Summer Davos 2026: What to expect as leaders arrive in Dalian

The Forum's weekly podcast Radio Davos is going daily during Summer Davos 2026.

Listen here on the liveblog or wherever you get podcasts (Spotify YouTube or any good podcast platform) including on the Chinese site Xiaoyuzhou. It's also on the Forum Live app.

Released early in the mornings China time, it's a breakfast show that delivers you a preview of the highlights each day.

On this episode, the Forum's Managing Director, Chief Business Officer and Head of Global Programming Mirek Dušek looks ahead to the whole week.

"We're really living through an age of exponential technological advancement. But you could argue that right now we're getting into a place where it's really all about, how do you make it count for the real economy? How do you broaden the impact of those innovations in industry, economy, society, across markets? And so that's what we are really focusing on here," Dušek says.

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The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions is also known as 'Summer Davos' or 'AMNC', and it takes place in China every year, alternating between the cities of Tianjin and Dalian.

We've pulled together six things worth knowing before the Meeting begins in Dalian tomorrow.

Read: What is 'Summer Davos'? 6 things to know about the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China

The theme for this year's Summer Davos is Innovating at Scale. Here's a quick teaser that sums up what this means:

Sessions start streaming on Tuesday. Follow along here and at #AMNC26.

The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC 2026), also known as 'Summer Davos', opens tomorrow in Dalian, People's Republic of China.

This year's theme is 'Innovating at Scale': how the world closes the gap between technological breakthrough and broad economic benefit.

Over 1,700 leaders from business, government and academia are attending, against a backdrop of shifting trade patterns, rising AI investment and an accelerating energy transition.

Follow this blog for context, previews and the conversations shaping tomorrow's agenda.