World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012

Davos-Klosters, Switzerland 25-29 January
The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos has wrapped up. It has been as ever, a cornucopia of intellectual fare, with some 260 sessions on everything from the Secrets of the Universe to Fixing Capitalism, and a cast of the world's intellectual, business, arts, cultural and social giants. It has been a week of superlatives, the most participants, sessions, snow, media coverage... you name a record and we have broken it.

In short, The outlook, after a week of intense discussion, is of a troubled world pressed for solutions across a number of fronts, but with optimism provided by human ingenuity and progress. Rather than attempt to summarise or curate, we direct you to the full library of content, videos, summaries, tweets, quotes, blog posts and highlights. Enjoy.

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Session Summary

The Davos Debrief: Leadership and Innovation Models

Sunday 29 January

This session was on the record and open to reporting press.

Global Agenda Council Members and select experts summarize and synthesize the key insights related to leadership and innovation from the Annual Meeting 2012.

Key Points

Accelerated communications and public demand for immediate information complicate the tasks of modern leaders.
The new brand of leader needs to respond both to his/her domestic constituency and to a global one as well.
Trust is the key issue and...

Date posted: January 29, 2012

Session Summary

The Davos Debrief: Social and Technological Models

Sunday 29 January

This session was on the record and open to reporting press.

Global Agenda Council Members and select experts summarize and synthesize the key insights related to society and technology from the Annual Meeting 2012.

Key Points

New technologies offer many benefits, but also raise serious social, political, legal and ethical issues.
Developments in brain science promise help for people suffering from Parkinson’s Disease, depression and other disorders.
People can now...

Date posted: January 29, 2012

Session Summary

The Davos Debrief: Sustainability and Resource Models

Sunday 29 January

This session was on the record and open to reporting press.

Global Agenda Council Members and select experts summarize and synthesize the key insights related to sustainability and resources from the Annual Meeting 2012.

Key Points

Modelling and future analyses have the potential to help governments understand complexity.
Technology is making possible the production of biofuels and polymers by various bacteria.
China can be looked to as a role model in the energy sector...

Date posted: January 29, 2012

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From development to growth: finding value in time

What first comes to your mind when you hear or read the word “development”? I personally visualize women’s empowerment projects, vaccination campaigns, school feeding programmes, microfinance initiatives, and not to mention humanitarian assistance, disaster risk reduction, responsibility to protect, cluster approach … I could go on. What I mean is that when I think about development, my brain automatically associates it with aid.

What’s the new context for development? This year at Davos, the answer – at least the one I made for myself digesting all those insights I collected – was...

Date posted: January 29, 2012

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