What role does Davos play in a world gone digital?

The Swiss winter resort town of Davos is eerily quiet this week. It is typically the convening place and playground of the global elite for a week every January, but this year, the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting has gone online. To discuss the forum’s agenda and the impact of its message, managing director Sarita Nayyar joins co-hosts Mustafa Alrawi and Kelsey Warner. She says the pandemic has demonstrated that no institution or individual alone can address the economic, environmental, social and technological challenges in isolation, echoing the comments of forum founder Klaus Schwab. In this episode: Davos goes digital (0m 48s) Sarita Nayyar on this year's virtual agenda (5m 00s) Will more be done this year? (8m 35s) Growing demand from stakeholders (11m 26s) The momentum since change of leadership in the US (14m 43s) Read more on our website: WEF: Global Risk barometer spotlights infectious disease as the top threat WEF's online Davos Agenda to focus on rebuilding trust in post-Covid world WEF: Robust digital economies key to global competitiveness after Covid-19 pandemic Subscribe to Business Extra for free to receive new episodes every week Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Audioboom | Spotify | RSS