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How can we unlock new sources of growth?

Converging Technologies to Win

January 22, 2026
11:30–12:15 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

The next era of competitiveness will be won not by single breakthroughs but by nations that can integrate multiple advanced technologies into coherent industrial strategies. While AI dominates headlines, it is its interplay with advanced technologies such as compute, robotics, materials and energy that will decide which countries can scale and sustain future growth. What capabilities and...
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Speakers

SG
Sassine Ghazi
President and Chief Executive Officer
Synopsys
VK
Vimal Kapur
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Honeywell Technologies
AM
Andrew McAfee
Cofounder, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; Cofounder, Workhelix
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
AS
Abdullah bin Amer Al Swaha
Minister of Communications and Information Technology
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Saudi Arabia
LT
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

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