AMNC26 Day 2 – Adam Tooze on Premier Li, and other upcoming highlights

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Professor Adam Tooze, Director of the European Institute at Columbia University, joins us to look ahead to the action at AMC26 on Day 2 where Premier Li Qiang is due to speak.
Catch up on all the action from World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026 at wef.ch/amnc26 and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC26.
Links:
AMNC26: https://www.weforumasia.cn/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2026/
Liveblog: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/summer-davos-amnc-2026-day-2-live-updates/
Related podcasts:
AMNC26 Day 1 – Taking the pulse of Asia’s largest economy, and of the world – https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-day-1
AMNC26 – What to expect from "Summer Davos": https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/amnc26-what-to-expect-from-summer-davos
A “fundamental shift” in energy thinking: the Energy Transition Index 2026: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-index-2026/
Chief Economists Outlook: counting the cost of the Hormuz crisis, with Maersk’s Ilaria Maselli: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-maersk-ilaria-maselli/
The rise of industrial policy – why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforumasia.cn/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
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Factories that Learn

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

A new generation of factories is redefining high-performance manufacturing by integrating AI, automation and advanced analytics into core operations. Lighthouse sites are driving higher productivity, faster response to disruption, lower emissions and more adaptive workforces,

What sets these leaders apart, and how can organizations move from isolated technology use cases to system-wide transformation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTWsmpdgi-0

Glory, Failures and the Moments in Between

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

There is a strong appetite for stories that showcase businesses achieving success or succumbing to failure because they create simple yet emotionally intense narratives that resonate psychologically with themes of luck, risk-taking and our understanding of life.

With the moments in between often less spotlighted, what are the lessons brewing for entrepreneurs that are just as revealing as the highs and lows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJMnsDsbk_A

The Next Billion Jobs

Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)

With millions of young people entering labour markets each year, particularly in emerging and developing economies, demographic expansion can either intensify unemployment and instability or become a powerful engine of productivity and innovation.

How can countries invest in high job-multiplier sectors to ensure that structural transformation delivers meaningful and productive employment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLYt0RO2nF0

Robots in Rhythm with Us

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdARs4mChQ

The scientific advances ready to change the world: the Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026

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/
Related podcasts:
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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Renminbi and the World

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlJjwlaUUfk

Less Talk, More Deals

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciz7Nd9U1XA

Media Session: Meet the Founders on the Frontier

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvOleT3X_VM