Past Events

By Year: 2008 I 2007 I 2006

2008

Industry Partner Regional Meeting: Cape Town, South Africa, 3-6 June 2008
By joining this event, participants had the opportunity to share perspectives and define innovative solutions with a strong network of partners, while shaping and leading ongoing projects in the region. Outputs from the meeting lead to high-level discussions in the World Economic Forum in Africa and the Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos 2009.                                                      
- Report

Sustainability for Tomorrow’s Consumer Kick-off Meeting, Portland, USA, 21-22 May 2008
- Additional information

Workplace Wellness Report launch, Geneva, Switzerland, 19 may 2008
Over the past year the World Economic Forum has collaborated with the World Health Organization to investigate a potential solution -  workplace wellness programmes - and concluded that these are a real yet under-exploited opportunity requiring a collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach.
Leaders from business, government and civil society joined over a healthy breakfast for the full release of the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization report "Preventing Non-communicable Diseases in the Workplace", to hear from practitioners and debate the critical factors that optimize success and impact. 
 - Read the Preventing Non-communicable Diseases in the Workplace Report

Industry Partner Regional Meeting: Cancún, Mexico, 14-15 April 2008
The first of three Industry Partnership Regional meetings held by the World Economic Forum Consumer Industry around the globe, bringing together representatives from business, government, civil society and experts on topics critical for the sectors.
Participants included leaders from global and local companies, as well as issue experts and representatives from international organizations and civil society.
- Report

Governors’ Meeting, Davos Switzerland: 23-26 January 2008
For more than 30 years the World Economic Forum has created an unparalleled global network of leaders from the private and public sectors, academia, NGOs and civil society. Each year at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, top leaders from the consumer sector participate in the Governors Meeting for the Consumer Industries to address critical issues. Through private, off-the-record discussion, the heads of the most influential companies share their insights with the stakeholder network and work together to catalyse action. This report provides a summary of all the sessions and the many ideas captured in the discussions – insights for all to reflect on and decide how to create change at an individual and collective level.
- Governors Meeting Report 2008

2007

Governors’ Meeting, Davos Switzerland: 24 January, 2007
Governors are CEOs from the most influential companies within each of our designated industry groupings. Each year, during the Annual Meeting, Governors assemble for a private, off-the-record discussion to address critical issues for their sector with relevant special guests and thematic experts.
Participants I Report

Industry Partnership Strategy Meeting: London, United Kingdom, 9 May 2007
Programme I Participants I Pre-reading: Green Water, Sustainable Biofuels, Working Towards Wellness

Industry Partnership Regional Meeting: Cape Town, South Africa, 12-13 June, 2007
Summary I Programme I Participants

Project Board Meeting: Water for Agriculture: Geneva, 21 August 2007
Contact Helena Leurent for further details.

Industry Partnership Regional Meeting: Dalian, China, 5-8 September 2007
In 2006, The World Economic Forum launched its Community of Global Growth Companies, a strategic initiative to identify and engage the future champions of global industries. The Community is composed of rapidly growing companies that have both the aspiration and ability to successfully expand their domestic market.

In September 2007, the World Economic Forum, in close cooperation with the government of the People’s Republic of China, will bring them together with our existing members, today’s leaders, to network, cooperate and exchange ideas. This inaugural meeting will create a powerful platform for interaction and collaboration between traditional and new actors, between East and West.

At this meeting we will bring together leaders to make progress in our projects on wellness, biofuels, water stress and retail innovation.
www.weforum.org/newchampions I Full programme

Working Towards Wellness: Dalian, China, 5 September 2007
The first joint event between the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum in workplace wellness, bringing together leaders from business, government, select NGOs, IOs and academics to understand how to create and stimulate effective workplace wellness programmes with the goal of preventing chronic disease globally. Key recommendations from this meeting, based on commissioned white papers from experts and shaped in this joint event, will be broadcast globally by the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum. The following key issues will be addressed:

• Why is the workplace suitable for chronic disease prevention?
• What are the economic benefits and cost-effectiveness of chronic disease prevention programmes in the workplace?
• How can chronic disease prevention programmes in the workplace be best monitored and evaluated?
• What are the roles of different stakeholders in developing and implementing these policies and programmes?

Working Towards Wellness I Brochure I Press release I Report: Accelerating the Prevention of Chronic Disease I Summary

Industry Partnership Strategy Meeting, New York, USA 1-2 October 2007
Members of the Project Boards for the Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger, Water for Agriculture and Working Towards Wellness will meet to review progress and plan how to report learnings in the Annual Meeting 2008. In addition, we will join other members of the Consumer sector to review recent innovations in retail and their global impact.
Programme

Industry Partnership Regional Meeting: New Delhi, India 1-2 December 2007
On the eve of the India Business Summit, we will bring together local and global leaders to understand the issues of water stress and workpace wellness from a local perspective. Learnings will be used in the India Economic Summit itself and taken to form the global picture presented at the Annual Meeting 2008.

Project Board meeting: Sustainable Biofuels: Geneva, 20 November 2007
Contact Helena Leurent for more details.

Industry Partnership Meeting: New Delhi, 28 - 29 November 2006
A series of private meetings for Industry Partners on:

• Retail Innovation
• Water stress
• Chronic Disease Prevention
• Agricultural Trade

Programme I Participants

Industry Partnership Strategy Meeting: New York, 27 - 28 September 2006
The second Industry Partnership Strategy Meeting was both a milestone for industry initiatives and an opportunity to discuss issues of importance among peers. The meeting included sessions and workshops on the following:

• The Future Of Food: Technological, Consumer And Social Challenges
• Managing the Public Image of your Industry: Cross-Industry Perspectives
• Workplace Wellness Workshop: Improving Services, Lowering Healthcare Premiums
• Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger: Steering Board Update
• Battling Counterfeits: the Consumer Viewpoint

Programme I Participants

Industry Partnership Meeting: Cape Town, 30 - 31 May 2006
On the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Africa, industry leaders met in private to shape the Forum’s agenda on two of the key issues facing society: water and chronic hunger.

A key outcome of the meeting was the launch of the Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger, an initiative open to Industry Partners that will:

• Create a multistakeholder coalition committed to reducing chronic hunger in Siaya District, Kenya, through business-led solutions
• Identify and implement innovative, sustainable business solutions to chronic hunger in one location
• Develop a workable model for focused, cross-industry and multistakeholder efforts to reduce chronic hunger that can be adapted and replicated in other locations beyond the pilot.

Participants I Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger

London Strategy Meeting
On 3 and 4 May 2006, the World Economic Forum convened a private meeting of strategists from the Food & Beverage Industry Partner group to discuss issues impacting the sector, including the impact of demographics on the workforce, preparation for pandemics, progress in the Doha Round, reaching the multi-channel consumer and private sector response to water scarcity.
Report I Programme I Participants