…The Open Forum Davos 2022 is hosting a series of panel discussions on 23-26 May, all open to the public upon registration.
…Panellists include human rights activist and Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Murad, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, climate activist Vanessa Nakate, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel and many others.
…Discussion topics range from the climate crisis and youth mental health, to the war in Ukraine and the Metaverse
MON, 23 MAY, 2022-theGBJournal | As part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022, this year’s Open Forum Davos will focus on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the role of multilateralism for peace in Europe as well as other global challenges.
Taking place for the first time since January 2020, the Open Forum offers a platform for debate and interaction on controversial issues between the public and scholars, business leaders and policy-makers around improving the state of the world.
Young and diverse voices will also play a prominent role in the discussions, with one session on youth mental health co-designed and moderated by students from Geneva, Switzerland. Each session will include at least one member of the Forum’s Global Shapers Community, a wide-ranging network of people under 30 from all walks of life and different parts of the world.
Ignazio Cassis, President of the Swiss Confederation, among other high-level panellists, will be joined by Ievgeniia Bodnya, 27, who mobilized the Global Shaper Hub she leads in Kyiv to build the Support Ukraine Now, a crowdsourcing and sharing information platform for people to support Ukrainians affected by the war. In another session, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko and his brother Wladimir, Chairman of the Klitschko Foundation, will talk about how the Russian invasion has affected them and their country.
Also present at the Open Forum will be a group of climate activists, including 26-year-old Vanessa Nakate, author and climate advocate who addressed world leaders at the World Economic Forum 2020. The activists will articulate how to turn words into action to fight the climate crisis. Gender equality will also feature prominently in the conversations.
On the digital front, the last two years have seen the blending of in-person and virtual interactions. Peggy Johnson, Chief Executive Office of augmented reality company Magic Leap, will introduce the possibilities of the Metaverse and then join a panel of experts, including Pascal Kaufmann, President and Founder of the Mindfire Foundation, the brain behind Lab42, which is setting up shop in Davos in July and aims to become the largest AI lab in the world.
Additional panellists who will participate in this year’s Open Forum Davos include:
Ignazio Cassis, President of the Swiss Confederation and Federal Councillor for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland
Stephane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer, Moderna
Isabella Eckerle, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Geneva
Vivianne Heijnen, Minister for the Environment, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands
Mikaela Jade, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Indigital
Peggy Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Magic Leap Inc.
Marco Lambertini, Director-General, WWF International
Edward Lewin, Vice-President and Head of Government and Public Affairs, LEGO Group
Klaus Moosmayer, Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer, Novartis AG
Seth Moulton, Congressman from Massachusetts
Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Laureate, Nadia’s Initiative; Co-Founder, Global Survivors Fund (GSF), Global Survivors Fund
Anna Riedl, Cognitive Scientist and Global Shaper, Vienna Hub
Philipp Wilhelm, Mayor of Davos
Sakena Yacoobi, Executive Director, Afghan Institute of Learning
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