The World Economic Forum began in 1971. Since that date, it has brought together top business leaders, international politicians, as well as journalists and selected intellectuals in the Swiss region of Davos every January.
On its website, the World Economic Forum It presents itself as an international non-profit, independent and impartial public-private partnership organization that meets in an exclusive ski resort in the Swiss Alps.
The purpose of the annual event is analyzing the most pressing problems facing the world, including health and the environment. The organization’s official website states that the The 2024 annual meeting will host more than 100 governments from around the world, to the most important international organizations, to the Forum’s 1,000 member companies, but also to civil society leaders, leading experts, the current generation of youth, social entrepreneurs and the media.
Business leaders include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman; Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan; and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to name a few.
The founder of OpenAI, in Davos. Sam Altman, CEO of the company that founded ChatGPT, is one of the World Economic Forum’s most anticipated executives.
Altman, who was fired last November, hired by Microsoft and returned to lead OpenAI within a week, will take part in a debate about the importance of security and trust at a time when technology continues to decline. our daily lives and is crucial for economic development.
About 5,000 Swiss soldiers take part in the small Alpine town’s impressive security arrangement, overseen by fighter jets.
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In addition to the official program, the forum is also a behind-the-scenes meeting place for political and economic elites from all over the world, not only during official meetings, but also at cocktail parties and celebrations of all kinds.
An opacity that fuels distrust and criticism from international NGOs but also from trade union members.
City that transforms in January
The city of Davos has just over 10,000 inhabitants, the majority of whom are German-speaking and Protestant. The highest city in the Swiss Alps is also a neighbor of countries such as Liechtenstein and Austria.
The German It is one of the official languages of Switzerland, next to the FrenchHe Italian And Rhaeto-Romance.
At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forumcountries with the strongest economies in the world debate issues such as concerns social, economic and political. Personalities from the business world are also participating in the event.
At the start of the Davos forum, the NGO Oxfam again denounced the “obscene inequalities” in the world and demanded more taxes for increasingly wealthy billionaires.
Topics of 2024
This edition, the program will consist of well-structured and prepared workstreams, directly related to the crucial issues shaping the future through four interconnected thematic priorities:
1. Achieving security and cooperation in a broken world
How can we effectively address security crises, such as the current situation in the Middle East, while at the same time containing the structural forces of fragmentation? How can we identify areas where collaboration is essential to ensure a win-win scenario for all stakeholders?
2. Create growth and jobs for a new era
How can government, business and civil society come together around a new economic framework to avoid a slowdown in low growth and put people at the center of a more prosperous trajectory? How can we minimize compromises and maximize synergies in a situation where traditional measures seem to be failing?
3. Artificial intelligence as the engine of the economy and society
How can we use AI that benefits everyone? How does the diverse regulatory landscape balance innovation with social risks? How will AI interact with other transformative technologies, such as 5/6G, quantum computing and biotechnology?
4. A long-term strategy for climate, nature and energy
How can we develop a long-term systemic approach to achieving the goals of a carbon-neutral and nature-positive world by 2050, while providing affordable, safe and inclusive access to energy, food and water? How can these trade-offs be balanced to achieve social consensus? (JO)
Source: Eluniverso
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