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95% of AI pilots fail to deliver measurable ROI (MIT, 2025). 72% of CIOs are breaking even or losing money on AI (Gartner, 2025). This 90-minute session confronts those numbers head-on — no buzzwords, no framework decks, just hands-on AI application and a clear-eyed look at the real barriers in pharma, medtech, and health insurance.WHAT THIS SESSION COVERSWhere AI actually delivers ROI in health operations todayPractical examples from pharma, medtech, and health insurance workflowsThe #1 barrier to AI integration — and what to do about itMoving from "pilot purgatory" to measurable resultsInsufficient skills, organizational resistance, and the ambition-reality gapSPEAKERS• Mark Turrell — Founder of unDavos, WEF Technology Pioneer and Young Global Leader. 16 years co-founding Imaginatik (collaborative innovation for Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, Bayer, IBM). Professor of Global Strategy at Hult International Business School.• Stéphanie Kioutsoukis — Founder & CEO of Fresh Strategy & AI Solutions, creator of the REWIRE for Health programme. 20+ years of innovation across health sector including Novartis, GSK, Unilever, Medela, and public health organisations.This session is part of the REWIRE for Health programme by Fresh Strategy, in collaboration with the unDavos Summit.🌐 undavos.comTRANSCRIPTToday we have with us Mark Terrell, the founder of Andavos, and Stephanie Kiotzoukis is the founder and CEO of Fresh Strategy AI Solutions. Together, they will explore AI in action, what actually works in health sector operations, and through a clear-eyed look at real-world ROIs, practical workflows in pharma and medtech, and a roadmap to escape pilots' purgatory. And with that, I welcome you, Mark and Stephanie. The stage is yours. Very good. Thank you very much, everybody. Lovely to see you. Hi, everyone. Good to see you. So, thank you very much for joining, and to those people that are watching live, and then also those people that will be looking afterwards on the YouTube and the podcast as well. This is going to be a very interesting session, and maybe if I just give it some Davos context as well. So, this year we had our fourth Health at Davos conference, and that's as part of maybe 15 other sort of micro-conferences we do as part of the Andavos Summit. AI clearly has been one of those topics that, since it first popped up, it's never gone away, and it's still there, and it's ever-present. What's quite fascinating, though, is that, in our experience and getting feedback, is there's a lot of talk around the big, high-picture strategy and concepts in AI, but relatively little on what does it mean for me. What does it mean for us? What does it mean for my company in a practical perspective? So, that's why after Davos in 23, we started with Stephanie and with some others as well, but it's really doing AI in action workshops and training. This is an evolution, and it's going sort of way past that. What I'll do is I'll actually have Stephanie will be sort of running most of the show. I'm still guiding, but what we're going to be doing then is we're going to do this thing a little bit different. We're not going to take you through lots of slides. We're going to do quite a lot of hands-on work, because we're really giving you what is the latest and the greatest in this whole world of AI, with an angle looking specifically then at healthcare and the health sector, but others as well. So, with that, I'll say thanks, and then I'll pass over to Stephanie. Yes, maybe I should introduce myself. So, my background is actually in the health sector, spent many years working for Pharma, MedTech, and so in Novartis, GSK, Medela, if that rings a bell with some of you. So, I have a big passion for really the sector and the value that the

"I would rather overspend by $200 billion than be on the wrong side of that bet." — Mark Zuckerberg on AI infrastructure. Professor Vijay Gurbaxani argues we are at the dawn of the next industrial revolution — and most companies are approaching it myopically.**WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS** → Why AI is not just another efficiency tool — it is a general purpose technology that shifts the entire production frontier, transforming what companies can do with the people and machines they already have → The AI Transformation Flywheel: a comprehensive framework linking vision, value proposition, technology ecosystem, talent, culture, and operating model into a self-reinforcing cycle → How Reuters uses AI to write first-draft financial news for speed, then reinvests savings into hiring original news reporters worldwide — competitive differentiation through AI, not cost-cutting → Dr. Treat: a two-clinic veterinary startup that used AI-assisted consultations and an insurance database to deliver superior care, earning acquisition by a 700-location private equity firm → Why data and proprietary know-how are becoming the primary competitive moat when all companies have access to the same AI platforms → The winner-takes-most dynamic in AI markets — not winner-takes-all, but consolidation toward two or three dominant players per segment**PANELISTS**• **PANELISTS**• Stephan Balzer — Keynote Speaker, Host & Moderator; Managing Director, red onion *(Moderator)*• Prof. Vijay Gurbaxani — Taco Bell Endowed Professor of Technology Management & Computer Science; Founding Director, Center for Digital Transformation, UC Irvine**KEY QUOTES** "Every single job in our company is going to be affected by AI." — Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart "This is not an efficiency tool. This thing is going to transform the world for better and for worse." — Prof. Vijay Gurbaxani "I would rather overspend by $200 billion than be on the wrong side of that bet." — Mark ZuckerbergunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI transformation, AI flywheel, digital transformation, AI strategy, competitive advantage, Reuters AI, Dr Treat veterinary AI, AI first company, AI intensive, value proposition, data moat, AI investment, production frontier, general purpose technology, UC Irvine, Vijay Gurbaxani, Davos 2026, unDavos, REWIRE, next industrial revolution, McKinsey AI, winner takes mostTRANSCRIPTSo, here we are back, welcome, I hope you were able to refresh in the break and we want to continue with a different format, we call this the fireside chat, that you know we don't have a fire behind us, but hopefully we need it, yes we need the fire in Switzerland, right? So, first, give a warm welcome to our guest, and I will start and you can stop if I talk about you too long, Vijay Gorbaksani is the Taco Bell Endowed Professor of Technology Management and the founding director of the Center of Digital Transformation at UC Irvine, and you're specializing in digital transformation? Correct. Like one of the key things we're discussing here, AI strategy and the economics of technology, which is a great combination, looking back to the panel we had before, and it says here that you're blending rigorous academic research with practical insights to guide business leaders and boards, so also the topic we just touched upon, into adopting AI, so there's more to talk with you about, but maybe you want to take it from there and share your first thoughts. You want me to, just to make it clear, so first of all, good afternoon to everybody, it's lovely to meet all of you, and the last panel was absolutely fantastic, and I hope to be able to add something beyond that, but you want me to talk for about five min

Dr. Vitaly Peretashenko presents Vendor Energy System, a solid-state parametric electrodynamic generator that operates without fuel, batteries, wind or solar — just physics. After a patient died during a blackout early in his medical career, Vitaly pivoted to energy research and concluded that the bottleneck isn't energy itself but architecture: centralised grids where any single line can break, causing cascading failures like the five-billion-euro Spain-Portugal blackout. Vendor's hardware has been tested for over 1,000 hours under heavy load (4+ kW) at TRL 5-6. The software layer adds decentralised control with a dual-token protocol (MECA-compliant) — one token for transaction processing and system operations, another for capacity allocation and physical access. The vision: install generators in homes and EVs that form a peer-to-peer energy network — if one node fails, the rest keep running. Within three to five years, a million mobile energy points across Europe could deliver 70-120 billion euros in annual structural savings for the EU.SPEAKERS• Dr. Vitaly Peretashenko — Founder, Vendor Energy System | Physicist & Doctor• Yaros — Host & ModeratorunDavos — unconventional conversations at Davos. 200+ sessions across 12 tracks, bringing together founders, investors, policymakers and scientists for the discussions that matter.🔗 https://undavos.com📺 https://www.youtube.com/@undavos🌐 undavos.comTRANSCRIPTHey guys, it's a pleasure to be here and to start this amazing day here in Davos. I would like to introduce Mr. Vitaly Peretashenko to you. Mr. Vitaly is a lot of things. He's a doctor, he's a physicist, but he's not really a speaker. This is his very first experience on stage, so I would like everyone to give him a little patience and a little understanding. Thank you so much, Vitaly. Go Vitaly! Thank you. Thank you, Yaros. Tell us your story. Thank you, Yaros, and good morning everyone. I want to tell you about the future of energy and not about solar energy, wind energy, or nuclear energy. I want to tell you about a little story. When I was young, I was a doctor, and one day the patient died. His heart stopped, not because of disease, but because of blackout. After that, I started researching, and I realized that energy is not a bottleneck. Architecture is. In this slide, you see a snowflake, but this is a modern energy architecture structure. Each line in this structure can be broken. Next slide, please. In the next slide, you see four major blackouts in the last years. Spain and Portugal, one week, five billion Euros. Germany, one week and one billion Euros. Chile and the USA. The next slide, please. What if I tell you that your EV or your house could give you control and energy? Next slide, please. I would like to explain you Vendor Energy System. It contains two parts, two important parts. The software part is decentralized control layer, dual utility token structure, and full MECA compliance. Hardware part. Next slide, please. Software, decentralized control layer. It enables control, routing, access and audit. Next slide, please. Hardware part. This is our generator. This is a solid state parametric open electrodynamic power energy system. It sounds hard. I know, I know. But it's fully autonomic, without fuel, without batteries, without wind, solar, et cetera. Because it's not magic. Just only physics at all. Next slide, please. Two tokens, two functions. Token A, software token. This is a transaction processing, access gating, and system operating. Hardware token, priority eligibility to access capacity, allocation queue, and realization path into physical access. Token here is a protocol switch, not an assets. Why? Because it's MECA compliance requirements. Next slide, please. You know, computers work better as Internet. And generator works better as energy.ne

Laura Herman (Potentiary), Richard Hong (TNE.AI, ex-Microsoft) and Mark Terrell (unDavos) debate whether trillion-dollar data-centre buildouts are the battleships of our era. Richard reveals how his company shrunk a one-trillion-parameter cloud model to 1.7 billion parameters — running on a $1,000 laptop at 25 watts instead of 20 kilowatts — while delivering the same results for enterprise KYC and anti-money-laundering. Mark argues the real unlock is secondary markets and pre-exit liquidity that could free up hundreds of billions in early-stage capital, enabling four-person startups in Nairobi to build what used to require Silicon Valley budgets. The conversation spans AI sovereignty, critical infrastructure fragility (Berlin lost power for two days from a single substation attack), quantum computing's looming "Q-day" that could expose every encrypted record, and why every country now needs to think about education, energy independence and technology sovereignty as a single stack.SPEAKERS• Laura Herman — Founder, Potentiary | 20 years in nuclear science & tech transfer• Richard Hong — CEO, TNE.AI | Ex-Microsoft (12 years), former VC (15 years)• Mark Terrell — Founder, unDavos | PhD in Collective Intelligence (Intel)unDavos — unconventional conversations at Davos. 200+ sessions across 12 tracks, bringing together founders, investors, policymakers and scientists for the discussions that matter.🔗 https://undavos.com📺 https://www.youtube.com/@undavos🌐 undavos.comTRANSCRIPTAnd the stage is yours. All right. Thank you very much. Richard, if you want to take the microphone and you want to sit, I'm going to moderate. So I'll stand. Sure. We've got two chairs. That makes sense. My name is Laura Herman. I'm with Potentiary. This company was founded as an investment advisor after I had 20 years working in nuclear science and technology across the entire fuel cycle, doing tech transfer from our national laboratories in the United States out into the startup world. So in the last decade or so, I've had the opportunity to work with a lot of startup companies who are trying to break into large industrial systems-oriented types of industries. And so that brings me here today and to Davos this week. And I am excited to be having a conversation with Richard Hong, who is former Microsoft. He's going to tell us a little bit about his company and Mark Terrell, who has been organizing these spotlights here on Davos. The one and only. Yeah. So Richard, please, do you want to take a few minutes and tell our audience about what you're working on and how you got started in the AI infrastructure? Well, thank you, everybody. I think that, you know, we have an AI house here, we've got all these crazy things happening, and I guess I'm here to tell you that actually making these things work is way harder than you think. And I often ask for a show of hands, because if you look at the press, it seems like it's just happening everywhere. And I guess I spend a lot of time talking with the very biggest companies, and the answer is it really is very hard. So by way of background, I worked at Microsoft for 12 years. You can blame me for all the issues with Windows Office and our server products, I guess that's one thing. And then I spent 15 years as a venture capitalist, and in the last five years I've been doing AI companies. And we are a company called Total Neural Enterprises, TNE.AI, and we're really trying to help the biggest companies adopt this technology in an efficient way. I love to hear you say that transferring artificial intelligence into these enterprise systems is not easy, because too often I hear it kind of presented as a panacea. So we'll talk a little bit more about how it can be difficult. It's called the San Francisco AI House Party, by the way, if you're wondering what the actual techni

In five-minute lightning rounds, ten speakers delivered ideas ranging from how desire drives every mass media technology adoption cycle, to why an Oscar-winning animation was made for $4 million, to how Harvard neuroscientists are using real-time EEG to predict brain injury before it happens. Ignite Talks at unDavos 2026 packed more paradigm shifts per minute than any other session of the week.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy resilience is a red flag, not a strength — and how "white space" between overlapping sectors like healthcare and energy creates preventable crisesHow strategic foresight and community storytelling across four generations can drive the transition to a regenerative futureWhy artists matter more than ever in the AI era — tools accelerate output, but only humans provide creative direction and cultural meaningHow every mass media technology from the printing press to AI agents was adopted fastest through its most unmentionable use caseHow the designer of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is launching The New Division to build elegant solutions that benefit individuals, society, and nature simultaneouslySPEAKERS• Melissa Stires — Global Growth Officer, MIA AI & CEO, Fundamental Well-Being Foundation (Host)• Dr. Steph Sharma — Founder & Managing Director, Symbio Strategies• Dr. Chris Luebkeman — Strategic Foresight Hub, ETH Zurich & Founder, Your 2040• Danar Worya — Founder & Creative Director, Bright Winter Studio• Haley Draznin — CMO, Premise AI• Lee — COO, Premise AI• Dr. Claudia Friedrich — Harvard Faculty & Board Member, Equiterra• Lucian Tarnowski — Founding Curator, United Planet & The UP Game• Jakob Trollbäck — Designer of the UN SDGs & Founder, The New DivisionunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: Ignite Talks, lightning talks, resilience, strategic foresight, world building, AI and art, mass media history, technology adoption, neuroscience, brain monitoring, anesthesia EEG, United Planet, Sustainable Development Goals, climate misinformation, Hispanic leadership, Latin America, systems change, regenerative future, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEFTRANSCRIPTHello friends, hello friends, if you are here for the Ignite Talks, then you are in the right room. If you are watching for the Ignite Talks, hi mom, hi other people's moms, you are on the right stage, you're in the right channel. We are so excited to have you here. My name is Melissa Toni Stiers, and I will be your host with the most for this wonderful time together, and I am just really excited and honored to be back at Endavos. I spend my life at the intersection of technology and well-being, and there's so much that I have to read it to you because I'm so busy. I love human connection though, that's my favorite thing, and I love to bring people together from different worlds, which is exactly what's happening today in this room. I am a proud founding partner and the current global growth officer at MIA.AI. I want to give a shout out to my CEO and the co-founder of MIA.AI, Yana Salakangas, who is in the audience. She is a fantastic leader, and she's created MIA, which is one of the most, if not the most human-centric AI companies in the world. I'm also the CEO of the Fundamental Well-Being Foundation on behalf of the foundation. Each one of our speakers is going to get a book from our lead scientist that just talks about what it's like to be a finder, which happens to be the name of an app that we recently launched. At MIA.AI, we believe that the greatest risk to AI, to the AI era, is wasted human potential. And at MIA, we combine a blended lear

Only 2% of Americans say they trust the media "a great deal." Meanwhile, AI-generated misinformation is spreading faster than anyone can fact-check it, and the economic models that once sustained journalism are collapsing. Yet at unDavos 2026, a panel of media veterans and tech builders found unexpected reasons for optimism — from teens asking for newspaper subscriptions to the first real decline in social media adoption.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy social media adoption is showing its first meaningful decline, with younger users treating platforms as entertainment rather than information sourcesHow AI makes it radically easier to create good stories and interactive content, while simultaneously enabling hyper-personalization that traps people in micro-bubblesWhy decentralized platforms like Farcaster offer a model where content creators earn directly through micro-tipping rather than ad-driven attention harvestingHow outdated algorithms in developing countries may paradoxically be an advantage — less hyper-personalization means less ideological lock-inWhy real-world events like Davos are becoming more important than ever, with in-person gatherings actively reprogramming people's algorithmic filter bubblesPANELISTS• Alexia Leachman — Panel Moderator• Mark Kollar — Partner, Prosek Partners• Francesca Gargaglia — Co-Founder & CEO, Social+• Jeff Wilser — Journalist, Author & Host of AI Curious• Johnny Gabriele — Entrepreneur & Tech InvestorunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: future of media, misinformation, AI and media, trust in news, social media decline, journalism, media economics, decentralized media, filter bubbles, Farcaster, Web3 media, personalized news, content creation, local news, digital media, media trust, echo chambers, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEFTRANSCRIPTGood morning everyone. Thank you so much for getting up early and making it here on time. Please forgive us, we thought we'd wait a few more minutes for everyone else to arrive. Today we're going to be speaking on the future of media, news and entertainment. And we've got a really great selection of panellists who I'll introduce to you shortly. We'll then go into a discussion and we're going to open the floor for questions. So please feel free to raise your hand throughout the talk but also at the end if you want to have discussions directly with particular people or you have questions for the broader panel. Now in a world where information is everywhere, trust isn't and confidence is extremely low. So the future of news isn't just about formats and new platforms, it's about trust, attention that is technically engineered as well as human fuelled. Audiences are fragmenting, traditional news consumption is declining and we have this huge rise of personality led media which is reshaping how people encounter information and often it's outside the traditional institutions that we all grew up with. Combined with this we have misinformation that is now spreading at an exponential rate and we're able to produce it in a way that we never could before. It becomes more believable in many cases than it often is when you open up a newspaper. I think all of us today will be able to give some examples of how we've seen misinformation and even as experts in this field we will struggle to verify it and this is becoming an increasing problem. When I put together this panel one of the things I was really passionate about is that this wouldn't be so much a nostalgia panel or even a technology bashing panel but a discussion about how do we look forward, how do we build the economic models that sustain trust

Sri Lanka surpassed its estimated government revenue by 10% in 2025 — the highest overshoot in the country's history. One year after a party once labelled "extremist" took power, diplomats who feared the worst are now stunned by the results. At an intimate breakfast in Davos, the Prime Minister and Deputy Finance Minister made their case directly to investors.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow Sri Lanka achieved macroeconomic stabilization through fiscal consolidation while simultaneously opening up imports and repaying debtWhy the government is prioritizing green energy, data centers, and electrified transport as strategic investment corridors with 50 GW of renewable potentialWhat the new Investor Protection Act, single-window for foreign investment, and national export window mean for doing business in Sri LankaHow the education system is being reformed from grade one up — introducing vocational pathways, equalizing quality, and preparing youth for lifelong learningWhy Sri Lanka positions itself as a hub connecting investors to the Indian market through its strategic location and human capitalPANELISTS• Dr. Harini Amarasuriya — Prime Minister of Sri Lanka• Dr. Anil Jayantha Fernando — Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning, Sri LankaunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka investment, Sri Lanka economy, Harini Amarasuriya, fiscal consolidation, emerging markets, South Asia investment, green energy, education reform, Davos 2026, WEF, unDavos, investor protection, public-private partnership, tourism Sri Lanka, trade and investment, macroeconomic stability, IMF, sustainable growthTRANSCRIPTThese types of events. We are recovering. The president appointed a task force to manage the recovery and rebuilding efforts. The task force is chaired by me, and we have representation from public, private, and civil society in the task force. We have eight subcommittees that are looking at the various aspects that need rebuilding and need recovery, and we are ready to move on. In that sense, 2025-2026 for us was a year in which we really want to focus on growth, on sustaining the macroeconomic fundamentals that we had achieved in 2025, and we are hopeful for this. This is where I think you come in. We are very keen on establishing a transparent investment climate, a counter-investment climate, ruling out corruption. Again, Minister Anirjan, I will tell you of some of the initiatives that we have already undertaken. This year in June, we are hosting an expo, and I would like to extend an invitation to all of you to come to visit. As you know, even without an expo, Sri Lanka is a country worth visiting. As I am sure some of you know already, do come and participate in the expo, and we look forward to creating a really good relationship, and looking forward to many more initiatives from Switzerland in Sri Lanka. We think of Sri Lanka as a story of hope and optimism in this very chaotic world that we are living in today. Sri Lanka offers a story and a narrative that change is possible, that democracy is still alive and well, and that good governance can mean something and can actually precipitate change that is centred on the people that governments are elected to serve, but also that these ideas can be upheld not just because we function on our own, but through cooperation and solidarity and collaboration with global partners. So thank you again for this opportunity, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on how we can work together in the future. Thank you very much. Thank you, Honourable Prime Minister. I would pass on the words now to the Deputy Finance Minister. Thank you

Wendy Starland got 48 rejections before anyone would listen to her pitch for an unknown artist dressed “like a clown.” That artist became Lady Gaga. Jessica Chaijaya arrived in San Francisco from Indonesia speaking only “yes” and “no” in English, cleaned an entire school for free to earn her place, and has since met King Charles, Prince Albert of Monaco, and a half-dozen heads of state. This panel strips away the highlight reel to reveal what unstoppable actually costs.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow Wendy Starland discovered and developed Lady Gaga by reverse-engineering a market gap — going edgy and bold when the entire industry was soft and pretty — and is now building MusicSoul, an AI platform that pays creators 70% of revenueWhy Maja Marburger rebuilt her entire business after her life partner and business partner left overnight, pivoting from jewelry to real estate and closing her first deal with her son reviewing the contractsHow Dr. Christina Rahm went from wanting to hide under the covers after losing everything in a divorce to co-leading a portfolio of nearly 30 companies in health, wellness, and nanobiotechnologyWhy Jessica Chaijaya lied about speaking English to escape Indonesia after the 1998 May Riots, cleaned a school for free to learn the language, and now chairs the United Society CouncilWhy the belief that loving people will make them love you back is the hardest lesson in business — and why learning to be a warrior does not mean closing your heartPANELISTS• Elena — Host, EMTECH Invest• Wendy Starland — Co-Founder & President, MusicSoul; Discoverer of Lady Gaga• Maja Marburger — Founder, Marburger GmbH; Founding Member, 100Women@Davos• Dr. Christina Rahm — Nanobiotechnologist & CEO, DRC Ventures• Jessica Chaijaya — Chairwoman, United Society Council; Investor & PhilanthropistunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: women in business, unstoppable women, Lady Gaga discovery, Wendy Starland, MusicSoul, female entrepreneurs, women leadership, mental health, resilience, Christina Rahm, Jessica Chaijaya, Maja Marburger, music industry, AI music platform, women investors, 100Women Davos, female founders, philanthropy, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEFTRANSCRIPTThank you so much, Dustin. It means a lot being here today. It means a lot being here in this room, sitting next to these beautiful ladies. I had the privilege to dive into your bio a little bit, and I'm so impressed. So I'm hoping for a real conversation, an open conversation. And I'm not going to talk about the unstoppable that you think, or the society thinks that unstoppable means. I'm not going to talk about the success. I want to pick your brain about the truth behind building. I want to share stories here for the next generation, so when they decide to build, and they decide to lead, that they understand that it comes with challenges, and that they can overcome them. So enjoy the conversation. Thank you. I'm going to start with you. Please, can you introduce yourself? Let's start there. Hi, my name is Wendy Starland. I'm best known for discovering and developing Lady Gaga from an unknown artist into a billion dollar brand. I am now the co-founder and president of MusicSoul. It's an AI-driven music streaming platform and marketplace that uses AI to drive mass promotion to the users from the brands, and pays the users 70% of all streaming and advertising revenues. Thank you so much. So I'm immediately going to ask you a question, because building something, especially in the music industry, you have to believe in yourself enormously. So how did you kept going in the beginning when you felt uns

Todd Ault failed so many times his wife says an average person wouldn’t survive a single week of what he endures. Clayton Thomas built a social commerce fintech deployed in 80 countries and has been sued more times than he can count. Riadh Bouaziz arrived in France from Tunisia with nothing but a high school diploma and now runs a luxury linen company present in 85 countries. And a 30-year-old from Moscow got into crypto mining Ethereum from his motherboard. Dustin Plantholt moderates a raw, unscripted conversation about what it actually costs to be unstoppable.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy Todd Ault has been seeing the same therapist for 25 years and believes the mental health conversation is the most important one entrepreneurs refuse to haveHow Clayton Thomas built an algorithmic fintech social commerce system deployed in over 80 countries, and why he rejects the word “pivot” — “if you pivot, you don’t move, you just rotate”Why Riadh Bouaziz learned English at age 40+ because he refused to bring a translator, and how his 15 sustainability patents put RKF Luxury Linen in 85 countriesHow Vladimir went from mining Ethereum on video cards in Moscow to navigating the global fragmentation that is creating asymmetric opportunities across regionsWhy 99.99% of the population is not designed for entrepreneurship — not as weakness but as fact — and why understanding where you fit is more valuable than forcing yourself to leadPANELISTS• Dustin Plantholt — Host, “Unstoppable Entrepreneurs”; Journalist & Entrepreneur (Moderator)• Milton “Todd” Ault III — Founder & Executive Chairman, Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS)• Clayton Thomas — CEO & Co-Founder, The ROOT Brands• Riadh Bouaziz — Founder & CEO, RKF Luxury Linen• Vladimir — Entrepreneur, MoscowunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: entrepreneurship, founder mental health, failure, resilience, unstoppable mindset, Todd Ault, Clayton Thomas, Riadh Bouaziz, Dustin Plantholt, startup advice, founder stories, crypto mining, social commerce, luxury business, sustainability patents, entrepreneur therapy, Warren Buffett, bootstrap, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEFTRANSCRIPTThat Elena is one of those individuals that she puts everybody else first. She was supposed to, this morning, come to Abraham House. And I had said to her there was something very special being done in her name. And she said, the people that are relying on me, those who are trusting me, they come first. So with that, Elena, I'd like you to come forward. On behalf of one of the oldest operating Islamic communities in the world, Riyadh, my Arabic is not very good. So I might need your eyes. From the chief imam to Elena. Wow, thank you very much. Thank you very much. This is in honor of how you treat people and what you do for others. And this is one of the highest honors that they give. This is a 600-year-old community from North Macedonia, going all the way back to the times of the Turks, the Ottoman Empire. And so from the chief imam to yourself and from the whole community. I'm touched. Thank you so much. That's unity. She doesn't ask people their religious beliefs. She brings everybody into her family. It's my unstoppable. So I like to give people kind of like things because I get them to get engaged. I feel like I guess bribe my friends. Unstoppable. That word. What does it mean? I'm going to go to somebody there. The guy looks away. I'm like, I'm not making eye contact. I'm not making eye contact. You're making eye contact now. Unstoppable. What does it mean to you? Relentless. Relentless. What? To be relentless. Let me give you a gift card. How about a lad

Tether makes $16–19 billion a year with roughly 100 employees — and it will never register in Europe, guaranteed. Meanwhile, the Genius Act in the US is creating a framework where banks and stablecoin issuers may soon compete head-to-head on yield, and Norway’s central bank just shut down all CBDC activity to pivot entirely to stablecoins. This panel of lawyers, regulators, and operators unpacks the legal fault lines reshaping digital money.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy Tether chose to never comply with MiCA in Europe — refusing to store 60% of backing in European banks — but invested in a Maltese company with a MiCA license to stay in the market indirectlyHow the US Genius Act is setting up a peace treaty between banks and stablecoin issuers, with David Sacks predicting banks will eventually surrender and become stablecoin issuers themselvesWhy Switzerland is positioning itself as a stablecoin hub using a trust model structure — avoiding banking regulation while maintaining FINMA compliance — with a new license expected by 2027How stablecoins are already being used by shipping cargo liners in European ports as a replacement for US dollar cash, demonstrating real-world liquidity that regulators cannot ignoreWhy Norway’s central bank shut down all CBDC activity before Christmas and will host a full-day session on stablecoins in April, signaling the privatization of digital moneyPANELISTS• Alex — Forbes Contributor & Founder, Coins.Telegram (Moderator)• Florian Ducument — Tech Lawyer, Switzerland (Token & Stablecoin Structuring)• Magnus Jones — Nordic Blockchain Association; Former Nordic Blockchain & Innovation Lead, EY• Daniel Payne — Partner, Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP (Crypto & Securities Attorney)• Aaron Sanchez — Director of Industry Engagement, MiCA Crypto Alliance• Alena — Founder, Swiss Licensed Crypto Exchange & Escrow; AMLO OfficerunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: stablecoins, Tether, USDT, MiCA regulation, Genius Act, CBDC, digital money, crypto regulation, Switzerland crypto, DeFi, law enforcement, stablecoin yield, David Sacks, Norway CBDC, blockchain regulation, crypto compliance, digital economy, banking, tokenized money, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

In Switzerland alone, 300 billion in female money sits uninvested. Globally, the figure is 40 trillion. Meanwhile, a 30-year-old hedge fund manager from Tel Aviv who grew up in a 25-square-meter public housing unit now manages billions using quantum-physics-based algorithms that returned almost 90% in the worst year since the financial crisis. This panel brings together radically different investment philosophies — from democratizing ETF access for women to defense-tech VC to algorithmic crypto trading.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy elleXX hit the European crowd-investing record for female founders using tokenized shares on blockchain, after being turned down by hundreds of traditional VCs because only 1% of global VC flows to womenHow AlgoBless’s quantum-physics-based trading algorithms delivered nearly 90% returns in 2022 when the S&P 500 was down 20%, using 200 trades per day across 240–280 filtered companiesWhy defense technology and longevity are outperforming traditional VC sectors, with 2–3x returns in just one to two years and a first unicorn expected this yearHow Black River Ventures navigates late-stage investing with $20–30 million checks in pre-IPO fintech and IoT companies, and why secondaries are democratizing access to mature private companiesWhy financial literacy starting at age five is the single most important lever for closing the wealth gap, with Israel mandating finance education in every school next yearPANELISTS• Yuri — Founder, VentureVNTR (Moderator)• Patrizia Laeri — Co-Founder & CEO, elleXX• Naor Baruch — Founder, AlgoBless• Andrey Marus — Partner, VentureVNTR & Co-Organizer, Unicorn Events• Alex — Black River VenturesunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: investment strategies, smart capital, female investors, fintech, elleXX, algo trading, hedge fund, AlgoBless, defense tech, longevity investing, late stage VC, pre-IPO, tokenized shares, blockchain investing, ETF, financial literacy, wealth gap, crypto trading, venture capital, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Todd Ault had $200 million in the bank and couldn’t make payroll. During COVID, with bank branches physically closed, his company was debanked for the seventh time — including his wife’s Girl Scout Cookie account. The founder of Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) and the 34th largest public Bitcoin holder in the world delivers a raw keynote on how systemic debanking drove him to DeFi, politics, and building his own Layer 1 blockchain.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow a publicly traded company with $200 million in the bank was debanked during COVID with no appeals process, no explanation, and 30 days to move 57 accountsWhy 1.7 billion people worldwide are excluded from the banking system, and how DeFi wallets offer the only reliable path to financial self-custodyHow Todd’s journey from debanking to political engagement led him to work directly with US policymakers on crypto regulation and the Genius ActWhy Switzerland is emerging as the global hub for tokenization, with progressive laws that didn’t exist a few years ago enabling new payment tokens and real-world asset structuresWhy anyone looking to tokenize should start with assets they already own rather than trying to raise new capital in a market that lacks liquidity for real-world assetsSPEAKER• Milton “Todd” Ault III — Founder & Executive Chairman, Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS); Founder, Ault Capital GroupunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: debanking, DeFi, decentralized finance, Bitcoin, tokenization, real-world assets, RWA, Hyperscale Data, GPUS, cryptocurrency regulation, Genius Act, Switzerland crypto, blockchain, financial inclusion, KYC, self-custody, Todd Ault, New York Stock Exchange, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

700,000 people die from suicide every year. Over a billion suffer from mental health conditions. Yet psychiatry still diagnoses depression by asking patients if they feel sad — and current medications work for only 30% of people. Mariam Khayretdinova, CEO of Brainify AI, shares the story of Jay, a brilliant, successful woman who was assessed as “low suicide risk” and died two hours after being discharged. Her keynote makes the case for why AI, trained on massive brain datasets, may be psychiatry’s best hope.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy psychiatry is the only major medical field with zero biological measurement — diagnoses are built entirely on symptomatic questionnaires, leading to 70% misdiagnosis ratesHow Brainify AI’s foundational brain model, trained on data from 500,000 patients, can identify biological patterns invisible to human clinicians and stratify patients by treatment responseWhy “heterogeneity” — where identical symptoms hide vastly different biological causes — is the core challenge, and why depression likely comprises thousands of distinct disordersHow behavioral data from social media and online activity could predict suicidal individuals and route alerts to emergency systems using data that already existsWhy building AI for mental health requires 13-trillion-token scale datasets, and why the brain’s diversity across ethnicity, culture, and life experience makes this a fundamentally global challengeSPEAKER• Mariam Khayretdinova — Co-Founder & CEO, Brainify AI; Author, “Decoding Despair: How AI is Reshaping Psychiatry”unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: mental health, AI psychiatry, depression, suicide prevention, brain health, Brainify AI, precision psychiatry, biomarkers, EEG, drug development, mental health stigma, heterogeneity, personalized medicine, Decoding Despair, neuroscience, brain data, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

A LiDAR sensor that sees through mud and rain. A foundational brain model trained on half a million patients. A computer vision system that boosts farm profitability 35% using just a smartphone camera. And a nonprofit exploring how machines might one day talk to bacteria. Four founders showcase AI technologies at wildly different stages of maturity — from commercial deployment with BMW and Volkswagen to the philosophical frontier of machine consciousness.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow Innoviz’s LiDAR technology enables Level 3 autonomous driving — eyes off the road — with robot taxis launching in the US and Germany by end of 2026 through partnerships with Volkswagen and BMWWhy Brainify AI’s foundational brain model, trained on 500,000 patients, could finally decode the biological underpinnings of depression and anxiety — conditions currently diagnosed by questionnaire aloneHow C-Crop’s computer vision counts and measures fruit using only a smartphone camera, delivering 20% yield increase and 35% profitability gain in agriculture, the most data-saturated yet least digitalized industryWhy the California Institute for Machine Consciousness is exploring bidirectional communication with biological substrates — from brain-computer interfaces to talking to the microbiomeWhy only 1 out of 120 AI investors does actual deep due diligence, and what that means for the quality of companies getting fundedPANELISTS• Omer Keilaf — Co-Founder & CEO, Innoviz Technologies• Mariam Khayretdinova — Co-Founder & CEO, Brainify AI• Pavel Hilman — Co-Founder, C-Crop• Joel Dietz — Acting Research Director, California Institute for Machine Consciousness• Doron Amir — SandboxAQunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: LiDAR, autonomous vehicles, self-driving cars, Innoviz, brain health AI, Brainify, precision psychiatry, agritech, computer vision, agriculture AI, machine consciousness, brain-computer interface, AI investment, due diligence, Level 3 autonomy, BMW, Volkswagen, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

If the majority of AI’s value comes from cutting jobs, only a select few will become billionaires while the rest of us become jobless. SandboxAQ’s Doron Amir argues we’re at a fork in the road: Large Language Models optimize efficiency, but Large Quantitative Models — trained on physics and mathematics rather than internet text — can create entirely new sciences, new industries, and new jobs. This keynote reframes the AI conversation from reduction to creation.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy LLMs hit a “semantic dead end” in high-value science — confidently giving wrong answers to physics questions until connected to quantitative models that get the math rightHow SandboxAQ’s Large Quantitative Models serve as a “rigorous computational engine” that has already identified novel drug candidates targeting obesity, ready for synthesisWhy the AI industry skewed too heavily toward LLMs after ChatGPT, and why leaders like Yann LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, and Ilya Sutskever are now calling for new architecturesHow quantum sensing — boosted by AI to increase signal and reduce noise — is accelerating quantum technology applications today, without waiting for quantum computersWhy the strategic framework should prioritize discovery over efficiency, resist short-term thinking, and augment humanity rather than replace itSPEAKER• Doron Amir — SandboxAQ (spun out of Google/Alphabet)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: SandboxAQ, Large Quantitative Models, LQM vs LLM, AI and physics, quantum sensing, drug discovery AI, artificial general intelligence, AGI, AI architecture, Google Alphabet, zero-sum trap, AI job creation, abundance economics, responsible AI, quantum technology, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

There are now more crypto users — over 400 million — than the combined populations of the United States and Canada. Eight out of ten banks are experimenting with blockchain rails. Yet the Cardano Foundation just completed the first-ever on-chain financial audit with a cryptographic signature from Grant Thornton, and Filecoin is backing up government data from Bermuda. This panel goes beneath the price charts to where blockchain is quietly becoming infrastructure.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy the Cardano Foundation’s on-chain audit — verified by Grant Thornton using a virtual legal entity identifier — represents a new standard for corporate transparency and trustHow Filecoin’s decentralized storage eliminates single points of failure, backing up data from the government of Bermuda, MIT open courseware, and the Internet ArchiveWhy Hedera’s governing council of 39 Fortune 500 companies including Google, Boeing, and Deutsche Telekom bridges the gap between decentralization and enterprise-grade governanceHow Boston Trading launched the world’s first Halal, Kosher, and Sanata Dharma crypto funds — making inclusive finance real with radical transparency showing live holdingsWhy the real barrier to blockchain adoption is not technology but trust, relationships, and the human reluctance to take on the responsibility of self-sovereigntyPANELISTS• Shiraz — Panel Moderator• Clara Tsao — Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation• Sandro Knöpfel — Global Business Development Lead, Cardano Foundation• Kamal Youssefi — President of the Board, The Hashgraph Association (Hedera)• Jeremy Britton — Founder, Boston Trading Co.• Anders — Nethermind (Ethereum Protocol)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: blockchain adoption, Filecoin, decentralized storage, Cardano, on-chain audit, Hedera Hashgraph, enterprise blockchain, crypto mutual fund, inclusive finance, Web3 infrastructure, tokenization, DeFi, public goods, digital identity, self-sovereignty, blockchain governance, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

AI could boost the Swiss economy by 85 billion over the next decade — but the real signal is what’s happening at the infrastructure level. Crusoe is building a 1.2-gigawatt data center in Texas as part of Project Stargate, Jiro AI rejuvenated mice using physics-informed models trained on 100 million medical records, and Beebop is turning residential heat pumps into grid-balancing assets. This panel cuts through the hype to show where AI is already creating measurable value.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow Crusoe’s vertically integrated AI infrastructure — from power plants to cloud software — is seeing customers shift from training to inference, a clear signal of product-market fitWhy Jiro AI’s foundational health model identified 40 clusters of age-related diseases, each potentially yielding a blockbuster drug effective across an entire disease familyHow Beebop’s AI algorithms decide which neighbor’s heat pump to dim for five minutes versus which battery to discharge for thirty, all without disrupting comfortWhy SandboxAQ’s quantum sensing uses AI to boost signal and reduce noise, accelerating quantum technology applications well ahead of quantum computing itselfHow Crusoe deployed smartphone-based AI in manufacturing that identifies spare parts by photo, saving hundreds of hours while eliminating a task every worker hatedPANELISTS• Liz Perkins — Panel Moderator• Cully Cavness — Co-Founder & President, Crusoe• Max Hobin — Co-Founder, Jiro AI• Sandra Trittin — Co-Founder, Beebop• Doron Amir — SandboxAQunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI infrastructure, AI scaling, Crusoe, Project Stargate, energy AI, smart grid, virtual power plant, drug discovery AI, longevity, quantum sensing, SandboxAQ, Beebop, renewable energy, data centers, AI manufacturing, inference scaling, precision medicine, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

With 40% of government workers set to retire within five years and China deploying dark factories that build hundreds of thousands of cars without humans, this closing session asks the room to name their industry's burning platforms — and stop pretending the fire is not already lit. From tariff shocks to the Klarna rehiring debacle, the urgency is personal, corporate, and geopolitical.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSEurope's competitive position is eroding in real time — Chinese EVs are materially cheaper and better, and policy barriers are a temporary shield, not a strategy40% of government organization staff will retire within five years, creating an institutional knowledge crisis that AI must address before it is too lateThe audience names their burning platforms: competition, workforce retirement, AI fluency gaps, government policy shifts, and the growing disconnect between executive ambition and operational realityTrump's post-Davos tariff announcement was a burning platform most European leaders failed to take seriously — geopolitical disruption accelerates the need for organizational agilityIf this conference were in China, 5,000 attendees would fill the room and every industry would already be robotized — the gap between awareness and action in Europe remains the central challengePANELISTS• Stephan Balzer — Keynote Speaker, Host & Moderator; Managing Director, red onion (Moderator)• Audience participantsunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: burning platform, sense of urgency, AI adoption, Europe competitiveness, China AI, dark factories, workforce retirement, government AI, tariffs, organizational change, enterprise transformation, Davos 2026, unDavos, REWIRE

MIT's Ramesh Raskar and Prof. Dr. Kathrin Kind map the enterprise of 2030-2035: organizations that shrink in headcount but expand in capability, where every employee creates their own AI models and the 'internet of AI agents' replaces today's siloed copilots. From automotive simulation at 21 million virtual miles to the first room-temperature quantum computing startup, this fireside chat moves fast from present deployments to frontier science.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSEnterprise AI will evolve through three phases — mainframe era (centralized copilots), PC era (employees building their own models), and internet era (networked AI agents communicating across organizations)Prof. Kathrin Kind predicts organizations will shrink as AI replaces bureaucratic middle layers, but warns that companies letting go of top talent for automation are making a critical mistakeMIT's Project NANDA (Network AI Agents in Decentralized Architecture) is building the 'internet of AI agents' — shifting from AI as a tool to AI as an ecosystem you live in, not just useAI is progressing from assistant to engineer to scientist: the real breakthrough comes when AI can invent beyond human knowledge distribution, not just discover within itThe future of jobs is not the current future of jobs — roles are already morphing (marketing becomes 'growth officer,' sales becomes 'empathy contact systems') and 9-to-5 will give way to organic, mission-driven work patternsPANELISTS• Stephan Balzer — Keynote Speaker, Host & Moderator; Managing Director, red onion (Moderator)• Prof. Ramesh Raskar — Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Director, Camera Culture Group; Lead, Project NANDA• Prof. Dr. Kathrin Kind — Professor of AI & Quantum Computing, Paris School of Management; Global CEO, QubitNexus.AIunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AGI, enterprise AI, MIT Media Lab, Project NANDA, internet of AI agents, quantum computing, AI scientist, future of work, organizational design, solopreneur, decentralized AI, automotive AI, Davos 2026, unDavos, REWIRE

From NVIDIA's AI factories to the EU AI Act's command-center approach, this panel maps the infrastructure layer that makes enterprise AI possible — or impossible. An NVIDIA public sector lead, a Microsoft Asia architect, a Visium CEO, and the architect of Europe's AI regulation debate what it really takes to move from isolated pilots to scalable, interoperable AI systems.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSNVIDIA frames AI factories as the industrial revolution's new foundational asset — importing electricity and data, exporting intelligence — with sovereignty as a core design principleThe biggest enterprise mistake is focusing on isolated point solutions instead of building shared, modular platforms that make AI and data reusable across the organizationThe EU AI Act was designed as a governance 'command center' but expanded into legal uncertainty — even its architect admits he does not fully understand all parts of the regulationPlatform interoperability is the critical enabler: protocols like MCP and A2A agent standards are the 'electricity and water systems' connecting AI's isolated buildings into a functioning cityLeadership must lead by example — being the first to use AI, ask for AI-driven insights, and invest in AI literacy — or the organization will treat AI as something imposed rather than embracedPANELISTS• Stephan Balzer — Keynote Speaker, Host & Moderator; Managing Director, red onion (Moderator)• Eva-Maria Hempe — Public Sector Lead, NVIDIA• Alen Arslanagic — CEO, Visium• Kai Zenner — Head of Office for MEP Axel Voss; Digital Policy Adviser, European Parliament• Ujjwal Kumar — Principal Architect, Office of CTO, Microsoft AsiaunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI infrastructure, AI at scale, NVIDIA, EU AI Act, sovereign AI, AI factories, interoperability, AI platforms, enterprise architecture, AI governance, European Parliament, Microsoft Asia, Davos 2026, unDavos, REWIRE

A philosopher, a Microsoft adoption leader, a Swisscom trust executive, and an innovation strategist walk into a fireside chat — and agree on one thing: the biggest barrier to AI-native organizations is not technology but the cognitive dissonance between the C-suite and the workforce. From Karuana Gatimu's blunt take on Copilot to a neuroscience-backed argument for slowing down, this panel challenges the 'move fast' orthodoxy.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSThe disconnect between C-suite strategy and frontline reality is the primary adoption blocker — leaders and workers are 'not living in the same reality'Microsoft's AI adoption lead argues speed kills: 'slow down to speed up' is the single most important advice for CEOs implementing AI at scaleSwisscom's trust framework rests on three questions every AI deployment must answer: Who am I talking to? Who is accountable if it goes wrong? What is authentic?Philosopher Topia argues we have forgotten what it means to be human — resistance to AI comes from a legitimate place, and leaders need to face their own ignorance before pushing adoptionBudgeting cycles are a hidden blocker: yearly or five-year planning horizons cannot match the speed of external AI change, and governance reform may matter more than culture changePANELISTS• Stephan Balzer — Keynote Speaker, Host & Moderator; Managing Director, red onion (Moderator)• Dan Sandu — Innovation Strategist• Topia — Philosopher• Christina Hirsch — EVP, Digital Trust Business, Swisscom• Karuana Gatimu — Director, Customer Advocacy for AI & Collaboration, MicrosoftunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI-native organization, AI adoption, culture change, digital trust, Swisscom, Microsoft Copilot, AI governance, leadership, C-suite, philosophy, slow down, budgeting, human-centered AI, Davos 2026, unDavos, REWIRE

In a data-dense keynote, Alvin Graylin argues we are walking a razor's edge — not choosing between utopia and dystopia, but balanced on a ledge where the next five years will determine which side humanity falls. With AI models already scoring 140+ IQ and producing hours of autonomous work, the question is no longer whether jobs will be displaced but how fast the transition curve drops.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSAI models now score above 140 IQ (99.8th percentile of humans) and deliver 4-5 hours of autonomous work without human intervention — with full-day autonomy months awayDescaling laws are replacing scaling laws: inference compute, distillation, and quantization are putting data-center-level intelligence into pocket devicesA Google engineer used Claude to solve in one hour what her team of five spent an entire year building — and Anthropic built Claude Code Workbench in 1.5 weeks using AI writing AIAGI is deflationary for basic goods but inflationary for unique experiences and luxury — the money saved on cheaper food, energy, and medicine shifts to scarce human-centric valueThe biggest threat is not technology but mindset: social safety nets are affordable, humanoid robots are overhyped toys, and the real risk is governments and labs pursuing dominance over collaborationSPEAKER• Alvin Wang Graylin — Chairman, Virtual World Society; Global VP of Corporate Development, HTC; Author, 'Our Next Reality'; Digital Fellow, Stanford Digital Economy LabunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AGI, AI jobs, AI displacement, descaling laws, AI IQ, autonomous AI agents, humanoid robots, social safety net, AI bubble, AI commoditization, Alvin Graylin, Our Next Reality, Davos 2026, unDavos, REWIRE, future of work

The ITU's AI for Good initiative and Deloitte's global research converge in a new report mapping where AI creates real impact — from detecting diabetes through voice analysis to predicting disasters that cost $460 billion annually. This fireside chat unpacks sovereign compute, the global skills gap, and why access to infrastructure, not talent, is the real barrier to AI equity.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSSovereign AI is now a corporate issue, not just a government one — new models consume 40x more compute tokens than a year ago, making hyperscaler dependency a strategic riskAn Estonian startup can detect blood sugar levels from voice alone — but if AI can read your blood, it can also detect lying, attention, and behavior, raising urgent dual-use questionsThe global AI skills gap is not about engineers — developing nations have the talent but lack compute infrastructure, which the ITU is addressing through programs in 70+ countriesHealthcare and education hold the greatest AI-for-good potential: AI could save 15% of $460B in annual disaster costs through prediction aloneITU standards are embedding safety, equity, and interoperability into AI solutions — providing practical governance while global frameworks remain aspirationalPANELISTS• Stephan Balzer — Keynote Speaker, Host & Moderator; Managing Director, red onion (Moderator)• Frederic Werner — Chief, Strategic Engagement Division, AI for Good, ITU (United Nations)• Costi Perricos — Global Leader, Office of Generative AI, Deloitte; Founder, Deloitte AI Institute• Kseniia Fontaine — Senior Business Development and Operations Officer, ITUunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI for good, ITU, Deloitte, sovereign AI, compute infrastructure, AI skills gap, AI governance, AI standards, healthcare AI, disaster prediction, global South, digital divide, AI equity, Davos 2026, unDavos, REWIRE

What does AI adoption actually look like inside Pfizer, a London specialty insurer, and Procter & Gamble? Three practitioners share real deployments — from AI-driven drug discovery and digital twin manufacturing to agentic underwriting and enterprise-wide upskilling — revealing where the technology delivers and where culture still stalls.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSPfizer is embedding AI across the entire drug lifecycle — target discovery, clinical trial optimization, digital twin manufacturing, and personalized prescriber outreach — to compress a 10-15 year pipelineA London specialty insurer built agentic AI to extract submission data from unstructured documents and resolve entity matching, cutting underwriting time from days to hours with 90% feature coverageP&G tackles 'AI slop' head-on: flooding organizations with AI-generated content actually increases workload unless you first ask whether the use case genuinely adds business valuePfizer ties AI adoption to individual performance goals — from senior leadership down — creating measurable incentives rather than relying on voluntary uptakeTrust in AI adoption is declining globally (Edelman 2025: only 23% positive in Germany), making culture change and transparency the real bottleneck, not the technologyPANELISTS• Stephan Balzer — Keynote Speaker, Host & Moderator; Managing Director, red onion (Moderator)• Sean Gundy — Head of Partnerships, Pfizer• Brigitta Kudor — Founder & Principal Consultant, WeDoData• Shaje Ganny — Director of Digital Transformation, Procter & Gamble; Co-Founder, Swiss AI AcademyunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI adoption, enterprise AI, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, AI use cases, agentic AI, digital twins, drug discovery, insurance AI, AI culture, upskilling, AI slop, trust in AI, Davos 2026, unDavos, REWIRE

Kenya’s diaspora sent $5 billion home last year — more than any other sector including tourism. Before colonization, African lands were sacred, communal, and could not be sold outside the community. The property rights regime imposed by colonial powers is still causing land disputes, mining conflicts, and unsustainable extraction today. This closing session pairs Kenya’s Ambassador to Switzerland with a compliance investigator to reflect on what an African future actually looks like.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy Africa controls only 3% of global trade despite being the richest continent in natural resources — and how a new sovereign wealth fund in Kenya aims to change the equationHow pre-colonial property rights — communal, sacred, and non-transferable — were the original sustainability framework, predating carbon markets by centuriesWhy the perceived corruption narrative is structurally biased: Transparency International scores where corruption happens, not where the corrupting companies come fromKenya’s government reserving one-third of all procurement for women, youth, and people with disabilities — with entry points as low as $1,000 and no collateral requiredWhy “just go” is the most practical advice for the diaspora: visa-free travel, citizenship pathways in Ghana and Benin, and the East African Community enabling seamless cross-border movementPANELISTS• Pascal Gali — Strategic Advisor & Compliance Investigator; Founder, Shock Division (Moderator)• Ambassador Fonzi Abbas — Ambassador of Kenya to Switzerland & LiechtensteinunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: Africa, Kenya, diaspora, sovereign wealth fund, corruption, property rights, colonialism, indigenous wisdom, sustainability, trade, procurement, governance, youth, women empowerment, East African Community, African future, investment, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

The African diaspora sends €54 billion to the continent every year — representing 10% of Senegal’s GDP alone — yet most of it is consumed rather than invested. A gender-lens fund is building a pathway to a billion-dollar carbon-market-linked fund. A pineapple farmer in Uganda is turning agricultural waste into vegan leather. This panel explores what it really takes to mobilize private, public, and diaspora capital into African ventures.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy gender-lens investing is a performance strategy, not charity: women-led businesses reach 62 million people and gender-diverse teams deliver 20-30% higher financial returnsHow a Chatham House market-focus event at the Geneva Chamber of Commerce unlocked a 30 million Swiss franc investment pipeline for UgandaWhy African entrepreneurs should “lead with the numbers, not the story” — the three ingredients investors need: discipline, governance, and demonstrated scale potentialHow SheEquity’s blended finance model combines philanthropic technical assistance with private capital to bridge the $42 billion gender funding gapWhy the biggest unlock for Africa would be energy infrastructure and education — from the last village to the largest cityPANELISTS• Mafrida — Moderator• Pauline Kerber — Founder & Managing Partner, SheEquity• Elizabeth Sekaja — President, Chamber of Commerce Swiss-Uganda• Sidney Sampson — Founder & CEO, Sedanic GroupunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: Africa investment, gender-lens investing, diaspora capital, blended finance, carbon markets, Uganda, female founders, impact investing, SheEquity, trade, development finance, agriculture, climate, public-private partnership, emerging markets, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Only 3.8% of global climate research funding targets Africa — the continent most affected by climate change. Of that sliver, just 14% of the research happens on the continent itself. Meanwhile, only 2% of venture capital goes to all-female founder teams, and the stats have actually gotten worse despite years of panels about fixing it. This panel brings together the African Union Commission, a renewables engineer, a founder-support platform, and a governance expert to separate perceived risk from real barriers.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy Africa exports raw cocoa, wood, and minerals but imports chocolate, cement, and refined oil — and what the African Continental Free Trade Area is doing about itHow the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and African Commodity Strategy aim to move the continent up the value chain through technology transfer and integrationWhy the Basel Institute’s governance work in Ghana gave tax deductions to informal businesses that adopted minimum integrity standards — creating a win-win that increased government revenueHow FounderVine discovered that underserved founders build more capital-efficient businesses that outperform peers on revenue despite receiving less fundingThe corruption reframe: every African corruption scheme involves a foreign company, but transparency indices only score where corruption occurs, not where it originatesPANELISTS• Talula — Moderator• Tariq Ahmed — Senior Economist, African Union Commission• Kontini Kenfak-Moafi — Founder, Three E’s for Africa• Izzy Obeng — Founder, FounderVine• Scarlett Bonavich — Head of Collective Action, Basel Institute on GovernanceunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: Africa, perceived risk, African Union, AfCFTA, governance, corruption, climate research, female founders, venture capital, informal economy, value chains, trade policy, business integrity, trust, innovation, development finance, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

In the last eight years, Sedanic Group grew from one person with no office to a $10 million management consulting firm operating across 12 countries with 200 professionals. Its founder made a deliberate choice: leave a comfortable life in Russia and return to Nigeria to build. This keynote-style address makes the case that Africa’s future must be built by Africans working with the world — not waiting for the world.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy “the risk is not in the absence of opportunity — it is in the absence of understanding” and how local knowledge is the ultimate de-risking strategyHow one scholarship to Russia became the foundation for a 12-country consulting practice headquartered in NigeriaWhy intra-African trade is only 14-17% compared to intra-European trade at 65%, and how the African Continental Free Trade Area aims to close the gapThe mindset shift from asking for aid to offering value: positioning Africa as a frontier for profitable, scalable investmentStrive Masiyiwa’s insight: “Africa is not short on opportunity — it is short on partners willing to invest with patience and purpose”PANELISTS• Sidney Sampson — Founder & CEO, Sedanic GroupunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: Africa, investment, entrepreneurship, Nigeria, management consulting, development, intra-African trade, diaspora, emerging markets, scalable investment, AfCFTA, leadership, African growth, sustainable development, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Before colonization, sub-Saharan Africa had no prisons. In 2022, the continent sequestered over 40 billion tons of CO2 — worth 3.6 trillion euros at EU carbon prices — yet none of that value is reflected in any GDP. This panel of diaspora entrepreneurs building biofuels in Ghana, investment platforms in West Africa, and electric fleets in Kenya explores what it means to build Africa from seven generations back and seven generations forward.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy Africa produces 500 million tons of unconstrained agricultural residue every year — and how Afresurf is positioning the continent to convert it into sustainable aviation fuelHow the African diaspora sends €54 billion home annually but 90% is not strategically invested — and why blockchain investment platforms are changing thatHow a Swiss lawyer left the boardrooms of Swiss Re after her asthmatic child asked why African cities don’t use e-bikes — and built an electrified fleet company in KenyaWhy a 45-minute flight between Accra and Lagos costs $500 compared to $30-40 for a similar EU flight, and how energy costs drive 40% of that gapThe seven-generation framework: indigenous wisdom applied to infrastructure, mobility, and investment decisionsPANELISTS• Christopher Mbanefo — Moderator• Kwame Biko — CEO & Co-Founder, Afresurf• Julien — Founder, Mina (Investment Platform)• Celeste Chetgen-Fogo — Founder, Brutus (E-Mobility, Kenya)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: Africa, diaspora, sustainable aviation fuel, biofuels, e-mobility, electric vehicles, Kenya, Ghana, West Africa, carbon sequestration, investment, blockchain, remittances, agriculture, energy transition, infrastructure, indigenous wisdom, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

The average lifetime of a corporate venture capital unit is 3.7 years. If you survive three CEO changes, you have a shot at longevity. This panel brings together CVC leaders from Swiss Post, Jung Heinrich, and Worley to debate why corporate venture capital is more strategic than pure VC — and why Europe urgently needs multi-corporate funds that pool risk across sectors.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy 42% of corporate VCs already prefer to co-invest with other CVCs, and why multi-corporate topic-based funds could transform European deep tech investmentHow Swiss Post’s CVC maintains independence from corporate strategy to invest in technologies that may not generate returns for three to four yearsWhy Worley builds startup partnerships across three continents by embedding portfolio companies with regional engineering teams in APAC, EMEA, and the AmericasThe CFO death valley: why most CVCs get shut down at year three for financial underperformance or year six for lack of strategic valueWhy universities are the best deal-flow source for energy and deep-tech CVCs — because that is where R&D actually beginsPANELISTS• Tobias — Moderator, CVC & Open Innovation Summit• Jeppe — CVC Leader (Shipping & Jung Heinrich)• Ivo — Head of CVC, Swiss Post• Marta — Head of Partnerships & Corporations, WorleyunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: corporate venture capital, CVC, startup investing, open innovation, deep tech, energy transition, corporate strategy, venture building, Swiss Post, Worley, private equity, startup partnerships, data centers, industrial innovation, European venture, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

90% of AI models and algorithms inside organizations are unknown to the organization itself. When infrastructure goes down in an agentic world, you don’t just lose connectivity — you lose context, while autonomous agents may already be mid-conversation with other systems. This panel brings together cybersecurity veterans, AI governance experts, and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to debate digital infrastructure risk in 2026.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy AI should be treated like an adolescent: powerful but not yet mature enough for unsupervised access — parenting, not relyingThe hidden SaaS surveillance problem: how embedded AI models inside enterprise software are reading audio files and selling functional data without corporate knowledgeWhy the European Commission’s €200 billion tech subsidy program flows to B2B companies when European values have always centered on the middle classThe case for data sovereignty: why Will.i.am told a Stanford/MIT audience to stop giving tech companies their data, and why even the biggest extractors don’t know you well enough for precision actionHow hybrid and private cloud architectures are resurging as companies realize that diversification — not consolidation — is the path to resiliencePANELISTS• Mike Butcher — Technology Journalist & Founder, PathFounders (Moderator)• Sebastian — Founder, AI and Partners• Tammy Shuring — CEO & Co-Founder, Polymathic• Additional panelists on AI infrastructure and cybersecurityunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: digital infrastructure, AI governance, cybersecurity, cloud computing, data sovereignty, agentic AI, operational stability, data privacy, enterprise security, cloud concentration, hybrid cloud, SaaS, AI safety, tech regulation, European tech, data centers, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

The average age of board members at the top 500 companies is 64. Only 30% feel confident bringing ESG and sustainability into strategy. And an AI proposal that boosts margins by 20% while eliminating 40% of jobs just landed on the boardroom table. This panel of active board directors debates what it actually takes to govern in 2026.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy boards should spend 50% of their time on long-term strategy while executives focus 50% on short-term — the inverse allocation that separates governance from managementHow one board member stopped reading 300-page pre-meeting documents and started using AI to surface what actually matters, freeing time for deep-dive sessionsWhy courage — specifically the willingness to lose your board position — is the single most important quality boards need in 2026The BCG 10-20-70 framework: 10% technology adoption, 20% infrastructure readiness, 70% organizational change managementWhy boards that bring in competitors, customers, activists, and next-generation committees outperform those that stay insularPANELISTS• Liz — Moderator• Sanda Tritin — Board Member (Finance & ESG), Switzerland & Europe• Dr. Rodrigo Crema — Board Member & Advisor (Healthcare, Genetics)• Isabel Gromet — Founder, WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD)• Milan Kumar — CIO, Automotive; Board Member, Manufacturing• Christopher Williams — Governance Expert (Private & Nonprofit)• Frederica Hoffman — VC & Board Director (Tech & Life Science)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: board governance, corporate governance, boardroom, AI strategy, ESG, sustainability, board diversity, leadership, fiduciary duty, corporate boards, board effectiveness, change management, digital transformation, CEO oversight, risk management, courage, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

82% of the next generation entering the workforce said they would prefer an AI boss — because it would be fairer, less political, and let them work from home. Meanwhile, LLMs are trained on only 15% of the world’s information because only 15% is digitized. This panel brings together board members, startup founders, and a neuroscientist to wrestle with what leadership actually means when geopolitics is now the number-one driver of AI adoption.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy 56% of companies are accelerating AI adoption specifically because of tariff uncertainty and geopolitical volatilityThe three traits every successful AI project shares: trusted data, business-first framing, and serious change managementA mood-jacket case study where nine months were spent training machine learning models but only one week on employee communication — and it failedWhy context — not intelligence — determines whether leaders extend grace or hunt down the person who cut them off in trafficThe case for vulnerability from the top: why leaders who admit what they don’t know create environments where the best people do their best workPANELISTS• Dr. Catherine Carlton — Former Mayor of Menlo Park; Trust Researcher (Moderator)• Sandy Carter — Chief Business Officer; Chair, Applied AI Group, Digital Economist• Dr. Friedrich — Physician, Scientist, Harvard Faculty• Laura Ann Edwards — Founder, Geospace Resources• Marlene — Dispute Resolution Lawyer & International Mediator• Kevan Pimani — Chairman, Animoca Brands (NASDAQ)• Philipp van Caneghem — Entrepreneur, Investor & Former Salesforce Innovation LeadunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: leadership, board governance, geopolitics, AI adoption, trust, change management, corporate leadership, board members, technology strategy, CEO, remote work, Gen Z, organizational culture, decision making, resilience, Silicon Valley, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Professional services firms are billing clients for hours while privately using AI to slash those same hours — and nobody is talking about it. This panel pulls back the curtain on how consulting and legal firms are actually adopting AI, why junior consultants are bypassing corporate systems to use ChatGPT on their phones, and what that means for confidentiality, talent development, and the future of the billable hour.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy the legal industry’s billable-hour model “rewards the slow and the stupid” and how value-based pricing is replacing it for commoditized legal productsHow consulting firms are shifting from 100-page PowerPoint deliverables to real-time digital database integrations with private equity clientsWhy confidentiality is the unspoken crisis: smaller firms are routing client data through public LLMs, and junior staff are bypassing corporate AI systems entirelyThe future consulting org chart: from pyramid to diamond shape, with fewer juniors, more seasoned industry experts, and AI handling repetitive analysisWhy the hiring pipeline is broken — university grades no longer signal competence when theses can be AI-generated, pushing firms toward internship-based evaluationPANELISTS• Robin — Moderator• Roland Scherer — Partner, Kearney• Michael Engel — Partner, White & Case• Beata Rosenthal — Partner, Roland Berger• Marina March — Founder, IKAIunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI professional services, consulting, legal tech, billable hours, management consulting, law firm AI, Kearney, White & Case, Roland Berger, confidentiality, AI governance, enterprise AI, talent management, future of work, value-based billing, digital transformation, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

99% of all AI today is black-boxed — you don’t know how results are generated. Meanwhile, a startup called Cognifiber is turning optical fibers into processors that could accelerate AI inference by 1,000x while cutting power consumption by 8,000x. This panel brings together an AI prediction company, a photonic computing startup, a data interoperability firm, and Microsoft to debate how AI is rewiring financial services from risk assessment to fraud detection.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow AxonJ uses hybrid reinforcement learning and real-time signals — like website changes or stopped TikTok campaigns — to predict company risk 40% more accurately than balance-sheet models aloneWhy Cognifiber’s fiber-optic processors could shrink city-sized data centers to a single building while democratizing AI accessHow MMC Convert helps banks find “invisible creditworthy” people through utility bill patterns and psychometric AI modelsMicrosoft’s perspective on multi-agent orchestration, low-code platforms, and why the dollar-per-token cost is actually fallingThe centralized vs. decentralized debate: why on-premises AI uses up to 80% less electricity and drives democratizationPANELISTS• Robin — Moderator• Jean-Philippe (JP) — Founder & CEO, AxonJ• Eyal — Founder, Cognifiber• Shanu — Founder, MMC Convert• Ujjwal Kumar — Principal Architect, Office of the CTO, MicrosoftunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI financial services, fintech, agentic AI, photonic computing, data interoperability, risk prediction, fraud detection, Microsoft, decentralized AI, energy consumption, machine learning, reinforcement learning, banking, insurance, data centers, AI governance, enterprise AI, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

More than 50% of global GDP depends on nature, yet it is still treated as an externality. A new generation of AI-powered earth observation tools can now answer the question “how many tin roofs are in California?” in seconds — and it costs almost nothing to query the same data again. This panel explores how satellite imagery, ground-truth sensors, and Islamic endowment finance are converging to make nature a viable asset class.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow large earth observation models convert satellite images into queryable “embeddings” that slash the cost of monitoring forests, fire risk, and land useWhy Safi manages 4.1 million hectares in the Amazon using eDNA, bioacoustics, and camera traps alongside satellite dataHow illegal gold mining — not logging — is the single biggest threat to Amazon deforestation, and why AI can predict criminality spikes from commodity price movementsWhy perpetual Islamic endowment finance (waqf) solves the “permanence problem” that undermines short-term biodiversity interventionsThe case for nature as the “parent company” where 50% of GDP is a wholly-owned subsidiaryPANELISTS• Moderator — GP, Cerulean Ventures• Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño — Co-Founder & CEO, Clay (earth observation AI)• Maxime Haroun — Co-Founder, SafiunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: natural capital, earth observation, satellite imagery, AI, biodiversity, Amazon rainforest, deforestation, conservation finance, waqf, Islamic finance, carbon credits, biodiversity credits, nature-based solutions, sustainable investing, family office, climate tech, remote sensing, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Sun King went from scraping by for a decade to powering 50 million people with off-grid solar across 11 countries — backed by the largest local-currency securitization in Sub-Saharan African history. Rwanda scaled from 20 donor-funded clinics to over 350 self-sustaining, nurse-operated healthcare posts in under five years. This panel asks: how do you build the ecosystem that makes that kind of scale possible?WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow Sun King built a financing ecosystem from social venture capital through to commercial securitization over 15 years to deliver 340,000 solar kits per monthWhy Doctors Without Borders took its Nobel Prize money to create a new drug development model that brought 20 molecules to market for six neglected diseasesHow the World Food Program’s blockchain identity platform saved $270 million in duplicate aid across 55 agencies in UkraineWhy the TransCap Initiative argues that capital orchestration — not just blended finance — is needed to transform entire agricultural systemsThe tension between investing in ecosystem building versus direct investment, and why philanthropy needs to be bolderPANELISTS• Terence La — Head of Investments, Pensions for Purpose (Moderator)• Patrick Walsh — Co-Founder & CEO, Sun King• Stephen Cornish — General Director, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Geneva• Bernhard Kowatsch — Director, Global Accelerator & Ventures, UN World Food Programme• Dominic Hofstetter — Space Building Lead, TransCap Initiative• Monica Sanders — Board Member, Society for Family Health RwandaunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: impact investing, ecosystem building, blended finance, off-grid solar, Sun King, MSF, World Food Programme, blockchain, capital orchestration, systemic investing, philanthropy, development finance, Africa, healthcare, energy access, social enterprise, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

The traditional funding models for global health are gone. USAID shutdowns, WHO funding exits, tariff pressures, and development agency withdrawals have reshaped the landscape in a single year. Yet the next pandemic is coming — we just do not know when. From malaria bed nets in Nigeria to surgical AI in 4,000 operating rooms, the question is no longer whether to invest in health, but how to do it sustainably.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy health investment generates compounding returns through productivity gains, reduced sick leave, and longer healthier working livesHow public-private partnerships are shifting from pilot programs to sustainable co-financed platforms that serve both governments and pharmaceutical companiesWhy technology is the key to making healthcare less labor-intensive and more cost-effective — the sector's fundamental structural challengeHow data sovereignty laws and geopolitical fragmentation are forcing health tech companies to build configurable, locally compliant platformsWhy prevention, early detection, and primary care intervention must replace the current model of late-stage hospital-centric treatmentPANELISTS• Moderators and panelists from the Health at Davos program, representing Dalberg Advisors, WHO, Deloitte, and leading health innovatorsunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: global health, health financing, pandemic preparedness, public-private partnerships, health innovation, WHO, USAID, health tech, digital health, prevention, primary care, health equity, health systems resilience, data sovereignty, health investment ROI, universal health coverage, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

The Ebola vaccine is a remarkable product — a single dose that immunizes rapidly and safely. But it is expensive, requires extreme cold chain storage, and is manufactured on a process that does not scale easily. CEPI is investing up to $30 million to change that, partnering with Hilleman Laboratories, Merck, and SK Bioscience in a pioneering new model for public-private partnership.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow a new CEPI-Hilleman-Merck-SK Bioscience partnership is redesigning Ebola vaccine manufacturing to make it cheaper, more thermostable, and scalableWhy Hilleman Laboratories operates as a for-profit entity with a nonprofit mission — a joint venture between MSD and the Wellcome TrustHow this model was already proven with cholera vaccine development and transfer to large-scale manufacturingWhy the same vaccine platform can be extended to develop vaccines for Marburg, Sudan virus, and Lassa feverHow shared risk models across financial, technical, and policy dimensions create sustainable pathways for epidemic vaccines that lack commercial incentivesPANELISTS• Laura Herman — Partner, Dalberg Advisors (Moderator)• Richard Hatchett — CEO, CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations)• Romano — Hilleman LaboratoriesunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: pharmaceutical sovereignty, Africa, Ebola vaccine, CEPI, Hilleman Laboratories, Merck, SK Bioscience, pandemic preparedness, vaccine manufacturing, public-private partnership, Wellcome Trust, cholera, Marburg, Lassa fever, global health security, epidemic response, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

1.5 billion mosquito nets distributed. 1.2 billion malaria cases averted. 72% of that impact from a single humble tool. Yet 200 million of the 220 million bed nets used annually in Africa are still imported from Asia. If malaria were eliminated, it would unlock $4 trillion in GDP on the African continent. Health innovation is not just saving lives — it is an economic engine.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow Vestergaard scaled from 1 million to 120 million mosquito nets per year and is now localizing manufacturing in Lagos, NigeriaWhy Colgate-Palmolive's new multi-year partnership with the WHO Foundation targets 3.7 billion people suffering from oral health disease globallyHow AI-powered diagnostics in India are detecting TB in two hours instead of two days at 60% lower cost, then expanding to lung cancer screeningWhy CareSyntax is processing 3 million surgeries annually across 4,000 operating rooms to make surgery safer, smarter, and scalableHow 750 million Indians now hold digital health accounts — up from 150 million pre-COVID — creating massive opportunity for health tech investmentPANELISTS• Lily — Moderator• Patrick — Vestergaard (Malaria Elimination, Bed Net Innovation)• Isha — Colgate-Palmolive (Oral Health & WHO Partnership)• Charles — Healthquad (Healthcare Investment, India)• Bjorn — Founder, CareSyntax (Surgical Intelligence)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: global health innovation, malaria elimination, health as economic engine, Vestergaard, Colgate-Palmolive WHO, oral health, AI diagnostics, surgical intelligence, CareSyntax, India health tech, Healthquad, health investment, SDGs, health equity, Africa health, digital health India, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Healthcare costs will continue to grow — nobody should think a country spending 15% of GDP on health today can drop to 12%. The question is how to contain that growth smartly. Meanwhile, in France alone, sick leave costs have risen 55% over the past decade to over €20 billion per year. Investing in health is not a cost center — it is a return on investment that most governments have not yet learned to measure.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy Takeda is targeting a doubling of R&D productivity in the next five to ten years through AI and technology transformationHow healthcare financing is growing but not at the pace of demand, creating a structural squeeze across pharmaceutical pricing and patient accessWhy Europe has been losing R&D investment for 20 years as the US and China created more attractive commercial environmentsHow the US MFN pricing policy and tariff threats are forcing a global reckoning on equitable pharmaceutical cost contributionWhy platform-based regulated health solutions can reduce deployment time by 10x and shift pharma from capital-intensive to outcome-driven modelsPANELISTS• Andrea Feigl — Senior Director, Deloitte Switzerland; CEO, Health Finance Institute (Moderator)• Christoph Weber — President & CEO, Takeda• Stefan Weber — VP & Head of Global Policy, Advocacy & Health Equity, AstraZeneca• Dr. Farnaz Baruzi — Head of Pharma, HumaunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: health financing, pharmaceutical R&D, Takeda, AstraZeneca, Huma, health policy, MFN pricing, healthcare investment, R&D productivity, AI pharma, digital health platform, European pharma, health equity, global health financing, health economics, Deloitte, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Fertility decline and population aging are usually discussed as abstract demographic curves. But in the exam room, a woman undergoing IVF is often treated as a data point rather than a person. Meanwhile, AI can now outperform embryologists at selecting viable embryos — yet the most human moments in healthcare remain stubbornly undertouched by technology.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy fertility and longevity must be treated as a continuum across the full life course, not isolated medical specialtiesHow AI is improving embryo selection accuracy in IVF while raising questions about the role of human judgment in reproductive medicineWhy relational care — how health systems show up emotionally for patients — matters as much as clinical outcomes in fertility and agingHow population aging creates compound pressure on health systems already struggling with workforce shortages and rising chronic diseaseWhy proactive health monitoring and prevention could transform outcomes across both ends of the life spectrumPANELISTS• Andrea Syrtash — Founder, Pregnantish; Relationships Author (Moderator)• Panel speakers on fertility technology, longevity medicine, and health system designunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: fertility, longevity, IVF, reproductive health, population aging, health systems, AI fertility, embryo selection, women's health, aging population, preventive care, chronic disease, healthspan, lifespan, relational care, demographic change, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Health systems were built on a paternalistic model: get sick, come to the hospital, we look after you, off you go. But patients are already using ChatGPT for health advice without their doctors' permission. In China, primary care physicians are essentially on-call 24/7 via WeChat. And the gap between care demand and provider supply is not shrinking — it is widening everywhere.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy AI should not be plugged into the existing faulty healthcare system but instead used to fundamentally redesign how care is delivered and preventedHow behavioral nudges and AI-powered "digital uncles" can safely support patients between clinical visits without replacing physiciansWhy rural doctors are more receptive to AI tools than urban specialists, creating a natural pathway to closing the healthcare equity gapHow continuous glucose monitoring paired with AI interpretation empowers patients to understand their own health data in real timeWhy the original sin of AI in healthcare is the chatbot model — it only responds when asked, but patients often do not know the right questionsPANELISTS• Laura Herman — Partner, Dalberg Advisors (Moderator)• Dr. Alex Liu — Tencent Health (Clinical, Academic & Private Sector Experience)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI healthcare, decentralized care, digital health, Tencent Health, AI-enabled care, behavioral nudging, patient empowerment, rural healthcare, health equity, WeChat health, continuous glucose monitoring, healthcare redesign, Dalberg, preventive care, health systems, AI safety, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Philips is now at 68% agentic code generation in its software division. Clinical trials are delayed by an average of 10-12 months. And one startup has 2.4 million users and 11 million health conversations across five countries — all on WhatsApp. The convergence of AI and life sciences is not hypothetical. It is already reshaping how drugs are developed, how patients are reached, and how decisions are made.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy starting from the patient problem — not the technology — is the critical mental model for healthcare AI that actually delivers impactHow Nivi's WhatsApp-based health chatbot has guided 2.4 million users across India, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand, and Indonesia through AI-powered health journeysWhy AI decision intelligence platforms can accelerate clinical trials by three to six months, saving pharma companies hundreds of millionsHow small companies win in healthcare by seeing humans where large institutions see patients in hospital gownsWhy rare disease is one of the most profound use cases for AI — sifting through billions of records to find patients that existing systems missPANELISTS• Lily — Moderator• Shaz Memon — VP, Philips (Enterprise Informatics)• Sid Chakravarthy — Founder & CEO, Nivi• Bettina Hein — Founder & CEO, Juli (Chronic Condition Management)• Bianca — Founder & CEO, AI Decision Intelligence PlatformunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: AI life sciences, healthcare AI, clinical trials, digital health, agentic AI, drug development, Philips, rare disease, WhatsApp health, health chatbot, AI decision intelligence, chronic disease management, pharmaceutical R&D, health equity, patient engagement, precision medicine, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

3.3 billion people play video games worldwide. Parents searching online for information about gaming are five times more likely to find a negative headline than a positive one. But the research tells a different story: games are driving education, mental health support, climate action, and human connection at a scale no other medium can match.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSHow the pandemic revealed gaming as a social lifeline for children, shifting the narrative around screen time and digital playWhy co-play between parents and children builds trust, creates core memories, and helps parents understand the games their kids loveHow Subway Surfers reaches 100-150 million monthly players while embedding inclusivity, diversity, and sustainability messagingWhy AI-powered parental dashboards can provide personalized, science-based guidance on children's gaming habits in real timeHow in-game fundraising campaigns have directly funded mental health helplines and saved lives through studio-player partnershipsPANELISTS• Ignat Bobrovich — CEO & Founder, Valvur; Founder, eSports NGO (Moderator)• Lucy Chow — Author, Changing the Game; Investor & CES Innovation Judge• Jude Ower — Chief Strategy Officer, PlanetPlay; Co-Host, Good Game Club Podcast• Susanna Pollack — President, Games for Change• Emma Richards — Head of Communications (Americas & EMEA), Tencent• Mathias Gredal Nørvig — CEO, SYBO (Subway Surfers)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: gaming for good, esports, healthy play, Games for Change, Subway Surfers, Tencent, PlanetPlay, gaming wellbeing, co-play parenting, gaming education, cybersecurity gaming, game design, mental health gaming, climate action gaming, gaming industry, trust in gaming, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Productivity studies show that remote workers actually produce 10-15% less output when measured objectively — not by self-reporting, but by tangible metrics like software shipped and bugs resolved. Yet most headlines say the opposite. Welcome to Work 4.0, where the myths are louder than the data.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy Work 4.0 — the era of human augmentation with AI — demands a shift from static credentials like degrees to dynamic potential measuresHow the biggest challenge facing young professionals is orientation, not skills — with dozens of specialized roles within a single field like software developmentWhy hybrid workplaces are the definitive trend, combining flexibility with community and driving productivity through adaptable environmentsHow HR departments face a fundamental identity crisis and need honest board-level conversations about their roleWhy companies see growing demand for senior profiles while hiring fewer juniors — and what that means for the talent pipelinePANELISTS• Dr. Mandeep Rai — Author, The Values Compass; BBC Correspondent (Moderator)• Chris Rios — CTO, Criteria (Talent Success Platform)• Sead — CEO, WeAreDevelopers• Cyril — VP, International Workplace Group (IWG)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: future of work, hybrid work, remote work productivity, Work 4.0, human augmentation, AI workplace, talent strategy, HR transformation, flexible office space, WeAreDevelopers, IWG, workforce skills, dynamic credentials, career orientation, mental health at work, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

70% of skills in most jobs will change in the next four years. Students using AI for essays are showing short-term memory loss and cognitive decline. And one university found that 80% of incoming students had never had a conversation with a stranger. Education is not just evolving — it is facing an existential reckoning.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy AI literacy, critical thinking, and lifelong learning are the three essential skill categories for the AI economyHow AI tutors are being piloted across 30+ universities globally, personalizing education while raising questions about cognitive dependencyWhy 25% of the global workforce will be African in 15 years and what that means for equitable access to AI educationHow the learning-by-doing philosophy — from robotics competitions to hands-on projects — outperforms traditional online coursesWhy education spending in the US has risen 200% in 40 years with zero improvement in student outcomesPANELISTS• Dr. Mandeep Rai — Author, The Values Compass; BBC Correspondent (Moderator)• Justin Spelhaug — VP, Microsoft Elevate• Fred Werner — ITU, AI for Good Initiative• Cecile — Founder, Cyber Security Education Association (Geneva)• Alex — CEO & Founder, Flylane (AI Infrastructure for Education)unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: future of education, AI literacy, EdTech, AI tutors, lifelong learning, digital skills, education reform, Microsoft Elevate, AI for Good, ITU, cybersecurity education, personalized learning, higher education, Africa education, workforce development, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

A 60-second TikTok can teach you macroeconomics. A podcast can move markets. A single creator with a phone can outperform an entire studio. Meanwhile, cinema attendance in Europe is resurging — not for the screen, but for the collective experience of being in a room together.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSWhy the pendulum is swinging back toward communal viewing experiences even as individual content consumption peaksHow microdramas — one-minute serialized stories with massive cliffhangers — are set to become mainstream within three to five yearsWhy keeping an audience is now harder than getting one, and what separates one-hit creators from sustainable media brandsHow AI is flipping the 80/20 rule of content creation from 80% execution to 80% ideationWhy industry consolidation is threatening narrative quality as studios prioritize feeding the machine over storytellingPANELISTS• Kevin Matossian — Film Producer, SilverCrest Entertainment (Moderator)• Carlo Rizzo — Co-Founder, CinemaO & The Black Cube• Niklas Schwab — Content Creator & Founder, Hedgefonds.Henning & Hyper Magazine• Sarthak Ahuja — Content Creator, Investment Banker & AuthorunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: future of entertainment, content creation, microdramas, short form video, TikTok, creator economy, cinema, film tech, immersive media, AI content creation, media consolidation, Gen Z media, social media, streaming, audience attention, entertainment industry, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Investment in space is at an all-time high, yet it is not distributed equally — communications and infrastructure absorb the bulk while Earth observation and data services that could save lives remain underfunded. The Maldives Space Research Organisation launched a $50 million fund for island nations, yet its government cannot yet defend putting space in the national budget. This is the capital paradox of the space sector.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSSpace as an enabler, not a silo: satellites underpin climate monitoring, disaster response, and food security — but investors treat space as its own domain rather than pricing in its ROI across every industry it supportsThe ground truth gap: satellite data is abundant but truth is scarce — the Maldives needs sub-pixel resolution for islands that are literally a single pixel, and no one can verify what sensors actually detect on the groundDigital twins for disaster resilience: UNOOSA built a digital twin for Tonga simulating sea level rise impacts on roads and infrastructure, generating a queue of island nations demanding the same capabilitySpace peace as a capital unlock: the Karman Project launched the sector's first Space Peace Prize to incentivize cooperation as the ISS decommissions and private stations take over — setting precedents that will define the next eraPatient capital is missing: commercial actors optimize for short-term returns while international organizations and civil society play critical long-term roles in space governance — the breach between these capital needs remains unresolvedPANELISTS• Rajeshwar Murthy — Moderator• Madin Maseeh — President, Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO)• Aarti Holla-Maini — Director, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)• Hannah Ashford — Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Karman ProjectunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: #SpaceEconomy #SpaceCapital #UNOOSA #MSRO #Maldives #EarthObservation #SatelliteData #DigitalTwins #SpaceLaw #ClimateResilience #KarmanProject #SpacePeace #IslandNations #DeepTech #unDavos #Davos2026

We are living in the golden age of fraud. Illicit crypto transactions surged to an estimated $154 billion last year — a 160% increase — while AI-enabled scams prove 4.5x more effective than traditional ones. Impersonation scams alone exploded by 1,400% in value stolen, and if global e-crime damages were an economy, it would be the third largest in the world after the US and China at $9.5 trillion.WHAT THIS PANEL COVERSNation-state actors go industrial: Russia launched a ruble-backed stablecoin transacting over $94 billion for sanctions evasion, while North Korean hackers stole more than $2 billion last year — including the massive Bybit hackScam compounds and organized crime: from Cambodia's Prince Group trafficking 100,000 people into fraud operations to Nigeria's Black Axe recruiting children as young as 10 with AI-generated culturally targeted scriptsIdentity infrastructure is broken: AML efficiency sits at 0.02% globally — $500 billion spent for negligible seizures — because the architecture still relies on usernames, passwords, and screenshots as "proof" of identityStablecoins dominate illicit flows: 84% of all on-chain illicit activity uses stablecoins, giving centralized issuers a unique "superpower" to freeze and burn tokens, though regulatory guardrails for this capability remain absentMiCA is just the beginning: the real compliance challenge is DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act), which cost Bybit EU millions and applies the same stringent standards to startups as to systemically important banksPANELISTS• Georg Harer — Co-CEO, Bybit EU• Denisse Rudich — CEO, Rudich Advisory; Director, G7 & G20 Research Groups• Raido Saar — Founder & CEO, ComplyOnce; President, Estonian Web3 Chamber• Matthias Bauer-Langgartner — Head of Policy Europe, ChainalysisunDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.🌐 undavos.comTags: #CryptoFraud #FinancialCrime #AML #Scams #Stablecoins #MiCA #DORA #Chainalysis #BybitEU #KYC #DigitalIdentity #NorthKoreaHackers #Sanctions #Compliance #Regulation #unDavos #Davos2026