January 20-24, 2025, Davos, Switzerland
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international organization founded by Klaus Schwab in Switzerland in 1971. It promotes cooperation between business, politics, science & civil society. The Annual Meeting takes place in Davos. The motto for this year:
"Cooperation in the age of intelligence"
The World Economic Forum 2025 is dedicated to a wide range of topics, including geopolitical tensions, economic growth and the transition to clean energy. At the same time, tech, AI, quantum computing & biotech also play an important role.
As always, there will be posts on all relevant topics from @HennRes & @Michael-official will be published. Under the #wef2025 you will be able to view all posts in chronological order.
Main topics:
- Rethinking growth: How can we tap into new sources of economic growth?
- How can companies respond to tech and geopolitical upheaval?
- What measures promote education, health & human capital?
- How can innovative partnerships & techs drive climate protection?
- How can cooperation be strengthened to overcome social divisions?
Participants from politics & business.
Over 350 government representatives, including 60 heads of state & government, 1600 people from the private sector, including 900 CEOs and over 170 people from NGOs, trade unions, academia and indigenous peoples are also present.
The key figures from politics are:
- 🇺🇸 Donald J. Trump(soon to be) President of the USA (via video link)
- 🇪🇺 Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
- 🇨🇳 Ding XuexiangVice Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China
- 🇦🇷 Javier MileiPresident of Argentina
- 🇩🇪 Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany
- 🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
- 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain
- 🇨🇭 Karin Keller-Sutter, President of the Swiss Confederation 2025
- 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
Executives from the private sector (who are expected/ not offical)
Technology sector
- 🇺🇸 $MSFT (+1,5 %) (Microsoft) - Satya Nadella, CEO
- 🇺🇸 $AMZN (+0,33 %) (Amazon) - Andy Jassy, CEO
- 🇺🇸 $IBM (+0,56 %) (IBM) - Arvind Krishna, CEO
- 🇺🇸 $MSFT (+1,5 %) (Microsoft) - Bill Gates, co-founder and head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- 🌎 Cohere - Aidan Gomez, CEO
- 🌎 $META (+0,67 %) (Meta) - Yann LeCun, AI scientist
- 🌎 OpenAI - Sam Altman, CEO
- 🇺🇸 $TSLA (+1,2 %) (Tesla) - Elon Musk, CEO
Financial sector
- 🇪🇺 ECB - Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank
- 🇫🇷 ECB - Francois Villeroy de Galhau, President of the French Central Bank
- 🇩🇪 German Bundesbank- Joachim Nagel, President
- 🇺🇸 $BLK (BlackRock) - Martin Lück, Chief Investment Strategist
- 🇳🇱 $ING (-0,31 %) (ING) - Carsten Brzeski, Chief Economist at ING Germany
Banking sector
- 🇺🇸 $JPM (+0,05 %) (JPMorgan Chase) - Jamie Dimon, CEO
- 🇨🇭 $UBSG (+0 %) (UBS) - Sergio Ermotti, Group CEO
- 🇨🇭 $UBSG (+0 %) (UBS) - Colm Kelleher, President
- 🇩🇪 $DBK (-0,22 %) (Deutsche Bank) - Christian Sewing, CEO
- 🇺🇸 $GS (+0,07 %) (Goldman Sachs) - David Solomon, Chairman and CEO
- 🇺🇸 $BAC (+0,13 %) (Bank of America) - Brian Moynihan, CEO
- 🇺🇸 $C (+0,06 %) (Citigroup) - Jane Fraser, CEO
- 🇬🇧 $HSBA (-0,36 %) (HSBC) - Mark Tucker, Group Chairman
- 🇬🇧 $HSBA (-0,36 %) (HSBC) - Michael Roberts, CEO of HSBC Bank
- 🇺🇸 $MS (+0 %) (Morgan Stanley) - Ted Pick, CEO
- 🇬🇧 $BARC (-1,47 %) (Barclays) - C.S. Venkatakrishnan, CEO
- 🇫🇷 $GLE (-0,74 %) (Société Générale) - Slawomir Krupa, CEO
- 🇮🇹 $UCG (+0,14 %) (UniCredit) - Andrea Orcel, CEO
- 🇦🇹 $BG (+0,14 %) (BAWAG Group) - Anja E. M. W. Schreiber, CEO
- 🇦🇹 $EBS (-0,08 %) (Erste Group) - Andreas Treichl, CEO
Industry sector
- 🇩🇪 $BAYN (+0,56 %) (Bayer) - Bill Anderson, CEO
- 🇨🇭 $NESNE (Nestlé) - Mark Schneider, CEO
- 🇬🇧 $ULVR (+0,16 %) (Unilever) - Hein Schumacher, CEO
- 🇨🇳 SHEIN - Donald Tang, Vice Chairman
- 🇮🇳 ADANIENT (Adani Enterprises) - Gautam Adani, Chairman
... and many more from the Tech, Banking, AI, Biotech, Pharma, Industrial, etc. sectors.
