CNBC World Economic Forum 2024 | CNBC Events | 14 January 2024 | The Filecoin Sanctuary , Freie Evangelische Gemeinde, Scalettastrasse 1, 7270 Davos Platz, Switzerland

As business and political leaders gather for the Forum in Davos, CNBC has curated an insightful agenda of fireside chats and panels to address this year’s theme of ‘Rebuilding Trust’.

Global challenges need global solutions, and sessions held at the Filecoin Sanctuary will convene some of the world’s most powerful and influential voices to give practical solutions on topics like geopolitical uncertainty, supply chains, leadership, innovation and sustainability.

2024 Speakers

H.M. Queen Máxima
United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development

Jimmy Wales
Co-Founder, Wikipedia

Eric Usher
Head of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative

Gary Steele
President & CEO, Splunk

Lila Ibrahim
COO, Google DeepMind

Dr. Tan See Leng
Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry, Government of Singapore

Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Co-chair of the Oversight Board and Former Prime Minister of Denmark

Brad Garlinghouse
CEO, Ripple

Cenk Alper
Board Member & CEO, Sabancı Holding

Alexander Schallenberg
Foreign Minister, Austria

Bill Anderson
CEO, Bayer

Mark Malloch Brown
President, Open Society Foundation

Nicola Mendelsohn
Head of Global Business Group, Meta

La June Montgomery Tabron
President & CEO, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Belarus Opposition Leader; Belarusian Political Activist

Sanda Ojiambo
CEO and Executive Director, UN Global Compact

Simon Cooper
CEO of Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking and CEO, Europe & Americas, Standard Chartered

Robert F. Smith
Founder, Chairman & CEO, Vista Equity Partners

His Excellency Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi
Chairman, Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development

Laura Cha
Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges andClearing Ltd (HKEX)

Alfred Stern
Chairman & CEO, OMV

Kees Aarts
CEO & Founder, Protix

Ester Baiget
President & CEO, Novozymes

Henrik Andersen
CEO, Vestas

Matthew Zielinski
Executive Vice President; President, International Markets, Lenovo

Tejpreet S. Chopra
Founder and CEO, Bharat Light & Power Group (BLP)

Clara Shih
CEO, Salesforce AI

will.i.am
Creative Artist, Innovator & Entrepreneur

Meredith Whittaker
President, Signal

Vaishali Sinha
Co-Founder, ReNew

Eswar Prasad
Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy , Cornell University

Jack Hidary
Chief Executive Officer, SandboxAQ

Rishi Khosla
Co-Founder and CEO, OakNorth

Andy Yen
Founder & CEO, Proton

Vladimir Lukić
Managing Director & Senior Partner; Global Leader, Tech and Digital Advantage, Boston Consulting Group

Zak Brown
CEO, McLaren Racing

Jose Minaya
CEO, Nuveen

Igor Tulchinsky
Founder, Chairman and CEO, WorldQuant

Christopher Abbott
CEO, Pivot Bio

Benjamin Hung
Chief Executive Officer, Asia, Standard Chartered

Daniel F. Feldman
Partner, Covington

Tim Ryan
US Senior Partner, PwC

Sheila Warren
CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation

Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi
Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, Mubadala

Sunil Kaushal
Regional CEO Africa and Middle East, Standard Chartered

Badr Jafar
CEO Crescent Enterprises and COP28 Special Representative for Business and Philanthropy

Daphne Kis
President, WorldQuant University

Frank McCourt
Executive Chairman & Founder, Project Liberty

Marco Alverà
CEO, Tree Energy Solutions (TES)

Ilham Kadri
CEO, Syensqo

Hossein Rahnama
Professor, MIT Media Lab and Toronto Metropolitan University; Founder and CEO, Flybits Inc.

Rich Nuzum
Executive Director, Investments andGlobal Chief Investment Strategist, Mercer

Adam Posen
President, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Bold Baatar
CEO, Rio Tinto Copper

Dorit Dor
CTO, Check Point

Manish Pant
Executive Vice President, International Operations, Schneider Electric

Dr. Arun Majumdar
Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sarah Kate Ellis
President and CEO, GLAAD

Rebeca Minguela
CEO, Clarity AI

Kim Wilson
Director of Sustainability, McLaren Racing

Esther O’Callaghan OBE
Founder, hundo and World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

Rachel Kyte
Founding Co-Chair, The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI)

Svenja Gudell
Chief Economist, Indeed

Russ Shaw CBE
Founder, Global Tech Advocates

Ronald Menzel
Co-Founder, Dreamscape

Cedric Robillot
Executive Director, Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Jane Goodall
Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace

Nile Rodgers
Musician, Co-Founder & Chairman, We Are Family Foundation

Nancy Hunt
Co-Founder & President, We Are Family Foundation

Cherie Blair CBE KC
Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

Maejor
Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and powerhouse producer, cancer survivor

Aidan Gomez
Co-Founder & CEO, Cohere

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Academy Award Winning Director

Leandro von Werra
Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face

Florian Bressand
Chief Business Officer, Mistral AI

Mark Hughes
President of Security, DXC Technology

Beata Javorcik
Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Hugh Evans
Co-Founder & CEO, Global Citizen

Nomzamo Mbatha
Actress, Humanitarian, and Global Citizen Ambassador

Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web,Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Marta Belcher
General Counsel and Head of Policy , Protocol Labs

Sara Sabry
CEO & Founder, Deep Space Initiative

Tim Shephard
Vice President, Enterprise Strategy, Lockheed Martin Space

Jonathan Dotan
Founding Director, The Starling Lab

Megan Klimen
Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation

Daniel Erasmus
CEO, NEWSCONSOLE/ Erasmus.AI

Caroline Pham
CFTC Commissioner

Danny O'Brien
Senior Fellow, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

Bernhard Kowatsch
Head, UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator

Dante Disparte
Chief Strategy Officer; Head, Global Policy, Circle

Shyam Nagarajan
Global Practice Leader, ExecutivePartner, Blockchain and Responsible AI, IBM

Casper Klynge
Former Danish Ambassador for Technology

Clara Tsao
Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation and FFDWeb

Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta

Karl Friston
Chief Scientist, VERSES

2024 Sponsors and Partners

SPONSORS:
• Pwc
• salesforce
• Standart Chartered
• Schneider
• Nuveen
• World Quant
• World Quant University
• W.K Kellog Foundation

VENUE PARTNER:
• Filecoin foundation