Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Growing at 6.5%, India is the fastest-growing major economy in a sluggish global landscape, driven by infrastructure investment, a digital revolution and an expanding manufacturing base. Yet beneath the momentum lie persistent structural challenges: employment gaps, fiscal pressures and uneven productivity, compounded by rising trade tensions.
Can India harness this growth, investment, and innovation to sustain its trajectory?
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Asset tokenization is accelerating quickly, moving from early experiments to full deployment across major asset classes. As adoption expands, it promises new ways for individuals to invest while presenting traditional firms and emerging innovators with complex new dynamics.
What does this shifting landscape mean for the architecture of global markets and the value ultimately delivered to participants?
Source: United Nations (video statements)
After more than 1,000 days of war in Sudan, millions have been uprooted. This is the story of one of them. “Nafeesa,” as we call her, fled the violence and found refuge across the border, in the town of Birao, in the Central African Republic. With support from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), she and her family secured shelter and began rebuilding their lives alongside the host community. Security in the border area is reinforced by the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), which conducts patrols and supports local stability efforts. (more here: https://minusca.unmissions.org/en/mandat)
Nafeesa recounts what she has endured – and how, in exile, she found a strength more powerful than any weapon of war.
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Europe is bursting with world-class ideas, but too often they stall before they scale.
This issue briefing marks the launch of the Scaleup Europe Fund, designed to propel the continent’s most innovative start-ups from promise to global impact.
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
AI is fundamentally reshaping human communication, work and knowledge. We are gaining efficiency and personalization while surrendering privacy, fragmenting attention and losing the ability to distinguish real from artificial.
As AI platforms increasingly mediate how people connect and understand the world, how do we design and govern these systems to amplify human connection and agency rather than erode them?
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
A special address by Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of Egypt.
Source: European Commission (video statements)
President von der Leyen will give an opening speech in the plenary debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 21 January. In her speech, she will address the EU’s sovereignty amid rising geopolitical tensions and threats. The plenary debate is intended to conclude covering the European Council meeting of 18 December 2025.
Watch on the Audiovisual Portal of the European Commission: https://link.europa.eu/KJMCnh
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Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
AI is remixing the rules of music and the role of the human artist. If a machine can craft a hit, what’s left that only humans can create?
Join this conversation exploring AI’s intersection with human creativity and the broader implications for authorship, equity and the fundamental qualities that make music truly human.
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Forecasts of AI’s impact on productivity vary widely, from those projecting a 15% boost in labour output across advanced economies to warnings that as many as 92 million jobs could vanish globally by 2030.
Generative AI will transform work as we know it, but will that transformation lead to shared prosperity or widening exclusion? How can we prevent productivity gains from masking a much bleaker economic picture.
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
As trust in established multilateral institutions and governments erodes, new alliances and coalitions are emerging. Adapting to a shifting international landscape, these actors are filling critical gaps while influencing diplomacy, technology and finance.
What form will the future architecture of international cooperation take?
