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World leaders, executives, bankers, and policymakers attend the 50th annual meeting of the World ... Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 21 - 24. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last month, a group of 140 of the world’s largest…

Browsing the agenda for last year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, it’s reasonable to think that “cryptocurrency” was quite literally the Topic Which Shall Not be Named. Not a single session referred to digital currencies, and yet the underlying blockchain technology was very much on the agenda. Industry…

Hao Li and the team from Pinscreen recently demonstrated real-time interactive face replacement, effectively allowing people to walk up to a screen and see themselves in a live, real-time ‘deepfake’. The installation was at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland. The WEF was held in Davos, a town in…

theearnestproject EARNE$T announces the upcoming auction of The Davos Collection, a portfolio of artifacts covertly harvested during the 2018 WEF at Davos. The Collection presents the unique opportunity to gain genetic insights into a most influential population and a class traditionally resilient to data collection. 2018 Davos attendees included Donald…

A topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos this year was the question “How do we upskill a billion people by 2030?”Product Owners and Scrum Masters are specifically named on the WEF list of Jobs of Tomorrow. All the other skills that Development Teams need in the digital…

For the World Economic Forum to truly achieve its mission in “bringing together people from all walks of life” it must do more to embrace the world’s fastest-growing and youngest population, writes Elizabeth Rossiello. Making my way around Davos last week, one aspect was missing in general: Africans. Among the…

View Slideshow In the landlocked Swiss town of Davos-Klosters, German designer Julia Lohmann has brought multi-sensory elements of the sea to guests of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 50th Annual Meeting. Hidaka Ohmu is a seaweed installation accompanied by a seaweed prototyping workshop. Created as part of the Cooper Hewitt…

The year 2020 marks two important anniversaries. It has been 75 years since the establishment of the United Nations (UN) by the victorious powers of World War II. And it has been 50 years since the establishment of the World Economic Forum (WEF) by Professor Klaus Schwab.One might say that…

Yves here. One bit of good news with Uber and its allies’ launch of an empty charter to pretend to deal with the job conditions of gig workers is it appears to have gotten little notice in the US. Perhaps the fact that it was launched at Davos was more…

Getty The World Economic Forum predicts that the digital revolution will transform the future of work and the workplace: as many as 133 million new jobs will be created, but 75 million jobs are likely to be eliminated. This “job churn” will eventually impact a quarter of all work, and will…