![]() (one of the speakers just cited The Long Tail as an argument in favor of markets.) The audience voted 3-1 against markets, but Jim Rodgers just weighed in against the either or nature of the propositions. Of course my friends Orville Schell and Baifang Liu, sitting next to me voted the wrong way.ĭan Yergin is speaking now in favor of the second proposition on markets vs regulation, The Chinese ambassador has just weighed in on the government side. The audience was asked to vote and the nukes and coal lost by 3-1, much to my surprise. ![]() At this session we get to vote electronically on the propositions. The affirmative was presented by Jim Rodgers, CEO of Duke and old friend (we chatted before the session.) and the negative by Vinod Khosla, a VC. (It will be broadcast at 6 EST on Jan 28.) The first proposition was in favor of nuclear and clean coal. It is a televised debate on CNN on several environmental and energy issues. I am currently in a fairly large session on Making Green Pay. My first panel as a participant will be Wed afternoon on the main theme of the conference, "The Shifting Power Equation: Technology and Society".īegan the morning with coffee with Geoffery Moore, Shai Agassi, Orville Schell and Baifang Liu, who brought along the former Chinese ambassador to China, and then John Holdren joined us. Today is mostly registration an early dinner and meeting up with a few friends. And there is, of course, the NERDS dinners on Saturday evening. The India one always has the best food, but the Accel/Google party has among the most interesting people. Before and after the dinners are many receptions, cocktail parties sponsored by companies and governments. The day begins with early meetings and goes very late. Not surprisingly these are among the most interesting parts of being here. Around all the sessions is non stop talking in the many lounges and sitting areas of the Kongress Centre. I will be going to one Wed evening on climate change and national security hosted by Global Business Network (GBN) network member John Holdren and another on future IT hosted by another network member Paul Saffo. Finally there are the breakfasts, lunches and dinners at the local hotels on a great many subjects. The second kinds of session are panels on a large variety of topics in the smaller meeting rooms. Tony Blair on Saturday) and high level panels (I will be moderating the one on WEB 2.0 on Saturday with Bill Gates, the head of Nike and the founder of YouTube….which directly proceeds Blair's talk, meaning we will have a very large audience trying to make sure they have seats.). In the main Kongress Hall are major speeches (e.g. The meeting is organized around three kinds of sessions. The Monitor Group is represented here by Mark Fuller and me. I have been coming to Davos off and on for a little over 20 years. The participants range from corporate CEOs, heads of state, cabinet ministers, politicians, intellectuals, journalists, scientists, academics, celebrities and many hangers on. He is the author of Inevitable Surprises, and The Art of the Long View, and co-author of The Long Boom, When Good Companies Do Bad Things, and China's Futures. Before joining Royal Dutch/Shell, he directed the Strategic Environment Center at SRI International. From 1982 to 1986, Schwartz headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. PETER SCHWARTZ is cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network (GBN), now part of the Monitor Group. This year, he wrote a blog which is is distilled into this report. Peter Schwartz, founder of Global Business Network (GBN), is equally at home and astute in the worlds of science, technology and the corporate boardroom. Attending this years conference were Peter Schwartz, Larry Brilliant, John Markoff, Paul Saffo, Lord Martin Rees, Adam Bly, Dan Dubno, and Yossi Vardi. It was founded and run by Klaus Schwab in the early eighties as mostly a European event, but has grown huge and global with about 2000 participants from all over the world.Įvery year dozens of Edgies are invited to the World Economic Forum event and the dancing bears to perform for the corporate and govermental elite. This is their annual meeting, but there are many other meetings during the year held around the world, but this is their big event they are known for. What is Davos and how does it work? Officially the meeting is called the World Economic Forum.
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