Investing in People

Technological advancements are impacting everything from employment, skills and wealth distribution to healthcare, education and public services. Among the most urgent of these impacts is the need to reskill and upskill people to meet the demands of the economy of tomorrow and capitalize on the millions of new jobs in emerging and frontier fields which are higher up the value chain. While nearly 40% of global employment is exposed to AI, it is anticipated that most of this impact will be to augment work rather than to fully automate existing occupations. Strong job creation is already being experienced in the digital and service economies and it will be crucial to continue translating technological gains into net-positive results for the workforce. How can the public and private sectors invest in human capital development and good jobs that contribute to the development of a modern and resilient society?

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  • Open Forum: All Abilities Welcome

    Open Forum: All Abilities Welcome

    75 minutes

    Speakers: Islam Alijaj, David Edwards, Urs Gredig, Shanti Raghavan, Alois Zwinggi

  • Who Benefits from Augmentation?

    Who Benefits from Augmentation?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: May Habib, Mohamed Kande, Ravi Kumar S., Mina Al-Oraibi, Luc Triangle

  • Refugees and Their Olympian Spirit

    Refugees and Their Olympian Spirit

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Filippo Grandi

  • Beginning of the End of AIDS

    Beginning of the End of AIDS

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Winnie Byanyima, Helen E. Clark, Peter Sands

  • Open Forum: Empowering Bytes

    Open Forum: Empowering Bytes

    75 minutes

    Speakers: Helena Leurent, Lauren Woodman

  • World in Numbers: Jobs and Tasks

    World in Numbers: Jobs and Tasks

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Andrew Ng, Nela Richardson

  • Investing in Women's Health

    Investing in Women's Health

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Bernd Montag, Muhammad Ali Pate, Fifi Peters, Catherine Russell, Anita Zaidi

  • Adding Trillions with Gender Parity

    Adding Trillions with Gender Parity

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Anna Bjerde, Michael Ensser, Katherine Garrett-Cox, Leela de Kretser, Lutfey Siddiqi

  • Mapping Solutions for: Ending Forced Labour

    Mapping Solutions for: Ending Forced Labour

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Theresa May, John Morrison

  • 2025 Schwab Foundation Awards

    2025 Schwab Foundation Awards

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Islam Alijaj, Ved Mitra Arya, Abraham Baffoe, Madeleine Ballard, Caitlyn Chen Juhong, Eric Cioè Peña, Cecilia Corral, Ernest Darkoh, Mawuse Christina Gyisun, Fred Hersch, Huong Trinh Thi, Muzalema Mwanza, Manuel Rosemberg, Aline Sara, Akshay Saxena, Hilde Schwab

  • Investing in Diversity

    Investing in Diversity

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Luana Génot, Ebru Özdemir, Jochen Wegner

  • Spotlight on Workers

    Spotlight on Workers

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Melanie Amann, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, Blake Moret, Elizabeth Shuler

  • Open Forum: Levelling the Playing Field

    Open Forum: Levelling the Playing Field

    75 minutes

    Speakers: Amitabh Behar, Maria del Carmen Correa Cabris, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Claudia Gonzalez Romo Edelman, Asha Makana

  • Towards Parity in Power

    Towards Parity in Power

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Catherine De Bolle, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Mina Al-Oraibi, François Valérian

  • Health and Prosperity through Prevention

    Health and Prosperity through Prevention

    60 minutes

    Speakers: Vas Narasimhan, Sania Nishtar, Adar C. Poonawalla, Pedro Sánchez, Peter Sands, Klaus Schwab, Magdalena Skipper

  • Social Innovation in Action

    Social Innovation in Action

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Chantal Line Carpentier, Barbara Frei, Nicola Galombik, Raj Kumar, Hilde Schwab, Parks Tau, Prof. Muhammad Yunus

  • The Way We Will Travel

    The Way We Will Travel

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Ahmed Al Khateeb, Richard Quest, Edi Rama, Xavier Rossinyol, Jane Sun, Apostolos Tzitzikostas

  • Closing the Jobs Gap

    Closing the Jobs Gap

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Jamie Heller, Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo, Denis Machuel, Veronica Nilsson, Tharman Shanmugaratnam

  • Health beyond Healthcare

    Health beyond Healthcare

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Shyam Bishen, Winnie Byanyima, Helen E. Clark, Michel Demaré, Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi

  • Breaking Free

    Breaking Free

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Melanie Brown

  • Rethinking Obesity Care

    Rethinking Obesity Care

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Pranjal Sharma, Camilla Sylvest

  • Mind Matters: Mental Health at Work

    Mind Matters: Mental Health at Work

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Christy Hoffman, Stephen P. MacMillan, Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi, Bill Ready, David Rhodes

  • Cracking the Code of Digital Health

    Cracking the Code of Digital Health

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., Nikolaj Gilbert, Roy Jakobs, Shobana Kamineni, Karen Tso

  • Collapsing Youth?

    Collapsing Youth?

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Nita Farahany, Jonathan Haidt, Sarah Huckabee Sanders

  • Reinventing Retirement

    Reinventing Retirement

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Thasunda Brown Duckett, John Graham, Ahmad Zulqarnain Onn, Allison Schrager

  • Equity Beyond Identity

    Equity Beyond Identity

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Dominic Arnall, Robert C. Garrett, Adam Kahane, Stefanie Stantcheva, Angela Williams

  • Tech and Learning: Can They Vibe?

    Tech and Learning: Can They Vibe?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Joseph Nsengimana, Amit Sevak, Randi Weingarten, Sherrie Westin

  • Open Forum: WASH-ing Away Inequities

    Open Forum: WASH-ing Away Inequities

    75 minutes

    Speakers: Bat-Orgil Bat-Erdene, Helen E. Clark, Ulrik Gernow, Barinder Rasode

  • Mapping Solutions for: Ending Forced Labour

    Mapping Solutions for: Ending Forced Labour

    30 minutes

    Speakers: John Morrison

  • Redrawing the Geography of Jobs

    Redrawing the Geography of Jobs

    45 minutes

    Speakers: David Bach, Nacho De Marco, Hisayuki Idekoba, Erika Kraemer Mbula, Amy Pope

  • World in Numbers: Social Mobility

    World in Numbers: Social Mobility

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Amitabh Behar, Stefanie Stantcheva

  • On Freedom

    On Freedom

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Timothy Snyder

  • Action on Antimicrobial Resistance

    Action on Antimicrobial Resistance

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Sally Davies, Orazio Schillaci, Michael Sen, Magdalena Skipper, Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen

  • To Moderate or Not to Moderate?

    To Moderate or Not to Moderate?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Iain Drennan, Michael McGrath, Volker Türk, Wanji Walcott

  • Gen Z Changes the Map

    Gen Z Changes the Map

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Jonathan Haidt, Hauwa Mufti, Mark Edward Rose, Janet Truncale

  • Reskilling for the Intelligent Age

    Reskilling for the Intelligent Age

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Omar Abbosh, Cláudia Azevedo, Jayant Chaudhary, Adam Grant, Vimal Kapur, Joe Ucuzoglu

  • Defying the Odds

    Defying the Odds

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Tom Daley, Richard Quest

  • When Climate Redefines Health

    When Climate Redefines Health

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Stéphane Bancel, Shyam Bishen, David Knibbe, Liza Korsten, John-Arne Røttingen, Celeste Saulo

  • Creating Tomorrow's Industrial Talent Today

    Creating Tomorrow's Industrial Talent Today

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Janet Godsell, Dipali Goenka, Natan Linder, Randi Weingarten

  • Earning a Fair Share

    Earning a Fair Share

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Claude Cummings Jr, Adi Ignatius, Volker Türk

  • Breaking Down Food

    Breaking Down Food

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Mariam Mohammed Saeed AlMheiri, David John Haines, Tolu Oni, Chirag Paswan, Ana Luísa Virgínia, Johan Westman

  • Artist’s Path Out of Injustice

    Artist’s Path Out of Injustice

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Anant Singh, Karen Tse, Gary Tyler

  • Flexibility 2.0

    Flexibility 2.0

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Hassan Elkhatib, Erika Kraemer Mbula, Luana Marques Garcia Ozemela, Kumiko Seto, Sander van’t Noordende

  • Leading Differently: The Neurodiverse Advantage

    Leading Differently: The Neurodiverse Advantage

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Stanley M. Bergman, Iain Drennan, Natalie Montecino, Shanti Raghavan

  • Open Forum: Justice through Art

    Open Forum: Justice through Art

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Carol Becker, Gary Tyler

  • Open Forum: Building Communities, Brick by Brick

    Open Forum: Building Communities, Brick by Brick

    75 minutes

    Speakers: Yevhenii Brovchuk, Madeleine von Holzen, Miho Mazereeuw, Nicholas Moses Ngong, Mark Edward Rose, Anacláudia Rossbach