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Apr 6, 2023 • 29min
COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger.
COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger. “It’s the first time in the history of humanity that we have to rethink what it means to be human. It’s no longer, ‘I think, therefore I am’. Most of our thinking can be outsourced to machines.” Artificial intelligence is about to transform the world of work, says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup and the author of ‘I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique’. He looks at the huge changes COVID and home-working have already wrought, and how we can cope with the even bigger AI revolution. Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Mar 31, 2023 • 41min
The energy transition moonshot: innovations that will transform our world
It often looks like we are doing too little too late to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, but companies around the world are creating new ways of generating and delivering energy. We hear from four CEOs about their work on aviation fuel, electric vehicles, green hydrogen and new nuclear. And World Economic Forum John Defterios, who covered energy for three decades as a journalist at CNN, shares his thoughts. Guests: Michael Farkas, Founder, Executive Chairman & CEO at Theye Veen, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Jason Few, President & CEO at Stefano Buono, founder and CEO, The interviews were recorded at the inaugural meeting of Advanced Energy Solutions, the World Economic Forum community that aims to speed up deployment of advanced energy solutions from years to months while eradicating the green premium. It engages leaders in frontier, fast-growing segments of the energy system such as clean fuels, hydrogen, storage, new nuclear, carbon and demand management. Find out more about the Forum’s work on energy here: Related podcasts: Radio Davos: Meet the Leader: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the

Mar 29, 2023 • 26min
Magic Leap's Peggy Johnson: The jobs augmented reality will change forever
Augmented reality (AR) is transforming retail, surgery and even how we read a book. Peggy Johnson, CEO of Magic Leap -- a company pioneering in this technology -- shares how AR might evolve – and what could hold that progress back. She also shares key milestones from her decades in tech -- including the surprising lesson mobile ringtones taught her about making way for big breakthroughs and how as an introvert early in her career she found ways to get her ideas heard.

Mar 29, 2023 • 53min
Beyond the UN Water Conference: Leaders on What's Next
The first UN Water Conference in almost 50 years was a watershed moment to catalyze a series of several key opportunities this year, to assess progress on the SDGs, but what are the major outcomes? How can leaders take the water action agenda forward as an enabler to address the nexus of critical issues including climate, energy, and food systems?
In this session, hosted by the World Economic Forum, high-level public and private stakeholders come together virtually to discuss the main outcomes of the UN Water Conference and the actions required to ensure a water-positive future for people and planet.
This is the audio from a panel discussion that you can watch here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/beyond-the-un-water-conference-leaders-on-whats-next/
Speakers:Jim Andrew, Executive Vice-President, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo
Beth Koigi, Co-Founder, Majik Water
Usha Rao-Monari, Undersecretary-General and Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs of the Netherlands
Gary White, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Water.org
Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org
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Xylem’s Patrick Decker: Purpose, focus - and effective communication

Mar 24, 2023 • 31min
UN Water Conference: the entrepreneurs on a mission
At the UN Water Conference, a group of entrepreneurs from around the world are telling how their innovations could help tackle some of the big challenges related to water. Laura Beltran, of the World Economic Forum's UpLink platform, talks to three of them who are: taking water from the air in Kenya; making the most of rain runoff from buildings in Canada; and getting affordable water filters to people in Latin America. Guests: Beth Koigi, Co-founder, (Kenya) - An atmospheric water generator system which uses proven condensation-based techniques to capture water moisture from the air. Majik serves communities that are not able to access safe drinking water, offering a turnkey solution. Kevin Mercer, President & Co-founder, (Canada) - Building community-scale, property-based, digital networks for net-zero residential property rainfall runoff, while generating verifiable ecosystem credits and restoring the health and security of groundwater and watersheds. Laura Stocco, CTO & Co-founder, (Switzerland) - A locally-assembled and managed, biodegradable membrane filter that removes pathogen heavy metals from water. Through its microfranchising model, entrepreneurs can manufacture and sell filters, creating a sustainable business. Read more: More podcast episodes on water: Subscribe: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Mar 21, 2023 • 25min
UN 2023 Water Conference: water is life, but it’s also politics
As the world meets at the United Nations for the first water summit in a decade, we speak to someone who has written a history of humanity’s relationship with water. Giulio Boccaletti, author of Water: A Biography says it is human decisions that have created water crises, and it’s humans that can solve them. Read more: Liked this? Try these: Radio Davos Meet the Leader Agenda Dialogues World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Mar 20, 2023 • 24min
Xylem’s Patrick Decker: Purpose, focus - and effective communication
What is your purpose? What societal impact are you driving? Patrick Decker, CEO of Xylem, shares how this water technology company is helping to tackle these questions while tackling big issues impacting society and the planet (such as water scarcity, water infrastructure and emissions), leveraging everything from effective communication to technology (AI and digital twins) and innovative demand deposit accounts.
On this episode, released ahead of the UN 2023 Water Conference, Decker shares the virtuous circle purpose creates - how it draws motivated people to join teams, attracts partners and commercial teams, drives fresh thinking and keeps a cross-section of groups aligned on big goals. Decker shared the practical ways leaders can keep teams in touch with a shared purpose -- from aligned communication (that sidesteps confusion) to a simple question asked at the top of meetings to keep conversations focused.

Mar 16, 2023 • 19min
The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start
Everyone, it seems, is talking about ChatGPT - the generative artificial intelligence application that you can chat to like a very intelligent human and instruct to write things previously done by humans. In this episode, Aakrit Vaish, Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik, an Indian company that makes AI that interacts with people by voice or text, says the developments of the last few months are a real breakthrough and that we are entering a golden age of AI. Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Liked this? Try these: Radio Davos Agenda Dialogues

Mar 15, 2023 • 27min
Mentors and building momentum for social change: Raise our Voice Australia Founder
Too many groups, including women and gender diverse people, do not see themselves as policymakers or politicians. Raise Our Voice Australia works to change that by providing special training on how the political system works, as well as tactical skills in areas like community building and having conversations with people you disagree with. Founder Ashleigh Streeter-Jones shares the important role a mentor played in crafting a step-by-step process to launch the social enterprise, one that helped break the massive project into 'bite-sized' pieces, a process that can be instrumental for founders of any startup or initiative. In fact, Streeter Jones has a circle of mentors she turns to for advice and commiseration, and she shares the key role that mentoring plays in sharing knowledge and building anything big.

Mar 15, 2023 • 45min
Davos 2023: Is Global Tax Reform Stalling?
With growing social polarisation and a lack of trust in the fairness of economic systems, progress on more efficient global taxation mechanisms, such as the OECD's global corporate tax deal, is becoming essential.
How can we address the tax challenges raised by digitalisation and ensure a fairer redistribution of tax revenues across countries?
This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.
Speakers:Joumanna Bercetche, Anchor, CNBC (moderator)
Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Nigerian Minister of Finance
Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Gabriel Zucman, Director, EU Tax Observatory
Faisal Alibrahim, Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning
Watch this session:https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/is-global-tax-reform-stalling
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