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Gender parity has recovered to pre-pandemic levels globally, but the pace of change is stagnating. It will take an estimated 131 years to reach full parity at the current trajectory.

How can we boost women’s economic participation and political empowerment and achieve gender parity at all levels of society?

This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20.

Speakers:

Keir Simmons, Chief International Correspondent, NBC News

Thierry Déau, Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam

Reshma Saujani, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moms First

Randall Tucker, Chief Inclusion Officer, Mastercard International Incorporated

Clare Akamanzi, Chief Executive Officer, Rwanda Development Board (RDB)

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/accelerating-progress-on-gender-parity

About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

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Small and medium agricultural enterprises (agri-SMEs) are Africa’s largest employer and economic engine—and the key to transforming food systems and improving food security for the continent. Yet three out of four agri-SMEs can’t access formal bank financing, and are too large for microfinance, creating an estimated $100 billion gap in unmet demand for financing.

How can donor governments, development finance institutions, African governments, and the private sector catalyze action to strengthen food value chains in Africa through innovative financing, and better support small and medium agricultural enterprises?

The event is co-hosted with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This special Leadership Panel on strengthening food value chains was held September 18, 2023 at the World Economic Forum's New York headquarters.

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Speakers: William Samoei Ruto, President of Kenya, Office of the President of Kenya; Scott Nathan, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation; Samantha Power, Administrator, US Agency for International Development (USAID); Rebecca Enonchong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AppsTech;Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, US Department of the Treasury; Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Acumen; Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum Geneva; Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development, Norway Government; Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB).

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/leadership-panel-bridging-the-gap-financing-africas-agricultural-growth

About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

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The World Economic Forum has just published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, a regular report based on the views of senior economists around the world. 

This edition shows a glass half full and half empty, with concerns of widespread economic recession easing since the last report in May, but slowing global growth and continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions.

In this episode, Jérôme Haegeli, chief economist at Swiss Re, gives his views on the state of the global economy, and where things may be heading.

Read more:

Episode page with transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-september-2023-jerome-haegeli-swiss-re

Where is the global economy heading in 2024? This is what chief economists think

Chief Economist Outlook September 2023

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May 2023: Recession fears recede, but inflation's still a big risk - 3 chief economists on the global outlook

Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?

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Semiconductors make the world go round, and the most cutting-edge versions are necessary to propel the artificial intelligence revolution.

Historian Chris Miller, author ‘Chip War’, explains what chips do, how they are made, and why they are so vital to global supply chains and international relations.

Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/silicon-chips-semiconductors-chris-miller

Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/09/silicon-chips-semiconductors-supply-chains-chris-miller

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Professor Stuart Russell shares his concerns about the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence.

Listen back to our 5-part series on generative AI:

Episode 1: AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Episode 2: A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Episode 3: Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?

Episode 4: 'AI will either compete with us or augment us' - so how do we pick the right path?

Episode 5: AI: Bringing stakeholders together to make AI work for us all

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Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

The promises and perils of AI - Stuart Russell on Radio Davos

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Designer phages, spatial optics, plant sensors and bendable batteries - just some of the items on this year's World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies that will change our lives in the next 3-5 years.

To talk us through all 10, we hear from the two people who led the work compiling the list: Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication; and Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM.

LINKS:

The report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/

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Top-10 Emerging Technologies 2021

Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic 

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Is the metaverse still a thing or has the world’s attention moved on to generative AI? 

On this episode of Radio Davos, we speak to a vice president of the consumer electronics company HTC. Pearly Chen heads Business Development & Content Partnerships for VIVEPORT a subscription plan for virtual reality gaming - immersive video games played using VR headsets.

Pearly is convinced of the potential for metaverse applications for healthcare, social care and education, and believes the advent of generative AI will make us all builders of the metaverse.

Links:

Defining and Building the Metaverse Initiative

​​Social Implications of the Metaverse: https://www.weforum.org/reports/social-implications-of-the-metaverse

Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse: https://www.weforum.org/reports/privacy-and-safety-in-the-metaverse

Blogs:

Can mindfulness and critical thinking protect us online

Could the metaverse be more trustworthy than our current internet

Podcasts:

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

So just what is the metaverse? Meta’s Nick Clegg at Davos 2022

Risks on Earth, in space and in the metaverse - the Global Risks Report 2022

7 leaders on the tech that will reshape our future

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Claude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today’s refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps.

He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for traumatised young people, and compares the plight of people today forced from their home with his own childhood experience.

Related links:

The World Economic Forum’s Refugee Employment Alliance, co-chaired by the UNHCR and the Ingka Group,

Transcript available on the podcast episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/refugees-unhcr-sport-claude-marshall

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Can we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, Disease X, author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for the next one.

Links

World Economic Forum’s Website page for the “Centre for Health and Healthcare”. https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home

Regional Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/regional-solution-to-vaccine-inequity-davos23/

Pathogen Surveillance Initiative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/lets-bring-together-countries-and-corporations-to-grow-global-pathogen-surveillance-davos23/

Disease X: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Disease-X/Kate-Kelland/9781912454952

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Lessons that made AstraZeneca's Leif Johansson a better leader

Pfizer’s CEO on what’s next for vaccines, health equity and the COVID-19 pandemic

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The final episode of our AI series comes from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’, in Tianjin, China.

Cathy Li, head of AI at the World Economic Forum, says what needs to happen next as the world gets to grips with generative AI, and introduces the AI Governance Alliance.

And we listen in to discussions at AMNC about AI - the opportunities for business and implications for things such as medicine and education.

Follow AMNC here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023

Watch the AMNC sessions quoted in this episode:

Generative AI: Friend or Foe?

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/generative-ai-friend-or-foe

Keeping Up: AI Readiness Amid an AI Revolution

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/keeping-up-ai-readiness-amid-an-ai-revolution

A transcript is available on the episode page on our website: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-5-amnc

Mentioned in this episode:

The Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI

AI Governance Alliance

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Amid pressures on the global economy from recent major crises and renewed turbulence in financial markets, stakeholders will need to convert the bright spots of accelerated trade and investment in green and innovative industries into a new paradigm for sustained growth.

How can both government and the private sector draw on the opportunities stemming from this time of change and transition to rewire the models underpinning global growth?

Speakers:

Zhang Yuzhuo, Chairman, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)

Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Viet Nam

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Barbados Government

Chris Hipkins, Prime Minister of New Zealand

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum

Transcript available at:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/amnc23-braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility

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https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility

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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/top-leaders-discuss-managing-economic-hurdles-at-amnc23/

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In most parts of the world, the gender gap - the difference in opportunities and outcomes for women compared to men - is closing. But closing so slowly that it would take, at the current rate of progress, until 2154 for men and women to be truly equal.

That statistic comes from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, an extensive, annual survey whose latest edition has just been published.

In this episode, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi picks some highlights from the report - which has lots to say about the state of gender inequality in the post-pandemic, cost-of-living squeezed world.

We also hear from Sue Duke, Vice-President of LinkedIn where she heads public policy.

Sue talks about the challenges facing women in the workplace, particularly in the area of STEM - science, technology, engineering and maths - and how tricky is still is for women to get to the top of companies (the 'C-suite').

For a transcript, go to the episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023

Please note the final episode of our AI series will be published next week.

Read more on the Gender Gap Report:

Get the report here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2023

Analysis:

Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023, by Sue Duke

These are the world's most gender-equal countries

Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023

Gender parity is essential for economic recovery: These five investments will quicken the pace

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"AI will have some form of intelligence that will either compete with us or augment us. This is a question for us as a species. For the past thousands of years, we didn’t have a cousin or a brother and now we may have one. So it is how we understand that and how we deal with it."

On Episode 4 of our special series on generative AI, we consider the options for how we can govern the rapidly growing technology.

Guests: Amir Banifatemi, Director, AI Commons; Cyrus Hodes Co-Founder of AIGC Chain and Stability AI, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Co-host: Lucia Velasco, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, World Economic Forum

Transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-4-governance

Previous episodes in this series:

Episode 1

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Episode 2

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Episode 3

Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?

Related podcasts:

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work

Related video:

https://www.weforum.org/videos/3-leading-thinkers-on-how-to-make-ai-work-for-humanity

Links:

The Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Presidio_Recommendations_on_Responsible_Generative_AI_2023.pdf

The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

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The rise of generative artificial intelligence raises a lot of philosophical questions. So can philosophy help us make AI that serves humanity for the good?

On this episode we hear from 'applied ethicist' Cansu Canca, AI Ethics Lead at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA; and from Sara Hooker, head of Cohere For AI, a research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems.

Full transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-3-ethics

Previous episodes in this series:

Episode 1

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Episode 2

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Related podcasts:

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work

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The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

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For a transcript, visit the episode page at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/ai-episode-2-microsoft-hugging-face

In the second a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we hear from two companies involved in the AI revolution - one of the biggest and oldest names in computing, Microsoft, and a young startup making waves in this booming industry, Hugging Face.

Speakers: Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft; Thomas Wolf Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder, Hugging Face.

Co-host: Benjamin Larsen, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum.

Previous episodes in this series:

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Related podcasts:

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work

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The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

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In the first of a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we ask why AI is suddenly such big news and where things might go from here.

Speakers: Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse, World Economic Forum; Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research; and Pascale Fung, Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Thumbnail picture: generated by Dall-E with the prompt 'the face of rodin's thinker as a robot'

Transcript available on the episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/artificial-intelligence-ai-episode-1

Related podcasts:

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

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We are still in a period of great economic uncertainty, with inflation posing a risk around the world and forcing central banks to tighten policy.

Three chief economists spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Growth Summit. Hear where they think the global economy is headed.

Featuring: Jorge Sicilia of BBVA, Razia Khan of Standard Chartered and Gregory Daco of EY-Parthenon.

Related Episodes:

Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?

The future of jobs requires a ‘skills-first’ mindset - for employers and for you

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Can the world avoid stagflation?

Read:

Chief Economists Outlook: May 2023 - https://www.weforum.org/reports/chief-economists-outlook-may-2023/

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Against a backdrop of persistently sluggish growth, the global economy and markets continue to be roiled by crisis after crisis. What trends will determine the prospects for the year ahead, and are there grounds for optimism that the worst may be over?

This is the full audio of the Chief Economists Briefing session at the Growth Summit, on 3 May 2023, You can watch it here:

https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/global-economic-outlook-7aefadfe78

Podcast transcript available here:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/growth-summit-2023-chief-economists-briefing

Speakers:

Sandra Phlippen, Chief Economist, ABN AMRO

Paul Donovan, Chief Economist, UBS Global Wealth Management, UBS AG

John Defterios, Professor of Business, New York University Abu Dhabi

Gregory Daco, Chief Economist, EY-Parthenon

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With an estimated shortfall of 10 million workers in the sector by 2030, the health and care economy is under severe stress. What multi stakeholder policies and strategies can help recruit, retain and rethink healthcare jobs?

This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Growth Summit 2023, Future of Work - Health and Care.

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/closing-the-talent-gap-healthcare

Speakers:

Ricardo Baptista Leite

Member of Parliament, Portuguese National Parliament (Assembleia da República)

Howard Catton

Chief Executive Officer, International Council of Nurses (ICN)

Bianca Rothier

International Correspondent, Globo TV

Anjali Bhagra

Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Office of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, Mayo Clinic

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Wondering what job you’ll be doing in five years’ time? Chances are it may be quite different from what you do now, and you’ll need different skills. The transition to clean energy and the rise of artificial intelligence are likely to have a big impact on the world of work so employers, too, need to adopt a ‘skills-first’ mindset.

We hear from Tan Kok Yam, Chief Executive of SkillsFuture Singapore, who is putting theory into action, and to Tarika Barrett, CEO of Girls Who Code, a non-profit that equips young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities.

Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/skills-first-jobs

Read the report Putting Skills First: A Framework for Action: https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/putting-skills-first-a-framework-for-action/

Follow the Growth Summit here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023

Mentioned in this podcast:

SkillsFuture Singapore: https://www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/

Girls Who Code: https://girlswhocode.com/

More podcast episodes from the Growth Summit:

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/future-of-jobs-2023

Chief Economists Outlook: What's next for the global economy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-may-2023

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