Global Agenda Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Leadership 4.0: Succeeding in a New Era of Globalization
Dalian, People’s Republic of China 1-3 July Contents Foreword
Foreword 3
Meeting highlights 4
Expert insight 6
Top emerging technologies of 2018 6
Global Lighthouse Network: Scaling 6 intelligent manufacturing
The sub-themes 10 W. Lee Howell Managing Director Sustaining economic leadership 10 Head of Global Programming
Achieving technology leadership 18
Fostering agile industry leadership 26
Promoting responsible leadership 34
Special experiences 42
Co-Chairs 44
Programme in brief 46
Meet the next generation of scientists 82
Start-ups in Dalian 86 David Aikman Chief Representative Officer, China Acknowledgements 88 Member of the Executive Committee
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2 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Globalization 4.0 represents a series agile form to ensure that the with Globalization 4.0 – each of fundamental changes in the global companies, people and nations for organization and nation has to economy occurring at an which they are responsible are able determine its own approach. But, unprecedented speed and scale. As to survive and thrive in a world of through open dialogue and sincere these changes transform the world artificial intelligence and other new efforts to understand and to bridge around us, a new form of leadership technologies that are altering the very the gaps between approaches, we and collaboration is emerging as fabric of society and business. can better solve the problems of the companies, governments and global commons. individuals adapt to this new era of While innovation, entrepreneurship, globalization. science and technology are essential We would like to thank the Co-Chairs for creating new opportunities for of the meeting for their valuable To navigate this new era, leaders economic, social and individual contribution to the programme. must acquire a deep understanding development, the human element of how the new champions that are has never been more important. In The World Economic Forum is gaining economic influence are this regard, more than 200 panels, grateful to its members and disrupting and transforming industry hub sessions, workshops and constituents for their active models. In this context, impartial and hands-on installations enabled participation in the Annual Meeting of independent platforms have never participants to gain insight into the the New Champions and continued been more needed than today, evolving role of leaders and the commitment to improving the state of particularly as the world faces meaning of leadership in the face of the world. We look forward to increasing tensions and conflicts. the Fourth Industrial Revolution. welcoming you to next year’s gathering in Tianjin. In Dalian, more than 1,800 During the course of the meeting, it participants explored how the face of became clear that there are different leadership is morphing into a more approaches and concepts for dealing
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 3 Meeting highlights
The following are the key outcomes achieved over the three-day meeting.
– Fahad Almubarak, State Minister, Member of the Saudi Council of Ministers, Saudi G20 Sherpa and Secretary-General of the G20 Saudi Secretariat, chaired a consultation session with Asian stakeholders to gather input for the agenda of its G20 presidency, starting in December.
– The Government of the United Arab Emirates joined the Forum’s Closing the Skills Gap initiative, launching an accelerator programme that will be stewarded by the country’s Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills.
– Leaders in the health and information – Business for Nature, a global coalition to elevate technologies sectors shaped and committed to the business call for comprehensive action to developing EPI-BRAIN, a first-of-its-kind data reverse nature loss and restore the planet’s vital innovation platform to predict and forecast natural systems, was launched on 2 July. epidemics.
– The World Economic Forum announced it will open a branch of the Tropical Forest Alliance in China. The Alliance is an initiative led by the Forum that aims to remove deforestation from commodity supply chains.
– A first advisory meeting took place to provide strategic direction to the 28 financial institutions that have signed up to a set of Green Investment Principles. The principles, drafted by a coalition including the Forum, the Green Finance Committee of China, the Society for Finance and Banking and the Green Finance – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will Initiative of the City of London, aim to serve as a use the newly launched Blockchain Single voluntary standard for investment in the Belt Trade Window framework, developed by IDB and Road Initiative. and the Forum, to pilot blockchain projects that improve border clearance, and will share lessons and best practices.
4 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 – As part of a wide-ranging memorandum of understanding between China’s Ministry of Ecology and the Environment (MEE), the two partners announced:
– A collaboration in support of the 2020 Biodiversity Conference of Parties in Kunming, China; the agreement will see the formation of a new community and the publication of a report, The New Nature Economy.
– The Forum also joined the Green Belt and Road – The Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Coalition, which will see collaboration with MEE Governance piloted a new tool, endorsed by the on a number of thematic partnerships, including Government of the United Arab Emirates, to Environmental Information Sharing and Big help policy-makers and regulators avoid being Data; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management; left behind by rapid technological change. Green Finance and Investment; and Green Technology Innovation.
– The Infrastructure and Urban Development community formed a task force on Risk – South Korea joined the Forum’s Centres for the Allocation and Mitigation to make infrastructure Fourth Industrial Revolution Network. collaborations between the public and private sectors more equitable, future-proof, socially – Bahrain will pilot a set of guidelines for the endorsed and immune to political cycles. ethical procurement of artificial intelligence developed by the UK and the Centres for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network For session highlights, blogs, videos and (announced at last year’s Annual Meeting of the meeting-related documents, plus Forum New Champions). insights, visit https://toplink.weforum.org
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 5 Expert insight Top emerging technologies of 2019
DNA-based data storage, safer nuclear reactors and a novel way to rein in rogue proteins
The World Economic Forum announced its annual list of breakthrough technologies with the greatest potential to make a positive impact on our world.
The technologies on the list, which is curated by members of the Forum’s Expert Network, are selected against strict criteria. In addition to promising major benefits to societies and economies, they must also be disruptive, attractive to investors and researchers, and expected to have achieved considerable scale within five years.
This year’s top 10 emerging technologies are:
Bioplastics for a circular economy: techniques. A breakthrough in the way Only 15% of plastics today are recycled. lenses are produced will allow further Meanwhile, biodegradable plastic lacks miniaturization in sensors and medical the strength of conventional materials. imaging devices. This year’s breakthrough comes through using cellulose or lignin from plant Disordered proteins as drug targets: waste, which increases mechanical “Intrinsically disordered proteins” are strength and doesn’t use crops that proteins that can cause cancer and could otherwise be used for food other diseases. Unlike conventional production. proteins, they lack a rigid structure, which makes them difficult to treat. Now, Social robots: Robots today are able to scientists have found a way to prevent recognize voices, faces and emotions, their shape-shifting long enough for interpret speech and gestures, respond treatment to have an effect. to verbal and non-verbal cues, and even make eye contact. They’re increasingly Collaborative telepresence: Imagine being used to care for the elderly, video conferences where you can not educate children and do all sorts of only feel as if you’re in the same room as tasks in between. your correspondents but can actually feel one another’s touch. Metalenses: These lenses so small that, up until now, it has been impossible to make them through traditional glass-cutting and glass-curving
6 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Smarter fertilizers: Much of the DNA data storage: At the rate we are “Technologies that are emerging today improvement in fertilizers over the years producing data, we probably have less will soon be shaping the world tomorrow has been in enhancing their ability to than 100 years before the magnetic or and well into the future – with impacts to slowly release nutrients as and when optical storage systems we use at the economies and to society at large. Now they are needed. The drawback is that moment will reach maximum capacity. that we are well into the Fourth Industrial they still contain ammonia, urea and These systems also consume huge Revolution, it’s critical that we discuss potash. The latest versions use more amounts of energy. DNA, life’s storage and ensure that humanity is served by environmentally friendly sources of material, has no such limitations. these new innovations so that we can nitrogen, plus microorganisms that According to one estimate, all the continue to prosper,” said Mariette improve take-up by plants. world’s current storage needs for a year DiChristina, Editor-in-Chief of Scientific could be met by a cube of DNA American, and chair of the Emerging Advanced food tracking and measuring about one metre on a side. Technologies Steering Committee. packaging: Locating the source of food contamination can now take minutes Utility-scale storage of renewable “From income inequality to climate rather than days as a result of a novel energy: Lithium-ion batteries will likely change, technology will play a critical blockchain approach to monitoring be the dominant technology for the next role in finding solutions to all the food’s progress through the supply five to 10 years and continuing challenges our world faces today. This chain. Meanwhile, sensors in packaging improvements will result in batteries that year’s emerging technologies can tell us when food is about to spoil, can store four to eight hours of energy demonstrate the rapid pace of human reducing the need to trash whole – long enough, for example, to shift innovation and offer a glimpse into what batches once an expiry date is reached. solar-generated power to the evening a sustainable, inclusive future will look peak of demand. like,” said Jeremy Jurgens, Chief Safer nuclear reactors: The great risk Technology Officer at the World with nuclear power is that the fuel rods These technologies were discussed in Economic Forum. can overheat and, when mixed with panel discussions and working sessions water, produce hydrogen, which can throughout the Annual Meeting of the Download the full report: http://www3. then explode. New fuels are coming New Champions. weforum.org/docs/WEF_Top_10_ online that are much less likely to Emerging_Technologies_2019_Report. overheat and, if they do, produce very pdf little or no hydrogen. These new configurations can replace existing fuel rods with little modification.
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 7 Expert insight Global Lighthouse Network: Scaling intelligent manufacturing
The World Economic Forum has added 10 new “The global Lighthouse Network offers an factories to its global Lighthouse Network, a unrivalled opportunity not only to highlight the community of manufacturers that are showing transformational efforts of the world’s most leadership in applying Fourth Industrial Revolution advanced manufacturers but also, more technologies to drive financial and operational importantly, to create a shared learning journey that impact. will help manufacturers around the world, across value chains and of all sizes to access and The factories join a network of 16 other capitalize on the positive potential of the Fourth Lighthouses across multiple geographies and Industrial Revolution,” said Francisco Betti, Head of industries that serve as beacons to guide others to Advanced Manufacturing Industry at the World overcome challenges in upgrading systems and Economic Forum. applying cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics and 3D The Lighthouse programme is conducted in printing. The factories were selected based on their collaboration with McKinsey & Company. Learn success in integrating these technologies to more about the Lighthouses announced in increase efficiency and drive innovation. January, the Lighthouses announced last September and read the white paper, Fourth One of the key elements of the Lighthouse Network Industrial Revolution: Beacons of Technology and is its commitment to discovering and elevating Innovation in Manufacturing. solutions that can be scaled up in cost-effective ways across companies and industries. The Lighthouses have also agreed to share their knowledge with other manufacturing businesses, helping them successfully adopt the technologies of the future.
8 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Li Keqiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China, and Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, in the session Opening Plenary
Session on Revealing Hidden Brain Mechanisms with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Juan Pedro Ochoa Ricoux in the session Neutrinos for Peace
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Peering at an uncertain economic horizon
New drivers and models of growth will be needed to sustain development within an altered architecture of the world economy.
At the World Economic Forum’s 13th In the opening plenary, Chinese “The world economy stands to benefit Annual Meeting of the New Premier Li Keqiang doubled down on from a more open China,” he said. Champions, in Dalian, the view from China’s commitments to financial Asia helped to sink in new realities globalization, underlining that “We cannot simplistically make a about the world economy, with a “fundamental principles, such as free scapegoat of economic globalization,” mixed economic outlook that will trade, must be upheld.” He pledged to Premier Li added, but instead must require a candid response from all lift some foreign ownership caps, and “guide globalization in the direction of stakeholders if they are to keep up. reduce restrictions on foreign … inclusive growth.” investment in the technology sector. Uncertainty was the keyword on the lips of panellists across sectors. Despite a temporary truce in the US-China trade war, announced at the G20 in Osaka days before the opening of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, markets are still nervous and projections indicate slowing global economic growth across the board.
“The business community is very pleased that [the US and China] are going back to the negotiating table,” said Timothy P. Stratford, Managing Partner, Beijing, Covington & Burling, a sentiment echoed by Yi Xiaozhun, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization: “What we are most concerned about is all the Mariette DiChristina in the session Sustaining the remaining uncertainty.” Space Economy
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Jennifer Lyn Morone in the session Rethinking Capitalism
Not everyone was so sanguine. Other services-led economy is underway but participants highlighted the risk of will take time, while the advent of 5G global stagflation – inflation combined technologies is another potential with unemployment and stagnant booster. demand – catalysed by the attempted bifurcation of tech supply chains and a In an interconnected world, these new “tech cold war” between the US transformations are not true just of and China. China or of Asia, but globally. There are a number of key transitions for “Truce does not mean progress,” business leaders and governments to warned Jin Keyu, Professor of embrace, and pitfalls to avoid, if the Economics at the London School of world economy is to keep pace with Economics and Political Science, in a rapidly changing architectures. Bloomberg debate. One of the biggest risks, hidden in But as the apocryphal Chinese plain sight, is debt. Global debt is now etymology of “crisis” goes, there is double global GDP. Rollovers and low In the face of slowing economic opportunity within the danger. “The interest have mitigated the effects so growth we must live the spirit trade war is pushing China to strive for far, but, should another financial crisis of partnership, as we are self-sufficiency and greater hit, there will be a reckoning. Monetary passengers in the same boat. independence,” commented Jin. “And policy reform, in the model of the that’s not bad for China, as it wants to EU’s in the wake of the 2010 debt enter a new phase of economic crisis, can help – as well as Li Keqiang, Premier of the People’s Republic growth.” responsibly structured debts and of China honest appraisals of risk not just for New drivers of growth will be essential individual projects, but for the if China’s economy is to thrive, which countries they are in. in turn will lift the global economy. The transition to a consumption- and The digital economy will be a linchpin
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of future growth. Data in particular is a The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is bulls must both be nimble so as not to key driver, and should be allowed to ever more a vein that connects the trip up in such a bumpy economic flow across borders with the right data limbs of Eurasian economies, although landscape. regulation – for example, allowing the risks of environmental and climate aggregate data but not individual, to change damage, as well as debt-trap As Kevin Sneader, of McKinsey & protect privacy – and updates to diplomacy, grow in proportion to its Company, warned: “The one thing that industrial policy to reflect its critical ambitions. A focus of discussions this we can be certain of is that uncertainty function. year, in the wake of the second BRI will continue.” summit in April, was on “greening the This priority is an especial focus of Belt and Road”. ASEAN, the fastest-growing internet market in the world but poses a thorny Bruno Maçães, Senior Fellow at regulation challenge for such a diverse Renmin University, also pointed region, which needs more out a sea change in its scope: “In the communication between governments first five years, we used to think of the and the private sector to seek out Belt and Road as being focused on points of common interest. developing countries. At the moment Italy joined, a G7 country and NATO “We used to talk about data and digital member, it changed the nature as the ‘new oil’,” said Jayajyoti of the BRI.” Sengupta, Senior Vice-President of Cognizant Technology Solutions in With all of these challengers and Singapore. “Now we call it the ‘new disruptors of the existing economic air’. The question is how we make that world order, nations and businesses air pollution free and accessible for all.” will have to step carefully to negotiate the year ahead. The bears and the New architectures for the global economy are already under construction. Trust is wavering in some financial institutions, while emerging economies are challenging existing structures and partnerships. New trade deals such as the CPTPP and RCEP are repivoting the centre of the world economy to Asia and the Pacific, while in other economies, such as digital, borders are more porous than ever.
Kevin Sneader, Min Zhu, Jing Ulrich and Joachim von Amsberg in the session China Economic Outlook
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Trade deals beyond ‘The Big One’
Despite a ceasefire, the ongoing US-China trade war is the slow-boiling cassoulet of geopolitical friction on everyone’s lips. Yet, other new and prospective trade deals are already transforming trade and shifting the global economy’s centre of gravity to the Pacific.
The first is the CPTPP, or Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. This unwieldy acronym is in fact little more than a reinvention of the TPP, in which 11 partners pushed ahead regardless after the US, architect of the deal under President Obama, pulled out under President Trump. The deal was signed in March 2018 and has diversified trade for all members.
The second, still in negotiation, comes out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and would include the 10 members of ASEAN plus six Indo-Pacific states (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand). They hope to reach an agreement by the end of the year.
As Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion of Canada, commented: “Trade agreements should not just be documents, but tools that enable our companies to get into these markets.”
Mary Ng in the session The Plastic Revolution
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 13 Morning Tai Chi
Digital Mimic Experience
14 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Qiu Zhijie in the session Mapping the World
Sang Ah Lee in the session Revealing Hidden Brain Mechanisms with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Abdulla Bin Touq in the session Governing the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Douglas McCauley in the session The Big Picture on Sustainable Sourcing Biometric Mirror Experience
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 15 Nicole Schwab in the session Defending Peter Lochbihler in the session How to Nature's Last Frontiers Tax Global Business
Cesar A. Hidalgo in the session The Big Picture on Soft Power
Yang Yanqing, Li Zhengqiang, Min Zhu, Jan Metzger, Zhang Lu and Huang Yi in the session How China Shapes the Future of Finance
16 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Mary Lou Jepsen in the session How to Keith Bradsher, Sheikh Hasina, Mary Ng, Tak Niinam Shape Innovation: Meet and Sushant Palakurthi Rao in the session Cooperation the 2019 Technology in the Pacific Rim Pioneers
Hospital of the Future Experience
Serey Chea in the session In Crypto We Trust
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The critical juncture at the heart of transformative tech
From genomics to 3D-printed prosthetics, the possibilities of taking control of food, disease and human reproduction are today available in a way unprecedented in human history. At once awe-inspiring and unnerving, as these game-changing technologies are rolled out they bring us to a critical juncture – one where key decisions about ethics, governance and leadership will define the blueprint of our future.
Once dwelling exclusively in the realm bio-edits that could potentially save of the imagination, or in the pages of hectares of virgin rainforest. The sci-fi novels, scientific advances have genetic editing of seeds, noted one in the past year seen scientists push expert, could enable a “focus on the boundaries of technological feeding the world without starving the innovation like never before. planet.”
Last November, a Chinese researcher In other examples of cutting-edge controversially claimed that he helped biotech, 3D-printed prosthetics that create the world’s first gene-edited sync with brain signals in children, and humans, twin baby girls born the grow as their young bones develop, same month. On the other side of the are being produced at INSERM, the globe, scientists in Africa were French National Institute for Health releasing the first-ever genetically and Medical Research, while engineered mosquitos, a malaria- wearables that can detect diseases resistant strain made possible by such as Parkinson’s could soon be on CRISPR technology, in an attempt to the market. wipe out an infectious disease that each year kills hundreds of thousands In major cities in Japan, artificial of people. intelligence is being used to provide emergency services to its ageing Advances in genomics are also population, and sophisticated allowing for new visions of food geophysical data is helping to better security and environmental detect earthquakes. So fast is the sustainability. At the meeting in Dalian, wheel of technological advancement geneticists discussed the possibility of spinning that scientists are even fungicide-free wheat, or more talking about the possibility of humans productive varieties of soybean – living to 150 – and beyond.
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We are clearly living in challenging times where we need the wisdom and experience of different stakeholders to come together for the common good.
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Xu Bing in the session No More Obscurity Embracing this climate of innovation, China has experienced a meteoric rise on the global scientific stage in recent years. In the past decade, the country has doubled its spending on scientific research and, in 2018, surpassed the US with the largest number of scientific researchers.
“I believe the next Google-level company in healthcare could come from China,” reckoned Jackson Zhu Weiyan, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Bio-Med. “China is truly embracing innovation.”
On the back of President Xi Jinping’s vision of a knowledge-driven economy, healthcare innovation has rapidly accelerated in China, with the use of AI, digital pathology and genomics, as well as numerous start-ups and crossovers between biotech and IT.
Given the borderless nature of science, industry experts and policy- makers at the Dalian meeting praised
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China’s open approach and continued innovation coupled with a Besides, argued Joanna Bryson, an commitment to deeper international strong sense of responsibility, and Associate Professor in the Department collaboration, which they see as accountability. of Computer Sciences at the having powerful potential to push University of Bath, the more skilled we forward the boundaries of scientific The same mood characterized become at AI, the less it makes sense discovery for the benefit of humanity. discussions on AI, a term that for to differentiate between us and the some encapsulates our nebulous technology we create. “All around the world, we have a anxieties about globalization, data surging increase in chronic diseases, privacy and trust. Is it time, asked one “When we talk about AI for good, are from diabetes to obesity, infectious participant, for a Hippocratic Oath for we really talking about generating diseases, cancer, mental health – and technologists? good, or are we displacing these are really big problems,” noted responsibility onto the technology or Melinda Richter, Global Head of In a world where big tech companies onto the engineers?” asked Bryson, JLABS at Johnson & Johnson, which are starting to act like nation states – “We cannot hold machines has recently developed research Facebook for example recently themselves responsible. Justice itself laboratories for Chinese scientists in unveiled plans for its own internal is a human invention.” Shanghai. “It takes eight to twelve “Supreme Court” and constitution – years to get a drug to market and there is pressure on governments to billions of dollars,” continued Richter. adopt a more agile style of “So the only way these local governance, or run the risk of being entrepreneurs have a shot at making a rendered obsolete. difference is if we come together and invest.” If we want to live in a world where tech works for good, experts at the meeting There is much to celebrate about the surmised, then transparency needs to way science can positively transform be engineered into our systems, our world, yet with these incredible through machine and algorithmic technological innovations come ethical accountability, and more agile grey zones and critical considerations regulatory oversight. about the shape of our future – of where the lines should be drawn. In Stephen Engle, Jin Keyu, Zhu Wei, Paul Yang the wake of the world’s first genetically and Jeffrey Lu Minfang in the session The Global Economic Outlook: View from Asia edited babies, for example, many scientists expressed fears about “off-target” genomic editing, the unintended consequences of genetic modifications, which in the aforementioned case remain unknown.
In their efforts to eradicate malaria in Burkina Faso, scientists proceeded with caution by making changes that could not be passed onto the next generation, to reduce the possibility of causing unintended, irreversible damage. In Dalian, scientists and policy-makers alike called for
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What if: You could live to 150?
Advances in molecular science and the genetics of ageing suggest that a future where humans live until the age of 150 – and perhaps beyond – is close. Last year, the World Health Organization even defined ageing as a treatable condition. Yet before we start stockpiling birthday candles, is the prospect of such extended longevity desirable?
The idea was met by a full gamut of responses in Dalian. Bob Kain, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Lunadna, suggested that, if we live to 150, there would be an opportunity to “have multiple lives” and careers. Simone Schuerle-Finke, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Translational Medicine in Switzerland, said it’s happening whether we like or not and “we have to get prepared now for how to deal with it.”
Others, such as Jerry Muller, Author and Professor of History at the Catholic University of America, were unconvinced. “If you think about ageing as a disease, you have a misconception about life,” he said. “The ageing of the mind and the body is a natural process, and it’s about how we come to terms with it accordingly.”
For now, it seems, the jury on post-centenarian life is still out.
Nadia Ikumi in the session Ask About: Jeffrey M. Drazen in the session Reducing China’s Tackling Infectious Diseases Stroke Burden through Artificial Intelligence
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 21 Liu Qian in the session Voice for the Planet
Frances Balkwill in the session Tackling Cancer from Within – New Perspectives
Jin Xiangjun, Vice-Mayor of Tianjin, People's Republic of China, delivering Daphne Cheng in the session Future his closing remarks Frontiers of Food: A Plant-Based Diet
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Marieme Eve Jamme in the session The Promise of Tech in Education
Magdalena Skipper, Randall Platt, Beat Christen and Simone Schuerle-Finke in the session Converging Biological and Digital Worlds with ETH Zurich
Session on Big Data Visualization: A New Era in Mapping with the University of Tokyo
Jackson Zhu Weiyan in the session China's Biotech Revolution
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24 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Carol Yu Ying in the session Drone Delivery: Transforming Logistics and Lives
Ask About: Mental Health
Simone Schuerle-Finke in the session Converging Biological and Digital Worlds with ETH Zurich
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Leadership 4.0: Only the agile will survive
Sweeping technological changes from the Fourth Industrial Revolution will profoundly impact how leaders and organizations thrive in the digital economy. More than ever before, they have to stay agile and be adaptable or risk being disrupted.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, On the job front, for example, the called Uber drivers? His government, characterized by a fusion of future is in flux. As Ahmad bin he quipped, finds it easier to predict technologies that blurs the lines Abdullah Humaid Belhoul Al Falasi, the price of oil than the future of jobs. between the physical, digital and Minister of State for Higher Education biological spheres, will profoundly and Advanced Skills of the United 5G will prove even more revolutionary change the way people live, work and Arab Emirates, asked: Who would for many industries, from retail to play. In the business world, disruptive have predicted 10 years ago that there transport to healthcare. It will set the technologies such as e-commerce would be a new category of jobs stage for large-scale disruptions and ride-sharing are already bringing about transformative changes, Jessica Tan and Charles Li in the session reshaping organizational structure and Conversations on Leadership 4.0 behaviour, redefining work processes and rewriting the rules on competitive economic disadvantage.
The speed of change will only increase when technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G mobile go mainstream. Many of these changes are difficult to predict. While they are expected to have a serious impact on life and work as we know them today, the shape and specificities of the changes are far from clear.
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Pedro Ferreira in the session Rethinking Trust and Improving Decisions with Carnegie Mellon University
because of its much faster speed – it culture if anyone is to have any hope of will be so fast, it will make real time going head-on with today’s corporate seem too late, said Hera Siu, Chief titans such as the so-called FANG Executive Officer for the Greater China (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Region, Cisco. Its lower network Google) companies and their Chinese latency allows rapid data management counterparts, Alibaba, Ten Cent and and responsiveness, giving gamers a Baidu? more immersive and exhilarating experience and making autonomous “These companies,” observed Andrew vehicles safer, to name just two early Dowell, Wall Street Journal’s Asia beneficiaries. Editor, “mediate a lot of economic activity. Whether it’s getting cabs or Equally exciting is the network support finding your way around the internet or for massive volumes of data traffic, connecting with friends, these which will finally usher in the internet of companies have a tight lock on users’ things (IoT), where many physical time and attention.” devices and ordinary objects can be connected with one another over the And they and their ilk have no qualms internet, and monitored and controlled about “digging the graves” of the remotely. established players, according to Charles Li, Chief Executive of Hong So, how do industries and Kong Exchanges and Clearing, who organizations thrive in such a volatile, said that companies will have to unpredictable environment and what constantly reinvent themselves or changes are needed to leadership become irrelevant. style, organizational structure and
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Data is the prized asset in today’s Millennials are in many ways a different While data greases the wheels of the digital economy and corporations will breed from their parents. They do not digital economy, it is not the be-all and have to develop capabilities to crave job security – they tend to take end-all. “The Fourth Industrial harness, analyse and manage them on freelance work, preferring to Revolution is not only about data,” said while sifting out the bias in the identify with a purpose rather than to Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief algorithms. Quantitative skills honed belong to a company – and they Executive Officer of CP Group. “We from the pursuit of STEM (science, certainly owe no loyalty to the are talking about how to make the technology, engineering and employer. In the United States, young world more sustainable because we mathematics) disciplines are an workers are estimated to be changing are entering an era whereby there is advantage, but so too are soft skills jobs 11 times between the ages of 18 an exponential speed of change that like creativity, strategic thinking and and 25. not only impacts our business but our communications, since these social environment.” attributes cannot be imparted to Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow at the machines, at least for now. Royal Academy of Engineering, As such, leaders should build Imperial College London, called for sustainability, values and governance Agility and adaptability are two crucial leaders of industry 4.0 to think like into the fabric of their business so that leadership traits in the face of the scientists and act like entrepreneurs. they are not creating problems that sweeping changes ahead. Leaders will They would do well to integrate future generations have to deal with, have to develop new mindsets and evidenced-based facts in their Suphachai added. capabilities to transform their decision-making before striking out in organizations and inspire their search of solutions that can be workers, particularly those of the monetized. She pointed out that millennial generation, the world’s first today’s climate-change problems generation to have largely grown up were highlighted by scientists in the with internet and mobile phones. “This 1950s. “If we had dealt with it at the is one of the challenges of this world,” right time when the evidence was said Alain Dehaze, Chief Executive there, we would have been dealing Officer of HR services company with other problems now.” Adecco Group.
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Ahmad bin Abdullah Humaid Belhoul Al Falasi and Alain Session Leading without Leaders Dehaze in the Session Conversations on Leadership 4.0
Going leaderless, or rudderless?
A large part of today’s digital world is being driven by start-ups founded by passionate millennials with a freewheeling leadership style that encourages fast growth, scalability and an inclusive culture. These fresh-faced digital kingpins eschew the traditional pyramidal and hierarchical structure, preferring a flat organization where power depends less on one’s position but more on one’s persuasive skills.
Is leading without a leader the new model for 21st-centry enterprises as they face unprecedented challenges brought about by advanced technologies?
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Cloudflare, expressed scepticism and said she sees a leaderless organization ending up being rudderless. “Ultimately, it doesn’t work. As a CEO, I want to make sure ideas come from everyone across the organization, so we are aware of risks we don’t think about. The organization should be open enough to allow all ideas to flourish, but you need enough structure to get things done and to deliver results – which is ultimately what matters,” she said.
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 29 Li Keqiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China, and Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, Annie Koh in the session World Economic Forum, in the session Opening Plenary Have Platforms Peaked?
Louise Lucas, Mamuka Bakhtadze, Ahmad bin Abdullah Humaid Belhoul Al Falasi, Jahanzaib Ansari, Anita Woolle and Alain Dehaze in the session Talent Transforming Technology
30 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Hospital of the Future Experience
Anita Woolley in the session Rethinking Jessica Indah Vovers exploring the Trust and Improving Decisions with Digital Mirror exhibition Carnegie Mellon University
Smilla Yuan in the session China's New Business Leaders
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 31 Rubana Huq in the session ASEAN Deep Dive: Manufacturing
So-Young Kang in the Andrew Dowell, Jessica Tan, Chen Xiaohua, Fatoumata session ASEAN Deep Ba and Arun Sundararajan in the session Technology Dive: Youth and the Power Play Future of Jobs
32 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Biometric Mirror Experience
John Meacock in the session The Quest Wu Changhua in the session Future of for Leadership 4.0 Work: Energy
Lin Xueling, Mikael Bäck, Hera Siu, Zhou Bowen and Sihan Bo Chen in the session Why 5G Matters
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 33 Promoting responsible leadership
Transcending the false binaries of responsible leadership
Never has there been a time when responsible leadership has been more urgently needed, and yet never has there been a time when we’ve asked so much of leaders. Indeed, it can seem sometimes that we ask the impossible.
Whether in government or in We insist that they lead in a way that All of this – with all the apparent enterprise, we expect our leaders to keeps humanity squarely at the centre, contradictions neatly resolved, all the possess the perspicacity – indeed, but that they make decisions needles deftly threaded, short-term even the clairvoyance – to identify and grounded in the unsentimental interests balanced against long – adds correctly size up challenges still over analysis of hard data. We increasingly up, ideally, to “responsible leadership”. the horizon. We expect them to have demand they commit to being greener It’s a tall order, to be sure. But it is not both grand vision and the practical and more sustainable, while impossible. Framing its attainment in ability to execute. We want them to continuing to deliver growth. terms of stark, irreconcilable binaries rise above mere politics, but we also is defeatist, and is, ultimately, an demand that they demonstrate abdication of responsibility. political cunning and acumen.
We want our leaders to possess both deep expertise and a common touch, to be blessed with humility enough to recognize their shortcomings, gravitas enough to be taken seriously, charisma enough to inspire, and wisdom enough to somehow pull it all off. They must be decisive but inclusive, endowed with both flexibility and resolve, both open-mindedness and fixity of purpose.
Henry Motte-Muñoz in the session Promoting Responsible Leadership
34 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Promoting responsible leadership
Mandë Holford in the session The Secret Life of Whales
This is not to say that leaders never At the enterprise level, Target and need to make tough choices. But one numerous other retail chains are crucial role of responsible leaders is to seeing substantial increases in profits light the way by showing instances from organic and sustainably grown where disparate exigencies that product lines. Impossible Foods, appear at first to conflict turn out – maker of a popular and quite with the right leadership – to align, or convincing plant-based beef even to reinforce one another. substitute, saw its stock price soar after its IPO and, at the time of writing, Nothing succeeds like success so, in trades at 600% of its IPO price. order to promote responsible leadership, it is incumbent that leaders At the national level, polities as varied be armed with relevant, factually as Germany and the United Arab unassailable case studies, as self- Emirates are on a clear path to 100% evident, straightforward and sensible renewable energy, and the Middle to legislators and investors as they are East as a region will surpass the US to voters and consumers – success and catch up with world leader stories where wise leadership yields Germany by 2025 at current rates of tangible fruit. growth. Governments are recognizing that, by organizing the oceanic Happily, such stories are accumulating amounts of data they collect and fast, and helping to put to rest such making it accessible to civil society, false binaries that pitted green against private enterprise and academia, the growth, and human-centred against returns are manifold: more efficient, data-driven. personalized delivery of government services, increased productivity and output, and ample fodder for innovation.
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 35 Promoting responsible leadership
Of course, contradictions – or what Just as importantly, they must reckon True responsibility is, above all else, people too often think of as with the potential downside of the marked by the courage and fortitude contradictions – between competing technologies of the Fourth Industrial to hew always to values-based goals do not resolve neatly of and by Revolution, even as they harness their leadership. What rises from the crowd themselves – not without a shift in disruptive potential, and take seriously is not, regrettably, always wisdom. framing. Moral authority is a key the development of ethical guardrails function of leadership, and responsible around the deployment of the leaders need to seize the reins and technologies of the Fourth Industrial work deliberately to push all Revolution, addressing algorithmic stakeholders to embrace measures of bias, data privacy, unemployment and success that go beyond just profits. income inequality.
In the modern global economy, few It is well that successful leaders have actors wield more power for potential in recent years come to think not in transformation than investors. terms of workers, subjects and Investment decisions are a critical consumers – mere passive objects of chokepoint, where each year trillions policy or of market campaigns – but of dollars in capital are allocated by increasingly in terms of stakeholders. only a few thousand institutions, and These stakeholders, after all, have a it’s one place where changing a few growing number of potent tools minds – whether through moral available to them to air demands and suasion, financial incentive or grievances, and to organize. And this regulation – can make an enormous gives rise to perhaps the most difficult difference. obstacle in moving towards truly responsible leadership: how to lead Encouraging more investors to take up inclusively without giving in to base the principles and practices of impact populism. investing, where returns are measured not strictly in terms of dollars but in terms of social and environmental good, can go far. Already, long-sighted financial institutions like Swiss Re have taken bold decisions, like ruling out investment in any coal-related thermal projects.
In a time defined by accelerating technological change, responsible leaders must proactively take up new, critical missions. They must work to demystify technologies like artificial intelligence that, being poorly understood, are understandably seen as threatening.
Robert Muggah in the session Future Shocks: Urban- Rural Divide
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Public-sector AI
Like it or not, governments are inevitably becoming technology platforms. And they’ll either make that transition ably, or they’ll lose their capacity to govern effectively. With equal inevitability, artificial intelligence will be a necessary – if not indeed central – component in the technology of governance.
Lamentably, governments have not always been the quickest studies when it comes to tech adoption. Faced with the daunting task of integrating AI and data science into their operation, what’s plain is they will have to work closely with other sectors of society: with research institutions and private enterprises (especially large technology companies), where so much of the capacity in big data and AI now resides.
The path towards this transformation in governance is strewn with a dispiritingly long list of obstacles and problems. While more and more data is being collected by cities, states, provinces and countries – ranging from work to healthcare to taxes, and from transport to recreation to education – much of it remains fragmented, inconsistently labelled and illegible. Trained data scientists are scarce and command premium salaries that Silicon Valley companies can pay but governments aren’t always able to.
And yet, some governments have already made significant strides towards that bright promise.
Hao Li in the session Designing a Human-Centred Future
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 37 Biometric Mirror Experience
Nikhil Malhotra in the session The Internet of Toys: AI and the Next Generation
Carol Yu Ying in the session The Art of Influence
Nadya Hutagalung in the session Director's Cut: Our Planet
38 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Enric Sala in the session Defending Nature's Last Frontiers
The Creativity Lab
Adriana De Palma in the session Promoting Responsible Leadership
Jennifer Schenker, Masao Uchibori,François Provost, Zhang Lei, Charlotte Roule and Freeman Shen Hui in the session Racing towards Electric Mobility
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 39 Isabel Wijsen in the session Promoting Responsible Leadership
Daan Roosegaarde in the session Sustaining the Space Economy
Jim Leape in the session Smart Hospital of the Future Experience Solutions: Saving Fisheries
40 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Juliana Chan in the session A New Wave of Ocean Solutions with Nanyang Technological University
Shoukei Matsumoto leads the Evening Meditation
Ma Jun, Jérôme Haegeli and Sun Chanthol in the session Greening China's Belt and Road Initiative
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 41 Special experiences
The Human Element Designing a human-centred future
Throughout history, understanding and mimicking nature has been a fundamental element in solving complex human problems. With advances in artificial intelligence, technology is now learning how to interpret and mimic human behaviour in sophisticated ways. Are we confident that human-mimicking technologies will always serve in humanity’s best interest? This exhibition explores questions of trust and unintended consequences in our new techno-society and was created in collaboration with innovators, artists and scientists working at the frontier of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Biometric Mirror Reflecting the limitations of AI
Artificial intelligence models can analyse people’s faces and recognize demographic and psycho- metric information, ranging from gender and attractiveness to responsibility and “strangeness”. What are the unintended consequences when computers, algorithms and artificial intelligence make assumptions and decisions about an individual’s personality? And what happens when the wrong conclusions are drawn?
42 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Digital Mimic Losing control of your digital persona
The art of deception is one of nature’s most widely used tools for survival. In the human con- text, digitalization has enabled new forms of deception at a societal level. What happens when it becomes easy for anyone to make convincing fake videos, spreading online what seems like undeniable proof of things that were never said or never happened? How will people know truth from falsehood, and what protections are there against the misuse of our own likeness?
Hospital of the Future When your surgeon is a robot
One in 10 surgeries are performed with the assistance of a robot, and this percentage is expected to more than double in the next five years. Today’s surgical robots are controlled by human surgeons but, with the pace at which AI’s deployment in healthcare is advancing, a future with self-controlled surgical robots is coming. Discover the state of the art and explore the challenges and opportunities presented by a future in which your surgeon could be a robot.
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 43 Co-Chairs
In this era, responsible leadership is the X-factor needed to navigate the challenges that threaten us.
Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Young Scientist
To continue to inspire a new generation, you constantly need to be in a self-learning mode. In a new era of leadership you never graduate … getting a degree is only a part of the road.
Ahmad bin Abdullah Humaid Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills of the United Arab Emirates
You cannot run a business today if you aren’t looking into the world and taking responsibility for the world.
Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Carlsberg Group, Denmark
The young generation does not want to belong to a company; they want to identify with a purpose. And if they’re no longer interested, they leave.
Alain Dehaze, Chief Executive Officer, Adecco Group, Switzerland
44 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 The implication of the trade war is going to be so much broader than whatever impact it may have on business in the US and China. This will be a long, long process before it’s over.
Charles Li, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), Hong Kong SAR, China
Trade difficulties still exist but companies are prepared … I’m quite optimistic. The momentum of China’s economic growth is very strong.
Ning Gaoning, Chairman, Sinochem Group, People's Republic of China
We are talking about how to make the world more sustainable because we are entering an era whereby there is an exponential speed of change that not only impacts our business but our social environment.
Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief Executive Officer, CP Group, Thailand
Business transformation has become necessary. The key, then, is technology, so we need to do better in providing users efficiency through unwavering investment in technology.
Jessica Tan, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Ping An Group, People's Republic of China
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 45 Programme in brief
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08.00 - 08.45 Workshop 09.00 - 10.00 Media Session Monday Morning Tai Chi How China Shapes the Future of Join this early-morning session to Finance 1 July experience the benefits of Tai Chi. With a banking sector twice that of the US and capital markets stimulated by reform, Zhang Yuxuan, Principal, Beijing Milun China’s financial sector is shifting. As Traditional Kungfu, People’s Republic of regulators crack down on shadow banking China and banks reinvent themselves as tech companies, how are old and new actors transforming the future of China’s financial 09.00 - 10.00 Panel industry? Reaching the Next Level of Global Cybersecurity Huang Yi, Executive Vice-President, China From data breaches and identity theft to Construction Bank, People’s Republic of the disruption of operations and critical China infrastructure, cyberattacks are among the Li Zhengqiang, Chairman, Dalian top risks listed in the Global Risks Report Commodity Exchange, People’s Republic 2019. How can public- and private-sector of China leaders ensure global cybersecurity keeps Jan Metzger, Head of Banking, Capital up? Markets and Advisory, Asia-Pacific, Citi, Hong Kong SAR, China Belisario Contreras, Manager, Cyber Min Zhu, Chairman, National Institute of Security Programme, Organization of Financial Research, People’s Republic of American States (OAS), Washington DC China; Member of Board of Trustees of the Thomas Kropp, Group Chief Information World Economic Forum Technology (IT) Services Officer, Zurich Zhang Lu, Founding and Managing Insurance Group, Switzerland Partner, Fusion Fund, USA; Young Global Katheryn Rosen, Adjunct Senior Leader Research Scholar of International and Yang Yanqing, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Public Affairs, School of International and Yicai Media Group, People’s Republic of Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, China USA Haiyan Song, Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Security Markets, Splunk, USA Ludwig Siegele, US Technology Editor, The Economist, USA
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09.15 - 09.45 Hub 09.15 - 09.45 Hub Norihiro Suzuki, Vice-President and The Evolution of Executive Leadership The Promise of Tech in Education Executive Officer; Chief Technology From speaking out on climate change to With booming investments in tech- Officer, Hitachi, Japan taking a stand on gender, the remit of the empowered learning, the global edtech Zheng Lei, Professor, Fudan University, CEO role today goes beyond responding market value is expected to reach almost People’s Republic of China to shareholders on the bottom line. What $252 billion by 2020. What technologies Fan Ling, Founder and Chief Executive is the evolving responsibility of the CEO are reshaping education? Officer, Tezign, People’s Republic of under Globalization 4.0? China; Young Global Leader, Cultural Marieme Eve Jamme, Founder and Chief Leader David Gann, Professor of Technology and Executive Officer, iamtheCODE, United Charlotte Roule, Chief Executive Officer, Innovation Management, Imperial College Kingdom; Young Global Leader China, ENGIE Group, France Business School, United Kingdom Xiao Dun, Founder, 17zuoye.com, Tien Yue Wu, Director and Chief Executive Girish P. Ramachandran, President, People’s Republic of China Officer, Advanced Semiconductor Asia-Pacific, Tata Consultancy Services, Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director; Head Engineering (ASE), Taiwan, China Singapore of the Centre for the New Economy and Zhou Jiangong, Vice-President, Envision Society, World Economic Forum Group, People’s Republic of China Laurent Haug, Swiss Correspondent, 09.15 - 09.45 Hub Wired UK, United Kingdom China’s Environmentalism and the 09.15 - 10.00 Workshop World The Creativity Lab China has surpassed its 2020 emission According to the Forum’s Future of Jobs 09.15 - 10.30 IdeasLab reduction goals and is making great report, one of the top skills in demand is A New Wave of Ocean Solutions with strides on other environmental indicators creativity. But, in organizational settings, Nanyang Technological University of its 13th Five-Year Plan. How is China’s traditional brainstorming sessions rarely Discover new ideas and insights with vision for sustainable, low-carbon growth inspire ingenuity. How can we foster more leading researchers in the IdeasLab. affecting global industries and markets? creative collaboration at work? Nathalie Goodkin, Associate Professor, Wen Bo, Member, Scientific Committee, Jesse Appell, Intercultural Comedian, US- Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Air and Water Conservation Fund, National China Comedy Center, People’s Republic Technological University (NTU), Singapore Geographic Society, People’s Republic of of China; Cultural Leader Stephen Summers, Research Fellow, China; Young Global Leader Singapore Centre for Environmental Rashid Aleem Qureshi, Chairman; Chief Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Executive Officer, Greater China Region, 09.15 - 10.15 xChange Technological University (NTU), Singapore Nestlé, People’s Republic of China Unlocking the Value of Data for Future Adam Switzer, Associate Professor, Daan Roosegaarde, Artist and Innovator, Urbanization Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Studio Roosegaarde, Netherlands; Young China will accumulate more than 800 Technological University (NTU), Singapore Global Leader, Cultural Leader billion petabytes of data by 2020, with a Juliana Chan, Chief Executive Officer, growing share of this data collected from Wildtype Media Group, Singapore; Young connected sensors in urban areas. How Global Leader can big data be used to make cities safe and sustainable?
Bernise Ang, Principal and Methodology Lead, Zeroth Labs, Singapore; Young Global Leader Jean-Michel Puiatti, Senior Vice- President, Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Kudelski Group, Switzerland
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09.45 - 10.15 Hub 09.45 - 10.30 Hub 10.15 - 10.45 Hub Reducing China’s Stroke Burden Ask About: Tackling Cancer Turning Back the Tide of Trash through Artificial Intelligence Despite progress in diagnostic and Following China’s recent ban on waste Stroke is the leading cause of death in therapeutic capabilities, cancer remains a imports, municipalities and waste China, accounting for roughly one-third leading cause of death worldwide, and one companies around the world are faced of worldwide stroke mortality. How are that is expected to rise in coming decades. with an unmanageable volume of trash. As technologies such as artificial intelligence Come to the hub to explore the latest global waste starts piling up, what are the helping the country to reduce the rate of research in cancer treatment therapies. solutions to our throwaway culture? stroke and improve care? Frances Balkwill, Centre Lead, Centre Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of Jeffrey M. Drazen, Editor-in-Chief, New for Cancer and Inflammation, Queen Mary the Supervisory Board, Carlsberg Group, England Journal of Medicine, USA University of London, United Kingdom Denmark Wang Yong-Jun, Professor, Capital Núria Montserrat, Catalan Institution Chicko Sousa, Founder and Chief Medical University, Beijing, People’s for Research and Advanced Studies Executive Officer, Plataforma Verde, Brazil Republic of China (ICREA) Research Professor, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain Vered Padler-Karavani, Assistant 10.15 - 10.45 Hub 09.45 - 10.15 Hub Professor, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Future Shocks: Urban-Rural Divide The Big Picture on Sustainable Sciences, Department of Cell Research Around 68% of the world population is Sourcing and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel projected to live in urban areas by 2050, From a rising demand for electronics to but diverging values and economic emerging threats to ocean biodiversity, prospects between urban and rural areas explore the causes and consequences of 10.00 - 10.30 Experience are fuelling polarization and electoral mineral mining now and through time. Meet the Creators: The Human Element volatility in many countries. How can The Human Element exhibition explores cities and rural communities prevent Douglas McCauley, Professor, University the question of trust and the unintended further division? of California, Santa Barbara, USA consequences of technology as it learns to Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research interpret and mimic human behaviour. Cyrus Habib, Lieutenant Governor of Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie Washington, USA; Young Global Leader Mellon University, USA Robert Muggah, Director, Igarapé 10.15 - 10.45 Hub Institute, Brazil The Internet of Toys: AI and the Next 09.45 - 10.15 Hub Generation Chemistry’s Sustainable Future Smart toys powered by AI offer promising 10.30 - 11.00 - Issue Briefing Demand for safer ingredients is driving educational tools while raising ethical Can AI Be Trusted? significant growth in the market for questions about privacy, bias and Artificial intelligence has the potential sustainable chemistry, which is projected surveillance. With the smart toy market to unlock a massive wave of economic to be worth $100 billion by 2020. How can expected to reach $54 billion by 2024, growth and opportunity. Yet, the public business leaders leverage the potential of how can we responsibly empower the next remains unconvinced that its benefits this growing market? generation with AI? outweigh the risks. Is the public right, or are governments and businesses simply Martin Vollmer, Chief Technology Officer, Nikhil Malhotra, Global Head, Innovation, not doing enough to deliver the value to Clariant, Switzerland TechMahindra, India society it promises? Wang Wen, Food Scientist, Nestlé R&D Cristina Pozzi, Chief Executive Officer and Centre, Singapore; Young Global Leader Co-Founder, Impactscool, Italy; Young Zvika Krieger, Head of Technology Global Leader Policy and Partnerships; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Liu Lifeng, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, China, Ipsos, France
48 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 10.30 - 11.30 Media Session Zhang Lei, Founder and Chief Executive 10.45 - 11.15 Hub China Economic Outlook Officer, Envision Group, People’s Republic The Big Picture on Urban Fragility From industrial output to investment to of China Explore the causes and consequences retail, China’s economic growth has begun Jennifer Schenker, Founder and of urbanization – from choking smog to to slow. How does this change from the Editor-in-Chief, The Innovator, France record-breaking heatwaves – now and world’s second-largest economy affect through time. other countries? Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS Min Zhu, Chairman, National Institute of College, Singapore Financial Research, People’s Republic of 10.45 - 11.15 Hub Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research China; Member of Board of Trustees of the China in Depth: A History of Innovation Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie World Economic Forum How have China’s earliest entrepreneurs Mellon University, USA Ning Gaoning, Chairman, Sinochem successfully weathered the market’s ups Group, People’s Republic of China and downs for more than three decades? Kevin Sneader, Global Managing Partner, Join a biology teacher-turned-entrepreneur 10.45 - 11.15 Hub McKinsey & Company, Hong Kong SAR, who built a biotech empire, part of the The Future of Work: Healthcare China; International Business Council China in Depth hub series, which shares Global health spending is projected to rise Jing Ulrich, Vice-Chairman, Global authentic stories from inside China. by 4.2% per year from by 2020, spurring Banking and Asia-Pacific, JPMorgan the invention and adoption of efficiency- Chase & Co., Hong Kong SAR, China Wang Feng, Editor-in-Chief, FTChinese. enhancing technologies. From doctors to Joachim von Amsberg, Vice-President, com, United Kingdom caregivers, how is technology disrupting Policy and Strategy, Asian Infrastructure Zhao Yan, President, Bloomage health work? Investment Bank, Beijing International Investment Group, People’s Li Sixuan, Anchor, China Central Republic of China Till Leopold, Head, Inclusive Economies Television (CCTV), People’s Republic of Practice, World Economic Forum China; Young Global Leader Glen Moriarty, Founder and Chief 10.45 - 11.15 Betazone Executive Officer, 7 Cups, USA Mapping the World Bryony Winn, Senior Vice-President, From climate change to the future of Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Blue work, leadership today requires an Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, 10.30 - 11.30 Panel understanding of complex and dynamic USA; Young Global Leader Racing towards Electric Mobility systems, as well as the interdependency of In China, the new electric-vehicle market issues. Join artist Qiu Zhijie to explore lost is expected to achieve a 46% growth rate meanings and hidden connections that lie 10.45 - 11.15 Hub by 2020. What strategies and policies are outside common knowledge. The Packaging Problem in E-Commerce enabling the accelerated adoption and The 23% annual growth of e-commerce deployment of electric vehicles and how Qiu Zhijie, Artist; Dean, School of means more packaging and returns. What can the rest of the world keep up? Experimental Art, China Central Academy are the eco-friendly solutions to cut down for Fine Arts, People’s Republic of China; on packaging waste produced by online François Provost, Senior Vice-President; Cultural Leader retail? Chairman, China, Groupe Renault, France Stephan Mergenthaler, Head of Strategic Charlotte Roule, Chief Executive Officer, Intelligence; Member of the Executive Yesha Pabari, Co-Founder, China, ENGIE Group, France Committee, World Economic Forum Samagribazaar.com, India Freeman Shen Hui, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WM Motor, People’s Republic of China Masao Uchibori, Governor of Fukushima, Japan
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10.45 - 11.45 xChange Hong Peiying, Associate Professor of 11.15 - 11.45 Hub Designing Your AI Strategy Environmental Science and Engineering, Strengthening Chinese-Indian Ties While AI promises to solve some of King Abdullah University of Science and Relations between China and India society’s most pressing issues, it also Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia are a complex mix of competition and presents risks, such as opaque “black Cliff Ransom, Executive Editor, cooperation. At a time of heightened trade box” algorithms, unethical use of data Partnerships and Custom Media, Nature, tensions, what opportunities exist for the and potential job displacement. How can USA two giants to meet in the middle? leaders deploy AI technology effectively and responsibly? Bhairavi Jani, Executive Director, SCA Group of Companies, India; Young Global Olga Fink, Professor of Intelligent Leader Maintenance Systems, ETH Zurich, 11.15 - 11.45 Hub Wang Huiyao, President, Center for China Switzerland; Young Scientist Future Frontiers of Food: Scaling & Globalization (CCG), People’s Republic Jesus Mantas, Managing Partner, Agritech of China Global Strategy, Offerings and Innovation Investment in agriculture and food Platforms, IBM Global Business Services, technology jumped by more than 40% in IBM Corporation, USA 2018, yet substantial challenges remain to 11.45 - 12.15 One-on-One Sophie Sun, Vice-President, Strategy and bring new innovations to scale. How can Conversations on Leadership 4.0 Transformation, China; Managing Director, government leadership and new models Join Charles Li, Chief Executive of Hong Innovation Hub, Merck, Germany of financing unleash agritech’s potential to Kong Exchanges and Clearing, and Sophia Velastegui, General Manager, create positive outcomes for people and Jessica Tan, Co-Chief Executive Officer Product, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft the planet? of Ping An Insurance Group, for a candid Corp., USA conversation on what it takes to succeed Will Knight, Senior Editor, MIT - Mariam Mohammed Saeed Al Mheiri, as a leader in this new era of globalization. Technology Review, USA Minister of State for Food Security of the United Arab Emirates Olivier M. Schwab, Managing Director; Justin Gong Jiaqin, Co-Founder and Head of Business Engagement, World 11.00 - 12.15 IdeasLab Vice-President, XAG, People’s Republic of Economic Forum Fast-Tracking Green Technology with China Charles Li, Chief Executive, Hong Kong King Abdullah University of Science and Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), Hong Technology Kong SAR, China Discover new ideas and insights with 11.15 - 11.45 Hub Jessica Tan, Co-Chief Executive Officer, leading researchers in the IdeasLab. Smart Solutions: Saving Fisheries Ping An Group, People’s Republic of More than 90% of global fish stocks are China Tony F. Chan, President, King Abdullah exhausted and efforts to address the University of Science and Technology depletion of wild fish populations are (KAUST), Saudi Arabia undermined by illegal, unreported and Derya Baran, Assistant Professor of unregulated fishing. How can technological Material Science and Engineering, King solutions be scaled up to save our 11.45 - 12.15 Hub Abdullah University of Science and fisheries? The Big Picture on Modern Slavery Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia From the digitization of forced labour Mohamed Eddaoudi, Distinguished Victoria Lee, Project Lead, 4IR for the recruitment to slavery in seafood Professor of Chemical Science, King Earth, World Economic Forum supply chains, explore the causes and Abdullah University of Science and Han Han, Founder and Executive Director, consequences of modern slavery now and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia China Blue Sustainability Institute, People’s through time. Republic of China Jim Leape, William and Eva Price Senior James Cockayne, Director, Centre for Fellow, Woods Institute; Co-Director, Policy Research, United Nations University, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford New York University, USA Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
50 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 11.45 - 12.15 Hub Hiroe Miyake, Associate Professor, Jesse Appell, Intercultural Comedian, US- The Potential of Technology in Mental University of Tokyo, Japan China Comedy Center, People’s Republic Health Ryosuke Shibasaki, Professor, Centre for of China; Cultural Leader From smartphone apps to help people Spatial Information Science, University of Adriana De Palma, Co-Investigator cope with depression to internet-based Tokyo, Japan Researcher, Natural History Museum, support groups for addicts, technology United Kingdom; Young Scientist has already demonstrated its ability to Henry Motte-Muñoz, Chief Executive improve access to and delivery of mental- 12.15 - 13.15 xChange Officer and Founder, Edukasyon.ph, health care. How can new technologies be Healthy Data Philippines ethically deployed at scale to ensure that The volume of health data increases anyone facing mental-health challenges by 48% each year, and yet most of it can get help? remains inaccessible to patients and health systems. How can business and Shekhar Saxena, Visiting Professor, government unlock the potential of data in 12.30 - 13.30 One-on-One Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public healthcare? Conversations on Leadership 4.0 Health, USA Join Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of David Weigelt, Vice-President, Innovation, Richard “Dick” Daniels, Executive Vice- State for Higher Education and Scientific Home Instead Senior Care, USA President; Chief Information Officer, Kaiser Research of the United Arab Emirates, and Permanente, USA Alain Dehaze, Chief Executive Officer of the Hiroaki Miyata, Professor and Chair, Adecco Group, for a candid conversation 11.45 - 12.15 Hub Department of Health Policy Management, on what it takes to succeed as a leader in China’s Pivot to the Middle East Faculty of Medicine, Keio University, Japan this new era of globalization. Partnerships between China and the Wang Wenya, Professor, Tsinghua Middle East are fast developing, with University, People’s Republic of China Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director; Head mutual economic interests extending Christina Waters, President and Chief of the Centre for the New Economy and beyond oil to energy, infrastructure, Executive Officer, RARE Science, USA Society, World Economic Forum trade and investments. At a time of Jeffrey M. Drazen, Editor-in-Chief, New Ahmad bin Abdullah Humaid Belhoul heightened trade tensions, what risks and England Journal of Medicine, USA Al Falasi, Minister of State for Higher opportunities for further collaboration are Education and Advanced Skills of the emerging? United Arab Emirates 12.15 - 13.30 Panel Alain Dehaze, Chief Executive Officer, James Crabtree, Associate Professor of Promoting Responsible Leadership Adecco Group, Switzerland Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Leaders today have the choice between Policy, National University of Singapore, leaving a legacy that tackles the Singapore imminent climate crisis and addresses Wang Dong, Professor, Peking University, unprecedented levels of inequality, or one People’s Republic of China that risks ecological and societal collapse. 12.30 - 13.30 Media Session How can leaders pave the way to set up China’s Biotech Revolution the next generation for success? Last year, 30% of all investments into 11.45 - 12.30 Hub US biotech start-ups came from Chinese Ask About: Big Data Mapping Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of venture funds; the Hong Kong Stock Approximately 90% of the world’s data the Supervisory Board, Carlsberg Group, Exchange issued its first pre-commercial has been created in the past two years Denmark biotech IPOs; and US regulators for and most is not exploited. Come to the Hao Jingfang, Founder, Fangjing Culture the first time approved a new cancer hub to explore the latest research on data Studio, People’s Republic of China; Young drug developed by a Chinese company. mapping. Global Leader, Cultural Leader How will the rise of China as a biotech Isabel Wijsen, Founder, Bye Bye Plastic powerhouse affect the global biotech Ayumi Arai, Project Researcher, Centre Bags, Indonesia industry? for Spatial Information Science, University Nancie Zhu, Anchor, Phoenix Satellite of Tokyo, Japan Television, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Cong Yali, Professor; Dean, Department 12.45 - 13.15 Hub Bhaskar Appacudal, Managing Director, of Medical Ethics and Health Law, Peking Voice for the Planet Asia Pacific Center of Excellence, Vista University, People’s Republic of China People around the world are calling for Equity Partners, USA Jackson Zhu Weiyan, Chief Executive a New Deal for Nature to set the planet Bernhard Kowatsch, Head, Innovation Officer and Founder, My Bio-Med, on a path to recovery by 2030. Join the Accelerator, United Nations World Food People’s Republic of China creators of Voice for the Planet to learn Programme (WFP), Munich Mariette DiChristina, Editor-in-Chief, about a global movement designed to Cynthia McCaffrey, Representative for Scientific American, USA safeguard the world in which we live. China, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Beijing Liu Qian, Managing Director, Greater China, Economist Group, United Kingdom; Young Global Leader 13.15 - 13.45 Hub 12.45 - 13.15 Hub Renard Siew, Unit Head, Corporate Future of Work: Energy Data Policy and Privacy: The View from Sustainability, Sime Darby, Malaysia The renewable energy sector is estimated Asia to employ 10.3 million workers, with More than 43% of businesses in Asia- 60% of these jobs in Asia. As the global Pacific are adopting internet-of-things 12.45 - 13.15 Hub economy is set to more than double this technology for a hyperconnected The Road ahead for Self-Driving Cars number by 2050, how can leaders prepare future, and yet data security and With accelerating investment in self-driving for the next wave of job creation in the protection continue to create barriers to cars, what new AV technologies can energy industry? implementation. How can businesses improve a machine’s prediction of human and governments build a culture of behaviour and the vagaries on the road? Till Leopold, Head, Inclusive Economies shared responsibility for protecting the IoT Practice, World Economic Forum landscape? Sid Misra, Chief Executive Officer and Co- Wu Changhua, Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Perceptive Automata, USA Beijing Future Innovation Center, People’s Diana Paredes, Chief Executive Officer, Republic of China Suade, United Kingdom Zhang Xinsheng, Executive Chairman, Arun Sharma, Member of the Board, 13.15 - 13.45 Hub China, Royal Dutch Shell, Netherlands Adani Abbot Point Terminal, Australia Opening Up Science Over 80% of published science is not freely available but momentum towards 13.15 - 13.45 - One-on-One 12.45 - 13.15 Hub open access models is building quickly. Conversations on Leadership 4.0 New Champions of Disability Inclusion How can the research ecosystem adapt Join Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief From 3D-printed prosthetics to to best manage this change and how Executive Officer of CP Group, and autonomous-car technology for the visually can business learn from the aspirations it Flemming Besenbacher, Chairman of impaired, what new technologies could represents? the Supervisory Board of Carlsberg, for enhance the lives of all? a candid conversation on what it takes Nick Campbell, Vice-President, Funder to succeed as a leader in this new era of Adel Boseli, Chief Executive Officer, Amal Relations, Nature Research, Springer globalization. Glass, United Arab Emirates Nature, United Kingdom Gaëlle Offranc Piret, Researcher, Inserm, Anil Menon, Managing Director; Head, France; Young Scientist Centre for Global Industries, World Zhang Yan, Founder, Hands On, People’s 13.15 - 13.45 Hub Economic Forum Republic of China What’s the Return on Blockchain? Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief Three in four executives believe in the Executive Officer, CP Group, Thailand business case for blockchain but many struggle to articulate and measure its value. How can businesses effectively estimate and evaluate the return on blockchain investments?
52 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 13.15 - 14.30 IdeasLab Niel Harper, Founder and Chairman, Shell Huang Xiaoyan, Vice-President, Transforming Mental Health Research Octave Consulting Group, Barbados; Research and Development, Asia-Pacific, with University College London Young Global Leader The Coca-Cola Company, People’s Discover new ideas and insights with Jennifer Lyn Morone, Chief Executive Republic of China leading researchers in the IdeasLab. Officer, RadicalXChange Foundation, USA Liu Shijin, Vice-Chairman, China Laurent Haug, Swiss Correspondent, Development Research Foundation, Rick Adams, Medical Research Council Wired UK, United Kingdom People’s Republic of China (MRC) Skills Development Fellow, Xu Bing, Artist, Xu Bing Studio, People’s Kjeld Stark, President, China, Danfoss Department of Computer Science, Republic of China; Cultural Leader Automatic Controls Management, University College London (UCL), United People’s Republic of China Kingdom Isabel Hilton, Editor, Chinadialogue, Joseph Hayes, Clinical Research Fellow United Kingdom Consultant, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London (UCL), United 14.00 - 15.00 Media Session Kingdom Technology Power Play Susanne Schweizer, Sir Henry Wellcome The rise of megafirms is prompting digital Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, markets to shift towards a winner-takes-all 14.15 - 14.45 Hub University College London (UCL), United dynamic. As tech titans continue to grow, How Dangerous Is Global Debt? Kingdom how will the pace of innovation change? Global debt is now more than double the Xiaohong Helena Yang, Scientific world economy’s GDP but, thanks to Director, Springer Nature, People’s Fatoumata Ba, Founder and Chief low interest rates, debt rollovers and the Republic of China Executive Officer, Janngo, France; Young issuance of new debt have so far caused Global Leader little friction. How dangerous is swelling Chen Xiaohua, Chief Executive Officer, 58 government debt to the global economy? Daojia, People’s Republic of China Arun Sundararajan, Harold Price Kalin Anev Janse, Member of the 13.20 - 15.15 Experience Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management Board; Secretary- Dalian Cultural Tour 1: Hongji Peking Technology, Stern School of Business, General, European Stability Mechanism, Opera Theatre New York University, USA Luxembourg; Young Global Leader Inscribed in 2010 on the Representative Jessica Tan, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Joachim von Amsberg, Vice-President, List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ping An Group, People’s Republic of Policy and Strategy, Asian Infrastructure Humanity by UNESCO, Peking Opera has China Investment Bank, Beijing a history of more than 200 years. During Andrew Dowell, Asia Editor, Wall Street this two-hour tour, participants can enjoy Journal, Hong Kong SAR, China several Peking Opera excerpts, interact 14.15 - 14.45 Hub with the performers and pick up some China in Depth: Millennial Generation, stage fighting skills. Social Innovation 14.00 - 15.00 Panel How can China’s youngest entrepreneurs Green Leadership: Sustainability as provide some of the best solutions to care 14.00 - 14.45 Betazone Strategy for an ageing population? No More Obscurity From addressing environmental risks With a revenue of $36 billion in 2018, the to meeting green consumer demands, David Aikman, Chief Representative global video surveillance market is growing embracing sustainability is now a strategic Officer, China, Member of the Executive exponentially, allowing for every mundane imperative. How are industry leaders Committee, World Economic Forum activity to be captured and made publicly leveraging sustainable innovation to build Yuan Shuai, Chief Executive Officer, Care accessible. Join artist Xu Bing on a journey competitive advantage? Alliance Healthcare Management, People’s through thousands of hours of online Republic of China surveillance videos turned into a story Bernice Dapaah, Chief Executive Officer, about (in)visibility and today’s culture of Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative, Ghana; permanent exposure. Young Global Leader
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14.15 - 14.45 Hub Anshu Gupta, Founder and Director, Jeffrey M. Drazen, Editor-in-Chief, New ASEAN Deep Dive: Youth and the Goonj, India; Schwab Foundation Social England Journal of Medicine, USA Future of Jobs Entrepreneur More than 65% of ASEAN’s population Asif Zahir, Deputy Managing Director, is under the age of 35, and its workforce Ananta Apparels, Bangladesh; Young is expanding by 11,000 people every Global Leader day. What are the employment prospects 15.15 - 15.45 Hub for the region’s expanding workforce as Cyber Debates: Been Hacked? Hack the Fourth Industrial Revolution disrupts 14.45 - 15.15 Hub Back economy and society? Getting Taxation Right Many countries have invested in In a bid to increase disposable income developing not just cybercrime defences Alain Dehaze, Chief Executive Officer, while boosting consumption, China but also cyberwar capability. In the face of Adecco Group, Switzerland recently raised its tax-free threshold by a cyberattack, should hacking back count So-Young Kang, Founder and Chief more than 40%, liberating over 80 million as a fair option? Executive Officer, Gnowbe, Singapore; people from income tax. With global Young Global Leader income and wealth inequality at historic James Cockayne, Director, Centre for highs, how should taxation be reformed Policy Research, United Nations University, to promote more equity while unlocking New York 14.30 - 15.15 Hub growth? Dmitry Samartsev, Chief Executive Ask About: Biotechnology Officer, Bi.Zone, Russian Federation Advances in biotechnology hold the Taimur Saleem Khan, Minister of Finance promise of addressing many global of Khyber Pakhtunkwha, Pakistan challenges. Come to the hub to explore Zhu Ning, Professor, PBC School of 15.15 - 15.45 Hub the latest research that is bringing together Finance; Associate Dean, National Institute Flipped Workplace: Rethinking the the biological and digital worlds. of Financial Research, Tsinghua University, Eight-Hour Workday People’s Republic of China The average worker is only productive for Beat Christen, Assistant Professor of two hours and 53 minutes of an eight-hour Experimental Systems Biology, ETH workday. A flipped workplace encourages Zurich, Switzerland 15.00 - 15.30 Experience workers to do productive work outside of Randall Platt, Assistant Professor of Meet the Creators: The Human Element the office, at their own pace. Can such Biological Engineering, ETH Zurich, The Human Element exhibition explores a model increase productivity and retain Switzerland the question of trust and the unintended talent as the nature of work changes? Simone Schuerle-Finke, Assistant consequences of technology as it learns to Professor, Responsive Biomedical interpret and mimic human behaviour. Jian Han, Associate Professor of Systems Laboratory, Institute of Management; Co-Director, Centre on Translational Medicine; Branco Weiss Digital Economy and Smart Enterprise and Fellow, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Young 15.00 - 16.15 IdeasLab Centre on China Innovation, China Europe Scientist Smart Approaches to Fighting International Business School (CEIBS), Infectious Disease with the University of People’s Republic of China Cape Town Iim Fahima Jachja, Founder and Chief 14.45 - 15.15 Hub Discover new ideas and insights with Executive Officer, Queenrides, Indonesia; The Cost of Clothing leading researchers in the IdeasLab. Young Global Leader More than $500 billion of value is lost every year due to underutilized clothing and a Nadia Ikumi, AXA Research Fellow, lack of recycling. How can new models of University of Cape Town, South Africa 15.15 - 15.45 Hub production and consumption transform the Elmi Muller, Professor of Surgery, Future Shocks: Populism and Monetary fashion industry to create better outcomes University of Cape Town, South Africa Policy for the economy, the environment, and the Sheetal Silal, Senior Lecturer, Department With quantitative easing, central banks 75 million people the sector employs? of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape grew more powerful after the financial Town, South Africa crisis, but now economic and political forces are testing their influence. How
54 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 could this affect business during the next Zhao Yingmin, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Henrik Naujoks, Director and Partner, economic downturn? Ecology and Environment of the People’s Bain & Company, Hong Kong SAR, China; Republic of China Young Global Leader Tomáš Holub, Vice-Governor of the Ma Jun, Chairman, Green Finance Alex Yung, Corporate Vice-President; Czech National Bank Committee of China Society for Finance Managing Director, Greater China, Jerry Muller, Professor of History, The and Banking, People’s Republic of China Amazon Web Services, People’s Republic Catholic University of America, USA of China Oliver Cann, Head of Strategic Communications; Member of the 15.15 - 16.00 Betazone Executive Committee, World Economic Navigating the Skies 15.30 - 16.30 Media Session Forum What can leaders learn from an air force Going beyond a Trade War fighter pilot? Join squadron leader and A global trade war could cost economies pilot Samantha Freebairn who will discuss up to 5% of GDP, and yet the impact on her leadership journey, and the need for the bottom-line of individual firms could resilience and quick decision-making, be much higher. As businesses require 15.45 - 16.15 Hub particularly when under pressure. a stable environment for growth, what The Curious Mind changes to trade rules are needed for New ideas and innovations begin with James Chau, Editor-at-Large, China- greater stability? a curious mind. Where does our innate United States Exchange Foundation, Hong curiosity come from as the driving force Kong SAR, China; Young Global Leader Charles Li, Chief Executive, Hong Kong behind humankind’s never-ending quest Samantha Freebairn, Squadron Leader Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), Hong for knowledge? and Pilot, Royal Australian Air Force, Kong SAR, China Australia; Young Global Leader Mari Elka Pangestu, Professor of Andrea Bandelli, Executive Director, International Economics, University of Science Gallery International, Ireland; Indonesia, Indonesia Cultural Leader Timothy P. Stratford, Managing Partner, Sabrina Sholts, Curator of Biological Beijing, Covington & Burling, People’s Anthropology, National Museum of Natural 15.30 - 16.30 Panel Republic of China History, Smithsonian Institution, USA; Greening China’s Belt and Road Yi Xiaozhun, Deputy Director-General, Young Scientist Initiative World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva China pledged to incorporate green Geoff Cutmore, Anchor, CNBC, United strategies and objectives into the Belt and Kingdom 15.45 - 16.15 Hub Road Initiative, of which the goods trade Energy Frontier Technologies volume surpassed $6 trillion between From hydrogen as a clean fuel source to 2013 and 2018. How can the world’s second-life electric vehicle batteries, how biggest infrastructure project become can frontier technologies help decarbonize a global driver of green innovation and 15.45 - 16.15 Issue Briefing energy and transport systems? environmental reform? Have Platforms Peaked? The world’s great platform businesses are Christina Lampe-Onnerud, Founder Jérôme Haegeli, Group Chief Economist, larger than ever yet, in the US and Europe, and Chief Executive Officer, Cadenza Swiss Re Management, Switzerland the regulatory tide may be turning. From Innovation, USA Elizabeth Knup, Country Director and their bright beginnings, how can we be Lin Boqiang, Dean, China Institute Chief Representative, Ford Foundation, sure they are still serving the public good? for Studies in Energy Policy, Xiamen People’s Republic of China University, People’s Republic of China Sun Chanthol, Senior Minister; Minister of Annie Koh, V3 Group Professor of Public Works and Transport of Cambodia Family Entrepreneurship; Professor of Zhang Jianqiu, Chief Executive Officer, Finance (Practice); Vice-President, Office Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, of Business Development, Singapore People’s Republic of China Management University, Singapore
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15.45 - 16.15 Hub Jerry Zhe Li, Deputy Director, Strategy, 16.30 - 17.00 Betazone Metavision for Machines Innovation and Technology, MTR, Hong Defending Nature’s Last Frontiers From autonomous vehicles to surveillance Kong SAR, China With just under 15% of land and a mere technologies, machine learning is built Benny Liang Yongjie, Senior Vice- 7% of the oceans currently protected, on static images. What are the new President, NavInfo, People’s Republic of efforts to defend Earth’s ecosystems must technologies that shift computer vision to China accelerate. Join National Geographic movement beyond the frames of images? Explorer Enric Sala to discover how science and conservation can protect 30% Luca Verre, Chief Executive Officer and 16.15 - 16.45 Hub of the planet by 2030 to save the last wild Co-Founder, Prophesee, France Future Shocks: Emotional Disruption creatures and places. It is estimated that 700 million people have a mental disorder, with depression Enric Sala, Explorer-in-Residence, 16.00 - 17.50 Experience and anxiety in the top 10 of the Global National Geographic Society, USA; Young Dalian Cultural Tour 2: Tongyuan Burden of Disease. As the intertwining of Global Leader Teahouse technology with human life deepens, what Nicole Schwab, Director, International The tea ceremony includes making tea, would a world look like in which computers Relations, Last Wild Places, National seeing and enjoying, smelling and drinking. manipulate emotions? Geographic Society, USA; Young Global On this tour, participants learn about Leader, Cultural Leader tea and the etiquette of tea tasting and Chen Qiufan, Chief Creative Officer, experience the inclusiveness, peace and Thema Mundi Studio, People’s Republic of depth of Chinese tea culture. China; Cultural Leader Susanne Schweizer, Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16.45 - 17.15 Hub 16.00 - 18.00 Experience University College London (UCL), United Reducing China’s Stroke Burden Dalian Cultural Tour 3: Traditional Kingdom through Telemedicine Chinese Medicine Stroke is the leading cause of death in This two-hour visit includes an exhibition China, accounting for roughly one-third of Chinese medicinal culture (antiques, 16.15 - 16.45 Hub of stroke mortality worldwide. How are precious medicinal herbs, plant specimens Rewriting our Future technologies such as telemedicine helping etc.), interaction with experienced Chinese Gene editing offers the possibility of the country to reduce stroke rates and medicine doctors, a therapy experience taking control of food, disease and human improve care? (pulse diagnosis, massage, acupuncture), reproduction as never before. What are food tasting (homemade herbal pastry, the possibilities of gene editing and what Jeffrey M. Drazen, Editor-in-Chief, New medicinal tea, Chinese herbal cuisine) and steps are needed to ensure that ethical England Journal of Medicine, USA a souvenir gift. guidelines and safety standards are Thomas Leung Wai-Hong, Lee Quo Wei established globally? Associate Professor of Neurology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 16.15 - 16.45 Hub Ponsi Trivisvavet, Chief Executive Officer China Nudging Smart Cities towards and Director, Inari Agriculture, USA Sustainable Mobility Angela Wu, Assistant Professor, By 2050, 70% of the world’s population Hong Kong University of Science and 16.45 - 17.15 Hub will live, commute and work in urban Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China; The Big Picture on Sustainable areas. Radical adoption and incentives Young Scientist Sourcing are needed to drive high-occupancy, From a rising demand for electronics to electrified and automated mobility. What emerging threats to ocean biodiversity, are the city-based policies across the explore the causes and consequences of world? mineral mining now and through time.
Douglas McCauley, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie
56 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Mellon University, USA 16.45 - 17.15 Hub Derya Baran, Assistant Professor of Kuek Yu Chuang, Managing Director, Entering China’s Greater Bay Area Material Science and Engineering, King Asia-Pacific, Netflix, Singapore The Greater Bay Area megaproject linking Abdullah University of Science and Carol Yu Ying, Producer and Host, Hong Kong, Macau and nine other cities Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia Phoenix Satellite Television, Hong Kong in southern China aims to turbo-charge Mohamed Eddaoudi, Distinguished SAR, China; Young Global Leader China’s most economically vibrant region Professor of Chemical Science, King Chen Xiao, Vice-President, QIYI.com, and propel the country’s fast transition to a Abdullah University of Science and People’s Republic of China knowledge economy. How will the Greater Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia Bay Area impact businesses and markets Hong Peiying, Associate Professor of in the region and beyond? Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Yang Yanqing, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 17.00 - 18.00 Media Session Yicai Media Group, People’s Republic of Why 5G Matters China 5G could cover one-third of the world’s Frederic Lau, Vice-Chairman, AMTD, 16.45 - 18.00 IdeasLab population by 2025, ushering in a new Hong Kong SAR, China Rethinking Trust and Improving era of connectivity. Why and how will 5G Zhu Ning, Professor, PBC School of Decisions with Carnegie Mellon disrupt the way people work and live? Finance; Associate Dean, National Institute University of Financial Research, Tsinghua University, Discover new ideas and insights with Mikael Bäck, Vice-President, Technology People’s Republic of China leading researchers in the IdeasLab. and Emerging Business, Ericsson, Sweden Sihan Bo Chen, Head, Greater China, Pedro Ferreira, Associate Professor of the GSMA, United Kingdom 13.45 - 14.15 Issue Briefing Economics of Information Technology and Hera Siu, Chief Executive Officer, Greater Closing the Skills Gap Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, China Region, Cisco, People’s Republic of Every economy faces severe disruption USA China from automation. While innovation can Anita Woolley, Associate Professor of Zhou Bowen, Vice-President; President, have a positive impact on workers’ lives, Organizational Behaviour and Theory, JD Artificial Intelligence, JD.com, People’s what can be done to ensure that the Carnegie Mellon University, USA Republic of China necessary opportunities for success are Will Knight, Senior Editor, MIT - Lin Xueling, Executive Producer, Channel presented? Technology Review, USA NewsAsia, Singapore
Ali bin Masoud bin Ali Al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Planning and Special Envoy of Oman 17.00 - 18.00 Media Session 17.15 - 17.45 Hub Carlos Moreira, Chairman, Chief The Art of Influence China in Depth: The Smartest Executive Officer and Founder, WISeKey, The export of films, art and music from Generation? Switzerland Asian nations has exploded in recent How will the next generation of Chinese Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director; Head times, weaving rich tapestries of cultural talent find a new balance between of the Centre for the New Economy and connection across the world. How is academic performance and mental well- Society, World Economic Forum Asia’s growing influence in culture and being? entertainment shaping a new era of globalization? Chen Zhiyan, Professor, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Jesse Appell, Intercultural Comedian, US- Sciences, People’s Republic of China 16.45 - 17.30 Hub China Comedy Center, People’s Republic Ask About: Revolutions in Green of China; Cultural Leader Technology Nadya Hutagalung, Goodwill There’s no alternative to sustainable Ambassador, United Nations Environment development. Come to the hub to explore Programme (UNEP), Geneva; Cultural the latest research on green technology. Leader
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17.15 - 17.45 Hub Helen Hai, Goodwill Ambassador, Designing Multisensory Cities United Nations Industrial Development By 2021, spending on technology for Organization (UNIDO), Shanghai; Young smart cities will increase to at least $80 Global Leader billion. Blending physical and digital entities, how are artificial intelligence technologies changing urban life and 17.45 - 18.15 Hub enhancing the liveability of cities? The Science of the Human Microbiome The human body contains more than 100 Carlo Ratti, Director, SENSEable City trillion microbial cells, which together exert Laboratory, MIT - Department of Urban a powerful influence on mind, body and Studies and Planning, USA; Cultural disease. How can a better understanding Leader of the microbiome unlock new diagnostic, treatment and prevention strategies for public health? 17.15 - 17.45 Hub Green Logistics Ilana Brito, Assistant Professor, Mong Emission regulations and consumer Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in demand for fast, on-demand delivery are Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, both on the rise. Which business-model USA; Young Scientist and technological innovations are making last-mile logistics faster and greener? 17.45 - 18.15 Hub Spencer Deng, Chief Executive Officer Smart Solutions: Sequencing Nature and Co-Founder, Dorabot, People’s While rapid biodiversity loss drives our Republic of China planet towards a sixth mass extinction, Wang Hanlin, Deputy Manager, Shenyang technological advances make it possible Yimilantian, People’s Republic of China to capture new value from nature’s genetic code. How can DNA sequencing be leveraged to avert the collapse of natural 17.30 - 18.00 Workshop ecosystems? Evening Meditation Meditation is the art of paying attention Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Chairman, in the present moment, intentionally and Space Time Ventures, Brazil non-judgmentally. Experience the benefits Xu Xun, President, Research, BGI, of meditation at the end of your day. People’s Republic of China
Shoukei Matsumoto, Buddhist Monk, Komyoji Temple, Japan; Young Global 19.00 - 21.00 Reception Leader Cultural Soirée The Dalian Municipal Government invited participants to enjoy performances in the 17.45 - 18.15 Hub beautiful summer night, taste typical Dalian Blockchain’s Potential for Good cuisine, and experience unique high tech From cryptocurrency donations to as well as exquisite traditional Chinese blockchain-enabled tools to track resource culture. flows, how can emerging technologies revolutionize the philanthropy industry that has long been plagued by a lack of transparency and trust?
58 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Wu Tong during the Closing Performance
Hospital of the Future Experience
Jan Piotrowski, Christian Hochfeld, Eva Scherer, Makoto Uchida and Guo Jifu in the session Moving 10 Billion
Enass Abo-Hamed and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon in the session Conversations on Leadership 4.0
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 59 David Aikman, Chief Representative Officer, China, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum, and Tang Yijun, Governor of Liaoning, People's Republic of China
Sarah bint Yousif Al-Amiri in the session Sustaining the Space Economy
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Hessa Bint Eisa Buhumaid in the session Creating Inclusive Nick Pyenson in the session The Secret Life of Whales Communities
Isabel Hilton in the session Green Leadership: Session Rethinking Trust and Improving Decisions with Sustainability as Strategy Carnegie Mellon University
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08.00 - 08.45 Workshop Francisco Betti, Head of Advanced Tuesday Morning Tai Chi Manufacturing Industry, World Economic Tai Chi can improve health, increase Forum 2 July mental clarity and maintain overall well- Katy George, Senior Partner, McKinsey & being. Join this early-morning session with Company, USA Master Zhang Yuxuan to experience the Natan Linder, Chief Executive Officer, benefits of Tai Chi. Tulip Interfaces, USA
Zhang Yuxuan, Principal, Beijing Milun Traditional Kungfu, People’s Republic of 09.00 - 10.00 Betazone China Sustaining the Space Economy By 2040, the space industry could be valued at more than $1 trillion with major 09.00 - 09.30 Hub investments coming from China, the US China in Depth: Innovating Outward and Russia. Join artist Daan Roosegaarde How is a new generation of Chinese on a visual journey about the vulnerabilities companies embedding outward-facing from orbital debris and ensuring a resilient innovation and globalization into their space industry for generations to come. DNA? Sarah bint Yousif Al-Amiri, Minister of Wang Feng, Editor-in-Chief, FTChinese. State for Advanced Sciences of the United com, United Kingdom Arab Emirates; Young Global Leader Peggy Choi, Chief Executive Officer, Dirk Carsten Hoke, Chief Executive LYNK, Hong Kong SAR, China Officer, Airbus Defence and Space, Germany; Young Global Leader Roger Zhang Changwu, Founder and 09.00 - 09.30 Hub Chief Executive Officer, Landspace, Governing the Fourth Industrial People’s Republic of China Revolution Mariette DiChristina, Editor-in-Chief, Technological innovation is speeding Scientific American, USA up, presenting a new world order and Daan Roosegaarde, Artist and Innovator, challenging current regulatory systems. Studio Roosegaarde, Netherlands; Young What new approach is needed to enable Global Leader, Cultural Leader innovation while protecting citizens?
Abdulla Bin Touq, Secretary-General, Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates Ajit Manocha, President and Chief 09.00 - 10.00 Panel Executive Officer, SEMI, USA Digital Health at a Tipping Point Smart watches and AI are able to diagnose health conditions like irregular 09.00 - 09.30 Hub heartbeats, Parkinson’s or sleep apnoea The Future of Work: Manufacturing with a precision that is now gaining One out of five workers globally is these technologies regulatory approval employed by the manufacturing industry, as medical devices. How should the where technological change is rapidly healthcare industry adapt to the new reality transforming business models and of digital health? supply chains. How will the future of manufacturing affect workers in the sector Chen Kuan, Founder and Chief Executive globally? Officer, Infervision, People’s Republic of China
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Pius S. Hornstein, Country Chair, China; 09.00 - 10.00 Hub 09.30 - 10.00 Issue Briefing General Manager, Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi Managing Cyber-Risks: Equipping Shadow Banking Today China, People’s Republic of China CEOs China’s informal banking sector has played Liu Jiren, Chairman and Chief Executive Increased connectivity and data-driven an important role in helping the economy’s Officer, Neusoft, People’s Republic of business models put cybersecurity on the transition towards a consumption-led China agenda of C-suites and boards. How can model. With structural reforms aimed Jessica Tan, Co-Chief Executive Officer, business leaders integrate cybersecurity at de-risking the system and increasing Ping An Group, People’s Republic of more effectively into their strategic private-sector access to capital, what China planning? role will the sector play in China’s future Laurent Haug, Swiss Correspondent, economic success? Wired UK, United Kingdom Alois Zwinggi, Managing Director; Head of Compliance and Institutional Affairs, Angelica Anton, Founder and Managing World Economic Forum Partner, SILK Ventures, United Kingdom Jan Piotrowski, Business Editor, The Huang Yiping, Deputy Dean, National Economist, United Kingdom School of Development, Peking University, 09.00 - 10.00 Media Session Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman People’s Republic of China Climate Change: The Next Financial of the Executive Board, Sberbank, Russian Oliver Cann, Head of Strategic Crisis? Federation Communications; Member of the Climate inaction risks $23 trillion of global Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the Board Executive Committee, World Economic economic losses a year, amounting and Chief Executive Officer, Fortinet, USA Forum to permanent economic damage four Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief times greater than the impact of the Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young 2008 financial crisis. What does financial Global Leader leadership entail as we stand at the brink of climate calamity? 09.30 - 10.15 Hub 09.00 - 10.15 IdeasLab Ask About: Climate Change in China Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President, Converging Biological and Digital China has been the world’s largest European Research Council, Brussels Worlds with ETH Zurich emitter of carbon dioxide since 2006 but Daphne Cheng, Founder, Chief Executive Discover new ideas and insights with ambitious national targets aim to slash Officer and Chef, Superhuman, People’s leading researchers in the IdeasLab. emissions by 70% by 2030. Come to Republic of China; Cultural Leader the hub to explore the latest research on Paul Ellis, Executive Chairman, Electron, Beat Christen, Assistant Professor of climate change in China. United Kingdom Experimental Systems Biology, ETH Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Minister of Zurich, Switzerland Tong Dan, Research Associate, Tsinghua Foreign Affairs of Nepal Randall Platt, Assistant Professor of University, People’s Republic of China Veronica Scotti, Chairperson, Public Biological Engineering, ETH Zurich, Wang Binbin, Programme Director, Sector Solutions, Swiss Re Management, Switzerland Institute of Climate Change and Switzerland Simone Schuerle-Finke, Assistant Sustainable Development, Tsinghua Isabelle Kumar, Journalist and Presenter, Professor, Responsive Biomedical University, People’s Republic of China Euronews, France Systems Laboratory, Institute of Zhu Xufeng, Executive Director, Institute Translational Medicine; Branco Weiss for Sustainable Development Goals, Fellow, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Young Tsinghua University, People’s Republic of Scientist China Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Nature, United Kingdom
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09.45 - 10.15 Hub 09.45 - 10.15 Hub 12.30 - 13.00 Issue Briefing Vaccine Hesitancy: A Resurgent Risk Bridging Divides with Digital Identities The Rise of Chinese Philanthropy Diseases such as measles should belong Digital identities could help the 1.1 billion China’s economic transformation has in the history books thanks to vaccines people globally with no formal identity gain brought with it a dramatic increase in but, instead, we’re amid a global crisis. access to financial services and unlock charitable giving. How are China’s rising How can trust in vaccines be rebuilt economic value between 3% and 14% of ranks of philanthropists deploying their at local, national and global levels to GDP by 2030. How can the technology capital and what societal impact are they safeguard progress in saving lives? be scaled up in ways that are trustworthy, achieving? safe and sustainable? Charlotte Haug, International Elizabeth Knup, Country Director and Correspondent, New England Journal of Matthew Guilford, Co-Founder and Chief Representative, Ford Foundation, Medicine, USA Chief Growth Officer, Telenor Health, People’s Republic of China Bangladesh; Young Global Leader Wang Bing, Founder, Ai You Foundation, Rob Leslie, Chief Executive Officer, People’s Republic of China 09.45 - 10.15 Hub Sedicii, Ireland Yuan Jiakai, Vice-President and Chief Beyond Data Philanthropy Representative, China, United Way Around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are Worldwide, USA; Young Global Leader created each day, but 40% of Sustainable 10.30 - 10.40 - Opening Plenary Oliver Cann, Head of Strategic Development Goal indicators lack clear Welcome to the Annual Meeting of the Communications; Member of the methodology or data. What kind of New Champions 2019 Executive Committee, World Economic partnerships are needed to scale up a Forum comprehensive data framework for people David Aikman, Chief Representative and the planet? Officer, China, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Ryan Morhard, Project Lead, Global Tang Yijun, Governor of Liaoning, Health and Healthcare Industries, World People’s Republic of China 12.30 - 13.00 Hub Economic Forum In Science We Trust? Andrew Alspach, Chief for Information From vaccine scepticism to climate- Management, United Nations Office for change denial, scientific consensus is the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs easily rejected or opposed. How can the (OCHA), New York 10.40 - 11.30 - Opening Plenary scientific world better engage those who Ayumi Arai, Project Researcher, Centre Opening Plenary with Li Keqiang dismiss its findings? for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Japan Li Keqiang, Premier of the People’s Frances Balkwill, Centre Lead, Centre Republic of China for Cancer and Inflammation, Queen Mary Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive University of London, United Kingdom 09.45 - 10.15 Hub Chairman, World Economic Forum Andrea Bandelli, Executive Director, The Big Picture on Modern Slavery Science Gallery International, Ireland; From the digitization of forced labour Cultural Leader recruitment to slavery in seafood supply chains, explore the causes and consequences of modern slavery now and 11.45 - 12.15 Experience 12.30 - 13.00 Hub through time. Meet the Creators: The Human Element Voice for the Planet The Human Element exhibition explores People around the world are calling for James Cockayne, Director, Centre for the question of trust and the unintended a New Deal for Nature to set the planet Policy Research, United Nations University, consequences raised by technology as on a path to recovery by 2030. Join the New York it learns to interpret and mimic human creators of Voice for the Planet to learn Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research behaviour. about a global movement designed to Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie safeguard the world in which we live. Mellon University, USA
64 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Cai Luona, Researcher and Design 12.30 - 13.00 Hub How can businesses and governments Strategist, Xiaohongshu App, People’s Predicting and Forecasting Epidemics shift from strategic competition to Republic of China From keeping tabs on sales of over-the- strategic cooperation in scaling up critical Mathieu Flamini, Founder, counter medicines to anticipate emergency technologies? GFBiochemicals, United Kingdom; Young room visits to leveraging mobile phone Global Leader data to improve response to MERS in Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, South Korea, insight from novel datasets Minister of Information and Communication has the potential to alert us to disease Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran 12.30 - 13.00 Hub outbreaks before they become serious. Jin Keyu, Professor of Economics, Paying for the Million-Dollar Cure How can governments and business London School of Economics and Political Cures for cancer, diabetes, blindness, unlock the full potential for public- and Science, United Kingdom; Young Global Alzheimer’s and other diseases may be private-sector data to be combined to Leader within reach in the next few decades but predict and forecast epidemics? Jayraj Nair, Vice-President; Global some newly approved medicines carry Head of Internet of Things (IoT); Chief price tags approaching or exceeding Ryan Morhard, Project Lead, Global Technology Officer, Industrial Engineering $1 million. With costly miracle cures on Health and Healthcare Industries, World Services, Wipro, India the horizon, how can government and Economic Forum Pan Jiaofeng, President, Institutes of business join forces to realize the potential Oliver Morgan, Director, Health Science and Development, Chinese of such high-priced breakthroughs and Emergency Information and Risk Academy of Sciences, People’s Republic deliver value to patients? Assessment, World Health Organization of China (WHO), Geneva Wang Boming, Editor-in-Chief, Caijing Haruhiko Hirate, Corporate Tang Xiaoping, Director-General, Magazine, People’s Republic of China Communications and Public Affairs Officer, Guangzhou Health and Family Planning Takeda Pharmaceutical, Japan Commission, People’s Republic of China Gregory Poulsen, Senior Vice-President, Policy, Intermountain Healthcare, USA 12.30 - 13.00 Hub 12.45 - 13.15 One-on-One Blockchain Is a Team Sport Conversations on Leadership 4.0 12.30 - 13.00 Hub As siloed blockchain solutions undermine Join Ning Gaoning, Chairman of Smart Solutions: Detecting Pollution the disruptive potential of the technology, Sinochem Group and ChemChina, and Machine learning has the potential to businesses are forming groups to set Hans-Paul Bürkner, Chairman of the aid regulators in detecting up to seven standards and enable the development Boston Consulting Group, for a candid times more infractions of environmental of shared infrastructures. What are the conversation on what it takes to succeed regulations than current monitoring lessons learned from the success and as a leader in this new era of globalization. practices. What are the opportunities failures of blockchain collaboration? and risks that cutting-edge technologies Anil Menon, Managing Director; Head, bring to protecting public health and the Gisbert Rühl, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Global Industries, World environment? Klöckner & Co, Germany Economic Forum Dorjee Sun, Chief Executive Officer, Hans-Paul Bürkner, Chairman, Boston Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS Perlin.net, Singapore; Young Global Consulting Group, Germany College, Singapore Leader Ning Gaoning, Chairman, Sinochem David Lehrer, Chief Executive Officer, Group, People’s Republic of China Conatix, United Kingdom 12.30 - 13.30 Media Session Scaling Up Strategic Technologies The resurgence of geo-economic competition and techno-nationalism in areas such as 5G, AI and the internet of things impedes R&D cooperation, risks market fragmentation, and could trigger incompatible standards and norms.
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13.00 - 14.00 Panel 13.15 - 13.45 Hub 13.45 - 14.15 Hub Talent Transforming Technology Future Frontiers of Food: Securing the Chinese Capital Transformation The rapid evolution of machines and Supply Chain With the introduction of foreign majority algorithms in the workplace could create In China, 71% of the population believes ownership, the private market is poised 133 million new roles over the next five food safety is a concern. How can new to see an influx of capital into the market. years. How will business and government technology improve traceability to mitigate How will this change global investment leaders need to rethink their approach to food safety risks, increase transparency perceptions about Chinese business, talent management and development to and trigger demand for sustainable regulatory frameworks and global asset ensure a positive future for all? products? allocation in the Chinese economy?
Jahanzaib Ansari, Co-Founder and Chief Rona Chandrawati, Senior Lecturer and Christer Kjos, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Officer, Knockri, Canada Scientia Fellow, University of New South Canica International, Switzerland Mamuka Bakhtadze, Prime Minister of Wales (UNSW), Australia; Young Scientist Stephen Seelbach, Chief of Staff, Vista Georgia; Young Global Leader Wu Hougang, Chairman and President, Equity Partners, USA Ahmad bin Abdullah Humaid Belhoul Zoneco Group, People’s Republic of China Al Falasi, Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills of the 13.45 - 14.15 Issue Briefing United Arab Emirates 13.15 - 13.45 Hub Geopolitical Shifts Alain Dehaze, Chief Executive Officer, How Technology Is Transforming Trade The quest for an edge in the Fourth Adecco Group, Switzerland In the coming decade, technology will Industrial Revolution is increasingly having Anita Woolley, Associate Professor of disrupt trade more than tariffs; 3D printing an impact on international relations. As Organizational Behaviour and Theory, alone could decrease trade in goods by we enter a new era of globalization, how Carnegie Mellon University, USA up to 40%, while blockchain could add $3 will the world’s great powers adjust to this Louise Lucas, Asia Technology trillion to international trade by 2030. How changing landscape? Correspondent, Financial Times, United should enterprises and economies adapt Kingdom their strategy to a shifting competitive Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Minister of environment? Foreign Affairs of Nepal V. Peter Harder, Senator from Ontario, Christian Lanng, Chief Executive Officer, Canada Chairman and Co-Founder, Tradeshift. Jiang Yuechun, Director, Department 13.15 - 13.45 Hub com, USA for World Economy and Development Investing in Cybersecure Innovation Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Studies, China Institute of International Investors are increasingly considering Export Promotion of Canada Studies (CIIS), People’s Republic of China the maturity of start-ups’ cybersecurity Rebecca Ivey, Head of Governance and capabilities as a measure of investment Policy, Global Programming Group, World readiness. How can global benchmarks 13.30 - 14.00 Betazone Economic Forum, Switzerland inform investment decisions and shape The Secret Life of Whales start-up strategies? Travel 50 million years back in time with Nicholas Pyenson to uncover the secret Marc Barrachin, Managing Director, life of today’s largest and increasingly Product Research and Innovation, S&P threatened mammals. 13.45 - 14.15 Hub Global, USA The Big Picture on Urban Fragility Katheryn Rosen, Adjunct Senior Mandë Holford, Associate Professor of Explore the causes and consequences Research Scholar of International and Chemical Biology, Hunter College, City of urbanization – from choking smog to Public Affairs, School of International and University of New York (CUNY), USA record-breaking heatwaves – now and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, Nick Pyenson, Curator of Fossil Marine through time. USA Mammals, Smithsonian Institution, USA; Young Scientist Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College, Singapore Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
66 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 13.45 - 14.30 Hub 14.00 - 15.00 Panel 14.15 - 14.45 Hub Ask About: Mental Health Connecting with Digital ASEAN Designing a Human-Centred Future One in six people has experienced a ASEAN’s internet population is growing Imagine being under the knife of a robot common mental health problem in the by 125,000 citizens each day, making it surgeon, or receiving psychoanalysis past week. Come to the hub to explore the fastest-growing internet market in the from a bathroom mirror. Automation the latest research into new solutions for world. How can business and government could revolutionize access to high-quality mental healthcare. unlock the social and economic potential services, but are there limits to where of ASEAN’s digital age? humans are ready to accept automation Rick Adams, Medical Research Council into their lives? (MRC) Skills Development Fellow, Annie Koh, V3 Group Professor of Department of Computer Science, Family Entrepreneurship; Professor of Hao Li, Associate Professor of Computer University College London (UCL), United Finance (Practice); Vice-President, Office Science, University of Southern California Kingdom of Business Development, Singapore (USC), USA Joseph Hayes, Clinical Research Fellow Management University, Singapore Frank Vetere, Professor, University of Consultant, Faculty of Brain Sciences, Jayajyoti Sengupta, Senior Vice- Melbourne, Australia University College London (UCL), United President; Head, Asia-Pacific, Cognizant Kingdom Technology Solutions, Singapore Susanne Schweizer, Sir Henry Wellcome Serey Chea, Assistant Governor, National 14.15 - 14.45 Hub Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bank of Cambodia; Young Global Leader Reputation, Risk and Restoring Trust in University College London (UCL), United Angeline Tham, Founder and Chief Business Kingdom Executive Officer, Angkas, Philippines Reputational risk and lack of consumer Arjun Kharpal, China Technology trust are a systemic threat to business, on Correspondent, CNBC, United Kingdom a par with commodity price fluctuation or 14.00 - 14.45 Panel natural disasters. What proactive strategy Cities of Tomorrow can business leaders pursue to mitigate Every minute, the global urban population downside risk and tap into opportunities of increases by 145 people, an equivalent mutual trust? of over 1.3 million people per week. How 14.15 - 14.45 Hub can government leaders leverage Fourth Human Enhancement Arun Sundararajan, Harold Price Industrial Revolution technologies to create From extreme bionics to “smart” Professor of Entrepreneurship and healthy, sustainable and liveable cities? drugs that boost concentration, new Technology, Stern School of Business, technologies could transform what it New York University, USA Tatsuo Igarashi, Mayor of Tsukuba, means to be human. What does the future Gilly Wong, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Japan of human enhancement hold and is it Consumer Council, Hong Kong SAR, Maria Soledad Nuñez Mendez, Minister desirable? China of the National Secretariat for Housing and Habitat (2014-2018), United Kingdom; Simone Schuerle-Finke, Assistant Young Global Leader Professor, Responsive Biomedical 14.15 - 15.00 Betazone BG Srinivas, Executive Director and Systems Laboratory, Institute of Drone Delivery: Transforming Logistics Group Managing Director, PCCW, Hong Translational Medicine; Branco Weiss and Lives Kong SAR Fellow, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Young Flying overhead, drones are delivering Soichiro Takashima, Mayor of Fukuoka, Scientist blood supplies throughout Rwanda and Japan consumer goods in China. Join Will Jennifer Schenker, Founder and Editor- Hetzler, co-founder of Zipline, to learn how in-Chief, The Innovator, France drones are transforming logistics and lives.
Razat Gaurav, Chief Executive Officer, LLamasoft, USA Zhang Lei, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Antwork, People’s Republic of China
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Carol Yu Ying, Producer and Host, Daphne Cheng, Founder, Chief Executive 15.15 - 15.45 Hub Phoenix Satellite Television, Hong Kong Officer and Chef, Superhuman, People’s Impact of 3D Printing on Trade SAR, China; Young Global Leader Republic of China; Cultural Leader From aerospace to hearing aids, 50% Will Hetzler, Co-Founder, Zipline, USA David Yeung, Co-Founder and Chief of manufactured goods could be 3D Executive Officer, Green Monday printed by 2060, potentially replacing the Foundation, Hong Kong SAR, China; conventional export-centred manufacturing Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of goods. What impact would this have on global trade? 14.30 - 15.30 Panel Unlocking the Industrial Internet of 14.45 - 15.15 Hub Natan Linder, Chief Executive Officer, Things Future Cooperation between China and Tulip Interfaces, USA Smart factories achieve quality and Africa André Loesekrug-Pietri, Speaker, Joint efficiency gains by combining robots, Africa has emerged as one of the European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI), Paris; AI and smart sensors. But algorithms strongest supporters of the Belt and Young Global Leader and data need to be shared beyond the Road Initiative, with most countries on the factory walls to reap the potential of smart continent, as well as the African Union manufacturing. How can business and Commission, having signed cooperation 15.15 - 15.45 Hub technology leaders accelerate the creation agreements. At a time of heightened trade China’s and Latin America’s Way of an industrial internet of things? tensions, what risks and opportunities are Forward emerging for future collaboration? From infrastructure to soybeans, China Deepak Krishnamurthy, Executive Vice- has poured $141 billion into Latin America President and Chief Strategy Officer, SAP, Jeremy Stevens, Chief Economist, Asia, since 2005. At a time of heightened trade USA Standard Bank Group, People’s Republic tensions, what risks and opportunities are Jay Lee, Vice-Chairman, Foxconn of China emerging for future collaboration? Industrial Internet, Foxconn, Taiwan, China Jun Ni, Shien-Ming Wu Collegiate Diego R. Guelar, Ambassador of Professor of Manufacturing Science; 15.00 - 16.15 IdeasLab Argentina to the People’s Republic of Honorary Dean, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Championing Climate Science in China China University of Michigan, USA with Tsinghua University Wang Dong, Professor, Peking University, Ingeborg Rocker, Vice-President, Digital Discover new ideas and insights with People’s Republic of China Transformation and Strategy, Cross- leading researchers in the IdeasLab. Industry Initiatives, Dassault Systèmes, France Tong Dan, Research Associate, Tsinghua 15.15 - 15.45 Hub Wang Zhenhui, Chief Executive Officer, University, People’s Republic of China Empowering Responsible Consumers JD Logistics, JD.COM, People’s Republic Wang Binbin, Programme Director, The Global Consumer Confidence of China Institute of Climate Change and Survey indicates that more than 70% of Lauren Rublin, Senior Managing Editor, Sustainable Development, Tsinghua millennials, the biggest global generation, Barron’s Magazine, USA University, People’s Republic of China are willing to pay more for sustainable Zhu Xufeng, Executive Director, Institute products. How can retailers demonstrate for Sustainable Development Goals, the sustainability of their supply chain more Tsinghua University, People’s Republic of effectively and meaningfully? China 14.45 - 15.15 Hub Isabel Hilton, Editor, Chinadialogue, Li Sixuan, Anchor, China Central Future Frontiers of Food: A Plant-Based United Kingdom Television (CCTV), People’s Republic of Diet China; Young Global Leader China’s new dietary guidelines aim to Kristin Rechberger, Chief Executive cut meat consumption by 50% by 2030 Officer, Dynamic Planet, USA; Young to improve health and reduce the food Global Leader sector’s impact on the planet. How can novel culinary approaches help to shift consumer preferences?
68 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 15.15 - 15.45 One-on-One 15.30 - 16.30 Media Session Tatiana Prazeres, Senior Fellow, Eco-Activism Goes Global China, Science and the World University of International Business and This year, eco-activism hit the world Between 2009 and 2013, China Economics (UIBE), People’s Republic of stage, with young people in their millions experienced a meteoric expansion in China; Young Global Leader campaigning for change. Join UN R&D, doubling its research spending and Timothy P. Stratford, Managing Partner, Environment Goodwill Ambassador, overtaking the US with the largest number Beijing, Covington & Burling, People’s media personality and mother of three, of researchers in any single country. How Republic of China Nadya Hutagalung, to talk about the rise is China redrawing the map of global Oliver Cann, Head of Strategic of a generation of eco-warriors and the science? Communications; Member of the lessons she has learned in driving the Executive Committee, World Economic transformation demanded by our children. Sarah bint Yousif Al-Amiri, Minister of Forum State for Advanced Sciences of the United Renard Siew, Unit Head, Corporate Arab Emirates; Young Global Leader Sustainability, Sime Darby, Malaysia Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President, Nadya Hutagalung, Goodwill European Research Council, Brussels 16.00 - 16.30 Hub Ambassador, United Nations Environment Hu Zhijian, President, Chinese In Crypto We Trust? Programme (UNEP), Geneva; Cultural Academy of Science and Technology for There are more than 1,600 Leader Development, Ministry of Science and cryptocurrencies in existence, yet none Technology of the People’s Republic of have been widely adopted because China of inherent volatility. How could new Liu Ying, Assistant Professor, Peking innovations, focused on creating stable 15.15 - 15.45 Hub University, People’s Republic of China; and reliable crypto-assets, create a trusted A Woman’s Right to Move Young Scientist means of exchange? The risk of gender violence in public Melinda Richter, Global Head, JLABS, spaces affects the lives of women Johnson & Johnson, USA Laurent Haug, Swiss Correspondent, every day as it restricts their freedom of Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief, Wired UK, United Kingdom movement and rights as urban citizens. Nature, United Kingdom Leemon Baird, Founder and Chief What actions are needed to make cities Scientist, Hedera, USA safer for women? Serey Chea, Assistant Governor, National Bank of Cambodia; Young Global Leader Iim Fahima Jachja, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Queenrides, Indonesia; 15.45 - 16.15 Hub Young Global Leader ASEAN Deep Dive: Manufacturing 16.00 - 16.45 Screening Carlo Ratti, Director, SENSEable City With Viet Nam’s inbound manufacturing Director’s Cut: Our Planet Laboratory, MIT - Department of Urban increasing by 18% last year, supply chain Embark on an up-close journey through Studies and Planning, USA; Cultural shifts are sweeping the region. How can nature’s wonders and the threats facing Leader ASEAN countries adapt to keep up with it, in a special screening introduced by UN the changes? Environment Goodwill Ambassador, Nadya Hutagalung, and featuring footage from 15.30 - 16.15 Hub Yasu Ota, Editorial Writer, Columnist, Sir David Attenborough’s new series, Our Ask About: Tackling Infectious Diseases Nikkei, Japan Planet. One-half of all deaths in Africa are caused Chng Kai Fong, Managing Director, by infectious diseases, compared to 2% Singapore Economic Development Board, Nadya Hutagalung, Goodwill in Europe. Come to the hub to explore the Singapore Ambassador, United Nations Environment latest research to address this problem. Rubana Huq, Chairperson, Mohammadi Programme (UNEP), Geneva; Cultural Group, Bangladesh Leader Nadia Ikumi, AXA Research Fellow, Keith Scholey, Director, Silverback Films, University of Cape Town, South Africa United Kingdom; Cultural Leader Elmi Muller, Professor of Surgery, 15.45 - 16.15 Issue Briefing University of Cape Town, South Africa Service Disruption? Sheetal Silal, Senior Lecturer, Department The services trade between the US and of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape China has largely been overlooked in the Town, South Africa wider narrative on tariffs on goods. What impact could a trade war have on this important and growing segment of bilateral trade?
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16.00 - 17.00 Media Session Fergal Whyte, Director and Member of 16.45 - 17.15 Hub The Real Cost of User Data the Board, Arup Group, United Kingdom Insuring the Fourth Industrial Revolution The data-harvesting industry is expected Frontier technologies for risk prediction to grow from $80 billion today to nearly and case assessment are being tested $200 billion by 2022, but security 16.15 - 16.45 Hub in the insurance industry from mobility to breaches and privacy infringements have Innovative Tech and the Chinese healthcare. What actors, technologies and eroded consumer trust. With user data Capital Market business will transform the industry, and becoming the most valuable commodity The Shanghai Stock Exchange has what will change for the insured? of knowledge economies, how can it be launched a Technology and Innovation harvested responsibly? Board, which once mature, has a potential Pascal Millaire, Chief Executive Officer, value of $2 trillion. What impact will this CyberCube, USA Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor, board have on the Chinese capital market Department of Computer Science, and the global technology ecosystem? University of Bath, United Kingdom 16.45 - 17.15 Hub Chen Lei, Chief Executive Officer, Xunlei, Annie Koh, V3 Group Professor of Future Shocks: Rising Urbanization in a People’s Republic of China Family Entrepreneurship; Professor of Changing Climate Marsha Ma, Managing Director, China; Finance (Practice); Vice-President, Office By 2050, more than 650 million people Vice-President, Booking.com, People’s of Business Development, Singapore in 500 cities will experience a decreased Republic of China Management University, Singapore water supply due to climate change. How Muhamad Fajrin Rasyid, Co-Founder Qian Jun, Professor of Finance and can leaders accelerate action to make their and President, Bukalapak, Indonesia Executive Dean, Fanhai International cities more resilient to climate risks and Li Xin, Managing Director, Caixin Global, School of Finance (FISF), Fudan University, vulnerabilities? Caixin Media, People’s Republic of China People’s Republic of China Dawood Abdulrahman AlHajiri, Director- General, Dubai Municipality, United Arab 16.30 - 17.00 Hub Emirates Seeding Change through Impact Sandra Wu Wen-Hsiu, Chairperson and 16.15 - 16.45 Hub Investment Chief Executive Officer, Kokusai Kogyo, The Pitfalls of Technology and Mental With an estimated $228 billion in assets, Japan Health impact investing has gained significant Although digital mental-health care global momentum. How can investors promises increased access to therapy and design future-proof inclusive and 16.45 - 17.30 Panel complements human interaction, research sustainable investment portfolios? Safeguarding Our Planet also links internet overuse to loneliness. One million plant and animal species What are the solutions to mitigate the En Lee, Partner; Head, Asia-Pacific, LGT face extinction due to human activity, risk of developing internet addiction and Impact, Singapore threatening the health of ecosystems that feelings of isolation? underpin our economy and society. With climate, ocean, food and land systems Chen Zhiyan, Professor, Institute of 16.45 - 17.15 Hub increasingly under threat, how can leaders Psychology, Chinese Academy of The Big Picture on Sustainable come together to protect our natural Sciences, People’s Republic of China Sourcing world? From a rising demand for electronics to emerging threats to ocean biodiversity, Nadya Hutagalung, Goodwill 16.15 - 16.45 Hub explore the causes and consequences of Ambassador, United Nations Environment A New Construction Era mineral mining now and through time. Programme (UNEP), Geneva; Cultural While China’s consumption of construction Leader materials is stabilizing, demand for Douglas McCauley, Professor, University Keith Scholey, Director, Silverback Films, materials like cement and steel is expected of California, Santa Barbara, USA United Kingdom; Cultural Leader to rise across emerging economies in Asia Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research Marcel Smits, Chairman and Chief and Africa. How can new technologies Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie Executive Officer, Asia-Pacific; Head, help offset the carbon footprint of the Mellon University, USA Corporate Strategy, Cargill, Singapore construction sector? Tian Wei, Host, World Insight with Tian Wei, China Global Television Network Liu Xiao, Senior Vice-President, Beijing (CGTN), Kenya Vanke, People’s Republic of China; Young Global Leader
70 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 16.45 - 18.00 IdeasLab Li Pengyu, Secretary, CPC Working 17.30 - 18.30 Panel Tackling Cancer from the Inside with Committee; Director, Administrative Cooperation in the Pacific Rim the European Research Council Committee, Dalian Jinpu New Area, The Comprehensive and Progressive Discover new ideas and insights with People’s Republic of China Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership leading researchers in the IdeasLab. Michael Wang, Anchor, Global Business, went into effect without the United States. China Global Television Network (CGTN) Yet, trade cooperation across the Pacific Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President, could still integrate 39% of the world’s European Research Council, Brussels GDP by 2030. How can businesses on Frances Balkwill, Centre Lead, Centre both sides of the ocean prepare to reap for Cancer and Inflammation, Queen Mary the benefits of increased integration? University of London, United Kingdom 17.15 - 17.45 Hub Núria Montserrat, Catalan Institution The Key to Driverless Car Safety Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of for Research and Advanced Studies The global autonomous vehicle market will Bangladesh (ICREA) Research Professor, Institute for grow by 40% in the next five years, but Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain without transparent data practices, the Export Promotion of Canada Vered Padler-Karavani, Assistant industry cannot evolve safely. What are Tak Niinami, Chief Executive Officer, Professor, George S. Wise Faculty of Life the mutual sharing obligations for business Suntory Holdings, Japan; International Sciences, Department of Cell Research and cities to ensure a resilient driverless- Business Council and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel car future? Sushant Palakurthi Rao, Head of Global Nick Campbell, Vice-President, Funder Partnerships, Agility, Germany Relations, Nature Research, Springer Sid Misra, Chief Executive Officer and Co- Keith Bradsher, Senior Writer, Economics Nature, United Kingdom Founder, Perceptive Automata, USA and Business, Asia, New York Times, USA Mohammad Musa, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Deepen, USA
17.00 - 17.30 Experience 17.15 - 17.45 Hub 18.00 - 18.30 Workshop Meet the Creators: The Human Element Forget It: No More Passwords Evening Meditation The Human Element exhibition explores With “123456” among the most popular Meditation is the art of paying attention the question of trust and the unintended passwords globally, it is no wonder that in the present moment, intentionally and consequences raised by technology as the human factor remains the weakest non-judgmentally. Experience the benefits it learns to interpret and mimic human link in cybersecurity. How can companies of meditation at the end of the day. behaviour. and individuals leverage new tools and technologies to revolutionize authentication Shoukei Matsumoto, Buddhist Monk, and significantly increase their security Komyoji Temple, Japan; Young Global 17.00 - 18.00 Panel levels? Leader China’s New Pitch to Foreign Business China’s new foreign investment law signals Rob Leslie, Chief Executive Officer, further opening-up while attracting fresh Sedicii, Ireland capital to its slowing economy to boost Carlos Moreira, Chairman, Chief market confidence. What will change for Executive Officer and Founder, WISeKey, local and foreign enterprises? Switzerland
Yasushi Akahoshi, President, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), 17.15 - 18.00 Hub Japan Ask About: Decision-Making and Trust Yuan Ding, Vice-President and Dean, Only 3% of companies’ data meet basic China Europe International Business quality standards. Come to the hub School (CEIBS), People’s Republic of to explore the latest research at the China intersection of data, decision-making and Lex Greensill, Co-Founder and Chief trust. Executive Officer, Greensill, United Kingdom Anita Woolley, Associate Professor of Jennifer Susan “Sue” Kench, Global Organizational Behaviour and Theory, Chief Executive, King & Wood Mallesons, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Hong Kong SAR, China
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Jin Guowei, Vice-Mayor of Dalian, People's Republic of China, delivers his closing remarks
Jesse Appell in the session The Creativity Lab
Session on Sustaining the Space Economy
72 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Biometric Mirror Experience
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08.15 - 09.00 Workshop Jin Keyu, Professor of Economics, Wednesday Morning Tai Chi London School of Economics and Political Tai Chi can improve health, increase Science, United Kingdom; Young Global 3 July mental clarity and maintain overall well- Leader being. Join this early-morning session with Jeffrey Lu Minfang, Chief Executive Master Zhang Yuxuan to experience the Officer, Mengniu Group, People’s Republic benefits of Tai Chi. of China Paul Yang, Member and Chief Executive Zhang Yuxuan, Principal, Beijing Milun Officer, Greater China, Kohlberg Kravis Traditional Kungfu, People’s Republic of Roberts & Co., Hong Kong SAR, China China Zhu Wei, Senior Managing Director; Chairman, Greater China, Accenture, People’s Republic of China 09.00 - 09.30 - Hub Session Stephen Engle, Chief North Asia Voice for the Planet Correspondent, Bloomberg Television, People around the world are calling for Bloomberg News, Hong Kong SAR, China a New Deal for Nature to set the planet on a path to recovery by 2030. Join the creators of Voice for the Planet to learn about a global movement designed to 09.00 - 10.00 xChange safeguard the world in which we live. Unlocking Public-Sector AI From traffic management to healthcare This social media installation was launched delivery, AI can help governments solve by the Global Shapers community, a complex problems but poses new network of 8,000 young people from challenges around bias, privacy and around the world, to call for urgent transparency. How can public institutions action on climate change, sustainable employ AI to serve citizens better and development and nature. smarter?
Yesha Pabari, Co-Founder, Chen Yangqiu, President, Hitachi (China) Samagribazaar.com, India Research & Development, People’s Anjhula Mya Singh Bais, Chair, Amnesty Republic of China International, Malaysia; Young Global Simon Galpin, Managing Director, Bahrain Leader Economic Development Board, Bahrain Oliver Morgan, Director, Health Emergency Information and Risk 09.00 - 10.00 Media Session Assessment, World Health Organization The Global Economic Outlook: View (WHO), Geneva from Asia Leonard Stein, Senior Vice-President, While trade tensions between the US Global Affairs, Splunk, USA and China are putting pressure on global Yuan Hui, Chairman, Shanghai Xiaoi growth, regional integration is advancing, Robot Technology, People’s Republic of with over 60% of trade happening within China Asia. What is the global economic outlook Ronaldo Lemos, Director, Institute for for Asia’s leading economies? Technology & Society, Brazil; Young Global Leader
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09.00 - 10.00 Panel 09.15 - 09.45 Hub Dimitri de Boer, Chief Representative, What If: You Could Live to 150? Adapting to the Precision Economy China, Client Earth, United Kingdom Advances in molecular science and the The global genomics market will rise to Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and genetics of ageing could see those born nearly $41.2 billion by 2025, and heralds Export Promotion of Canada today potentially living to 150. As the an entirely new economy based on Jonathan Penrice, President, Asia- prospect of extended longevity comes personalized consumption, health and Pacific, Dow Chemical Company, Hong within reach, clinicians and experts are wellness. How will business and society Kong SAR, China debating what a meaningful life for 11 adapt to the transformation brought about Isabel Wijsen, Founder, Bye Bye Plastic billion people would look like. What if living by the precision economy? Bags, Indonesia to 150 becomes the new norm? Gong Rujing, Founder and Chairwoman, Bob Kain, Chief Executive Officer and Co- Happy Life Tech, People’s Republic of Founder, LunaDNA, USA China; Young Global Leader 09.45 - 10.15 Hub Jerry Muller, Professor of History, The Terry Young, Founder and Chief Executive Smarter Industrial Policy Catholic University of America, USA Officer, sparks & honey, USA More than 84 countries, representing Simone Schuerle-Finke, Assistant 90% of global GDP, have adopted new Professor, Responsive Biomedical industrial strategies in the past 10 years. In Systems Laboratory, Institute of 09.15 - 10.30 IdeasLab the Fourth Industrial Revolution, how can Translational Medicine; Branco Weiss Big Data Visualization: A New Era in industrial policy use big data technology to Fellow, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Young Mapping with the University of Tokyo address society’s structural challenges? Scientist Discover new ideas and insights with Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business leading researchers in the IdeasLab. Satsuki Katayama, Minister of State for Review Magazine, Harvard Business Regional Revitalization of Japan Review Group, USA Kohei Miyazono, Executive Vice- Till Leopold, Head, Inclusive Economies President, University of Tokyo, Japan Practice, World Economic Forum Ayumi Arai, Project Researcher, Centre for Frederic Pivetta, Chief Executive Officer, Spatial Information Science, University of Dalberg Data Insights, Belgium 09.15 - 09.45 Hub Tokyo, Japan Heizo Takenaka, Professor Emeritus, Keio Is Organic Growth Dead? Hiroe Miyake, Associate Professor, University, Japan; Member of Board of Before reaching a valuation of $1 billion University of Tokyo, Japan Trustees of the World Economic Forum or more, the average unicorn company Ryosuke Shibasaki, Professor, Centre for acquires 25 start-ups so it can develop Spatial Information Science, University of market share and expertise. In industries Tokyo, Japan 09.45 - 10.15 Hub increasingly shaped by “winner takes all” Mariette DiChristina, Editor-in-Chief, The Big Picture on Urban Fragility effects, is organic growth still a priority? Scientific American, USA Explore the causes and consequences of urbanization – from choking smog to Diana Lace, Investment Manager, Overkill record-breaking heatwaves – now and Ventures, Latvia through time. Jan Piotrowski, Business Editor, The 09.30 - 10.15 Betazone Economist, United Kingdom The Plastic Revolution Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS Every year, 300 million tons of plastic are College, Singapore produced, an amount nearly equivalent to Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research the weight of the entire human population. Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie Join youth advocate Isabel Wijsen for a Mellon University, USA compelling story of grassroots leadership and innovation in revolutionizing plastic use in Asia and beyond.
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09.45 - 10.15 Hub 10.15 - 10.45 Hub Atul Arya, Senior Vice-President and Chief How to Tax Global Business Accelerating the Cleantech Transition Energy Strategist, IHS Markit, USA Governments around the world are While the global market volume for clean Qian Jing, Vice-President, JinkoSolar, pushing for a reform of international technology exceeds $3 trillion, significant People’s Republic of China corporate tax rules to raise revenue, barriers, including tariffs and shortages Sun Xiansheng, Secretary-General, reduce pressure from tax competition of skilled labour, inhibit its full deployment International Energy Forum (IEF), Riyadh and restore faith in global capitalism. in emerging economies. How can Xin Baoan, President, State Grid How should governments tax global government and business fast-track the Corporation of China, People’s Republic corporations in the digital era? cleantech transition? of China Yongping Zhai, Chief, Energy Sector Oliver Cann, Head of Strategic Sebastian Groh, Managing Director, Group, Asian Development Bank, Manila Communications; Member of the SOLshare, Bangladesh Li Sixuan, Anchor, China Central Executive Committee, World Economic Ayla Majid, Managing Director, Financial Television (CCTV), People’s Republic of Forum Advisory Services, Khalid Majid Rehman, China; Young Global Leader Peter Lochbihler, Global Head of Public Pakistan; Young Global Leader Affairs, Booking.com, Netherlands
10.15 - 10.45 Hub 10.30 - 11.30 Media Session 09.45 - 10.15 Hub Leading without Leaders Tech for Good: Empowering AI Neutrinos for Peace With an increased focus on equality and Leadership Known as “nature’s ghosts”, neutrinos inclusion, organizations are relying less on AI holds the promise of making are subatomic particles that make up the traditional pyramid structures and more on organizations 40% more efficient by universe and can travel through matter. circular models of collaboration and shared 2035, potentially unlocking $14 trillion How can they be used for the benefit of responsibility. What does leadership look in economic value. As AI enters more society? like in a world where power is no longer decision-making settings, how can we tied to position? ensure algorithmic accountability and Juan Pedro Ochoa Ricoux, Assistant transparency? Professor, University of California, Irvine, Kris Naudts, Chief Executive Officer, USA; Young Scientist Culture Trip, United Kingdom Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor, Bernadette Wightman, Managing Department of Computer Science, Director, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and University of Bath, United Kingdom 10.00 - 10.30 Experience Africa, BT Group, United Kingdom Chen Liming, Chairman, Greater China Meet the Creators: The Human Element Group, IBM Corporation, People’s The Human Element exhibition explores Republic of China the question of trust and the unintended 10.30 - 11.30 Panel Satsuki Katayama, Minister of State for consequences raised by technology as China Energy Outlook Regional Revitalization of Japan it learns to interpret and mimic human China’s energy-demand growth continues Anand S. Rao, Global Leader, Artificial behaviour. to outpace the West’s, yet the proportion Intelligence, PwC, USA of coal in China’s energy mix is on the Will Knight, Senior Editor, MIT - decline as its renewable investments triple Technology Review, USA those of the US. How is the global energy sector being transformed as a function of China’s energy transition?
76 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 10.45 - 11.15 Hub James Cockayne, Director, Centre for Xiaohong Helena Yang, Scientific Age-Tech Solutions Policy Research, United Nations University, Director, Springer Nature, People’s There are now more people over 65 than New York Republic of China under 5 years of age globally, making Gabriel O’Donnell, Principal Research age-tech the next frontier market for Programmer, CMU CREATE Lab, Carnegie technology. What new technologies hold Mellon University, USA 11.00 - 11.30 Betazone the potential for ageing with dignity? Rethinking Capitalism What would you do to change capitalism Timothy Ma Kam-Wah, Member of the 10.45 - 11.15 Hub as we know it? Join Jennifer Lyn Morone Board; Member, Service Development ASEAN Deep Dive: Tourism to discover how we can push the Subcommittee, Senior Citizen Home Flows of tourists between China and boundaries of imagination to design a Safety Association, Hong Kong SAR, ASEAN are growing by 15% annually but more equal world. China; Schwab Foundation Social major barriers linked to safety and security Entrepreneur are holding back the region’s potential. Jennifer Lyn Morone, Chief Executive How can new technologies transform the Officer, RadicalXChange Foundation, USA movement of people to unlock a revolution Bruno Maçães, Senior Fellow, Renmin 10.45 - 11.15 Hub in travel? University of China, People’s Republic of Backer or Blocker? Market China Concentration in Start-Up Funding Rory Hunter, Chief Executive Officer The deep pockets of the world’s biggest and Co-Founder, Song Saa Collective, tech firms are directly or indirectly funding Cambodia; Young Global Leader start-ups and new technologies such as Cyrus Pun, Executive Director, Yoma 11.00 - 12.15 - IdeasLab artificial intelligence. With growing global Strategic Holdings, Singapore Revealing Hidden Brain Mechanisms concern about market concentration in with the Korea Advanced Institute of tech, what are the implications for access Science and Technology to funding for emerging and innovative 10.45 - 11.45 xChange Discover new ideas and insights with firms? Navigating the Urban Aerial Mobility leading researchers in the IdeasLab. Economy Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business and Today, 55% of the world’s population Kim Daesoo, Professor, Department of Export Promotion of Canada lives in urban areas, a proportion that is Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Zhang Lu, Founding and Managing expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Institute of Science and Technology Partner, Fusion Fund, USA; Young Global How could personal autonomous flight (KAIST), Republic of Korea Leader be part of the solution to congestion and Sang Ah Lee, Assistant Professor, Qian Jun, Professor of Finance and provide mobility services to a growing Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Executive Dean, Fanhai International population? Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea; School of Finance (FISF), Fudan University, Young Scientist People’s Republic of China Dirk Carsten Hoke, Chief Executive Yoon Ki-Jun, Assistant Professor, Officer, Airbus Defence and Space, Department of Biological Sciences, Germany; Young Global Leader Korea Advanced Institute of Science and 10.45 - 11.15 Hub Kanika Tekriwal, Founder and Chief Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea The Big Picture on Modern Slavery Executive Officer, JetSetGo, India; Young Cliff Ransom, Executive Editor, From the digitization of forced labour Global Leader Partnerships and Custom Media, Nature, recruitment to slavery in seafood Xiong Yifang, Co-Founder and Chief USA supply chains, explore the causes and Marketing Officer, Guangzhou EHang consequences of modern slavery now and Intelligent Technology, People’s Republic through time. of China
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11.15 - 11.45 - Hub Session Cheung Sik-Sze, Chief Executive Officer, 12.00 - 13.00 Panel Making Fintech Cybersecure Youxin Financial, People’s Republic of The Future of the Belt and Road Fintech holds a large amount of sensitive China Initiative data and frequently faces third-party risks, Serey Chea, Assistant Governor, National Since the launch of the Belt and Road making it prone to cyberattacks. How can Bank of Cambodia; Young Global Leader Initiative (BRI) in 2013, China has fintech become cybersecure, while its Lin Yang, President, Innovation Ideas signed cooperation agreements with innovation and integration into the broader Institute, USA; Young Global Leader 126 countries and 29 international financial services system is fostered? organizations, with the most recent round of agreements totalling more than $64 Michael Gorriz, Group Chief Information 11.45 - 12.15 Hub billion. What does the future of the BRI Officer, Standard Chartered Bank, Closing the Loop: Manufacturing look like for China and the world? Singapore Employing circular business models can Jun Zhu, President, Greater China, help manufacturers access a $4.5 trillion Olga Algayerova, Undersecretary- Temenos, Hong Kong SAR, China opportunity, although new technologies General; Executive Secretary, United and processes are needed. How can Nations Economic Commission for Europe the sector scale up remanufacturing and (UNECE), Geneva 11.15 - 11.45 Hub leverage innovation for more resource- Nasrul Hamid, Minister of State for Mobile Game-Changers efficient and circular production? Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of Better smartphones and high-speed Bangladesh mobile internet connections are fuelling the Francisco Betti, Head of Advanced Bruno Maçães, Senior Fellow, Renmin mobile gaming industry, which counts 2.4 Manufacturing Industry, World Economic University of China, People’s Republic of billion users and is expected to generate Forum China $180 billion in revenue by 2021. How is Jay Lee, Vice-Chairman, Foxconn Song Zhiping, Chairman of the Board, mobile gaming transforming the future of Industrial Internet, Foxconn, Taiwan, China China National Building Material Group, media and entertainment? Carl Vause, Chief Executive Officer, Soft People’s Republic of China Robotics, USA Tian Wei, Host, World Insight with Tian Cathy Li, Head of Media, Entertainment Wei, China Global Television Network and Information Industries, World (CGTN), Kenya Economic Forum 11.45 - 12.15 Hub Yang Jun, Senior Vice-President, Co- Immune-Based Diagnostics Founder, 37 Interactive Entertainment, Antibiotic misuse and overprescription People’s Republic of China is a pressing public health concern, with 12.00 - 13.00 xChange devastating healthcare and economic Blockchain in the Supply Chain consequences. How can better Blockchain is used in a variety of ways, 11.45 - 12.15 Hub diagnostics address one of the biggest from fighting illicit diamond trading to Sustaining a Cashless Society healthcare challenges of our time? tracking seafood from habitat to market. From Sweden’s e-krona to China’s How can businesses operating complex widespread QR code payment method, Eran Eden, Co-Founder and Chief supply chains design and deploy a winning technology is redefining financial Executive Officer, MeMed Diagnostics, blockchain strategy? transactions around the world. How Israel can business and government reap Khalfan Belhoul, Chief Executive Officer, the benefits while responding to new Dubai Future Foundation, United Arab technological, security and regulatory Emirates challenges? Murat Seitnepesov, Managing Director, Integral Petroleum, Switzerland
78 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Tushar Singhvi, Director, CE-Ventures, 12.15 - 12.45 Hub Visal Leng, Vice-President; President, Crescent Enterprises, United Arab Advancing Cyber-Resilience in the Building Solutions, Asia-Pacific, Johnson Emirates Electricity Industry Controls, USA Helen Hai, Goodwill Ambassador, While IoT adoption can significantly benefit Rui-Ping Xiao, Associate Editor, New United Nations Industrial Development the electricity ecosystem, it increases England Journal of Medicine, USA Organization (UNIDO), Shanghai; Young its vulnerability to cyberattacks, which Christine Zhou, Senior Vice-President and Global Leader may compromise critical infrastructure President, China, Novo Nordisk (China) with severe social and economic Pharmaceuticals, People’s Republic of consequences. How can cyber-resilience China 12.00 - 13.00 Panel be increased? China’s New Business Leaders Within only four decades, many Chinese Pierre-Alain Graf, Senior Vice-President, 12.30 - 13.00 One-on-One business leaders have grown from ABB, Switzerland Conversations on Leadership 4.0 self-taught factory managers to highly Christophe Nicolas, Senior Vice- Join Enass Abo-Hamed, Young Scientist sophisticated international tycoons. What President and Founder, Kudelski Security; and Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting kind of skills allow business leaders to Group Chief Information Officer, Kudelski of the New Champions, and Jean- thrive and stay competitive in today’s Group, Switzerland Pierre Bourguignon, President of the challenging market environment? European Research Council, for a candid conversation on what it takes to succeed Gao Hao, Director, National Institute of 12.15 - 12.45 Hub as a leader in this new era of globalization. Financial Research (NIFR) Global Family The Future of Computing Business Research Center, Tsinghua As Moore’s Law approaches its Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow, Royal University, People’s Republic of China limit, technologists are searching for Academy of Engineering, Imperial College Tang Ning, Founder and Chief Executive alternatives to sustain computing’s pace London, United Kingdom; Young Scientist Officer, CreditEase, People’s Republic of of advancement. Could the resulting Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President, China emerging technologies such as quantum, European Research Council, Brussels Smilla Yuan, Chief Executive Officer, neurological and in-memory processing W. Lee Howell, Managing Director; Head Greater China, Willis Towers Watson, have as pivotal an impact on society as the of Global Programming, World Economic People’s Republic of China microprocessor? Forum Zhang Jin, Chairman of the Board, Cedar Holdings Group, People’s Republic of Kirk Bresniker, Fellow and Chief Architect, China Hewlett Packard Labs, Hewlett Packard Min Zhu, Chairman, National Institute of Enterprise, USA 12.30 - 13.15 Hub Financial Research, People’s Republic of Loh Huanqian, President’s Assistant Ask About: The Ocean China; Member of Board of Trustees of the Professor, National University of Singapore, More than 3 billion people rely on the World Economic Forum Singapore; Young Scientist ocean for their livelihoods. Come to Li Xin, Managing Director, Caixin Global, explore the latest research on new Caixin Media, People’s Republic of China solutions for the ocean. 12.15 - 12.45 Hub Reinventing Healthcare in China Nathalie Goodkin, Associate Professor, China is home to one-fourth of all new Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang cancer diagnoses and has the largest Technological University (NTU), Singapore diabetic population in the world. How is Stephen Summers, Research Fellow, China responding to mounting pressures Singapore Centre for Environmental on its healthcare system? Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
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Adam Switzer, Associate Professor, Asian Makoto Uchida, Senior Vice-President; Simon Greenman, Founding Partner, School of the Environment, Nanyang Chairman of the Management Committee, BestPractice.AI, United Kingdom Technological University (NTU), Singapore China, Nissan Motor Co., Japan Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director; Head Jan Piotrowski, Business Editor, The of the Centre for the New Economy and Economist, United Kingdom Society, World Economic Forum 12.30 - 13.15 Hub Ask About: Mechanisms of the Brain The human brain is the most complex 13.15 - 13.45 Hub object in the universe, with over 1 12.45 - 13.15 Hub Creating Inclusive Communities quadrillion connections, each activating The Big Picture on Soft Power About 3% of the global population live roughly 10 times per second. Come to the Explore the causes and consequences of with an intellectual disability and often hub to explore the latest research on the soft power now and through time. face isolation through cultural or systemic brain. barriers. How can we build inclusive Cesar A. Hidalgo, Director, Collective communities that allow all members to be Kim Daesoo, Professor, Department of Learning Group, Massachusetts Institute of active citizens? Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory, USA Institute of Science and Technology Hessa Bint Eisa Buhumaid, Minister of (KAIST), Republic of Korea Community Development of the United Sang Ah Lee, Assistant Professor, 12.45 - 13.15 Hub Arab Emirates Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Next-Generation Batteries Kara Eusebio, Senior Manager, Strategic Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea; Batteries use scarce and geopolitically Partnerships, Bayview Yards, Canada Young Scientist sensitive elements such as cobalt and Yoon Ki-Jun, Assistant Professor, lithium. What are the latest scientific Department of Biological Sciences, breakthroughs in developing materials that 13.15 - 13.45 Hub Korea Advanced Institute of Science and are organic, metal-free and recyclable? Urban Farming Solutions Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea By 2050, global food production will need Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, Associate Professor to double to feed more than 9 billion of Chemical Engineering; William and people, but agricultural land areas are 12.30 - 13.30 Panel Ruth Neely Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M limited. With massive growth in cities, Moving 10 Billion University, USA; Young Scientist how is indoor urban farming providing By 2050, the world’s population will a sustainable, local and precise farming swell to 10 billion, predominantly coming solution? from China and the developing world. In 13.15 - 13.45 Hub the face of this growth, megacities are Outsmarting Bias through Gender- Tsuyoshi Stuart Oda, Founder and Chief suffocating and rural communities are Neutral AI Executive Officer, Alesca Life, People’s falling further behind. How can sustainable From the world’s first gender-neutral voice Republic of China and inclusive mobility be ensured? assistant to the use of AI to remove bias in talent searches, technology provides an Guo Jifu, Director, Beijing Transportation opportunity to advance gender equality. Institute, People’s Republic of China What are the latest technologies paving Christian Hochfeld, Executive Director, the way to more-inclusive societies? Agora Verkehrswende, Germany Eva Scherer, Vice-President; Head, Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor, Business Administration, Mobility, Department of Computer Science, Siemens, Germany; Young Global Leader University of Bath, United Kingdom
80 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 14.00 - 15.00 Panel 15.10 - 15.25 Closing The Quest for Leadership 4.0 Closing Performance The sweeping technology changes of the The meeting draws to a close with a Fourth Industrial Revolution are profoundly multimedia experience led by world-class changing the ways governments and musician, Wu Tong, fusing the sounds businesses operate. How can leadership of traditional Chinese instruments with become more responsive and responsible electronic music and visual effects. to confront the enormous scale, complexity and urgency of the world’s Sebastian Buckup, Head of current challenges? Programming, Global Programming Group; Member of the Executive Committee, Enass Abo-Hamed, Fellow, Royal World Economic Forum Academy of Engineering, Imperial College Wu Tong, Musician, People’s Republic of London, United Kingdom; Young Scientist China; Cultural Leader Huang Yiping, Deputy Dean, National School of Development, Peking University, People’s Republic of China John Meacock, Global Chief Strategy 15.25 - 16.15 Reception Officer, Deloitte, USA Farewell Reception Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief Co-hosted with the Municipal Government Executive Officer, CP Group, Thailand of Dalian, this reception will showcase the Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and Chief meeting’s highlights and give participants Operating Officer, Cloudflare, USA; Young the opportunity to explore cooperation Global Leader and cement the working relationships they Amy Bernstein, Editor, Harvard Business have developed during the event. Review Magazine, Harvard Business Review Group, USA Jin Guowei, Vice-Mayor of Dalian, People’s Republic of China Yi Qingtao, Secretary-General, Dalian Municipal Government, People’s Republic 15.00 - 15.10 Plenary of China Closing Remarks
Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum Jin Guowei, Vice-Mayor of Dalian, People’s Republic of China Jin Xiangjun, Vice-Mayor of Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
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scientists Thomas Hermans Full Professor in Chemistry, University of Strasbourg Researchers at the cutting edge of their fields were Thomas Hermans is developing self- healing and self-replicating lifelike recognized by the World Economic Forum as the Young materials that can respond to their Scientists Class of 2019. Each year, the Forum selects top surroundings and therefore improve scientists under the age of 40 for their contributions to performance in various applications, advancing the frontiers of science and passion for integrating from sensors to biomaterials. #materialchemistry #novelmaterials scientific knowledge into society for the public good. Huang Rongqin The Young Scientists played an important role in this year’s Deputy Director, Department of meeting. They took part in panels and working sessions Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy; Professor, Fudan University alongside leaders from government, business and civil Huang Rongqin is designing and society and other stakeholders, contributing insight and assessing the in vivo behaviour and generating ideas for solving some of the challenges within biosafety of new nanomaterials for and outside their core areas of interest. biomedical applications such as tumour imaging and targeted drug delivery. #nanomaterials #cancer
Class of 2019 Camilla Colombo Kim Sung-Yon Associate Professor, Politecnico di Assistant Professor, Seoul National Ilana Brito Milano University Assistant Professor, Cornell University Camilla Colombo employs novel Kim Sung-Yon studies precisely how techniques for spacecraft orbit Ilana Brito is pioneering new neural circuits interconnect and signal manoeuvring that has the potential technologies to understand how the to each other to control basic emotional impact to significantly reduce extremely gut’s microbiome impacts human health and need states, such as anxiety and high space mission costs. and the spread of antibiotic resistance. appetite. #systemsbiology #microbiome #universesciences #spaceexploration #neuroscience #obesity Christine Cheung Olga Fink Kim Young-Min Provost’s Chair in Medicine and Professor of Intelligent Maintenance Assistant Professor, Seoul National Nanyang Assistant Professor, Nanyang Systems, ETH Zurich Technological University Olga Fink develops intelligent algorithms University Christine Cheung studies the genetics to improve the performance, reliability Kim Young-Min seeks to understand the of blood vessel ageing with vascular and safety of complex industrial assets 3D world by using 3D sensors for more cells created from human stem cells to and to make their maintenance more effective augmented reality, robotic and help prevent stroke and cardiovascular cost efficient. ambient intelligence applications. diseases. #artificialintelligence #computerscience #3Dsensors #cellularbiology #vasculardisease #maintenancesystems
82 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Ashley King Ruth Morgan Benjamin C.K. Tee Senior Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Professor of Crime and Forensic President’s Assistant Professor, National Natural History Museum Science, University College London University of Singapore Ashley King aims to understand the Ruth Morgan researches the Benjamin C.K. Tee designs artificial skin origins of solar systems to answer interpretation of forensic evidence and sensor systems with self-repairable and society’s big questions, including the intelligence to understand decision- degradable properties, with applications origins and future of the Earth and life making in crime investigation and from biomedical robotics to electronic on it and the impacts of a changing detection. waste reduction. environment. #forensicscience #justice #syntheticmaterials #sustainabletech #universesciences #Earthorigins Gaëlle Offranc Piret Wang Yihua Daniel Lahr Researcher, Inserm Professor, Fudan University Professor, University of São Paulo Gaëlle Offranc Piret is developing Wang Yihua is researching how Daniel Lahr is researching the planet’s flexible, thin and nanostructured brain the quantum physical properties of microbial evolution to help inform implants for therapeutic applications materials can be harnessed for the next understanding of the world’s ecological such as restoring function for disabled generation of computing. future. people. #quantumcomputing #environmentalbiology #microbes #physics #nanomaterials #nextgencomputing
Liu Ying Adriana De Palma Assistant Professor, Peking University Co-Investigator Researcher, Natural Class of 2018 Liu Ying is decoding how cells History Museum respond to stress and nutrient levels, Adriana De Palma uses big data to Enass Abo-Hamed with therapeutic potential for the investigate how land management and Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, treatment of related diseases, such as climate change impact biodiversity today Imperial College London neurodegeneration, metabolic disorders and in the future. Enass Abo-Hamed is developing safe and cancer. #ecology #biodiversity and low-cost hydrogen production and #molecularcellbiology #diseases storage technologies to increase access Nicholas Pyenson to clean and reliable power across the Loh Huanqian Curator of Fossil Marine Mammals, globe. President’s Assistant Professor, National Smithsonian Institution #nanoengineering #energystorage University of Singapore Nicholas Pyenson travels through Loh Huanqian seeks to use ultracold geologic time to uncover the Shahzada Ahmad molecules as quantum building blocks evolutionary origins of whales and other Ikerbasque Professor, Basque Center for to model materials at the microscopic marine animals to better understand Materials, Applications & Nanostructures level for next-generation electronics and their past and present, and their co- Shahzada Ahmadhahzada is designing renewable energy systems. existent future with humanity. materials for energy conversion, #quantumtech #novelmaterials #evolution #oceans conservation and storage and is pioneering a new generation of light Nripan Mathews Shin Yongdae harvesters to advance the fabrication of Associate Professor; Provost’s Chair Assistant Professor, Seoul National cost-effective solar cells. in Materials Science and Engineering, University #novelmaterials #energyconversion Nanyang Technological University Shin Yongdae is studying the physical Nripan Mathews is designing cheap and principles underlying complex biological Rona Chandrawati efficient solar cells that can easily printed phenomena and developing novel Scientia Fellow; Senior Lecturer, and that are accessible to a wide range technologies that enable the control of University of New South Wales (UNSW) of communities. cellular processes. Rona Chandrawati is developing #novelmaterials #energyefficiency #biophysics #cellengineering nanotechnology sensors to simplify the early detection of life-threatening Denise Morais da Fonseca Sabrina Sholts diseases and to alert consumers to food Assistant Professor, University of São Curator of Biological Anthropology, contamination. Paulo National Museum of Natural History, #nanotechnology #lifesavingsensors Denise Morais da Fonseca aims to Smithsonian Institution understand how the immune system Sabrina Sholts uses museum recovers from infections and the long- collections of biological remains to study term effects on the body to prevent environmental factors on animal health in them, particularly in low- to middle- the past and present. income countries. #biologicalanthropology #immunology #infections #humanhealth
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 83 Vinet Coetzee Michael Janus Bojdys Julia Makinde Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria Assistant Professor, Functional Postdoctoral Research Associate, Vinet Coetzee is developing fast, Nanomaterials Group, Humboldt Imperial College London affordable and accurate diagnostic tools University of Berlin Julia Makinde is using next generation that can be used to screen for health Michael Janus Bojdys is developing computational and immunological tools to conditions such as malaria in a non- materials for the next generation aid the design of vaccines and therapies invasive fashion and that do not require of electronics that combine useful against pathogens such as HIV. blood, electricity or highly skilled people electronic properties without the need #immunology #vaccines at the point of care. for rare, hard-to-come-by resources. #biomedicine #malaria #nanoengineering #nanomaterials Juan Pedro Ochoa Ricoux Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Rubén Costa Lamis Jomaa Catolica de Chile Senior Researcher, Madrid Institute for Assistant Professor, American University Juan Pedro Ochoa Ricoux is studying Advanced Studies of Materials of Beirut neutrinos – ghost particles that permeate Rubén Costa is developing the next- Lamis Jomaa is examining the linkages the space around us – in the hope generation of bio-LEDs, aiming to between food insecurity, migration and to learn more about the events and eliminate the need for toxic, polluting human health outcomes to influence processes that produced them, both and finite rare-earth metals in the world’s community-based nutrition interventions. inside and outside our planet. artificial lighting. #nutritionalscience #foodsecurity #particlephysics #neutrinos #nanotechnology #bioLEDs Pierre Karam Rodney Dewayne Priestley Yabebal Fantaye Assistant Professor, American University Associate Professor, Princeton University AIMS ARETE Research Chair, African of Beirut Rodney Dewayne Priestley is developing Institute for Mathematical Sciences Pierre Karam is integrating biosensors sustainable processes to engineer the Yabebal Fantaye is applying artificial into smartphones in order to monitor function and properties of nanostructured intelligence to cosmological data sets and control waterborne and infectious colloids that will improve the delivery in order to unravel the formation of diseases in real time in resource-limited and efficacy of active molecules in drug the universe and to satellite images of settings. delivery and healthcare formulations. the Earth in order to monitor African #analyticalchemistry #biosensors #nanoengineering #novelmaterials development progress. #cosmology #Africandevelopment Sang Ah Lee Simone Schuerle Assistant Professor, Korea Advanced Assistant Professor, Head of Responsive Janet Gutierrez-Uribe Institute of Science and Technology Biomedical Systems Laboratory, Institute Department Head, Bioengineering (KAIST) of Translational Medicine; Branco Weiss and Science, Monterrey Institute of Sang Ah Lee is studying how spatial Fellow, ETH Zurich Technology and Higher Education intelligence and memory changes over Simone Schuerle is developing micro- (ITESM) time and is developing methods to and nanorobots that could be introduced Janet Gutierrez-Uribe is identifying and enhance and supplement cognition for to the body, helping to diagnose and treat characterizing the chemical composition early treatment of Alzheimer’s disease diseases more locally and effectively. of bioactive compounds in foods to and various neurodevelopmental #biomedicine #nanorobots better prevent chronic and degenerative disorders. diseases. #neuroscience #Alzheimer’s #foodengineering #nutrition Po-Shen Loh He Guojun Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University University of Science and Technology Po-Shen Loh is advancing core theory He Guojun is applying cutting-edge in mathematics to deploy practical econometric and statistical models solutions such as delivering free to quantify the health impacts of air personalized learning systems through pollution in China. smartphones. #mathematicalmodelling #mathematics #learningtech #healthpollution Matthew McKay Daniel E. Hurtado Professor, Department of Electronic and Associate Professor, Pontificia Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong Universidad Catolica de Chile University of Science and Technology Daniel Hurtado is developing Matthew McKay is applying big data and novel computational tools that can modelling to inform intelligent vaccine dramatically improve the diagnosis and design, which has the potential to speed management of respiratory diseases. up the search for effective HIV and #computationalmodelling hepatitis C vaccines. #respiratorydiseases #computationalimmunology #vaccines
84 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Amanda Russo, Ruth Morgan, Liu Ying, Benjamin C.K. Tee and Sabrina Sholts in the session How can scientists become role models?
Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam Class of 2017 Academic Fellow, University of Sydney Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam Sergiy Bogomolov is developing ultra-low power Lecturer and Assistant Professor, communication strategy for green and Australian National University sustainable internet of things to replace Sergiy Bogomolov develops algorithms batteries with piezoelectric materials – and tools to provide solutions for the materials that accumulate charge from automatic analysis of cyber-physical vibrations in their environment. systems used in applications such as #electricalengineering autonomous vehicles. #internetofthings #computerscience #artificialintelligence Angela Wu Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Karen Jacqueline Cloete University of Science and Technology Researcher, iThemba Laboratory for Angela Wu is studying the genetic Accelerator Based Sciences, National information in individual cells to Research Foundation generate new insights into complex Karen Cloete researches ion beam biological systems such as embryonic techniques to study biological development, sepsis and cancer. phenomena in the fields of biomedicine, #bioengineering #geneediting forensic science, food toxicology and ocean pollution. #biophysics #ionbeams
Jodie L. Lutkenhaus Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University Jodie Lutkenhaus is harnessing the power of organic polymers to develop alternative energy resources. #chemicalengineering #organicbatteries
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 85 Start-ups in Dalian
Start-ups possess unique advantages to shape the future and convert disruption into positive outcomes. These young companies are the source of many of the technologies emerging from the Fourth Industrial Revolution and are best placed to enable its benefits.
The following companies took part in the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019:
3YOURMIND Coherent AI ACTO Conatix Ada Digital Health Congenica Aden Tech Crescent Enterprises Agricxlab Data Integrated Limited AID:Tech Development Reimagined Amal Glass Digital Locker Services Analytics 4 Life DyeMansion Angkas Edukasyon.ph Antwork Network Technology Electronics Recycling Services Fuel Area One Farms EVCORP Ayannah Exploris Health Bareksa Fano Labs Beekeeper Flat6 Labs Beijing Luckey Technology Flybotix Bykea fos4X Careteam Technologies Fresh Minds Services causaLens Freshtohome Chainvu Fusion Coolant Systems China Film & Television Culture Media Garuda Robotics Clinivantage Healthcare Technologies Geltor
86 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Geneis TWAICE Technologies Global Entrepreneurship Network India uHoo GoApotik UnternehmerTUM GYENNO Science Venturelab Hands On VISCHER holo one Visu Autotec (Ningbo) Humanising Autonomy Xtelligent IDUN Technologies InnoVantage Solutions Inua Naturals Invento Makerspaces inveox K2Data Technology (Beijing) Kalibrr Technology Ventures Knockri Know Level Z Linkers LORIOT Lymphatica Medtech Mafi Maison Gil NEXT Future Transportation Okra Solar Oman Technology Fund OPTY Solutions Piavita Pomona Qbots AI Regend Therapeutics Rever Technology Joint Stock Company RiceQuant Rosenkrantz Sayurbox sendjobs Shanghai Xi Shi Information Technology Shanghaivest SILK Ventures Sparkus Spectroplast Studio 1 Labs SunBox Sunfox Technologies SWAT Mobile The Floor Tomplay Touchless Automation TraCoMo Camera System TrustBix
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 87 Acknowledgements
The World Economic Forum would like to recognize the following as Partners and Supporters of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019.
Strategic Partners Dentsu Group Deutsche Bank A.T. Kearney Deutsche Post DHL Group ABB The Dow Chemical Company Accenture Ericsson Adani Group EY The Adecco Group Facebook African Rainbow Minerals Fluor Corporation Agility GE AIG Goldman Sachs Alibaba Group Google Allianz Hanwha Energy Corporation Alphabet HCL Technologies ArcelorMittal Heidrick & Struggles Bahrain Economic Development Board Hewlett Packard Enterprise Bain & Company Hitachi Banco Bradesco HSBC Holdings Bank of America Huawei Technologies Barclays IBM Corporation BlackRock IHS Markit Boston Consulting Group Infosys BP Itaú Unibanco Bridgewater Associates JD.com BT Group JLL Burda Media Johnson & Johnson CA Technologies JPMorgan Chase & Co. Centene Corporation KPMG Centrica Kudelski Group Chevron Lazard China Minsheng Investment Group LUKOIL Cisco Luksic Group Citi Mahindra Group Clayton, Dubilier & Rice ManpowerGroup The Coca-Cola Company Marsh & McLennan Companies Credit Suisse Mastercard Dell Technologies McKinsey & Company Deloitte Microsoft Corp.
88 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Mitsubishi Corporation Strategic Foundation Service Providers Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Partners Morgan Stanley Audi MSD Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Ogilvy Public Relations Nestlé Novo Nordisk Foundation Novartis The Rockefeller Foundation Omnicom Group Wellcome Trust Host Broadcaster PayPal PepsiCo Dalian Radio and TV Station Pfizer Strategic Technology Procter & Gamble Partner Publicis Groupe For more information about PwC Salesforce these companies, please Reliance Industries consult TopLink or go to Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi https://www.weforum.org/ Royal DSM events/annual-meeting- Royal Philips Forum Member Advisers of-the-new-champions/ SAP partners. Saudi Aramco Advantage Partners Saudi Basic Industries Corporation Channel IT (SABIC) Circle Sberbank Cloudflare Schneider Electric Diamond Bank Siemens ER-Telecom SK Group Fullerton Health SOCAR (State Oil Company of the GLOBIS Azerbaijan Republic) Grab Standard Chartered Bank Grupo Mega Suntory Holdings Hepsiburada Swiss Re IDEO Takeda Pharmaceutical illycaffè Tata Consultancy Services LCY Chemical Thomson Reuters Lenzing TPG LRN UBS Moderna Therapeutics Unilever Planetary Holdings UPS Proteus Digital Health USM Investments Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Visa Sea Volkswagen Group Sekunjalo Group VTB Bank Seplat Petroleum Development Willis Towers Watson Company Wipro Tokopedia Zurich Insurance Group Upwork WanaArtha Life Yida China
Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 89 Digital update
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Global Agenda Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Leadership 4.0: Succeeding in a New Era of Globalization
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90 Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Contributors
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