Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
After years of growing tensions, 2026 has amplified an uncertain path forward for the Middle East and relations within and outside the region.
What are the possible paths forward and what could this mean for the world?
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Robotics is slowly moving from the factory floor into the rhythms of everyday life, becoming helpful companions rather than machines on a factory floor.
Explore how new advances in sensing, motion and learning are enriching the way we share space with technology, opening the door to a future where robots support our work, understand our environment and collaborate with us naturally in our homes, cities and communities.
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
More than $150 trillion moves across borders each year through the global financial system, the vast majority of it still denominated in dollars. As geopolitical tensions fragment trade relationships and middle powers look to diversify their financial exposure, alternative currencies are gaining quiet traction, such as the recent renewal of a 200-billion-yuan swap line between the Bank of Canada and the People’s Bank of China.
How might a growing willingness among these economies to transact in alternative currencies reshape the structure, stability and sovereignty of the international financial system?
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Revolutionary healthcare treatments, a rethink of energy systems, and advances in AI, quantum and biotechnology: these are all among the breakthroughs contained in the latest Top 10 Emerging Technologies report.
We look at each of the technologies in the 14th annual Top 10 Tech report from the World Economic Forum.
Guest:
Kimmy Bettinger, Lead, Expert and Knowledge Communities, World Economic Forum
Links:
Top 10 Emerging Technologies report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2026/
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2025: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-ten-emerging-tech-2025/
Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2024: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2024/
Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2023: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2023/
AI can lie, hack and blackmail: Yoshua Bengio on how to tame the "baby tiger" of tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/yoshua-bengio-honest-ai/
Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: the view from Interpol and the threat to ‘OT’: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2026-interpol-dragos/
AI may spark a new era of progress, but that depends on more than just the tech: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/carl-benedikt-frey-ai-work-jobs-economics/
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Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Deputy Minister Morolong delivers opening remarks at the SADC Regional Adjudication Committee Meeting
Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
To celebrate, we’re looking back at Luxembourg’s euro area journey, with a banger on repeat 💶💃
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Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
With multilateral trade governance under strain, countries are turning to smaller strategic groupings with defined spheres of interest to advance trade agendas.
Is minilateralism an effective alternative to the global trading system that dominated the last century?
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Deputy President Paul Mashatile meets with Vice President Han Zheng of the People’s Republic of China
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Deputy President Paul Mashatile meeting the Vice President of China, Mr Hang Zheng
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Emerging businesses are reshaping the global economy, scaling rapidly and achieving market influence once reserved for established institutions. Today, eight of the world’s ten largest publicly listed companies are technology firms, most built on innovations that did not exist a generation ago. Join leading Technology Pioneers and Innovators to explore what distinguishes their business models from traditional market players and how they are poised to shape the next decade of growth and transformation
