Radio Davos
Radio Davos
World Economic Forum
How do we solve the world’s biggest challenges? From climate change to inequality; the rise of big tech and rapid changes in how we live and work. Radio Davos talks to the people who have the ideas, the passion and the power to make change happen in a way that benefits all of us.
What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse
In 2003 - the a year before a 19-year-old Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook - Philip Rosedale launched Second Life - an online virtual world that looked set to transform the internet. Two decades later, with the Facebook company, now called Meta, and its competitors seeking to develop the metaverse, what does Rosedale see as the future of the still emerging technology? Interview by Linda Lacina, host of the weekly Meet the Leader podcast. Related episodes: So just what is the metaverse? Meta’s Nick Clegg at Davos 2022 Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast' Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/metaverse-philip-rosedale-second-life
Oct 10, 2023
43 min
How to talk to a climate change sceptic
What is the single most important thing that any individual can do to help alleviate the climate crisis? Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. She believes that only if we all talk about climate change will humanity take the right paths to tackle climate change. But what if the person you are talking to doesn’t believe in climate change? Or what if they do, but they are so depressed or anxious they feel helpless? Katharine has practical advice. Episode page and transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-katharine-hayhoe Related podcasts: Radio Davos: Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on Meet the Leader: Solve the problems you want to solve most: Bezos Earth Fund’s Andrew Steer Meet the Leader: The nimble tool that can speed climate solutions Agenda Dialogues: SDIM: Innovation for Tough-To-Decarbonize Industries Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club
Oct 5, 2023
25 min
Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on
At the start of this year, the World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report - a major survey of sentiment about what are the big things that could go wrong - in the economy, the environment, in health, cybersecurity, geopolitics - and more. In this podcast, we invite back the two guests who appeared on Radio Davos in January to talk about the report and its conclusion that the world faced a 'polycrisis' - a combination of risks from many sources. Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group, discuss how the 'risk landscape' has changed in the few months since then. January's episode on the Global Risks Report: Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023 Read the report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/ Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club Photo by Sammie Chaffin on Unsplash
Sep 28, 2023
36 min
The global economy is slowing - here's why that may not be such a bad thing
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   Related episodes: 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? Find all our audio at: wef.ch/podcasts Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club
Sep 17, 2023
25 min
What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?
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 Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club
Sep 6, 2023
32 min
AI Professor Stuart Russell: - what could possibly go wrong?
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 Related episodes: 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 Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club
Aug 2, 2023
50 min
Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives
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/ Related podcasts: Top-10 Emerging Technologies 2021 Antimicrobial resistance - how to stop a quiet pandemic  Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club
Jul 19, 2023
42 min
Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life
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 Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club
Jul 18, 2023
27 min
The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees
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 Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts:  Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club
Jul 3, 2023
26 min
Disease X - How the world can stop the next pandemic
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 Related podcasts: Meet the Leader: 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 Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts:  Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club
Jul 3, 2023
23 min
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