How can we better invest in people?

Investing in reskilling and upskilling will be crucial to achieving a resilient workforce in this economic landscape given that 22% of today’s jobs worldwide will change in just the next five years driven particularly by AI. In emerging economies, job creation will need to accelerate to absorb the labour surplus of nearly 800 million young people due to become working age over the next decade. The need for cross-dimensional resilience is also reflected in human health, with 4.5 billion people currently lacking access to essential healthcare services and the sector facing an estimated $10.5 billion per year funding gap, underscoring the need to invest in health outcomes.

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  • Workers in the Driver’s Seat

    Workers in the Driver’s Seat

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Dipali Goenka, Denis Machuel, Roxana Mînzatu, Mina Al-Oraibi, Luc Triangle

  • Town Hall: Dilemmas around Knowledge

    Town Hall: Dilemmas around Knowledge

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Aidan Gomez, Deborah Prentice, Hugo Sarrazin

  • Thinking Clearly about Emotions

    Thinking Clearly about Emotions

    30 minutes

  • In the Midst of Chaos

    In the Midst of Chaos

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Oleksandra Matviichuk, Catherine Russell, Ishaan Tharoor

  • An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity

    An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Yuval Noah Harari, Irene Tracey

  • Healing with Sound and Words

    Healing with Sound and Words

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Jon Batiste, Adam Grant, Suleika Jaouad, Harvey Mason jr.

  • Women at the Finance Frontier

    Women at the Finance Frontier

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Stefan Bollinger, Diane Brady, Mounir Nakhla, Temi Marcella Olatunde, Lutfey Siddiqi, Stacey Vanek Smith

  • Schwab Foundation Awards 2026

    Schwab Foundation Awards 2026

    60 minutes

    Speakers: Kibret Abebe, Emad Adly, Karen Basiye, Ioana Bauer, Francois Bonnici, Minhaj Chowdhury, Mario Haberfeld, Omar Itani, Johanna Mair, H.M. Queen Mathilde of the Belgians, Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Francois-Ghislain Morillion, Mamadou Ndiaye, Olivia Onyemaobi, Ana Maria Raad, Orlando Rojas, Viviantie Sarjuni, Piyush Tewari, Juliana Uribe

  • Radical Stillness

    Radical Stillness

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mirjam Varadinis

  • Healthcare: Cost or Investment?

    Healthcare: Cost or Investment?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Michel Demaré, Bernd Montag, Suneeta Reddy, Stefanie Stantcheva

  • Corporate Ladders, AI Reshuffled

    Corporate Ladders, AI Reshuffled

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Shereen Bhan, Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Andrew Ng, Himanshu Palsule, Christopher Pissarides

  • Future of Inclusion

    Future of Inclusion

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Enrique Acevedo, Iris Bohnet, Niall Ferguson, Luana Marques Garcia Ozemela

  • Are Cities Up to It?

    Are Cities Up to It?

    30 minutes

    Speakers: D.K. Shivakumar, Diallo Powell

  • All Eyes on Sleep

    All Eyes on Sleep

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Dan Vahdat

  • At the Cusp of Healthcare for All

    At the Cusp of Healthcare for All

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Sara Eisen, Bill Gates, Paula Ingabire, Peter Sands

  • An Honest Conversation on the Hyper Connected and the Hyper Lonely

    An Honest Conversation on the Hyper Connected and the Hyper Lonely

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Adam Grant, Jonathan Haidt, Jenny Kim, Bill Ready

  • Services in the Firing Line

    Services in the Firing Line

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Peter De Caluwe, Ricardo Hausmann

  • Progress Is not Inevitable

    Progress Is not Inevitable

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Carl-Benedikt Frey

  • Making Healthy Choices, Better

    Making Healthy Choices, Better

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Adrian Gore, Helena Leurent, Michelle Longmire, Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, Dimitri de Vreeze

  • Is Everyone Falling Behind?

    Is Everyone Falling Behind?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Michael Ensser, Alice Evans, Christy Hoffman

  • A Coming Jobs Challenge in Emerging Markets?

    A Coming Jobs Challenge in Emerging Markets?

    60 minutes

    Speakers: Harini Amarasuriya, Ajay S. Banga, Wale Edun, Stephanie Flanders, Nandan Nilekani, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Tengku Muhammad Taufik, Saadia Zahidi

  • Breakthroughs in Women’s Health

    Breakthroughs in Women’s Health

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Nadia Calviño, Gargee Ghosh Chasin, Sania Nishtar, Orazio Schillaci, Severin Schwan, Magdalena Skipper

  • What Chess Teaches Humans When Machines Play Better

    What Chess Teaches Humans When Machines Play Better

    30 minutes

    Speakers: YIFAN HOU, Kenneth Rogoff

  • The Repair Advantage

    The Repair Advantage

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Becky Kennedy, Richard K. Lyons

  • Taking NCDs Seriously

    Taking NCDs Seriously

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Nancy Brown, Mosa Moshabela, Shamsheer Vayalil, Johan Westman

  • Can We Save the Middle Class?

    Can We Save the Middle Class?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Oren Cass, Christy Hoffman, Salil S. Parekh, Stacey Vanek Smith

  • Seeing the Unseen

    Seeing the Unseen

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Adam Grant, Priyamvada Natarajan

  • Can We Afford Longevity?

    Can We Afford Longevity?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Diene Keita, Kathryn Koch, Annette Mosman, David M. Rubenstein, Pat Tomlinson

  • How Housing Became a Bottleneck

    How Housing Became a Bottleneck

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Lars Petersson, Jonathan Reckford, Mark Edward Rose, Stefanie Stantcheva

  • Possibilities and Limits of Cancer Care

    Possibilities and Limits of Cancer Care

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Stéphane Bancel

  • Defying Cognitive Atrophy

    Defying Cognitive Atrophy

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Omar Abbosh, Carl Eschenbach, Anna Frances Griffiths (Vignoles), The Rt. Hon. The Lord William J. Hague

  • Parenting in an Anxious World

    Parenting in an Anxious World

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Rachel Botsman, Jonathan Haidt, Becky Kennedy, Marija Manojlovic

  • Davos Kick-off for FIFA World Cup 2026

    Davos Kick-off for FIFA World Cup 2026

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Gianni Infantino

  • New Dawn for Entrepreneurship?

    New Dawn for Entrepreneurship?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Laura Alber, Sanjiv Bajaj, Dorothee Bär, Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Daniel Roth

  • Pathogen Surveillance in Real Time

    Pathogen Surveillance in Real Time

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Rachel Glennerster, Richard Hatchett

  • Murals that Speak

    Murals that Speak

    30 minutes

  • Latest Discoveries about the Brain

    Latest Discoveries about the Brain

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Nancy Ip, Chris Mansi, Kamila Markram, Irene Tracey

  • Can We Protect Science?

    Can We Protect Science?

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Sylvia Earle, Maria Leptin, Alexi Robichaux, Magdalena Skipper, Daniel Skovronsky

  • Mental Health When Everything Shifts

    Mental Health When Everything Shifts

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Stanley M. Bergman, Helen E. Clark, Marija Manojlovic, Linda Mills

  • When Artists and Scientists Talk

    When Artists and Scientists Talk

    45 minutes

    Speakers: Thijs Biersteker, Fabiola Gianotti, Nomzamo Mbatha, Priyamvada Natarajan

  • World in Numbers: Human Skills

    World in Numbers: Human Skills

    30 minutes

    Speakers: Ipeleng Odette Selele, Luis Vassy