World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 at Davos

19 Jan 2026 - 23 Jan 2026

Davos, Switzerland

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17:30 - 18:45 Open Forum: Which 2050 Do We Want?
07:15 - 08:00 Scaling AI: Now Comes the Hard Part
08:30 - 09:00 Conversation with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
09:30 - 09:50 Welcoming Remarks and Special Address
10:00 - 11:00 Special Address by Emmanuel Macron President of France
12:00 - 12:45 Town Hall: Dilemmas around Knowledge
12:30 - 13:00 The Day After AGI
14:00 - 14:45 Data against Modern Slavery
14:00 - 14:45 Next Phase of Intelligence
14:00 - 14:45 Science as a Growth Engine
15:15 - 16:00 Prosperity: Sovereign Yet Connected?
15:30 - 16:00 Future of War
16:00 - 16:30 Digital Embassies for Sovereign AI
16:00 - 16:45 Where Can New Growth Come From?
16:30 - 17:15 AI Power Play, No Referees
16:30 - 17:15 Central Banking: Beyond the Mandate
16:30 - 17:15 Corporate Ladders, AI Reshuffled
16:30 - 17:15 Geopolitics of Materials
16:30 - 17:15 How Can Africa Prosper in the New Economy?
17:00 - 17:45 Where Are We with Emerging Markets?
08:15 - 08:45 When Code and Creativity Collide
08:15 - 09:00 Preventing Jobless Growth
08:30 - 09:45 Open Forum: Swipe Left on Reality
09:15 - 10:00 Is Tokenization the Future?
09:30 - 10:00 An Honest Conversation on the Hyper Connected and the Hyper Lonely
10:30 - 11:00 Conversation with Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA
10:30 - 11:15 Hard Realities of Cyber Threats
11:00 - 11:30 China's AI+ Economy
11:30 - 12:45 Open Forum: Understanding Quantum Reality
12:15 - 13:00 On Guard, from Deep Sea to Orbit
12:15 - 13:00 The Intelligent Co-Worker
12:30 - 13:15 Building AI for the Long Term
14:30 - 15:15 Special Address by Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America
14:30 - 15:15 Why Quantum Is Around the Corner and Why It Is Not
15:45 - 16:30 Cyber Defenders in the Age of AI
15:45 - 16:30 Enterprises with a Neural Spine
16:45 - 17:30 Regulating at the Speed of Code
08:00 - 08:45 Factories that Think
08:00 - 08:45 New Era for Finance
08:30 - 09:45 Open Forum: Beyond Earth - The Next Space Race
09:15 - 10:00 Town Hall: Dilemmas around Ethics in AI
09:15 - 10:00 Where Are We on Stablecoins?
10:00 - 10:30 Cybercrime Has Real Victims
10:30 - 11:15 Converging Technologies to Win
10:30 - 11:15 Defying Cognitive Atrophy
12:15 - 13:00 Is Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Feasible?
12:15 - 13:00 Living Autonomously
13:30 - 14:15 An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity
14:00 - 14:45 New Dawn for Entrepreneurship?
08:00 - 08:45 Internet up for Grabs
11:00 - 11:15 Closing Remarks

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 at Davos

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Event Statistics

Total session reports: 50

Unique speakers

219

Total speeches

35283

Total time

138778.97 min

1.0 days, 14.0 hours, 32.0 minutes, 59.0 seconds

Total length

368161 words

368,161 words, or 0.63 ‘War and Peace’ books

Total
arguments

609

Agreed
points

427

Points of
difference

182

Thought provoking comments

290

Prominent Sessions

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Fastest speakers

1

Gary A. Haugen

273.52 words/minute

2

Siu Yat

226.73 words/minute

3

Robert M. Lee

225.56 words/minute

Most Used Prefixes and Descriptors

ai

1796 mentions

during World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 at Davos

The session that most mentioned the prefix ai:

Conversation with Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA (98 mentions)

future

256 mentions

during World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 at Davos

The session that most mentioned the prefix future:

Defying Cognitive Atrophy (21 mentions)

digital

232 mentions

during World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 at Davos

The session that most mentioned the prefix digital:

Factories that Think (32 mentions)

risk

178 mentions

during World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 at Davos

The session that most mentioned the prefix risk:

New Era for Finance (31 mentions)

development

171 mentions

during World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 at Davos

The session that most mentioned the prefix development:

Welcoming Remarks and Special Address (28 mentions)

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