The podcasts to listen to during Davos 2025

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The World Economic Forum will publish podcasts throughout the Annual Meeting 2025 and has a back catalogue of great episodes that speak to the main themes of this year's Davos.

Below is a selection of episodes that touch on this year's main theme, "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age", and on the five imperatives that the Forum is focusing on from our three leading podcast brands:

Radio Davos: The weekly show looking at the world's biggest challenges and how we can tackle them. Subscribe on any app via this link.

Meet the Leader: Big decision makers share the lessons they have learned on the way up, and the habits they would not be without. Subscribe.

Agenda Dialogues: Full audio from key Forum sessions. Subscribe.

Reimagining Growth

Reviving and reimagining growth is critical to building stronger and more resilient economies. How can we identify the new sources of growth in this new global economy?

Global Risks Report: the big issues facing the world at Davos 2025

Also available as a video podcast on YouTube and YouTube Music:

The global economy 'at a crossroads' ahead of Davos: Chief Economists Outlook

IMF's Gita Gopinath: What's ahead for economic growth in 2025

Future of Growth

What Kind of Growth Do We Need?

Finding Growth amid Complex Risks

‘Do it nearly right, but now’ - How effective leaders navigate change and disrupt sectors: Disruption Report

What to Expect from Future Growth

Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero

Build a culture of innovation: HPE's CTO shares what must be in place

Industries in the Intelligent Age

Industries have had to adapt their business strategies to account for major geo-economic and technological shifts. How can business leaders strike a balance between the short-term goals and long-term imperatives in the transformation of their industries?

Global Cybersecurity Outlook: the risks we all face and how to fight back

Ai Lifting all Boats

Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2024

Why are humans going back to the Moon, and is there really life on Mars?

Microsoft’s Brad Smith on tech blindspots and the key lesson that changed how he leads

'We have the most to benefit, but also the most to lose': how AI could transform human health

Spatial computing: why the future of the internet is 3D

What role do investors have in ensuring AI is safe?

Investing in People

Geoeconomic changes, the green transition and technological advancements are impacting everything from employment, skills and wealth distribution to healthcare, education and public services. How can the public and private sectors invest in human capital development and good jobs that contribute to the development of a modern and resilient society?

2025 is a ‘pivotal year’ for job transformation - How leaders can prepare teams for the future of work: ADP’s Chief Economist

Also available as a video podcast on YouTube and YouTube Music:

How to motivate your team - from an organization with 17 million volunteers

IKEA HR chief shares decades of career lessons learned and what’s needed to bridge the gender equity gap

Upskilling, tapping human talents, and what's needed for the future of work: Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar

What workers really want - and how it can bridge the gender gap: Reshma Saujani, Moms First

Skills in the Age of AI

Safeguarding the Planet

Innovative partnerships and dialogue that enable investments and the deployment of climate and clean technologies will be critical to make progress on global climate and nature goals, as well as to address the energy triangle of achieving equitable, secure and sustainable energy systems. How can we catalyse energy, climate and nature action through innovative partnerships, increased financing and the deployment of frontier technologies?

Ray Dalio: The climate crisis is ‘expensive,’ ‘existential’ - How bridging climate finance gaps can help

Also available as a video podcast on YouTube and YouTube Music:

Road to COP30

Can climate action survive geopolitical upheaval?

Talks on creating a "Paris Treaty for plastics" just stalled - here's why, and what happens next

Breathe! The cities working together on air pollution and climate change

Where are the innovations that can make mining more sustainable?

How do we ensure the green transition doesn't penalise the poorest?

Tourism is bouncing back - but can we make travel sustainable?

How chemicals companies are joining forces to become more sustainable

Rebuilding Trust

In an increasingly complex and fast-moving world, societal divides have deepened, geopolitics is multipolar, and policy is shifting towards protectionism, hampering both trade and investment. How can stakeholders find new ways to collaborate on solutions both internationally and within societies?

Global Cooperation Barometer 2025

Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics

Globalization is in transition - not retreat, says this analyst of global trade

"The Centre Must Hold" - what role can centrist politics play in a polarised world?

This Is Not Financial Advice: navigating the jungle of online investing

Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts:

YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts

Radio Davos - subscribe: https://pod.link/1504682164

Meet the Leader - subscribe: https://pod.link/1534915560

Agenda Dialogues - subscribe: https://pod.link/1574956552

Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wefpodcastclub

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