 refugee experience 2 Earth Time-Lapse: The Virtual Reality: Collisions A Day in the Life of a
Race for Resources Join a group experience of the virtual reality film Refugee Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy Embark on a visual exploration that reveals Desert in Western Australia to discover what Take part in this powerful experience to humanity's accelerating use of resources in our happens when indigenous tradition meets understand the struggles and choices that lifetime. The session features high-resolution western science. refugees face to survive each day. The satellite images from NASA's Landsat experience is developed by the Crossroads programme, which provides the longest Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette Foundation and designed with refugees, continuous global record of the Earth¶s surface. Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an internally displaced persons and NGOs. indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute Earth Space. and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt VR.
You can also experience the film on your own and at your own pace outside of scheduled session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 16 Programme Wednesday 20 January
12.30 - 14.00 12.30 - 14.00 12.30 - 14.00 Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Morosani Schweizerhof - Arvenstube Morosani Posthotel - Davoserstube Campanello cross-border investment digital trade diversity divide The Future of Foreign Disrupting Global Supply Bridging the Diversity Investment Chains Divide
What trends and transformations are reshaping As disruptive technologies continue to How can companies support the LGBT agenda cross-border investments? revolutionize trade and production, how will the to promote a more diverse workforce and internet economy impact supply chains and inclusive corporate culture? On the agenda: business models? - Shifting investment flows and patterns On the agenda: - New investment policies in trade agreements On the agenda: - Role models and career progression - Regulations for sustainable development - Influence of ''offline to online'' - Decoding biases - Impact on inventory and supply chain - Balancing cultural and policy approaches management - Implications for consumer trends and retail decisions
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 17 Programme Wednesday 20 January
12.30 - 14.00 12.30 - 14.00 12.30 - 14.00 Hotel Cresta Sun - Restaurant Hotel Meierhof - Restaurant Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Promenade institutional/insurance nature/science for society nejm/cancer treatment Mitigating Risks in the Will Science Save Us? The Future of Cancer
Digital Economy How can we accelerate scientific breakthroughs Treatment that address society's greatest challenges? How can the insurance industry adapt and Despite progress in diagnostic and therapeutic transform to build risk resilience across value On the agenda: capabilities, cancer remains a leading cause of chains and enable economic and industry - Today's risk-takers in science death worldwide that will rise over coming growth? - The challenge of publishing negative results decades. What promises do the latest research - The need to rethink science career ladders and therapies hold for treating cancer? On the agenda: - Creative solutions to increase resilience to This lunch is hosted in collaboration with Nature This lunch is hosted in collaboration with The catastrophic events Publishing Group. New England Journal of Medicine. - Role of big data in effective measurement, pricing and transfer of risk - Public-private collaboration to mitigate economic losses
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 18 Programme Wednesday 20 January
12.30 - 14.00 12.30 - 14.00 12.30 - 14.00 Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Morosani Posthotel - Poststube Hotel Derby - Fluela 1 + 2 Symondpark 1,2 nutritious diets politico/end of consensus tech and investing Designing Healthy Diets The End of Political The Unicorn Effect
How can the design of healthy and nutritious Consensus diets be placed at the centre of global food The number of billion-dollar valuations has risen systems? From Europe to the United States, the extremes sharply, while fast-growing start-ups are staying of the political spectrum are the main private longer. What are billion-dollar start-ups On the agenda: benefactors of rising social, economic and doing to the marketplace? - Innovating for healthier food geopolitical tensions. Can the erosion of the - Empowering smarter consumers political centre be halted? On the agenda: - Unlocking better business models - Shifting IPO incentives This lunch is hosted in collaboration with Politico - Public-market investors in private companies Magazine. - Growth vs revenue as metrics for value
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 19 Programme Wednesday 20 January
14.15 - 15.30 14.15 - 15.30 14.15 - 15.15 Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Parsenn
institutional/cities institutional/fintech climate resilience Fostering Innovation in The Fintech Revolution Climate Resilience
Cities New technologies, new entrants and rapidly evolving customer expectations are reshaping How can government and business prepare for Accommodating almost half the world's the evolution of the financial services growing climate risks? population, cities have become both the primary ecosystem. How can financial institutions unlock engine of economic and political activity and the the high-potential opportunities that are critical On the agenda: driver of complex societal and environmental conditions for their success? - Weakened networks of infrastructure challenges. How do we build physically, - Volatility of water quality and supply recreationally and socially resilient cities? This session is for Forum Members and - Vulnerability of food supply chains Partners active or interested in the Disruptive This session is for Forum Members and Innovation for Financial Services project. Partners active or interested in the Future of Urban Development and Services and the Future of Construction projects.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 20 Programme Wednesday 20 January
14.15 - 15.15 14.15 - 15.15 14.15 - 15.15 Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Pischa Congress Centre - Aspen 1
time/longevity transformation/latin america debate/global growth What If: You Are Still Alive Regions in The Growth Illusion in 2100? Transformation: Latin Have central banks broken the link between From reversing the effects of ageing on the America financial markets and the real economy? brain and editing genetic diseases to artificial intelligence and downloading thoughts and Join a dialogue on the global trends and This session was developed in partnership with memories, scientists are pushing the national priorities that are affecting the future of The Wall Street Journal. boundaries of the human lifespan. What would the region. be the impact on life, love and work if you could This session is webcast live. live to 150 (or forever)? Transformations to be addressed: - Beginning of a post-commodity era Join an in-depth discussion that explores the - Impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership possible, plausible and probable impacts of - Influence of political change significantly extended lifespans. Simultaneous interpretation in English and This session was developed in partnership with Spanish TIME.
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 21 Programme Wednesday 20 January
14.30 - 15.30 14.30 - 15.45 14.30 - 15.45 Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab The Loft - Loft IdeasLab
betazone/archaeological discoveries ideaslab/imperial loft/ideaslab stanford Incredible Archaeological Materials of the Future: The Neural Basis of Discoveries The Imperial College Decision-Making: The
Explore what recent archaeological discoveries London IdeasLab Stanford University ±such as the Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey ±can teach us about the rise and fall of civilizations. How are advances in materials science paving IdeasLab the way for novel products and new industries? How is brain research revealing the mysteries of Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: decision-making? Idea 1: The interface of materials and biological systems Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Idea 2: Light, magnetism and nanomaterials Idea 1: Molecular mechanisms of reward and Idea 3: Cool plastics that shield infrastructure aversion from heat Idea 2: The neural basis of emotion Idea 4: Computational simulations of tomorrow¶s Idea 3: Looking to ants to better understand the materials behaviour of neurons Idea 4: Applying neuroscientific findings to enduring social problems
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 22 Programme Wednesday 20 January
14.30 - 15.30 14.30 - 17.00 14.30 - 15.30 Congress Centre - Sertig Rinerhorn Mountain - Base Camp Congress Centre - Sanada
precision medicine base camp/solar impulse 1 nhk/future work The Promise of Precision Achieving the Impossible A World without Work?
Medicine Swiss explorers André Borschberg and Bertrand How will rapid technological progress and the Piccard built the first solar airplane that set the prospect of longer, healthier lives revolutionize How are genomics, big data, regenerative record for the longest solo flight of five days and work? medicine and new bio-pharma ventures five nights. The pilots of Solar Impulse will share revolutionizing the way we prevent and treat their story of the pioneering round-the-world This session was developed in partnership with disease? flight to encourage leaders to cultivate an NHK. innovative mindset that embraces high stake, On the agenda: high reward risks. Simultaneous interpretation in English and - Understanding the disease context of each Japanese individual Enhance your performance potential on this - Harnessing big data to tailor therapy and alpine retreat at the Forum¶s Base Camp on This session is televised and webcast live. prevention nearby Rinerhorn Mountain. A direct shuttle will Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will - Overcoming obstacles to bring precision take participants from the Congress Centre to be closed at the scheduled time. medicine to scale the session.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 23 Programme Wednesday 20 January
14.30 - 15.45 14.45 - 15.15 14.45 - 15.15 Congress Centre - Dischma Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space
workshop/music across borders earth time-lapse/climate 1 virtual reality 3 Making Music across Earth Time-Lapse: The Virtual Reality: Collisions
Borders Climate Crisis Join a group experience of the virtual reality film Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy Join cellist Yo-Yo Ma and global musicians, Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the Desert in Western Australia to discover what including from the Silk Road Ensemble, for a accelerating effects of climate change in our happens when indigenous tradition meets musical workshop exploring intercultural lifetime. The session features high-resolution western science. dialogue in both music and everyday life. Yo-Yo satellite images from NASA's Landsat Program, Ma is joined by Sérgio and Odair Assad (Brazil), which provides the longest continuous global Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette Sandeep Das (India), Johnny Gandelsman record of the Earth¶s surface. Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an (USA), Cristina Pato (Spain), Kathryn Stott (UK) indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by and Wu Tong (China). Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute Earth Space. and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt VR.
You can also experience the film on your own and at your own pace outside of scheduled session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 24 Programme Wednesday 20 January
15.30 - 16.00 15.45 - 16.15 15.45 - 16.45 Congress Centre - Robot Space Congress Centre - Exhibition Space Congress Centre - Aspen 1
meet the developer 2 this time tomorrow 1 debate/artificial intelligence Meet HUBO's Developer Exhibition: This Time Forum Debate: The State
Discover how advanced robotics will transform Tomorrow of Artificial Intelligence disaster response, with Professor Oh Jun-Ho, 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge winner and An introduction to the exhibition This Time How close are technologies to simulating or developer of HUBO, a multifunctional walking Tomorrow, featuring designs ranging from the overtaking human intelligence and what are the humanoid robot. infinitesimal scale of DNA to the distant horizon implications for industry and society? of outer space that form a landscape of clues about the world of tomorrow. This session is part of the Forum Debate series on today¶s dilemmas in economics, politics and This Time Tomorrow is a special collaboration society. between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the World Economic Forum. As this session involves voting, the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 25 Programme Wednesday 20 January
15.45 - 16.45 15.45 - 16.45 15.45 - 16.45 Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Parsenn Congress Centre - Pischa
caixin/business context trans-pacific partnership transformation/east asia China's Business Context The New Trade Frontier: Regions in
What does China's ''new normal'' mean for local Trans-Pacific Partnership Transformation: East Asia and foreign businesses? How will the largest free trade area to date Join a dialogue on the global trends and On the agenda: affect global economic growth and cooperation national priorities that are affecting the future of - Increasing competitiveness and agility in on trade? the region. partnerships and models - Expanding joint ventures with foreign On the agenda: Transformations to be addressed: stakeholders - Impact on regional cooperation and integration - Latest impact of TPP and RCEP agreements - Improving for a simplified procedure and stable - Opportunities for services, investment and the - Moving towards value chain upgrade capital flow digital economy - Navigating regional maritime conflicts - Uncertainties on behind-the-border regulatory This session was developed in partnership with issues Caixin Media.
Simultaneous interpretation in English and Mandarin Chinese
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 26 Programme Wednesday 20 January
15.45 - 16.30 16.00 - 17.00 16.00 - 17.00 Congress Centre - Congress Hall Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone
humanitarian imperative neuro/human capital betazone/migration The Humanitarian The Brain at Work The Human Face of Imperative: A Global, Migration How can new insights from neuroscience Regional and Industry improve productivity and performance? Go beyond the headlines with artist Lynette Wallworth and photojournalist Lynsey Addario to Response Join an in-depth discussion that explores how discover personal stories of migration. today's neurosciences could trigger societal Armed conflict, natural disaster and extreme transformation. This session is part of The Human Face series, poverty are producing record numbers of a visual and personal exploration of the world¶s international refugees, internally displaced This session is webcast. most pressing issues. persons and economic migrants. How can government, industry and civil society work together to respond to the growing crisis?
Simultaneous interpretation in all languages
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 27 Programme Wednesday 20 January
16.00 - 17.00 16.00 - 17.15 16.00 - 16.30 The Loft - Loft BetaZone Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange Congress Centre - Sertig
loft/betazone industrial design institutional/business risk insight/o'keefe Bio-Inspired Design The Global Risk A Journey of Discovery Imperative with John O'Keefe Explore with award-winning designer and architect Neri Oxman how biology and Global businesses operate in an increasingly John O¶Keefe discovered the "inner GPS" that technology combine into new material complex ecosystem where risks are enables our brains to navigate the world, for ecosystems that both mimic and redefine nature interdependent across sectors and which he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize. and their transformative effect on design. stakeholders. How can companies partner to His work since then has opened new avenues build their resilience capabilities in the face of of research into cognitive processes such as rising global risks? memory and thinking. Join this session to learn from his journey of profound discovery. Session objectives: - Assess climate change and water scarcity - Examine refugee and security crises - Explore systemic cyber-threats
This session is for Forum Members and Partners active or interested in the Forum's work on Global Risks.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 28 Programme Wednesday 20 January
16.15 - 16.45 16.15 - 17.30 16.15 - 17.30 Congress Centre - Earth Space Hilton Garden Inn - - Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab
earth time-lapse/industrialization 1 refugee experience 3 ideaslab/cambridge Earth Time-Lapse: The A Day in the Life of a Carbon Reduction Industrialization Impasse Refugee Technologies: The
Embark on a visual exploration that reveals Take part in this powerful experience to University of Cambridge unprecedented urbanization and understand the struggles and choices that industrialization in our lifetime. The session refugees face to survive each day. The IdeasLab features high-resolution satellite images from experience is developed by the Crossroads NASA's Landsat Program, which provides the Foundation and designed with refugees, How will breakthroughs in carbon reduction longest continuous global record of the Earth¶s internally displaced persons and NGOs. technologies transform industries? surface. Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the Idea 1: Decarbonizing industrial-scale Earth Space. processes using virtual avatars Idea 2: Self-healing concrete for low-carbon infrastructure Idea 3: Improving solar materials efficiency using quantum mechanics Idea 4: Quantum materials for zero-loss transmission of electricity
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 29 Programme Wednesday 20 January
16.15 - 17.30 16.15 - 17.15 16.15 - 16.45 Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space
institutional/internet fragmentation ndtv/future india special screening/vr 1 Internet without Borders India's Future Economy Clouds Over Sidra
A thriving and open internet is the launch pad In an adverse global economic environment, for ushering in tomorrow's global economy; yet, how is India competing for markets, capital and Join a special screening of this virtual-reality evolving regional and corporate digital policies talent? experience to embark on an immersive journey threaten to break up the internet as a public into the daily life of Sidra, a young Syrian girl good. How can we avert a future of This session was developed in partnership with living in a refugee camp in Jordan. fragmentation? NDTV. Clouds Over Sidra was commissioned by the This session is for Forum Members and This session is televised and webcast live. United Nations and created by Gabo Arora and Partners active or interested in the Global Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will Chris Milk. Challenge Initiative on the Future of the Internet be closed at the scheduled time. and the Internet Governance project.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 30 Programme Wednesday 20 January
16.45 - 17.15 18.30 - 20.00 20.00 - 22.00 Congress Centre - Sertig Open Forum - Swiss Alpine High School - Kongress Hotel - Restaurant Auditorium insight/agus open forum/migration history of ideas An Insight, An Idea with From Migration to Ideas Making History David Agus Integration "There is one thing stronger than all the armies Bestselling author and biomedical researcher Unresolved violent conflict and increasing in the world, and that is an idea whose time has David Agus unveils a brave new world of persecution have led to a rise in refugee flows come." medicine. around the world. Beyond providing safety and ±Victor Hugo refuge, how can we best integrate refugees into our communities? How have big ideas changed the course of history? - What are the needs of refugees in terms of training and employment, housing and healthcare? - How can business and governments collaborate to help integrate refugees? - What is the experience of a refugee arriving in Davos? - What are the successful models of integration?
The Open Forum series, held in parallel with the official programme, offers the local Swiss community and global public an opportunity to engage and interact with experts on global issues.
Simultaneous interpretation in English and German
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 31 Programme Wednesday 20 January
20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Hotel Derby - Thomasmannsaal Hotel Cresta Sun - Restaurant Symondpark 1,2 innovators dinner modern times nobel scientists Creative Disruption Modern Times Rethinking the State of the World with Nobel ³Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to "Originality implies being bold enough to go accomplish something.´ beyond accepted norms." Laureates in Science ±Thomas Edison ±Anthony Storr "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to How have leading innovators broken norms to What does today's changing film and television hang a question mark on the things you have achieve breakthroughs? landscape tell us about the direction of popular long taken for granted." culture? ±Bertrand Russell Which entrenched scientific theories need to be put aside if the world is to flourish over the next 50 years?
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 32 Programme Wednesday 20 January
20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Hotel Derby - Fluela 1-2-3 Hotel Sunstar Alpine - Parsenn 1-2-3 Promenade power of awe pundits successful couples The Transformative Pundits, Professors and Power² Power of Awe Predictions ³The day the power of love overrules the love of "Two things awe me most, the starry sky above "The best way to predict the future is to create power, the world will know peace.´ me and the moral law within me." it." ±Mahatma Gandhi ±Immanuel Kant ±Abraham Lincoln What are the secrets to successful dual-career How can collective experiences of awe Join the world¶s leading opinion-shapers from couples in the 21st century? transform the way we think, feel and act? media and academia to debate scenarios for 2016.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 33 Programme Wednesday 20 January
20.00 - 22.00 Hotel Meierhof - Restaurant
symbiotic design The Nature of Design
"There is no better designer than nature." ±Alexander McQueen
How are advances in technology changing the way we think about design?
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 34 Programme Thursday 21 January
08.00 - 08.30 09.00 - 10.00 09.00 - 10.00 Congress Centre - Dischma Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone The Loft - Loft BetaZone
morning mindfulness 2 betazone/deforestation loft/betazone engineering revolutions Mindfulness Meditation Cellphones vs Chainsaws Engineering Revolutions
Mindfulness meditation is the art of paying Discover how technology is helping to win the Learn from Edward Boyden, winner of the 2016 attention in the present moment, intentionally war against illegal deforestation ±the second- Breakthrough Prize and pioneer in optogenetics, and non-judgementally. largest source of carbon emissions worldwide ± about how to overcome conventional thinking with National Geographic Explorer and engineer and accelerate ideas into revolutionary Start the day with mindfulness expert Jon Topher White. ventures. Kabat-Zinn to learn and experience the benefits of meditation.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 35 Programme Thursday 21 January
09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.15 Hilton Garden Inn - - Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab The Loft - Loft IdeasLab
refugee experience 4 ideaslab/cmu loft/ideaslab mit A Day in the Life of a The Promise and Peril of Realizing Precision Refugee Omnipresent Sensors: Medicine: The
Take part in this powerful experience to The Carnegie Mellon Massachusetts Institute understand the struggles and choices that refugees face to survive each day. The University IdeasLab of Technology IdeasLab experience is developed by the Crossroads Foundation and designed with refugees, How will information security be achieved when How are personalized and precision methods internally displaced persons and NGOs. practically everything we encounter is collecting transforming the way disease is prevented and our data? treated?
Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Idea 1: Blurring the borders of the physical and Idea 1: Controlling the brain with light to virtual worlds reactivate lost memories Idea 2: Augmenting decision-making with Idea 2: Using nanosensors to promptly catch ubiquitous sensing signs of disease Idea 3: Self-propagating cybersecurity systems Idea 3: Drugs that can turn off disease-causing Idea 4: Password protection in the age of the genes Internet of Things Idea 4: Using nanoscale drug delivery systems to reduce side effects
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 36 Programme Thursday 21 January
09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.00 Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange Congress Centre - Sertig
institutional/fragility institutional/future b2c stop to think/data dominance Tackling the Global Keeping Up with the Stop to Think: Big Data Insecurity Nexus Consumers vs Human Touch
Rising economic and social volatility, protracted Increasingly, consumers are demanding speed, How can we promote and preserve the value of crises and the spread of violent extremism have convenience, digital connectivity and continuous the individual and of human decision-making in led to severe instability in many regions. How service. How can consumer-facing industries a world increasingly fixated on the promise of can public-private collaboration effectively transform their business models and stay agile big data? respond to increasing fragility and uncertainty? in a constantly changing landscape? Start the day with an informal conversation to This session is for Forum Members and This session is for Forum Members and explore and reflect on how technology is Partners active or interested in the World Partners active or interested in the Consumer shaping values, activities and choices. Economic Forum's work on international Industries agenda. security.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 37 Programme Thursday 21 January
09.00 - 10.00 09.15 - 09.45 09.15 - 10.15 Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Aspen 2
bloomberg/china outlook earth time-lapse/forests 2 future finance Where Is the Chinese Earth Time-Lapse: The Future-Proofing Global Economy Heading? Future of Forests Finance
With a new Five-Year Plan being presented in Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the In the face of rapid geo-economic and 2016, how can the world¶s second-largest alarming acceleration of deforestation globally in technological shifts, what regulatory reforms can economy shift gears without stalling its growth our lifetime. The session features high- foster inclusion while averting future shocks? engine? resolution satellite images from NASA's Landsat Program, which provides the longest continuous On the agenda: This session was developed in partnership with global record of the Earth¶s surface. - Disaggregating financial services Bloomberg Television. - Modelling credit and market risks Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the - Financial and technological innovation Simultaneous interpretation in English and Earth Space. Mandarin Chinese This session is webcast live.
This session is televised and webcast live. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 38 Programme Thursday 21 January
09.15 - 10.15 09.15 - 11.30 09.15 - 09.45 Congress Centre - Aspen 1 Rinerhorn Mountain - Base Camp Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space
transformation/eurasia base camp/hintsa 2 virtual reality 4 Eurasia and the Modern Reaching Peak Virtual Reality: Collisions
Silk Road Performance Join a group experience of the virtual reality film Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy As part of the New Silk Road development Rising to the top requires performing under Desert in Western Australia to discover what project, which encompasses an area that intense personal pressure. Physician Aki Hintsa happens when indigenous tradition meets produces about 55% of global GDP and has has worked with Formula 1 world champions, western science. about 75% of known energy reserves, what are Olympic-level athletes and top executives to the prospects for regional development in help them reach their performance goals. Join Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette Eurasia? this workshop to learn how to reach your peak Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an performance by focusing on your overall well- indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by This session is webcast live. being. the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt Enhance your performance potential on this VR. alpine retreat at the Forum¶s Base Camp on nearby Rinerhorn Mountain. A direct shuttle will You can also experience the film on your own take participants from the Congress Centre to and at your own pace outside of scheduled the session. session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 39 Programme Thursday 21 January
10.00 - 10.30 10.15 - 11.15 10.30 - 11.30 Congress Centre - Robot Space Congress Centre - Congress Hall Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone
meet the developer 3 europe future betazone/road safety Meet HUBO's Developer The Future of Europe The Road Safety
Discover how advanced robotics will transform Challenge disaster response, with Professor Oh Jun-Ho, Faced with political polarization, economic 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge winner and fragmentation and security threats, how can Each year, 1.3 million people die in road developer of HUBO, a multifunctional walking Europe rebuild and reinforce the pillars of its accidents around the world despite advances in humanoid robot. Union? safety technology, which is why halving the number of global deaths and injuries from road Simultaneous interpretation in all languages traffic accidents by 2020 is among the Sustainable Development Goals. Explore This session is webcast live. innovative approaches to this deadly development challenge.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 40 Programme Thursday 21 January
10.30 - 11.00 10.30 - 11.30 10.45 - 12.00 Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Jakobshorn
earth time-lapse/climate 2 cnbc africa/africa industry institutional/data markets Earth Time-Lapse: The Africa¶s Next Challenge Creating a Global Data
Climate Crisis Africa is home to nine of the world¶s 15 fastest- Marketplace growing economies; yet, over the past 10 years, Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the productivity has fallen. How will the Fourth Data has emerged as an asset class because of accelerating effects of climate change in our Industrial Revolution impact Africa? an improved ability to collect, analyse and share lifetime. The session features high-resolution information across sectors. Yet information satellite images from NASA's Landsat Program, This session was developed in partnership with asymmetries and other market failures prevent which provides the longest continuous global CNBC Africa. the full realization of its potential. How can record of the Earth¶s surface. policy-makers and business leaders foster a Simultaneous interpretation in English and thriving global market for data? Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the French Earth Space. This session is for Forum Members and This session is televised and webcast live. Partners active or interested in the Global Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will Challenge Initiative on the Future of the Internet be closed at the scheduled time. and the Project on Digital Transformation of Industries.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 41 Programme Thursday 21 January
10.45 - 11.15 12.15 - 12.45 12.15 - 12.45 Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space
insight/green earth time-lapse/water 2 virtual reality 5 An Insight, An Idea with Earth Time-Lapse: The Virtual Reality: Collisions
John Green War on Water Join a group experience of the virtual reality film Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy A discussion with author and star vlogger John Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the Desert in Western Australia to discover what Green on what the wild success of his stories Arctic, oceans and freshwater crises. The happens when indigenous tradition meets for young adults ±including The Fault in Our session features high-resolution satellite images western science. Stars and Paper Towns ±tells us about the from NASA's Landsat Program, which provides aspirations of the young generation in a digital the longest continuous global record of the Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette era. Earth¶s surface. Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by This session is webcast live. Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute Earth Space. and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt VR.
You can also experience the film on your own and at your own pace outside of scheduled session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 42 Programme Thursday 21 January
12.30 - 13.45 12.30 - 13.45 12.30 - 13.45 Hilton Garden Inn - - Morosani Posthotel - Arvenstube Morosani Posthotel - Poststube
refugee experience 5 canada data for development A Day in the Life of a A New Chapter for Big Data for Development
Refugee Canada In an era of big data, what opportunities are emerging to help close the global development Take part in this powerful experience to What are the global, regional and industry gap? understand the struggles and choices that agendas of Canada's new government? refugees face to survive each day. The experience is developed by the Crossroads Meet representatives of Canada's Liberal Foundation and designed with refugees, government for an in-depth discussion of the internally displaced persons and NGOs. country's future and its role in the world.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 43 Programme Thursday 21 January
12.30 - 13.45 12.30 - 13.45 12.30 - 13.45 Hotel Cresta Sun - Restaurant Hotel Derby - Fluela 1-2-3 Hotel Derby - Lärchensaal
decarbonizing economies europe lunch protecting cultural heritage Decarbonizing Meet the European Protecting Cultural Economies Commission Heritage
What do the COP21 commitments of single How can the Europe respond more effectively to What kinds of partnerships are necessary for countries mean for multinational businesses? the challenges arising from today's fragile the protection of world heritage at a time of political, economic and social climate? catastrophic destruction? On the agenda: - Optimizing local and global value chains One year into their term, meet the European On the agenda: - Scaling innovation-led decarbonization Commissioners to discuss the objectives and - War and iconoclasm strategies priorities for the European Union. - Looting and financing of terrorism - Aligning businesss models to differing - Unsustainable heritage tourism regulations This lunch is hosted in collaboration with Dogus Group.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 44 Programme Thursday 21 January
12.30 - 13.45 12.30 - 13.45 13.00 - 14.00 Hotel Meierhof - Restaurant Open Forum - Swiss Alpine High School - Congress Centre - Aspen 1 Auditorium transformation/africa lunch open forum/growth transformation/south asia Regions in A Slow-Growth World: Regions in Transformation: Sub- The New Normal? Transformation: South
Saharan Africa In 2015, global economic growth did not exceed Asia 3% and 2016 is likely to be similarly lacklustre. What global trends and regional priorities are Growth in emerging economies is flatlining and Join a dialogue on the global trends and affecting the future of sub-Saharan Africa? the digital revolution has yet to improve national priorities that are affecting the future of productivity or growth numbers. Is this the new South Asia. On the agenda: norm, or will countries be able to spur growth in - Responding to rising interest rates in the US the future? Transformations to be addressed: - Realizing rapid expansion in distributed - Infrastructure and energy security threats manufacturing - How are governments and businesses - Economic inequality and job creation - Adapting to declining demand for commodities adapting to slow economic growth? - Impact of regional integration initiatives from China - What actions can governments take to catalyse growth? This session is webcast live. - Can we capitalize on new technology and innovation to jump-start the global economy?
The Open Forum series, held in parallel with the official programme, offers the local Swiss community and global public an opportunity to engage and interact with experts on global issues.
Simultaneous interpretation in English and German
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 45 Programme Thursday 21 January
13.00 - 14.00 14.30 - 17.00 14.45 - 15.45 Congress Centre - Sanada Rinerhorn Mountain - Base Camp Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone
swisstv/education base camp/neuro-leadership 2 betazone/brain power The Future of Education: Leadership & Resilience The Mind as a Muscle Lessons in Uncertainty in Times of Crisis Learn how advances in technology are enabling How do we educate the young to deal with the Uncertainty can be the origin of crushing stress us to change our brain, and what it means for uncertainties of modern life and take ownership or an engine for unparalleled creativity. Join health, education and privacy. of their own future? leading experts on neuroscience and mindful leadership for this workshop on managing This session was developed in partnership with stress and harnessing its potential for creativity. Swiss TV. Enhance your performance potential on this Simultaneous interpretation in English and alpine retreat at the Forum¶s Base Camp on German nearby Rinerhorn Mountain. A direct shuttle will take participants from the Congress Centre to This session is televised and webcast live. the session. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 46 Programme Thursday 21 January
14.45 - 15.45 14.45 - 16.00 14.45 - 16.00 Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab The Loft - Loft IdeasLab
debate/global debt ideaslab/erc loft/ideaslab kaist The Global Debt The Future of Computing: Biotechnology Solutions Dilemma The European Research for Ageing Populations:
Will rapidly growing sovereign and corporate Council IdeasLab The Korea Advanced debt lead to the next global economic shock? How are new fields of computer science Institute of Science and On the agenda: transforming the way some of the most difficult - Sovereign and corporate debt scientific problems and technological challenges Technology (KAIST) - New consumer and private debt markets are solved? IdeasLab - Implications of real estate asset dynamics Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Idea 1: Biomolecular computing How are biological sciences and health Idea 2: Neuromorphic computing technologies addressing the manifold Idea 3: Quantum computing challenges of caring for ageing populations in Idea 4: Graphene-based computer chips an era of increasing longevity? Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Idea 1: Rejuvenation via the microbiome Idea 2: Traditional medicine reimagined through modern systems biology Idea 3: Advanced mobile healthcare systems Idea 4: A neural switch for being happy with less on a crowded planet
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 47 Programme Thursday 21 January
14.45 - 16.00 14.45 - 15.45 14.45 - 15.45 Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Sertig Congress Centre - Sanada
institutional/future jobs hyperconnected science cnn/energy equation Preparing for the Future Big Data and Big Science The New Energy of Jobs in a Hyperconnected Equation
Technological and economic trends are rapidly World In a world characterized by increasing displacing roles and job categories while uncertainty about the future demand and supply creating entirely new ones for which today¶s Are data sharing and collaboration platforms of energy, how are economies navigating new workforce and talent strategies are ill-prepared. transforming science for better or worse? barriers and opportunities? How can businesses collaborate to prepare talent for technological disruption? On the agenda: On the agenda: - Open access and intellectual property - Future oil prices and demand This session is for Forum Members and - Crowdsourcing solutions - Changing energy and climate policies Partners active or interested in the Global - International partnerships - Digital and renewable energy innovation Challenge Initiative on Employment, Skills and Human Capital. This session was developed in partnership with CNN.
This session is televised and webcast live. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 48 Programme Thursday 21 January
14.45 - 16.00 15.00 - 15.30 15.00 - 16.00 Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Aspen 1
connectivity earth time-lapse/resources 2 platforms Connecting the Earth Time-Lapse: The The Platform Economy Unconnected Race for Resources How can the emergence of digital platforms Access to the internet is being promoted as a Embark on a visual exploration that reveals create a launch pad for innovation that benefits fundamental human right as 4 billion people in humanity's accelerating use of resources in our all? the world remain unconnected. What will it take lifetime. The session features high-resolution to close the gap? satellite images from NASA's Landsat Dimensions to be addressed: programme, which provides the longest - Connected products and mobile devices Session objectives: continuous global record of the Earth¶s surface. - Virtual social interaction - Develop framework for infrastructure coverage - On demand services and quality Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the - Establish pricing structure principles to support Earth Space. This session is webcast live. affordability - Design initiatives to enable digital awareness and literacy - Address barriers to developing relevant content
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 49 Programme Thursday 21 January
15.00 - 16.00 15.00 - 15.30 15.30 - 16.00 Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Congress Centre - Projection Space
time/weapons virtual reality 6 perspectives 1 What If: Robots Go to Virtual Reality: Collisions Photo Projection:
War? Join a group experience of the virtual reality film Perspectives Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy Remarkable advances in artificial intelligence Desert in Western Australia to discover what An introduction to Perspectives, a series of may soon have implications for the future of happens when indigenous tradition meets large-scale animated images in the Projection warfare. What if autonomous weapon systems western science. Space. Focusing on cultural heritage, replace both soldiers and generals? biodiversity, oceans and climate change, the Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette series explores the world¶s extraordinary Join an in-depth discussion that explores the Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an diversity and our responsibility to nurture it. possible, plausible and probable impacts of indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by artificial intelligence on defence systems. the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute Perspectives is a special collaboration between and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt National Geographic and the World Economic This session was developed in partnership with VR. Forum. TIME. You can also experience the film on your own This session is webcast live. and at your own pace outside of scheduled session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 50 Programme Thursday 21 January
15.45 - 16.15 16.00 - 16.30 16.30 - 17.30 Congress Centre - Robot Space Congress Centre - Sertig Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone
meet the developer 4 mental health/disruption betazone/conflict Meet HUBO's Developer Disrupting Mental The Human Face of
Discover how advanced robotics will transform Healthcare Conflict disaster response, with Professor Oh Jun-Ho, 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge winner and Mental healthcare is in need of disruptive Go behind the scenes with photographer Platon developer of HUBO, a multifunctional walking innovation, given the magnitude of the treatment and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to meet humanoid robot. and cost challenges. How are social those living and working in conflict zones. entrepreneurs and technology pioneers breaking with the past to fight mental illness? This session is part of The Human Face series, a visual and personal exploration of the world¶s most pressing issues.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 51 Programme Thursday 21 January
16.30 - 17.30 16.30 - 17.45 16.30 - 17.30 The Loft - Loft BetaZone Hilton Garden Inn - - Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena
loft/betazone digital masterpiece refugee experience 6 debate/inclusive growth The Digital Masterpiece A Day in the Life of a Forum Debate: The
Explore the breakthrough technologies that are Refugee Politics of Inequality changing our personal relationship with art and heritage with mathematician Martin Vetterli and Take part in this powerful experience to Despite evidence that reducing inequality media artist Sarah Kenderdine. understand the struggles and choices that triggers higher growth, there is no political refugees face to survive each day. The consensus on how to achieve greater equity. experience is developed by the Crossroads How can economies get past incentives and Foundation and designed with refugees, ideologies that foster inequality? internally displaced persons and NGOs. This session is part of the Forum Debate series on today¶s dilemmas in economics, politics and society.
As this session involves voting, the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
This session is webcast.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 52 Programme Thursday 21 January
16.30 - 17.45 16.30 - 17.30 16.30 - 17.30 Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange
institutional/arctic cctv/china entrepreneurs business series/going long Safeguarding the Arctic The Future of µMade in Going Long
Extracting large hydrocarbon deposits, servicing China¶ new shipping routes, and the needs of a How are chief executives inspiring long-term growing northern population will require major How is the new generation of Chinese thinking? infrastructure investments in the Arctic region. entrepreneurs rebranding µChina Inc.¶at home As we cross one of nature's last frontiers, how and abroad? Dimensions to be addressed: can we preserve the integrity of a unique and - Market expectations and quarterly reporting important ecosystem? This session was developed in partnership with - Role of investor activism and boards CCTV. - Shifting organizational culture This session is for Forum Members and Partners active or interested in the Global Simultaneous interpretation in English and Challenge Initiative on Environment and Natural Mandarin Chinese. Resource Scarcity. This session is televised and webcast live. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 53 Programme Thursday 21 January
16.45 - 17.15 16.45 - 17.45 16.45 - 17.45 Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Aspen 1
earth time-lapse/industrialization 2 debate/fossil fuels future health Earth Time-Lapse: The Forum Debate: Fossil Shaping the Future of Industrialization Impasse Fuel Futures Health
Embark on a visual exploration that reveals Will regulatory changes, competition from With only 20% of health outcomes actually unprecedented urbanization and renewables and changing investor behaviour depending on the healthcare sector, what are industrialization in our lifetime. The session result in stranded fossil fuel assets, deep the most effective strategies to promote features high-resolution satellite images from decarbonization or business as usual? healthier populations? NASA's Landsat Program, which provides the longest continuous global record of the Earth¶s This session is part of the Forum Debate series On the agenda: surface. on today¶s dilemmas in economics, politics and - Designing healthy public policy society. - Creating supportive environments to improve Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the outcomes Earth Space. As this session involves voting, the doors will be - Reorienting health services to promote closed at the scheduled time. prevention
This session is webcast live. This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 54 Programme Thursday 21 January
16.45 - 17.15 16.45 - 17.15 17.45 - 18.45 Congress Centre - Sertig Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Congress Centre - Congress Hall
insight/roth special screening/vr 2 climate and development A Journey of Discovery Clouds Over Sidra The New Climate and with Al Roth Development Imperative Join a special screening of this virtual-reality Economics Nobel Laureate Al Roth received his experience to embark on an immersive journey How will the foremost climate and sustainable prize for pioneering research into market into the daily life of Sidra, a young Syrian girl development partnerships catalyse action in design, following a personal journey of markets living in a refugee camp in Jordan. 2016? design in New York City and other major economies. Join this session to understand Clouds Over Sidra was commissioned by the Simultaneous interpretation in all languages markets where money isn't the only factor in United Nations and created by Gabo Arora and determining who get what and why in specific Chris Milk. This session is webcast live. markets, from internships and kidney transplants to dating sites and parking spots.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 55 Programme Thursday 21 January
18.00 - 19.00 18.30 - 19.30 18.30 - 20.00 Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Open Forum - Swiss Alpine High School - Auditorium univision/next generation culture/industrial revolution open forum/privacy The 21st-Century Dream Culture and the Fourth Privacy and Secrecy in
From unlimited consumption to universal Industrial Revolution the Digital Age democracy, the great dreams of the 20th century are rapidly fading. What are the dreams What kind of shared culture do we want for the In an age of terrorism, threats are increasingly and ideals inspiring young generations around Fourth Industrial Revolution? hard to detect and prevent. Governments claim the globe? the need for greater security and seek to This session opens with the world premiere of monitor global communications, while citizens, This session was developed in partnership with the virtual reality film, Collisions. more willing than ever to share, demand greater Univision. protection of their digital privacy. How has the information age changed the way we think Simultaneous interpretation in English and about and value privacy and secrecy? Spanish - How are secrets being used as an instrument This session is televised and webcast live. of power? Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will - How do priorities differ between age groups be closed at the scheduled time. and cultures? - How can companies balance consumer and government expectations for secrecy and security? - How have information security measures changed societies?
This session is held in partnership with VICE News.
The Open Forum series, held in parallel with the official programme, offers the local Swiss community and global public an opportunity to engage and interact with experts on global issues.
Simultaneous interpretation in English and German
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 56 Programme Thursday 21 January
19.00 - 20.00 20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 Congress Centre - Congress Hall Lobby Rinerhorn Mountain - Base Camp Kongress Hotel - Restaurant
tianjin reception base camp/mindfulness dinner dark matters Annual Meeting of the Leading Change Why Dark Matter Matters
New Champions 2016 ³The more clearly we can focus our attention on "What we achieve inwardly will change outer the wonders and realities of the universe about Reception reality.´ us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." ±Plutarch ±Rachel Carson Tianjin, the host city of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2016, presents the How can we combat our blind spots today to Theories suggest that dark matter accounts for magnificent Peking Opera, classical music and effectively lead change for the future? most of the matter in the universe. How could local delicacies from Tianjin. this unsolved mystery be a unifying force for This dinner is hosted in collaboration with humanity? Zhao Haishan, Vice-Mayor of Tianjin, cordially Harvard Business Review. invites you to the Tianjin Reception to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Monkey in snowy Davos.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 57 Programme Thursday 21 January
20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Hotel Derby - Thomasmannsaal Symondpark 2 Symondpark 1 education models food for change institutional/europe rbc Creative Curricula Food for Change The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Setting the "The power of imagination makes us infinite." How can the choice and composition of food ±John Muir become a force for positive change? Agenda for Europe
What new ways of learning are radically Join this specially created dinner with culinary "Il n'est plus question de vaines paroles, mais changing the education of our children? professor and entrepreneur David Hertz to d'un acte, d'un acte hardi, d'un acte constructif." experience and explore the power of food as a [It is no longer a question of vain words, but of catalyst for change. action, bold action, constructive action.] ±Robert Schuman
With prosperity and progress as a common priority, how can Europe harness the fast-paced technological and digital transformations ahead?
This session is for Forum Members and Partners active or interested in the Regional Business Council on Europe.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 58 Programme Thursday 21 January
20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 Hotel Sunstar Alpine - Jacobshorn Hotel Seehof - Salon Kirchner Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Promenade latin america future nobel peace laureates dinner soul of cities Tech and Innovation: The Pursuit of Peace and The Soul of the City Shaping Latin America's Progress with Nobel "Rome represents conquest; faith hovers over Future Laureates the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Join Latin American and global leaders in a "The pursuit of peace and progress, with its art." dialogue on how innovation and technology can trials and its errors, its successes and its ±Benjamin Disraeli propel a prosperous future for the region. setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned." What defines the soul of a great city? ±Dag Hammarskjöld
How can recent Nobel Peace Prize Laureates inspire us to overcome the turmoil that the world is experiencing today?
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 59 Programme Thursday 21 January
20.00 - 22.00 Hotel Grischa - Schatzalp-Parsenn
us-china relations A New Chapter for US- China Relations
Conflict, coexistence or common purpose? Discuss with world renowned experts the present and future of the world's most important bilateral relationship.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 60 Programme Friday 22 January
08.00 - 08.30 09.00 - 10.00 09.00 - 10.00 Congress Centre - Dischma Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone The Loft - Loft BetaZone
morning mindfulness 3 betazone/engineering revolutions loft/betazone archaeological discoveries Mindfulness Meditation Engineering a Tech Incredible Archaeological
Mindfulness meditation is the art of paying Revolution Discoveries attention in the present moment, intentionally and non-judgementally. Learn from Edward Boyden, winner of the 2016 Explore what recent archaeological discoveries Breakthrough Prize and pioneer in optogenetics, ±such as the Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey ±can Start the day with mindfulness expert Jon about how to overcome conventional thinking teach us about the rise and fall of civilizations. Kabat-Zinn to learn and experience the benefits and accelerate ideas into revolutionary of meditation. ventures.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 61 Programme Friday 22 January
09.00 - 10.00 09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.15 Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab The Loft - Loft IdeasLab
debate/affordable healthcare ideaslab/stanford loft/ideaslab cambridge Forum Debate: A Cure The Neural Basis of Carbon Reduction We Can Afford Decision-Making: The Technologies: The
From prescription drugs to proton beam therapy, Stanford University University of Cambridge are we paying too much for modern medicine? IdeasLab IdeasLab This session is part of the Forum Debate series on today¶s dilemmas in economics, politics and How is brain research revealing the mysteries of How will breakthroughs in carbon reduction society. decision-making? technologies transform industries?
As this session involves voting, the doors will be Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: closed at the scheduled time. Idea 1: Molecular mechanisms of reward and Idea 1: Decarbonizing industrial-scale aversion processes using virtual avatars This session is webcast. Idea 2: The neural basis of emotion Idea 2: Self-healing concrete for low-carbon Idea 3: Looking to ants to better understand the infrastructure behaviour of neurons Idea 3: Improving solar materials efficiency Idea 4: Applying neuroscientific findings to using quantum mechanics enduring social problems Idea 4: Quantum materials for zero-loss transmission of electricity
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 62 Programme Friday 22 January
09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.00 Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Sertig
institutional/digital learning institutional/financial inclusion stop to think/privacy The Digital Path to Fostering Financial Stop to Think: Privacy vs Learning Inclusion Information
Influences and experiences in early childhood Technology¶s role in providing accessible, How can we balance the desire for privacy with are critical for instilling a lifelong passion for usable and affordable financial services to the the benefit of sharing information to improve learning and participation. How can ever- disadvantaged is growing in importance. How service delivery and public safety? present digital technology spark rather than can we more rapidly scale successful business stifle learning experiences in a child's daily life? models that leverage technological innovation? Start the day with an informal conversation to explore and reflect on how technology is This session is for Forum Members and This session is for Forum Members and shaping values, activities and choices. Partners active or interested in the Media Partners active or interested in the Global Entertainment and Information industry and Challenge Initiative on the Future of the Global Global Challenge Initiative on Employment, Financial System. Skills & Human Capital
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 63 Programme Friday 22 January
09.00 - 10.00 09.15 - 09.45 09.15 - 10.15 Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Aspen 2
cnbc/europe finance earth time-lapse/climate 3 autonomous vehicles Rebuilding Europe's Earth Time-Lapse: The The Future Drives and Financial Confidence Climate Crisis Flies Itself
How can Europe rebuild confidence in its Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the Regulatory reforms and technological advances financial markets and institutions? accelerating effects of climate change in our may soon make self-driving cars and aerial lifetime. The session features high-resolution drones commercially viable. How will such This session was developed in partnership with satellite images from NASA's Landsat Program, autonomous vehicles transform the future of CNBC. which provides the longest continuous global mobility, supply and logistics? record of the Earth¶s surface. This session is televised and webcast live. On the agenda: Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the - Safety and efficiency of urban mobility be closed at the scheduled time. Earth Space. - Emerging business and revenue models - Impact on employment and skills
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 64 Programme Friday 22 January
09.15 - 10.15 09.15 - 11.30 09.15 - 09.45 Congress Centre - Aspen 1 Rinerhorn Mountain - Base Camp Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space
russia outlook base camp/neuro-leadership 1 virtual reality 7 The Outlook for Russia The Neuroscience of Virtual Reality: Collisions
What will be Russia's geo-economic and Adaptation and Creative Join a group experience of the virtual reality film political priorities in 2016? Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy Leadership Desert in Western Australia to discover what On the agenda: happens when indigenous tradition meets - Macroeconomic pressure and low energy Uncertainty can be the origin of crushing stress Western science. prices or an engine for unparalleled creativity. Join - New trade and investment partnerships with leading experts from neuroscience for this Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette Asia workshop on how the latest research can give Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an - Evolution of international security cooperation you and your organization the competitive edge indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by by unlocking the creative power of uncertainty. the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute Simultaneous interpretation in English and and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt Russian. Enhance your performance potential on this VR. alpine retreat at the Forum¶s Base Camp on This session is webcast live. nearby Rinerhorn Mountain. A direct shuttle will You can also experience the film on your own take participants from the Congress Centre to and at your own pace outside of scheduled the session. session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 65 Programme Friday 22 January
10.00 - 10.30 10.30 - 11.30 10.45 - 12.00 Congress Centre - Robot Space Congress Centre - Congress Hall Hilton Garden Inn - -
meet the developer 5 future levant refugee experience 7 Meet HUBO's Developer Stabilizing the Levant and A Day in the Life of a
Discover how advanced robotics will transform North Africa Refugee disaster response, with Professor Oh Jun-Ho, 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge winner and How can regional leaders and the global Take part in this powerful experience to developer of HUBO, a multifunctional walking community work together to bring stability to the understand the struggles and choices that humanoid robot. Levant and North Africa? refugees face to survive each day. The experience is developed by the Crossroads Simultaneous interpretation in all languages Foundation and designed with refugees, internally displaced persons and NGOs. This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 66 Programme Friday 22 January
10.45 - 12.00 10.45 - 12.00 10.45 - 11.15 Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Aspen 2
institutional/energy access institutional/ocean governance insight/eliasson Catalysing Clean Power Sustaining Ocean An Insight, An Idea with
Over 1.3 billion people, most of whom are Economies Olafur Eliasson located in developing Asia and Africa, still have no access to electricity, much less renewable Pressures on the ocean from overfishing, waste A conversation with world-renowned artist and energy. How can we scale clean energy and climate change are increasing worldwide, Crystal Award recipient Olafur Eliasson on investment to meet developing-country needs? yet solutions appear limited. How can we foster design that changes lives and communities. a more sustainable use of the oceans? This session is for Forum Members and This session is webcast live. Partners active or interested in the Clean This session is for Forum Members and Energy Alliance. Partners active or interested in the Global Challenge Initiative on Environment and Resource Security.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 67 Programme Friday 22 January
11.00 - 12.00 11.45 - 12.15 11.45 - 12.15 Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Aspen 2
bbc/europe tipping point earth time-lapse/forests 3 insight/whitman Europe at a Tipping Point Earth Time-Lapse: The An Insight, An Idea with
With a crisis at Europe¶s borders as it tries to Future of Forests Meg Whitman control the influx of refugees and to prevent terrorist attacks, how can Europe protect itself Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the A conversation with Hewlett Packard without betraying its values? alarming acceleration of deforestation globally in Enterprises Chief Executive Meg Whitman on our lifetime. The session features high- adaptive leadership in the face of organizational This session was developed in partnership with resolution satellite images from NASA's Landsat and industry-wide transformation the BBC. Program, which provides the longest continuous global record of the Earth¶s surface. This session is webcast live. This session is televised and webcast live. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the be closed at the scheduled time. Earth Space.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 68 Programme Friday 22 January
11.45 - 12.15 12.30 - 13.45 12.30 - 13.45 Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Hilton Garden Inn - - Hotel InterContinental - Lilie/Aster
virtual reality 8 refugee experience 8 clean revolution Virtual Reality: Collisions A Day in the Life of a Leading the Clean
Join a group experience of the virtual reality film Refugee Revolution Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia to discover what Take part in this powerful experience to What are the business models and strategic happens when indigenous tradition meets understand the struggles and choices that partnerships driving clean and competitive western science. refugees face to survive each day. The enterprises? experience is developed by the Crossroads Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette Foundation and designed with refugees, On the agenda: Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an internally displaced persons and NGOs. - Circular systems for low-carbon production indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by - Coalitions for new industry benchmarks the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute - Public-private R&D partnerships and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt VR.
You can also experience the film on your own and at your own pace outside of scheduled session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 69 Programme Friday 22 January
12.30 - 13.45 12.30 - 13.45 12.30 - 13.45 Morosani Schweizerhof - Arvenstube Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Hotel Cresta Sun - Restaurant Symondpark 2 institutional/confronting cybercrime institutional/local capital markets latin america lunch Confronting Cybercrime Accelerating Access to Ensuring Latin America's
What are the key priorities for business and Capital Inner Resilience policy leaders leaders if they are to work together to confront cybercrime? Capital markets play a critical role in economic How can Latin America strengthen its socio- development by pooling domestic savings and economic resilience to slowing regional growth On the agenda: mobilizing foreign capital for productive long- and increasing global volatility? - Securing a more permeable enterprise term investment. However, in many emerging - Building trust among stakeholders economies, capital markets remain On the agenda: - Establishing globally coherent "smart policies" underdeveloped or are non-existent. How can - Improving productivity and quality of we accelerate the development of local capital investments This lunch is for Forum Members and Partners markets? - Partnering for stronger skills and talent active or interested in the Global Challenge - Integrating capital markets Initiative on the Future of the Internet: This session is for Forum Members and Cybercrime. Partners active or interested in the Accelerating Capital Markets Development in Emerging Economies initiative.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 70 Programme Friday 22 January
12.30 - 13.45 13.00 - 14.00 13.15 - 13.45 Open Forum - Swiss Alpine High School - Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Auditorium open forum/swiss al arabiya/arab economies insight/spacey Is the Swiss Model under The Future of Economic An Insight, An Idea with Threat? Reform in the Arab World Kevin Spacey
Switzerland¶s economic and governance models In an era of low oil prices and protracted A conversation with actor and director Kevin have produced one of the world¶s richest and conflict, how can Arab economies advance Spacey about his acclaimed performance in the most competitive countries. Can the Swiss necessary reforms? series House of Cards and the theatricality of model of economic liberalism and direct American politics in this election year. democracy survive? On the agenda: - Implementing energy reforms This session is webcast live. - How will the implementation of the 2014 - Modernizing non-oil sectors referendum on migration restrictions harm - Investing in skills and know-how industry and EU relations? - How can the education system meet the needs This session was developed in partnership with of knowledge-intensive industries? Al Arabiya. - What is the effect of years of a strong franc and unconventional monetary policy? Simultaneous interpretation in English and - How will these challenges affect Switzerland¶s Arabic. position as an international financial centre? This session is televised and webcast live. The Open Forum series, held in parallel with the Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will official programme, offers the local Swiss be closed at the scheduled time. community and global public an opportunity to engage and interact with experts on global issues.
Simultaneous interpretation in English and German
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 71 Programme Friday 22 January
14.00 - 15.30 14.15 - 15.00 14.30 - 17.00 Congress Centre - Dischma Congress Centre - Congress Hall Rinerhorn Mountain - Base Camp
behaviour/gender latin america agenda base camp/solar impulse 2 Breaking Gender Biases A New Agenda for Latin Achieving the Impossible
What behavioural approaches can help to America Swiss explorers André Borschberg and Bertrand overcome gender biases and reshape Piccard built the first solar airplane that set the perceptions at work and home and in What are the political and economic priorities for record for the longest solo flight of five days and governance? Latin America¶s leaders in the year ahead? five nights. The pilots of Solar Impulse will share their story of the pioneering round-the-world Session objectives: Simultaneous interpretation in all languages flight to encourage leaders to cultivate an - Explore the psychology and neuroscience of innovative mindset that embraces high-stake, the unconscious mind This session is webcast live. high-reward risks. - Examine tried-and-tested nudging techniques - Design decision architectures Enhance your performance potential on this alpine retreat at the Forum¶s Base Camp on nearby Rinerhorn Mountain. A direct shuttle will take participants from the Congress Centre to the session.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 72 Programme Friday 22 January
14.45 - 15.30 14.45 - 16.00 14.45 - 16.00 Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone Hilton Garden Inn - - Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab
betazone/cancer refugee experience 9 ideaslab/mit The Human Face of A Day in the Life of a Realizing Precision Cancer Refugee Medicine: The
Learn first-hand about living with cancer from Take part in this powerful experience to Massachusetts Institute photographer and cancer patient Mauro Fiorese understand the struggles and choices that and physician Jeffrey Drazen. refugees face to survive each day. The of Technology IdeasLab experience is developed by the Crossroads This session is part of The Human Face series, Foundation and designed with refugees, How are personalized and precision methods a visual and personal exploration of the world¶s internally displaced persons and NGOs. transforming the way disease is prevented and most pressing issues. treated? Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Idea 1: Controlling the brain with light to reactivate lost memories Idea 2: Using nanosensors to promptly catch signs of disease Idea 3: Drugs that can turn off disease-causing genes Idea 4: Using nanoscale drug delivery systems to reduce side effects
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 73 Programme Friday 22 January
14.45 - 16.00 14.45 - 16.00 14.45 - 15.45 The Loft - Loft IdeasLab Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena
loft/ideaslab imperial institutional/inclusive growth emerging markets outlook Materials of the Future: Solving for Inclusive Emerging Markets The Imperial College Growth Outlook
London IdeasLab Adopting and diffusing new technologies will How are decreasing Chinese demand and rising increasingly determine an economy¶s US interest rates changing the growth strategy How are advances in materials science paving competitive advantage and social progress. for emerging markets? the way for novel products and new industries? What policies and practices will help to ensure that technology benefits all? On the agenda: Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: - Local currencies in adverse external Idea 1: The interface of materials and biological This interactive session is for Forum Members environments systems and Partners active or interested in the Global - Slowing demand in China and expanding Idea 2: Light, magnetism and nanomaterials Challenge Initiative on Economic Growth and regional markets Idea 3: Cool plastics that shield infrastructure Social Inclusion. - Rebalancing towards South-South investments from heat Idea 4: Computational simulations of tomorrow¶s This session is webcast. materials
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 74 Programme Friday 22 January
14.45 - 15.45 14.45 - 16.00 14.45 - 15.45 Congress Centre - Sertig Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange Congress Centre - Sanada
privatization of science food systems cna/infrastructure future Privatizing Science: Rethinking Food Systems Asia¶s Era of Problem or Progress? from Plate to Planet Infrastructure
Amid corporate talent raids on universities and What actions are needed to build resilience into Asia-Pacific infrastructure spending will likely declining public budgets, will business help or global food systems? approach $5 trillion a year by 2025. How are harm science? new infrastructure initiatives and megaprojects On the agenda: reshaping regional and global growth? On the agenda: - Building stable and equitable markets - The fight for scientific talent - Harnessing agricultural employment to This session was developed in partnership with - Speeding up the pace and impact of discovery empower women and young people Channel News Asia. - New models for incentivizing science - Preventing food loss in the value chain This session is televised and webcast live. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 75 Programme Friday 22 January
15.00 - 15.30 15.00 - 15.30 15.00 - 16.00 Congress Centre - Exhibition Space Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Aspen 2
this time tomorrow 2 earth time-lapse/industrialization 3 time/neurolaw Exhibition: This Time Earth Time-Lapse: The What If: Your Brain Tomorrow Industrialization Impasse Confesses?
An introduction to the exhibition This Time Embark on a visual exploration that reveals As neuroscientists decipher the workings of the Tomorrow, featuring designs ranging from the unprecedented urbanization and brain, new questions will be raised about infinitesimal scale of DNA to the distant horizon industrialization in our lifetime. The session decoding memories, ascertaining intentions and of outer space that form a landscape of clues features high-resolution satellite images from defusing criminal behaviour. What if neuro- about the world of tomorrow. NASA's Landsat Program, which provides the evidence is invited into the courtroom? longest continuous global record of the Earth¶s This Time Tomorrow is a special collaboration surface. Join an in-depth discussion that explores the between the Victoria and Albert Museum and possible, plausible and probable impacts of the World Economic Forum. Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the neuroscience disrupting the justice system. Earth Space. This session was developed in partnership with TIME.
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 76 Programme Friday 22 January
15.00 - 16.00 16.00 - 17.30 16.15 - 16.45 Congress Centre - Aspen 1 Congress Centre - Dischma Congress Centre - Earth Space
us outlook mindful organization earth time-lapse/water 3 Priorities for the United Building Mindful Earth Time-Lapse: The States in 2016 Organizations War on Water
From battling violent extremism to fighting How can mindfulness meditation enhance the Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the climate change, is the United States in a collective intelligence of your organization? Arctic, oceans and freshwater crises. The position to take the lead? session features high-resolution satellite images Session objectives: from NASA's Landsat Program, which provides This session is webcast live. - Develop effective stress responses the longest continuous global record of the - Embed emotional intelligence Earth¶s surface. - Learn to optimize decision-making Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the Earth Space.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 77 Programme Friday 22 January
16.15 - 16.45 16.30 - 17.30 16.30 - 17.45 Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone Hilton Garden Inn - -
virtual reality 9 betazone/violent universe refugee experience 10 Virtual Reality: Collisions The Violent Universe with A Day in the Life of a
Join a group experience of the virtual reality film California Institute of Refugee Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia to discover what Technology Take part in this powerful experience to happens when indigenous tradition meets understand the struggles and choices that western science. From black holes to supernovae, explore how refugees face to survive each day. The the explosive forces at work within the cosmos experience is developed by the Crossroads Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette could one day be harnessed for energy use on Foundation and designed with refugees, Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an Earth. internally displaced persons and NGOs. indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt VR.
You can also experience the film on your own and at your own pace outside of scheduled session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 78 Programme Friday 22 January
16.30 - 17.45 16.30 - 17.45 16.30 - 17.30 The Loft - Loft IdeasLab Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena
loft/ideaslab erc institutional/energy future global health security The Future of Computing: The Future of Energy Preparing for the Next The European Research Pandemic How will technological advances and new Council IdeasLab market conditions shape tomorrow's energy It is a certainty that humankind will be provider? confronted with disease outbreaks in the near How are new fields of computer science future. What can be done to prevent looming transforming the way some of the most difficult Session objectives: crises and to mitigate their potentially scientific problems and technological challenges - Explore the effects of recent and future devastating effects? problems are solved? disruptions on energy providers - Identify and prioritize opportunities On the agenda: Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: - Define changes needed in energy companies - Developing vaccines Idea 1: Biomolecular computing today - Moving from reaction to prevention Idea 2: Neuromorphic computing - Promoting access to resources Idea 3: Quantum computing This session is for Forum Members and Idea 4: Graphene-based computer chips Partners active or interested in the Future of This session is webcast. Energy projects.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 79 Programme Friday 22 January
16.30 - 17.00 16.30 - 17.30 16.45 - 17.30 Congress Centre - Sertig Congress Centre - Sanada Congress Centre - Congress Hall
insight/moerner f24/violent extremism gender progress A Journey of Discovery Violent Extremism: From Progress towards Parity
with W. E. Moerner Global Threat to Local At the current pace, gender parity will not be achieved until 2095. What are the opportunities While investigating the potential for molecular Solution to achieve progress towards parity as the data storage, W. E. Moerner became the first demand on workforces and societies rapidly person to capture an image of a single Ankara, Beirut and Paris are among the cities shift? molecule, for which he was awarded the 2014 that have been targeted in recent months by Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The discovery paved terrorist attacks. How can open societies On the agenda: the way for the ability to visualize the processes respond to the spread of extremist ideologies - Gender implications of future skills that occur inside living cells. Join this session to and terrorism? requirements learn from his journey of profound discovery. - Advanced policies and partnerships On the agenda: - Successful business strategies - Anti-radicalization and social integration policies Simultaneous interpretation in all languages - Law enforcement and intelligence services - Civil society and faith-based organizations This session is webcast live. This session was developed in partnership with f24.
Simultaneous interpretation in English and French.
This session is televised and webcast live. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 80 Programme Friday 22 January
16.45 - 17.45 16.45 - 17.45 17.00 - 17.30 Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Aspen 1 Congress Centre - Robot Space
internet of things trade outlook meet the developer 6 The Internet of Things Is The Future of Global Meet HUBO's Developer
Here Trade Discover how advanced robotics will transform disaster response, with Professor Oh Jun-Ho, How is the internet of things transforming the What key trends are defining and challenging 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge winner and global marketplace? the future of trade and investment? developer of HUBO, a multifunctional walking humanoid robot. On the agenda: On the agenda: - Supporting collaborative consumption - Shift from multilateral to cross-regional - Optimizing production and supply chains approaches - Shifting business models, including on- - Trade diversification and services trade demand services - Impact of digital technology on global value chains This session is webcast live. This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 81 Programme Friday 22 January
17.30 - 18.00 18.00 - 19.00 18.15 - 18.45 Congress Centre - Sertig Congress Centre - Congress Hall Congress Centre - Earth Space
insight/doudna security agenda earth time-lapse/resources 3 An Insight, An Idea with The New Security Earth Time-Lapse: The Jennifer Doudna Agenda Race for Resources
Celebrated scientist Jennifer Doudna, co- In an era of protracted conflicts and hybrid Embark on a visual exploration that reveals inventor of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing threats, what are the new priorities for national humanity's accelerating use of resources in our technology, explores the opportunities and and international security agendas? lifetime. The session features high-resolution ethical dilemmas of rapidly advancing satellite images from NASA's Landsat biotechnology. On the agenda: programme, which provides the longest - Cross-border extremist and sectarian violence continuous global record of the Earth¶s surface. - Weaponization of emerging technologies - Blurring lines between zones of war and peace Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the Earth Space. Simultaneous interpretation in all languages
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 82 Programme Friday 22 January
18.15 - 18.45 18.30 - 20.00 20.00 - 22.00 Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Open Forum - Swiss Alpine High School - Rinerhorn Mountain - Base Camp Auditorium special screening/vr 3 open forum/revolution base camp/extreme explorers Clouds Over Sidra Life in 2030: Humankind Extreme Explorers and the Machine Join a special screening of this virtual reality "It is not the mountain we conquer, but experience to embark on an immersive journey The world is on the brink of a new revolution ourselves." into the daily life of Sidra, a young Syrian girl driven by the convergence of a number of new ±Edmund Hillary living in a refugee camp in Jordan. technologies, including genome editing, artificial intelligence and 3D printing. How will these How do explorers find the strength to keep Clouds Over Sidra was commissioned by the technologies change the lives of the next going in the face of extreme risks? United Nations and created by Gabo Arora and generation? Chris Milk. This dinner is hosted in collaboration with - What are the game-changing technologies? National Geographic. - What are the moral, ethical and social concerns which they raise? - How are these technologies going to change the face of business, government and society? - How can humans work with technology for better outcomes?
The Open Forum series, held in parallel with the official programme, offers the local Swiss community and global public an opportunity to engage and interact with experts on global issues.
Simultaneous interpretation in English and German
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 83 Programme Friday 22 January
20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Hotel InterContinental - Hotel InterContinental - Lilie/Aster Symondpark 1,2 Turmalin/Adular/Quarz cultural leaders dinner future africa future of media Cultural Leaders Dinner: Africa¶s Future Clickbait News Art and Politics "We face neither East nor West; we face "A newspaper that is true to its purpose ³I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.´ forward." concerns itself not only with the way things are, ±Marcel Duchamp ±Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first prime minister but with the way they ought to be." and president ±Joseph Pulitzer Should artists be concerned with beauty or with politics? Join the Cultural Leaders community in Join African and global leaders in a dialogue on How are today¶s cultural, political and business Davos for a rich dialogue on the role of artists in how the region is adapting to a rapidly changing incentives shaping the news industry of today's world. and interconnected world. tomorrow?
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 84 Programme Friday 22 January
20.00 - 22.00 20.00 - 22.00 Hotel Derby - Fluela 1-2-3 Ameron Swiss Mountain Hotel - Promenade institutional/mena context science fiction reality A New Arab Business Sci-Fi Dreams Context "Science fiction is something that could happen Join regional and global leaders in a dialogue ±but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is on how economies across the Middle East and something that couldn't happen ±though often North Africa region can advance long-term you only wish that it could." reforms while responding to immediate ±Arthur C. Clarke economic and security pressures. With past science fiction visions now becoming reality, what new dreams do we have for the future?
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 85 Programme Saturday 23 January
08.00 - 08.30 09.00 - 09.45 09.00 - 10.15 Congress Centre - Dischma Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone The Loft - Loft BetaZone
morning mindfulness 4 betazone/thriving in uncertainty loft/betazone brain power Mindfulness Meditation Thriving in Uncertain The Mind as a Muscle
Mindfulness meditation is the art of paying Times attention in the present moment, intentionally Learn how advances in technology are enabling and non-judgementally. Discover how the neuroscience of perception us to better understand, hack into and make and adaptation is changing the way we think changes to the brain, and what it means for Start the day with mindfulness expert Jon about uncertainty, creativity and innovation in health, education and privacy. Kabat-Zinn to learn and experience the benefits our daily lives. of meditation.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 86 Programme Saturday 23 January
09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.15 09.00 - 10.15 Hilton Garden Inn - - Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab The Loft - Loft IdeasLab
refugee experience 11 ideaslab/nature loft/ideaslab berkeley A Day in the Life of a Building an Intelligent Manufacturing Refugee Machine: The Nature Reimagined: The
Take part in this powerful experience to IdeasLab University of California, understand the struggles and choices that refugees face to survive each day. The How are advances in artificial intelligence and Berkeley IdeasLab experience is developed by the Crossroads robotics bringing us closer to a world in which Foundation and designed with refugees, humans and robots will live and work together? From nano to neurological, how are emerging internally displaced persons and NGOs. technologies reinventing the nature of Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: manufacturing? Idea 1: Machines that can read human emotions Idea 2: The rise of social robots Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Idea 3: Moral-making machines Idea 1: The factory of the future fits in your Idea 4: The trouble with super-intelligent home machines Idea 2: Manufacturing clean fuels with microbial refineries Idea 3: Battery-free devices nano-engineered to scavenge energy Idea 4: Engineering thoughts, dreams and memories
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 87 Programme Saturday 23 January
09.00 - 10.00 09.15 - 09.45 09.15 - 10.15 Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Aspen 1
stop to think/freedom of speech earth time-lapse/industrialization 4 global science outlook Stop to Think: Freedom Earth Time-Lapse: The Global Science Outlook
of Speech vs Digital Industrialization Impasse What are the top issues on the global science agenda and how will they be addressed in the Multiculturalism Embark on a visual exploration that reveals year ahead? unprecedented urbanization and What are the limits of the freedom of expression industrialization in our lifetime. The session On the agenda: in a social media era where words pass beyond features high-resolution satellite images from - Incentivizing science for societal impact borders and challenge beliefs? NASA's Landsat Program, which provides the - Role of business in science longest continuous global record of the Earth¶s - Public trust and reliability of research findings Start the day with an informal conversation to surface. explore and reflect on how technology is This session is webcast live. shaping our values, activities and choices. Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the Earth Space. This session is webcast.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 88 Programme Saturday 23 January
09.15 - 10.00 09.15 - 09.45 10.30 - 11.30 Congress Centre - Congress Hall Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone
fourth industrial revolution virtual reality 10 betazone/digital masterpiece The Future of Growth: Virtual Reality: Collisions The Digital Masterpiece
Technology Driven, Join a group experience of the virtual reality film Explore breakthrough technologies that are Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy changing our personal relationship to art and Human Centred Desert in Western Australia to discover what heritage with mathematician Martin Vetterli and happens when indigenous tradition meets media artist Sarah Kenderdine. What systemic changes are required to ensure western science. that technology can serve humanity to its fullest potential? Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an Simultaneous interpretation in all languages indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute This session is webcast live. and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt VR.
You can also experience the film on your own and at your own pace outside of scheduled session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 89 Programme Saturday 23 January
10.30 - 11.00 10.30 - 11.45 10.30 - 11.30 Congress Centre - Projection Space The Loft - Loft IdeasLab Congress Centre - Sertig
perspectives 2 loft/ideaslab cmu mental health/alzheimer's disease Photo Projection: The Promise and Peril of Addressing Alzheimer's: Perspectives Omnipresent Sensors: What Do We Know?
An introduction to Perspectives, a series of The Carnegie Mellon How could recent discoveries in brain research large-scale animated images in the Projection and neuroscience transform the prevention and Space. Focusing on cultural heritage, University IdeasLab treatment of memory disorders? biodiversity, oceans and climate change, the series explores the world¶s extraordinary How will information security be achieved when diversity and our responsibility to nurture it. practically everything we encounter is collecting our data? Perspectives is a special collaboration between National Geographic and the World Economic Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Forum. Idea 1: Blurring the borders of the physical and virtual worlds Idea 2: Augmenting decision-making with ubiquitous sensing Idea 3: Self-propagating cybersecurity systems Idea 4: Password protection in the age of the Internet of Things
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 90 Programme Saturday 23 January
10.45 - 12.00 10.45 - 12.00 10.45 - 12.00 Congress Centre - Flüela IdeasLab Congress Centre - Jakobshorn Congress Centre - Wisshorn xChange
ideaslab/kaist future conflict business series/design thinking Biotechnology Solutions Navigating the The Design Advantage for Ageing Populations: Geosecurity Landscape How can companies redesign their The Korea Advanced How can leaders prepare for new threats to organizational structures to foster agility and international security? innovation in a constantly changing business Institute of Science and landscape? Technology (KAIST) Session objectives: - Explore implications of the new security On the agenda: IdeasLab context - Adopting business models on-demand - Identify actions that leaders must take to - Attracting entrepreneurial talent prepare for security threats How are biological sciences and health - Investing in innovative frontiers - Define opportunities for creating security and technologies addressing the manifold stability challenges of caring for ageing populations in an era of increasing longevity?
Discover and debate in the IdeasLab: Idea 1: Rejuvenation via the microbiome Idea 2: Traditional medicine reimagined through modern systems biology Idea 3: Advanced mobile healthcare systems Idea 4: A neural switch for being happy with less on a crowded planet
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 91 Programme Saturday 23 January
11.00 - 12.00 11.00 - 12.00 11.00 - 12.00 The Loft - Loft BetaZone Congress Centre - Aspen 2 Congress Centre - Aspen 1
loft/betazone solar impulse future family japan outlook Around the World without Fast-Forward Family The Japan Outlook Fuel or Fear How do business and society need to adapt to How will the Fourth Industrial Revolution Learn how breakthroughs in clean technology the changing nature of families? revitalize Japan? can take us to new heights with the explorers who broke the record for the world's longest On the agenda: On the agenda: solo flight using only solar energy. - Emerging healthcare and social security needs - Progress of "third arrow" reforms - Evolving workplace norms and expectations - Gender and generational diversity - Shifting breadwinner and care-giving roles - Regional economic collaboration
This session is webcast live. Simultaneous interpretation in English and Japanese.
This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 92 Programme Saturday 23 January
12.30 - 13.30 14.00 - 15.15 14.15 - 14.45 Congress Centre - Aspen 1 Congress Centre - Congress Hall Congress Centre - Earth Space
intelligence services global economic outlook earth time-lapse/climate 4 Forum Debate: The The Global Economic Earth Time-Lapse: The Power of Intelligence Outlook Climate Crisis
Services What are the top issues on the global economic Embark on a visual exploration that reveals the agenda and how will they be addressed in the accelerating effects of climate change in our Are intelligence services too powerful or not year ahead? lifetime. The session features high-resolution powerful enough in a globalized world? satellite images from NASA's Landsat Program, On the agenda: which provides the longest continuous global This session is part of the Forum Debate series - Rising income inequality and declining record of the Earth¶s surface. on today¶s dilemmas in economics, politics and productivity society. - Divergence in monetary policies among major Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the economies Earth Space. As this session involves voting, the doors will be - Build-up of sovereign and corporate debt closed at the scheduled time. Simultaneous interpretation in all languages This session is webcast live. This session is webcast live.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 93 Programme Saturday 23 January
14.15 - 14.45 15.30 - 16.30 15.30 - 16.15 Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Congress Centre - Seehorn Arena Congress Centre - Schwarzhorn BetaZone
virtual reality 11 staying human betazone/industrial design Virtual Reality: Collisions Struggling to Stay Human Bio-Inspired Design
Join a group experience of the virtual reality film As emerging technologies open up new Collisions. Journey to the remote Great Sandy prospects for enhancing health and productivity, Explore with award-winning designer and Desert in Western Australia to discover what how can we ensure that our humanity and architect Neri Oxman how biology and happens when indigenous tradition meets humanness are not lost? technology combine into new material western science. ecosystems that both mimic and redefine This session is webcast. nature, and their transformative effect on Collisions is by acclaimed artist Lynette industrial design. Wallworth, in partnership with Nyarri Morgan, an indigenous elder and artist. It is supported by the World Economic Forum, Sundance Institute and Ford Foundation, in partnership with Jaunt VR.
You can also experience the film on your own and at your own pace outside of scheduled session times.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 94 Programme Saturday 23 January
15.45 - 16.15 15.45 - 16.15 16.45 - 17.45 Congress Centre - Earth Space Congress Centre - Virtual Reality Space Congress Centre - Congress Hall
earth time-lapse/resources 4 special screening/vr 4 cnbc/global agenda Earth Time-Lapse: The Clouds Over Sidra The Global Agenda 2016
Race for Resources The Co-Chairs of the Annual Meeting debate Join a special screening of this virtual reality the key issues shaping global, industry and Embark on a visual exploration that reveals experience to embark on an immersive journey regional agendas in 2016. humanity's accelerating use of resources in our into the daily life of Sidra, a young Syrian girl lifetime. The session features high-resolution living in a refugee camp in Jordan. This session was developed in partnership with satellite images from NASA's Landsat CNBC. programme, which provides the longest Clouds Over Sidra was commissioned by the continuous global record of the Earth¶s surface. United Nations and created by Gabo Arora and Simultaneous interpretation in all languages Chris Milk. Please arrive early, as seating is limited in the This session is webcast live. Earth Space.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 95 Programme Saturday 23 January
17.45 - 18.00 19.00 - 23.00 Congress Centre - Congress Hall Hotel InterContinental - -
closing soirée Closing Performance Jazz and African Rhythms at the The Annual Meeting 2016 draws to a close with a powerful musical and visual performance by InterContinental cellist and composer Zoe Keating. Move to the rhythm of Mafikizolo, South Africa¶s Simultaneous interpretation in all languages top musical ensemble, to wrap up your Davos experience with new friends and old. The dress code for the soirée is black tie or traditional national dress, and sign-up is required.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 - Preliminary 96 Programme