Radio Davos
223 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago -How do we solve the world’s biggest challenges? From climate change to inequality; the rise of big tech and rapid changes in how we live and work. Radio Davos talks to the people who have the ideas, the passion and the power to make change happen in a way that benefits all of us.
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Advanced Energy Solutions: scaling up the tech that can help us get to net zero
April 25, 2024 05:44 - 45 minutes - 63 MBWhat are the new technologies that can help us reach net zero? And how do we bring them to scale fast enough? World Economic Forum Managing Director Jeremy Jurgens joins us to talk about the Advanced Energy Solutions community, and we hear from three of its members, from widely different sectors and geographies, implementing the energy solutions of tomorrow. Guests: Ann Mettler, Vice President, Europe, Breakthrough Energy VK Samudrala, President, Amara Raja Energy & Mobility Maarte...
Why it's time for the 'middle powers' to step up on geopolitics
April 18, 2024 05:52 - 36 minutes - 50 MBIn a polarised world, with the most powerful nations and the UN unable to prevent or end many wars, could the so-called 'middle powers' step up? This week's two guests, both members of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics, think so, and say those countries might even consider setting up an 'M-10' of middle powers seeking to resolve conflicts and other problems. This podcast is published ahead of the World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Global Collaboration...
It's cheaper to save the world than destroy it: author Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism
April 09, 2024 08:27 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MB“Climate Capitalism is an antidote to the dominant narrative that because we’ve ignored the climate crisis for so long, it will soon be too late. While it’s true that we’ve not done enough yet, we’re nowhere close to being too late.” So says Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg’s senior climate reporter and host of the podcast Zero, in his new book Climate Capitalism, which looks at ways business and industry and finance can make, and in some cases are making, real progress on climate change. Mention...
AI vs Art: Will AI rip the soul out of music, movies and art, or help express our humanity?
April 04, 2024 05:45 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBFor half a century, Nile Rodgers has been making hit records that have touched people's hearts around the world. The creative force behind disco pioneers Chic, and some of the best known songs of David Bowie, Madonna and Beyoncé, tells us the definition of an artist: someone whose work "speaks to the souls of a million strangers". But what if generative AI can make music that's just as good? Is AI a threat or a blessing to art and human expression? We also hear from the head of the Holly...
In the age of the 'manosphere', what's the future for feminism? With Jude Kelly of the WOW Festival
March 28, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBTheatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism. WOW is now a global phenomenon, but does the rise of online misogyny pose a threat to progress on gender equality. Jude Kelly, who spoke to Radio Davos on World Women's Day 2024, says why it is vital to include men in the conversations about an issue that affects us all. Links: WOW Foundation: https://thewowfoundation.com/ Gender Gap ...
Geopolitics, the equitable transition, and AI: things to look out for in energy in 2024
March 21, 2024 11:17 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MBA year ago in Davos, energy - particularly the disruption to supply and prices caused by the war in Ukraine - was a top issue at the Forum's Annual Meeting and on Radio Davos we invited two experts in to set out the top lines of the energy discussion. Roberto Bocca, who heads up energy at the World Economic Forum, and John Defterios, a business professor and former CNN journalist, return this year, as war is an even bigger issue. They also discuss the 'energy transition', especially how th...
Ian Bremmer, Rachel Botsman and Azeem Azhar: 3 experts on the state of the world in 2024
March 14, 2024 07:34 - 26 minutes - 21.6 MBWhat's in store for 2024? Ian Bremmer's political risk consultancy predicts an 'annus horribilis' but Exponential View's Azeem Azhar says we are in an 'incredible decade'. So is the state of the world 'glass half empty, or half full'? And in an uncertain world, Oxford University's Rachel Botsman, tells why trust is so vital, and how it can be re-built, or rather, re-earned. Guests: Ian Bremmer: https://www.eurasiagroup.net/people/IBremmer Rachel Botsman: https://rachelbotsman.com...
Ian Bremmer, Rachel Botsman and Azaam Azhar: 3 experts on the state of the world in 2024
March 14, 2024 07:34 - 26 minutes - 21.6 MBWhat's in store for 2024? Ian Bremmer's political risk consultancy predicts an 'annus horribilis' but Exponential View's Azeem Azhar says we are in an 'incredible decade'. So is the state of the world 'glass half empty, or half full'? And in an uncertain world, Oxford University's Rachel Botsman, tells why trust is so vital, and how it can be re-built, or rather, re-earned. Guests: Ian Bremmer: https://www.eurasiagroup.net/people/IBremmer Rachel Botsman: https://rachelbotsman.com...
The number of refugees could double in the next decade, the head of UNHCR says why
March 07, 2024 07:13 - 20 minutes - 16.5 MBThe UNHCR, cares for 114 million refugees and displaced people worldwide. Filippo Grandi, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, says that number could double in a decade if the world cannot find ways to stop war. Mentioned in this episode: Refugee Employment Alliance: https://www.weforum.org/projects/the-refugee-employment-and-employability-initiative/ Read more: From fleeing war to finding work: companies aim to help refugees find jobs Catch up on all the action from Davo...
AI: Is 2024 the year that governance catches up with the tech?
February 29, 2024 07:08 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBIf 2023 was the year we all got familiar with generative AI, is 2024 the year when governments will act on the governance of this powerful technology? At Davos 2024 we spoke to these experts, from the industry and civil society: Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI Catch up on all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag ...
TradeTech: the trillion dollar promise that could unlock smoother global trade
February 20, 2024 10:15 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBTechnology is revolutionizing global commerce and investment, and digitalizing the trade ecosystem holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion by 2026 within the G7 alone. On the eve of the World Trade Organisation's 13th Ministerial Conference, MC13 (26-29 February, 2024) in Abu Dhabi, we speak to the event's host, UAE Minister of State for Trade Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi about MC13 and the TradeTech initiative that the UAE is pursuing with the World Economic Forum. We also...
What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments
February 15, 2024 07:37 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MB"This is going to be the most transformational moment, not just in technology, but in culture and politics of all of our lifetimes." Three AI pioneers, all of them in Time's Top-100 most influential people in AI, share their views on the past, present and future of this transformational technology. Guests: Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO, Cohere Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder and CEO, Inflection AI Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist, Meta World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef....
How do vital businesses continue to operate in a war zone? The view from Yemen
February 08, 2024 07:38 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBIn an episode recorded before the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, we hear from two private-sector companies involved in the distribution of food, about how they manage to operate in a war zone like Yemen, which has been in a state of civil war since 2015. Guests: Mohamed Nabil Hayel Saeed, Senior Strategic Advisor, HSA Niels Hougaard, Managing Director, Tetra Pak Arabia Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: YouTube: - https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts Radi...
When influencers meet the influential: YouTubers go to Davos
February 01, 2024 08:45 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MBWhat do social media content creators make of Davos? We speak to three YouTubers - with a collective audience in the millions - who were given full access to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 to ask who they met and what stories they would be telling. Featuring: Jacob Beautemps, @BreakingLab Adanna Steinacker, @houseofadanna Gohar Khan, @goharsguide Catch up on all the action from Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Check out all o...
Annual Meeting 2024: What just happened in Davos?
January 25, 2024 13:59 - 52 minutes - 71.8 MBThe World Economic Forum just held its Annual Meeting - but what impact will it have on the world beyond Davos? The people who lead the Forum's work throughout the year tackling the world's most important issues pick the highlights of the week that show how Davos 2024 will make a positive impact. And we hear clips from some of the most impactful discussions from the Congress Centre. Davos 2024 sessions featured in this episode: Opening Concert Technology in a Turbulent World C...
Meeting in the metaverse: Actor Rainn Wilson joins us on the virtual polar ice
January 15, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBWhat's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse? Actor Rainn Wilson joins us, in avatar form, to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world. We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points. ...
Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024
January 10, 2024 08:38 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBAs leading figures from government, business, academia and civil society head to Davos for the Annual Meeting 2024, what are the big global challenges they will be discussing? The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report sets out the biggest issues over the short and medium terms, based on a survey of more than 1,400 global risks experts, policy-makers and industry leaders. This year, the impact of artificial intelligence is felt throughout the report, with rising concern about disinfo...
A year in podcasts: the best of Radio Davos in 2023
December 21, 2023 09:38 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBRadio Davos is a podcast that is as wide-ranging and thought-provoking as the work of the World Economic Forum itself. Rather than being restricted to any one topic, each week it focuses on a particular issue of global importance, such as macro-economics, the environment, technology, health, social inequalities and much more - always seeking solutions to the big problems On this episode we listen back to a selection of episodes from 2023. Episodes featured: Davos 2023 Day 5: Inflation...
2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?
December 14, 2023 13:41 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBAs 2023 draws to a close and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting approaches, we look at an issue that will be on everyone’s lips in Davos: artificial intelligence. Cathy Li, head of AI at the Forum tells us about the work of the AI Governance Alliance, which has brought stakeholders together to seek the best way for humans to oversee the rapid rise of the technology. And we hear from a handful of the stakeholders who attended the AI Governance Summit in November: Sara Hooker, VP o...
Technology that transforms: what an invention from 1450 can teach us about AI
November 30, 2023 13:39 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBIf you’re a ‘digital native’ - someone who can’t remember a world before the internet - you might feel you have a good idea of the role technology will play in your life and perhaps in that of future generations. But journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of a history of another transformative technology from more than five centuries ago - the printing press - says we can have no way yet of knowing where the internet, and AI, will take us. The book is called The Gutenberg Parenthesis....
'Reality kicks in': What just happened at talks to create a 'Paris deal for plastics'?
November 24, 2023 14:49 - 32 minutes - 25.8 MBPlastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem. Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics. To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, ...
"Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity
November 11, 2023 01:44 - 25 minutes - 20.2 MBWhen Professor Tom Crowther published research into the massive potential of trees to absorb more carbon than previously thought, he helped spur the Trillion Trees movement to plant, restore and conserve forests. But it also caused massive debate. As he publishes updated research, Crowther tells Radio Davos that growing trees must increase biodiversity, and not lead to monoculture plantations, and that it must never be an excuse to slow the drive to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Li...
Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'
November 09, 2023 12:54 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBThe concept of 'value based health care' - where patient outcomes are monitored and health care services are funded on the basis of the quality of care, rather than the quantity of procedures - has been around for a couple of decades, but has yet to become the norm. This podcast explores the potential benefits of a shift from 'volume' to 'value', to patients and to health care providers. Guests: Catherine MacLean, Chief Value Medical Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New Y...
Lessons in leadership we can all learn from: celebrating 100 episodes of Meet the Leader
October 27, 2023 15:58 - 45 minutes - 36.4 MBThis week we’re celebrating 100 episodes of our sister podcast Meet the Leader. Every week, Linda Lacina interviews leaders - of major companies, organisations, or what we might call ‘thought leaders' in the fields of academia or campaign groups. If you want to know what makes these individuals tick, and what lessons we might learn from their experiences, subscribe to Meet the Leader - you can find it on our podcast website, wef.ch/podcasts and on any podcast app. In this episode: Ja...
What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse
October 10, 2023 13:12 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBIn 2003 - the a year before a 19-year-old Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook - Philip Rosedale launched Second Life - an online virtual world that looked set to transform the internet. Two decades later, with the Facebook company, now called Meta, and its competitors seeking to develop the metaverse, what does Rosedale see as the future of the still emerging technology? Interview by Linda Lacina, host of the weekly Meet the Leader podcast. Related episodes: So ju...
How to talk to a climate change sceptic
October 05, 2023 11:39 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBWhat is the single most important thing that any individual can do to help alleviate the climate crisis? Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. She believes that only if we all talk about climate change will humanity take the right paths to tackle climate change. But what if the person you are talking to doesn’t...
Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on
September 28, 2023 13:58 - 36 minutes - 29.5 MBAt the start of this year, the World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report - a major survey of sentiment about what are the big things that could go wrong - in the economy, the environment, in health, cybersecurity, geopolitics - and more. In this podcast, we invite back the two guests who appeared on Radio Davos in January to talk about the report and its conclusion that the world faced a 'polycrisis' - a combination of risks from many sources. Carolina Klint, Managing...
SDIM23: Innovation for Tough-To-Decarbonize Industries
September 22, 2023 22:30 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBSourcing and scaling viable innovations to decarbonize ‘hard-to-abate’ sectors like mining and aviation will be critical to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals. How can we leverage cutting-edge technologies and adopt novel strategies to accelerate the race to net-zero in these sectors? This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20. Speakers: Vivek Salgaocar, Director and Co-Founder, Vimson Group; Shahrukh S...
SDIM23 - Accelerating Progress on Gender Parity
September 21, 2023 21:48 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBGender parity has recovered to pre-pandemic levels globally, but the pace of change is stagnating. It will take an estimated 131 years to reach full parity at the current trajectory. How can we boost women’s economic participation and political empowerment and achieve gender parity at all levels of society? This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20. Speakers: Keir Simmons, Chief International Correspondent, NBC Ne...
SDIM23 - Bridging the Gap: Financing Africa's Agricultural Growth
September 21, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBSmall and medium agricultural enterprises (agri-SMEs) are Africa’s largest employer and economic engine—and the key to transforming food systems and improving food security for the continent. Yet three out of four agri-SMEs can’t access formal bank financing, and are too large for microfinance, creating an estimated $100 billion gap in unmet demand for financing. How can donor governments, development finance institutions, African governments, and the private sector catalyze action to stren...
The global economy is slowing - here's why that may not be such a bad thing
September 18, 2023 06:56 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBThe World Economic Forum has just published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, a regular report based on the views of senior economists around the world. This edition shows a glass half full and half empty, with concerns of widespread economic recession easing since the last report in May, but slowing global growth and continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. In this episode, Jérôme Haegeli, chief economist at Swiss Re, gives his views on the state of the global econo...
What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?
September 06, 2023 17:40 - 32 minutes - 44 MBSemiconductors make the world go round, and the most cutting-edge versions are necessary to propel the artificial intelligence revolution. Historian Chris Miller, author ‘Chip War’, explains what chips do, how they are made, and why they are so vital to global supply chains and international relations. Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/silicon-chips-semiconductors-chris-miller Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/09/silicon-chips...
AI Professor Stuart Russell: - what could possibly go wrong?
August 02, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes - 70 MBProfessor Stuart Russell shares his concerns about the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence. Listen back to our 5-part series on generative AI: Episode 1: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast' Episode 2: A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using Episode 3: Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech? Episode 4: 'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do w...
Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives
July 19, 2023 15:57 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MBDesigner phages, spatial optics, plant sensors and bendable batteries - just some of the items on this year's World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies that will change our lives in the next 3-5 years. To talk us through all 10, we hear from the two people who led the work compiling the list: Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication; and Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM. LINKS: The ...
Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life
July 18, 2023 12:55 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBIs the metaverse still a thing or has the world’s attention moved on to generative AI? On this episode of Radio Davos, we speak to a vice president of the consumer electronics company HTC. Pearly Chen heads Business Development & Content Partnerships for VIVEPORT a subscription plan for virtual reality gaming - immersive video games played using VR headsets. Pearly is convinced of the potential for metaverse applications for healthcare, social care and education, and believes the advent...
The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees
July 03, 2023 13:23 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBClaude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today’s refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps. He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for traumatised young people, and compares the plight of people today forced from their home with his own childhood experience. Related links: The World Economic Forum’s Refugee Employment Alliance, co-chaired by the UNHCR and the Ingka Group, Transcript available on the podcast episode page...
Disease X - How the world can stop the next pandemic
July 03, 2023 13:09 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MBCan we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, Disease X, author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for the next one. Links World Economic Forum’s Website page for the “Centre for Health and Healthcare”. https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home Regional Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/regional-solution-to-vaccine-inequity-...
AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all
June 28, 2023 15:41 - 25 minutes - 35 MBThe final episode of our AI series comes from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’, in Tianjin, China. Cathy Li, head of AI at the World Economic Forum, says what needs to happen next as the world gets to grips with generative AI, and introduces the AI Governance Alliance. And we listen in to discussions at AMNC about AI - the opportunities for business and implications for things such as medicine and education. Follow AMNC here: htt...
AMNC23: Braving the Headwinds: Rewiring Growth Amid Fragility
June 27, 2023 12:11 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBAmid pressures on the global economy from recent major crises and renewed turbulence in financial markets, stakeholders will need to convert the bright spots of accelerated trade and investment in green and innovative industries into a new paradigm for sustained growth. How can both government and the private sector draw on the opportunities stemming from this time of change and transition to rewire the models underpinning global growth? Speakers: Zhang Yuzhuo, Chairman, State-owned Asset...
How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023
June 22, 2023 16:20 - 34 minutes - 48 MBIn most parts of the world, the gender gap - the difference in opportunities and outcomes for women compared to men - is closing. But closing so slowly that it would take, at the current rate of progress, until 2154 for men and women to be truly equal. That statistic comes from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, an extensive, annual survey whose latest edition has just been published. In this episode, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi picks some highl...
'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?
June 15, 2023 06:57 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MB"AI will have some form of intelligence that will either compete with us or augment us. This is a question for us as a species. For the past thousands of years, we didn’t have a cousin or a brother and now we may have one. So it is how we understand that and how we deal with it." On Episode 4 of our special series on generative AI, we consider the options for how we can govern the rapidly growing technology. Guests: Amir Banifatemi, Director, AI Commons; Cyrus Hodes Co-Founder of AIGC Ch...
Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?
June 08, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBThe rise of generative artificial intelligence raises a lot of philosophical questions. So can philosophy help us make AI that serves humanity for the good? On this episode we hear from 'applied ethicist' Cansu Canca, AI Ethics Lead at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA; and from Sara Hooker, head of Cohere For AI, a research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems. Full transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/...
AI as a common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using
June 01, 2023 09:01 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBFor a transcript, visit the episode page at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-episode-2-microsoft-hugging-face In the second a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we hear from two companies involved in the AI revolution - one of the biggest and oldest names in computing, Microsoft, and a young startup making waves in this booming industry, Hugging Face. Speakers: Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft; Thomas Wolf Chief Scie...
AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'
May 24, 2023 07:40 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MBIn the first of a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we ask why AI is suddenly such big news and where things might go from here. Speakers: Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse, World Economic Forum; Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research; and Pascale Fung, Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Thumbnail picture: generated by Dall-E with the prompt 'the face of rodin's thinker as a robot' Transcript available on the episode pa...
Recession fears recede, but inflation's still a big risk - 3 chief economists on the global outlook
May 12, 2023 11:27 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBWe are still in a period of great economic uncertainty, with inflation posing a risk around the world and forcing central banks to tighten policy. Three chief economists spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Growth Summit. Hear where they think the global economy is headed. Featuring: Jorge Sicilia of BBVA, Razia Khan of Standard Chartered and Gregory Daco of EY-Parthenon. Related Episodes: Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy? The future of j...
Growth Summit 2023: Chief Economists Briefing
May 04, 2023 17:57 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBAgainst a backdrop of persistently sluggish growth, the global economy and markets continue to be roiled by crisis after crisis. What trends will determine the prospects for the year ahead, and are there grounds for optimism that the worst may be over? This is the full audio of the Chief Economists Briefing session at the Growth Summit, on 3 May 2023, You can watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/global-economic-outlook-...
Growth Summit 2023: Future of Work - Health and Care
May 03, 2023 14:53 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBWith an estimated shortfall of 10 million workers in the sector by 2030, the health and care economy is under severe stress. What multi stakeholder policies and strategies can help recruit, retain and rethink healthcare jobs? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Growth Summit 2023, Future of Work - Health and Care. Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/closing-the-talent-gap-healthc...
The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you
May 03, 2023 05:20 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBWondering what job you’ll be doing in five years’ time? Chances are it may be quite different from what you do now, and you’ll need different skills. The transition to clean energy and the rise of artificial intelligence are likely to have a big impact on the world of work so employers, too, need to adopt a ‘skills-first’ mindset. We hear from Tan Kok Yam, Chief Executive of SkillsFuture Singapore, who is putting theory into action, and to Tarika Barrett, CEO of Girls Who Code, a non-profi...
Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?
May 02, 2023 04:00 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MBWhat’s going on in the global economy? Christian Keller, the Head of Economic Research at Barclays, joins Radio Davos to discuss the latest Chief Economists Outlook and explore what likely lies ahead for consumers, businesses and policymakers. Read the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/reports/chief-economists-outlook-may-2023 More on the Growth Summit: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023 A transcript is available on the ep...
The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023
May 01, 2023 04:00 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBThe World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report is a snapshot of the world of work now, and a look into where we are going. The latest edition comes as we are still digesting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and as we all become aware of the massive impact that Artificial Intelligence is likely to have on pretty much every job humans do. Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi sets out the highlights of the report, and Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of online learning company Coursera talks abou...