AI House program at the 2026 Davos Economic Forum
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• 10:00-11:15 | Women’s AI Breakfast
• 12:00-12:55 | Designing for Collaboration, Participation, and Futures Inspired by Art, with University of Tokyo's President
• 13:15-14:10 | From Early Adoption to AI-Native Societies, with OpenAI's Chief Global Affairs Officer
• 14:30-15:25 | Advancing a Human-Centered Intelligence Frontier
• 15:45-16:40 | Identity in the Age of Memes and Deepfakes, with The Atlantic's CEO & MIT Technology Review's Editor in Chief
• 17:00-17:55 | A Matter of Life and Death: AI in Military Decision-Making, with Council of Europe's Secretary General
• 18:00-19:30 | Leading the Brain Economy in the Intelligent Age
• 19:00-20:30 | Unlocking AI’s Potential to Serve Humanity
• 08:15-09:10 | AI and the New Logic of M&A, with Daimler Truck's CFO
• 09:30-10:25 | AI, Industry, and the Architecture of Global Resilience, with Swiss Re's Group CTO
• 09:40-10:35 | Scaleups for Europe‘s Competitiveness
• 10:00-12:00 | Leadership, AI, and Trust in Business Education, with SDA Bocconi's & INSEAD's Deans
• 10:45-11:40 | Collective Systems for Global Safety
• 12:00-12:55 | AI for Real-Time, Predictive, and Citizen-Centric Experiences
• 12:10-13:05 | Building Global Trust in AI
• 12:10-13:05 | How Regional Ecosystems Empower Societies to Co-Create AI Futures
• 13:15-14:10 | Large Scale AI as a Public Infrastructure
• 13:25-14:20 | How Data Shapes Capabilities, Risks and the Future of AI
• 13:25-14:20 | Infrastructure as a Strategic Asset
• 14:30-15:25 | Reimagining Drug Discovery with Frontier AI
• 14:40-15:35 | Securing Autonomy in the Age of Intelligence
• 15:45-16:40 | Empowering Societies to Shape AI, with ETH Zürich's & TUM's Presidents
• 15:55-16:50 | Building Resilient Cities Through Systemic Connectivity 🌱
• 18:00-19:30 | Investing in AI Cocktail
• 19:00-21:00 | AI Sovereignty Gap: Securing Europe’s Strategic Position
• 09:40-10:35 | A Strategic Look Back from 2035
• 10:45-11:40 | Forever Healthy
• 12:00-12:55 | Embodied AI
• 12:00-12:55 | NextGen Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Scale, with Merck's CIO & Siemens' Chief People & Sustainability Officer
• 12:10-13:05 | Pharma and Healthcare for the Next Decade
• 12:10-13:05 | The Next Wave of AI Models
• 13:15-14:10 | The Next Wave of Deep Tech
• 14:30-15:25 | AI’s Role in Shaping a Smarter Planet, with ESA's Director General
• 14:40-15:35 | Aligning Academic Preparation with Industry Expectations
• 14:40-15:35 | How AI Is Reshaping Media and Information
• 15:45-16:40 | Quantum Computing as the Next Frontier in AI Capability, with Microsoft's Lead Architect Quantum
• 15:55-16:50 | AI as the New Frontier in Cyber Defense
• 17:00-17:55 | AI in Primary and Secondary Education
• 17:10-18:05 | Launching a New European AI Capability Initiative
• 18:00-19:30 | Building the AI Commons for Language Diversity
• 19:30-21:00 | AGI Night
• 07:30-08:50 | The Geopolitics of AGI
• 10:45-11:40 | Shadow AI
• 10:55-11:50 | Asset Management in the Age of Agentic AI
• 12:00-12:55 | AI in Critical Infrastructure, with IAEA's Director General
• 12:10-13:05 | AI-Native Pathways for the Global South
• 13:15-14:10 | Sovereignty vs. Collaboration AI-Ownership
• 13:25-14:20 | Balancing AI Sovereignty With Global AI Interoperability, with SAP's CTO
• 14:30-15:25 | Building Startups in the Age of AI, with DeepLearning.AI's CEO
• 14:40-15:35 | AI as a Change Engine
• 15:45-16:40 | From Climate Science to Efficient Computing 🌱
• 17:00-17:55 | From Co-Pilots to Agentic Autonomous Economies
• 19:30-23:00 | Emotion, Identity, and Nature Through AI Art
• 08:45-11:30 | A Swiss Morning on the Future of Intelligence
NB: While our team will do its best to keep this calendar updated, please note that the timing of some events might change at the last minute.
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