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Understand the perspectives of leaders and change-makers in business, politics and civil society.

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Economic Growth

All the ingredients for US will be the continuation of its strength

The Global Economic Outlook

Laurence Fink

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock

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Emerging Technologies

It is important that countries that are leading the race understand the risks and manage it

Watch the session The Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence

Yoshua Bengio

Full Professor, University of Montreal

People and planet

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Global RisksHow to save millions of lives, according to the UN humanitarian chief
From Gaza to Sudan, humanitarian workers are underfunded and overstretched. But with only 1% of what the world spends on defence, we could save millions of lives, says Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at UN OCHA. His solution? Fletcher is calling for a ‘humanitarian reset’ that puts local communities at the centre.  State-based armed conflict, extreme weather events and inequality are among the leading threats identified in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025.

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