Speakers: David G. Victor, Jennifer Hartsock, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Peter Terwiesch, Larsh Johnson Self-learning weather models can lead to a 30% improvement in solar forecasting accuracy, and artificial intelligence has shown...

Speakers: Yinka Adegoke, Paula Ingabire, K T Rama Rao, Lene Oddershede, Kay Firth-Butterfield In Rwanda, where 12 radiologists serve a country of 12.6 million people, implementing AI for healthcare could...

Speakers: George Whitesides, Sarah bint Yousif Al-Amiri, William Marshall, Anousheh Ansari, Francois Gaullier, Nikolai Khlystov From connecting the remaining 50% of the world's population to the internet to providing real-time high-resolution...

Speakers: Jeremy Jurgens, Alice Gast, Jim Hagemann Snabe, Sharan Burrow, Elizabeth Rossiello COVID-19 has accelerated the transition into the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What are the most pressing...

Speakers: Raj Kumar, Josh Kallmer, Cédric O, Barbara Angus, Sharan Burrow, Sean Doherty Digital trade has flourished in the pandemic even as governments enacted over 100 new digital taxes. How is...

Speakers: Christoph Wolff, Mekapati Goutham Reddy, Ofer Malka, Tom Plümmer, Shauna McIntyre Reduced emissions, increased efficiency and cheaper costs are just three reasons why shared, electric and autonomous mobility has...

Speakers: Nadia Hewett, Catherine Mulligan, Victor Manuel Muñoz Rodriguez, Debjani Ghosh, Robert Hedges Jr, Jan Vapaavuori Some 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 (2.5 quintillion) bytes of data are created each day, but inadequate governance protocols...

Speakers: Christoph Wolff, Yoshifumi Kato, Mariam Al Foudery, André Andonian, C.N. Ashwath Narayan The exponential increase of online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic put unprecedented pressure on warehouse logistics and...

Speakers: Lord Callanan, Lisa Witter, Kono Taro, Surina Shukri, Børge Brende Realizing the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution requires the disruption and remodelling of institutional architectures and incentive structures. https://www.weforum.org/events/global-technology-governance-summit-2021/sessions/agile-50-fifty-people-revolutionizing-governance

Speakers: Sasha Vakulina, S Iswaran, Vinita Sethi, Bocar Ba, Derek O'Halloran While digital technologies enabled hundreds of millions to participate online during the pandemic, the 3.7 billion people without internet...

Speakers: Purushottam Kaushik, Shiv Aroor, Susanna Hasenoehrl, Anir Chowdhury, Prateep Basu, Jayesh Ranjan The world needs to nourish 9.8 billion people by 2050, but current practices are neither nutritious nor sustainable....

Speakers: Angie Lau, Rune Christensen, Aušrinė Armonaitė Decentralized finance, or DeFi, has seen tremendous growth over the past year, drawing parallels to the Initial Coin Offering and crypto...

Speakers: Sheila Warren, Kabir Barday, Jennifer Zhu Scott, JoAnn Stonier, Maria Francesca Spatolisano, Juan Sebastián González Flórez By the age of 18, the average person is defined by at least 70,000...

Speakers: Irene Tham, Vilas Dhar, Mark Brayan, Haniyeh Mahmoudian, Jason Matheny, Kay Firth-Butterfield, Fayaz King As rapid advances in machine learning increase the scope and scale of AI’s deployment in all aspects...

Speakers: Mariette DiChristina, Genya Dana, Megan Palmer, Margaret A. Hamburg, Matthew Chang, Jason Kelly Synthetic biology, the (re)design of organisms, is a frontier technology with applications in manufacturing, healthcare, energy, information...

Speakers: Sheila Warren, Hiroaki Nakanishi, Marc Benioff, Vivian Balakrishnan, Susan Wojcicki Opening video from Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide of Japan. COVID-19 has accelerated the transition into the age of the Fourth...