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How can we unlock new sources of growth?

Preventing Jobless Growth

January 21, 2026
09:15–10:00 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Forecasts of AI’s impact on productivity vary widely, from those projecting a 15% boost in labour output across advanced economies to warnings that as many as 92 million jobs could vanish globally by 2030. Generative AI will transform work as we know it, but will that transformation lead to shared prosperity or widening exclusion? How can we prevent productivity gains from masking a much...
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Speakers

EB
Erik Brynjolfsson
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor; Director, Digital Economy Lab
Stanford University
VD
Valdis Dombrovskis
Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification
European Commission
RS
Ravi Kumar S.
Chief Executive Officer
Cognizant
JP
Jonas Prising
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
ManpowerGroup
ES
Elizabeth Shuler
President
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
LT
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

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