WEF/Annual Meeting/2024

Davos, Switzerland

 WEF/Annual Meeting/2024(WEF/Annual Meeting)

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File:Gates at wef 2024.png Bill Gates at Davos 2024
Date	15 January, 2024 - 19 January, 2024
Location	Davos, Switzerland
Website	https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/
Description	The theme for the invited "stakeholders" was "rebuilding trust in the international system". Who exactly were are to trust remains a secret, as 95% of the participants were not disclosed.
Planners	WEF
Participants	Jane Goodall, Nile Rodgers, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Li Qiang, Ursula von der Leyen, John Kerry, Penny Pritzker, James O'Brien, Samantha Power, Chris Coons, Vladimir Zelensky, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Pham Minh Chinh, Jake Sullivan, Bisher Hani Al Khasawneh, Anthony Blinken, António Guterres, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Mohammad Mustafa, Javier Milei, Pedro Sánchez, Emmanuel Macron, Isaac Herzog, Mohammed Shyaa Al Sudani, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Han Duck-soo, Viola Amherd, Alexander De Croo, Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, Leo Varadkar, Najib Mikati, Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai, Mark Rutte, Paul Kagame, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Andrzej Duda, Aleksandar Vučić, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Nana Akufo-Addo, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Srettha Thavisin, Vas Narasimhan, Marc Benioff, Mark Schneider, Sergio Ermotti, Andrew Ng, Jack Hidary, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, Robert Habeck, Annalena Baerbock, Christian Lindner, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Michael Spence, Mariana Mazzucato, Li Luming, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Andriy Yermak, Francis Kéré, Nile Rodgers, Michelle Yeoh , Dava Newman, Yusuf Tuggar, Elina Valtonen, Jens Stoltenberg, Klaus Schwab, Mikayil Jabbarov, Fatih Birol, Catherine MacGregor, Sally Buzbee, Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai, Emmanuel de Merode, Atossa Soltani, Achim Steiner, Thomas Friedman, Douglas Peterson, Bill Gates, Gustavo Petro, Martin Wolf, Fareed Zakaria, Pat Gelsinger , Mattie Rodrigue, Ajay Banga, Kristalina Georgieva, Børge Brende, Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, Gao Jifan, Enoch Godongwana, Smriti Zubin Irani, Nadine Han, Tali Sharot, Christine Lagarde, Albert Bourla, Jeremy Hunt, Julie Sweet, Nirvana Chaudhary, Urs Lehmann, Monica Medina, Johan Rockström, Johan Eliasch, Valdis Dombrovskis, Brian Moynihan, Chrystia Freeland, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Will.i.am, Ravi Agrawal, Diane von Furstenberg , Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, David Rubenstein, Francine Lacqua, Rafael Mariano Grossi, Mina Al-Oraibi, Amandeep Singh Gill, Paula Ingabire, Ruth Porat, Karen Tso, Abdullah AlSwaha, Nicholas Thompson, Yann LeCun, Julia Chatterley, Robert F. Smith, Nonkululeko Nyembezi, Simon Freakley, Ebrahim Patel, Lukas Biewald, Joris Poort, Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Heather Landy, Stephen Cotton, Anthony F. Fernandes, Sithembile Ntombela, Jane Sun, Richard Quest

Topics reportedly included Ukraine, Middle East and Taiwan and artificial intelligence. Turkey will snub Davos over Gaza.

Digital ID tracking vaccination

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, at the session "Comparing Notes on Financial Inclusion", told that digital ID "is also good for school enrollment; it is also good for health — who actually got a vaccination or not; it’s very good actually to get your subsidies from the government"

Censorship

In a special address delivered at Annual Meeting 2024, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, emphasized the need to tackle misinformation and disinformation and address polarization, stating they "limit our capabilities in handling other risks, including conflicts, climate and technology." She stated that this will "require collaboration between countries and business and that our joint capacity to respond was far stronger than we might believe, forming a "new connective tissue" to "deliver the solutions we need, to fight threats like climate change or industrial-scale disinformation." Clamping down on this was particularly a priority since 2024 was an election year.

"These risks are serious because they limit our ability to tackle the big global challenges we are facing: changes in our climate – and our geopolitical climate; shifts in our demography and in our technology; spiralling regional conflicts and intensified geopolitical competition and their impacts on supply chains," she said.

She also said "that wind and solar power hit another record in the European Union in 2023", while the European Union "improved the efficiency of its energy use – the best energy is the one that is not used – by almost 5%." (That is, people are going cold while industry is shutting down).

Speakers

Speakers included conservationist Jane Goodall, musician Nile Rodgers, Sam Altman the CEO of OpenAI which created ChatGPT, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Particpants

No list of the participants is public, so the known participants are mostly heads of state.