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May 12, 2026

What women’s sports reveals about building future leaders: Deloitte’s Lara Abrash

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

How can we strengthen leadership pipelines? One overlooked answer: Invest in women’s sports. Data shows that investment in women’s sports creates a powerful yet under-appreciated talent pipeline, building future leaders, closing the gender gap and driving high-performing teams. Deloitte US Chair Lara Abrash shares insights from the firm’s research on women’s sports – both the billion-dollar economic opportunity it represents and the unsung way sports strengthens the leadership talent pipeline.
Abrash, active in a range of sports since her youth, will also break down the leadership skills, mindsets, and team dynamics sports uniquely cultivates. She’ll share the personal experiences that shaped how she leads and the way she approaches talent and capability. Her personal lessons learned can help anyone understand what’s needed to develop future leaders, improve team performance and build talent pipelines that last.

Key Insights:

Women’s sports is growing rapidly – but remains an untapped sector and opportunity for economies and communities.
Sports teaches girls how to team – but a range of factors make them more likely to drop out of sports than boys.
Great leaders are great coaches. Abrash reminds us that "Managers manage outcomes while leaders lead people."
Practice makes progress: Sports can build leaders who learn quickly from mistakes and adapt faster — skills key for a fast-paced AI era.
Sidestep the ‘superwoman’ myth: Sports shows we often accomplish more in groups. Women who admit they are less effective alone take the first step to building great teams and avoiding burnout.
About this episode:
Transcript – read here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/womens-sports-leadership-skills-gender-gap
Spotify – Listen here: https://tinyurl.com/yc4w9ytr

Related report:
Deloitte Research – Game-Changers: Unlocking the Potential of Women’s Sports: https://www.deloitte.com/global/en/Industries/tmt/perspectives/game-changers-unlocking-potential-women-sports.html
World Economic Forum – Sports for People and Planet: https://www.weforum.org/publications/sports-for-people-and-planet/

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May 9, 2026

AI’s ‘Creative Destruction’ & Scaling Sustainable Aviation Fuel | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

00:14 – AI is making scams more targeted, credible, and hard to detect: James Dolph, CISO at Guidewire, talks through the dizzying new developments in phishing, where large language models can be used to fabricate entire email threads containing your boss and other colleagues, urging you to hand over valuable data.

03:42 – This Nobel laureate explains the ‘creative destruction’ AI is going to unleash: Nobel laureate Peter Howitt is known for his work on ‘creative destruction’, a model of growth whereby innovation creates value, but renders technologies and jobs obsolete in the process. Here, he explains why he believes ‘we’ll all be winners’ from #AI – and why the doom-sayers of previous technologies were proven wrong.

07:31 – Just 1% of aviation fuel is sustainable. Here’s how that figure can take off: Replacing petroleum-derived jet fuels with sustainable alternatives is key to decarbonizing flying. But today, less than 1% of aviation fuel used around the world is sustainable. So what’s the hold-up? Here, Adam Klauber, Chief Sustainability Officer at WorldEnergy and Brian Peers, Global Head of Sustainable Transport and Fuels at HSBC provide some answers.

11:03 – This technology allows anyone to make computer chips: Inside the device you are reading this on right now, a critical component you might never have heard of is beavering away. ‘Instruction set architectures’ (ISA) are the interface between the hardware and software in every computing device. Most ISAs are proprietary and used under licence. RISC-V is an open-source ISA that is free to use, designed explicitly to be customised, and which is already found in billions of devices and computers around the world. Here’s how it works.

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May 8, 2026

This start up transforms food waste into valuable materials

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

Food waste contains valuable chemical building blocks, says Hyfé, and it’s working to rescue and refine them, so they can be used as new ingredients.

The start-up’s reactor pulls fruit and vegetable #waste apart, refining peel and pulp into bioactive compounds, fibres and dextrose, which can be used in a range of new products, including biofuels, pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs.

Here, Hyfé’s founder Michelle Ruiz explains how it works.

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May 7, 2026

This technology allows anyone to make computer chips

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

Inside the device you are reading this on right now, a critical component you might never have heard of is beavering away. ‘Instruction set architectures’ (ISA) are the interface between the hardware and software in every computing device. They are essentially sets of rules that translate code into instructions that microchips can understand and execute. Without them, no device – whether a smartphone or a supercomputer – would be able to function.

Most ISAs are proprietary and used under licence. This costs money – and it restricts the ability of users to design custom chips based on their specific requirements.

RISC-V is an open-source ISA that is free to use, designed explicitly to be customised, and which is already found in billions of devices and computers around the world. Here’s how it works.

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May 7, 2026

Just 1% of aviation fuel is sustainable. Here’s how that figure can take off

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

Replacing petroleum-derived jet fuels with sustainable alternatives is key to decarbonizing flying. This switch alone could get the aviation sector almost three-quarters of the way to net zero.

But today, less than 1% of aviation fuel used around the world is sustainable. So what’s the hold-up? Here, Adam Klauber, Chief Sustainability Officer at World Energy and Brian Peers, Global Head of Sustainable Transport and Fuels at HSBC provide some answers – and explain what’s needed for#sustainable aviation fuels to reach the scale required to make a real impact.

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May 7, 2026

Is climate denialism on the rise? Prof Katharine Hayhoe on science, faith and algorithms

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and an evangelical Christian who lives in Texas and knows how to reach out to conservatives who might see climate change as a party political rather than a science-based issue.
Two years after she last spoke to Radio Davos, Prof Hayhoe assesses the rise of climate denialism, particularly on social media, but also the rising awareness of the issue caused by increasingly frequent extreme weather events around the world.
Links:
World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-human-science-of-environmental-action/home
Global Future Council on Human Science of Environmental Action: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-human-science-of-environmental-action/home
Katharine Hayhoe’s website: https://katharinehayhoe.com/
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May 5, 2026

7 big challenges in the travel industry right now

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

The global travel and tourism sector has bounced back in recent years, with experts predicting it will generate $16.5 trillion in GDP by 2035.

But recent geopolitical and economic uncertainties are just some of the challenges the sector faces, in addition to rising friction between locals and visitors, and skills and talent shortages, which all place pressure on cities, infrastructure and local communities. Here are 7 urgent factors shaping how destinations and cities manage visitor growth.

The World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism of Saudi Arabia and in collaboration with Kearney, has announced the launch of Beyond Tourism Impact Stars, to recognize and scale business-led solutions to the most pressing challenges facing the travel and tourism industry.

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May 4, 2026

Attention Crisis: How leaders can fix focus and happiness in an AI Era -psychologist Jonathan Haidt

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

As tech and AI transform productivity and free us from rote work, will humanity finally crack happiness? Maybe not, warns Jonathan Haidt. This social psychologist, NYU professor and bestselling author of The Anxious Generation has spent years studying the links between happiness, technology, and societal change. Unless key steps are taken, he says, the technologies transforming work and communication could pull humans further from a sense of meaning, connection and purpose, taking happiness even further from our grasps.

Success in tackling any big challenge ahead will depend on restoring focus, trust, and purpose. Haidt warns that AI and social media may be weakening all three—making intentional leadership more critical than ever. He shares research-backed insights that can help us better understand a fragmented, distracted world and the challenge this brings to leaders running teams in a changing AI era.
Key Takeaways:

Where happiness really comes from – and what people often misunderstand
Understanding the attention crisis and what’s contributing to it
How AI and digital habits fragment attention and decision-making and undermine trust
Simple practices and approaches to reclaim focus, connect with others and lead meaningful change more effectively
This interview was recorded in January 2026 at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

About this episode:
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/jonathan-haidt-happiness-focus-habits-ai

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Books referenced in this episode:
The Anxious Generation https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/
The Righteous Mind https://righteousmind.com/
The Happiness Hypothesis https://www.happinesshypothesis.com/
The Constructive Dialogue Institute www.constructivedialogue.org

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May 2, 2026

The Global Energy Supply Shock & What is Physical AI? | WEF | Top Stories of the Week

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

This week’s top stories of the week include:

00:14 – This firm slashes steel emissions: Hertha Metals has developed a single-stage steelmaking process that replaces the high-carbon, high-emission metallurgical coal traditionally used in steel production with either natural gas or hydrogen. Using natural gas cuts emissions by half, and using clean hydrogen, as is Hertha’s eventual aim, eliminates CO2 emissions altogether. Here, founder and CEO Laureen Meroueh explains how the process works.

03:01 – What is physical AI?: ‘Physical AI’ sits at the convergence of robotics, AI, spatial intelligence and omni-computing, and is enabled by sensors and control systems, which allow it to interact with its surroundings. Here, Peter Koerte, CTO and CSO of Siemens, explains how making the most of physical #AI will require a new approach from business leaders – one founded on cooperation and #interoperability.

05:42 – Explaining the global energy supply shock: The US-Iran war has triggered the largest oil supply disruption the world has ever seen. Jason Bordoff, Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, talks us through the potential ramifications of the squeeze, comparing it to the ‘collective trauma’ of the 1973 oil crisis, which shaped US energy policy for decades.

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April 28, 2026

The Iran oil shock: will it force the world to re-think the future of energy?

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

"This is the largest oil supply disruption the world has ever seen."
Jason Bordoff of the Center on Global Energy Policy and the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast joins us to explore the potential long-term impacts on global energy systems of the oil shock caused by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The episode was made in collaboration with the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/series/columbia-energy-exchange/
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Energy Transition Index (World Economic Forum), available from 17 June, 2026: wef.ch/ETI26
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