in government of the Cantor of Graham
Budin the citizens and government of the
municipality of Davos were being such
gracious hosts and on behalf of all of
us at the Agra meeting I'd like to thank
the police from across Switzerland and
the Swiss military for the dedication to
keeping us all safe and secure day and
night it's a lot of people to think and
on behalf of the managing board of the
forum I'd also like to express the our
appreciation to our colleagues for all
their many efforts since the last annual
meeting and to make this stavos so
special and to our partners that work
tirelessly to create this special
atmosphere and unique environment and to
the staff of the Congress Centre for the
care and attention throughout the annual
meeting and over the past four days
there were many exciting ideas and new
proposals that emerge from our time
together in Davos so I have the great
pleasure I'd like to now invite bourgie
Brende president of the World Economic
Forum to share some of the key
initiatives conclusions and next steps
from the 2019 annual meeting Morgan
Thank You Lee they're friends rather
rather than bidding farewell I'm here to
thank you for a great annual meeting and
invite you on a shared journey ahead we
see it as the beginning of a journey
together for the year ahead as the first
step in our way to shape a new
architecture that is adapted to the age
of the fourth Industrial Revolution in
this context to remind us also of the
significance of the task that awaits us
it may be useful to revisit some of the
key outcomes that were achieved during
the annual meeting the forum's closing
the skills gap initiative launched last
year at our annual meeting with a target
to risk ill and upskill 10 million
workers by 2020 announced during this
meeting that it has already secured
pledges for training more than 17
million people globally 6.4 million of
whom have already been risk guilt voice
for the planet a global campaign to
build a movement for a new deal for
nature and people was long on Tuesday by
Vice President Al Gore prime minister
our turn of New Zeeland and Anand
Mahindra of Myra the campaign garnered
21,000 individual pledges within 48
hours five Asian countries dumped more
plastic into oceans than any else
combined the global plastic Action
Partnership GP AAP announced its first
national partnership in Indonesia to be
launched in March we
we are walking the talk a group of
international businesses teamed to
launch partnership for global LGBTI
equality members of partnership agrees
to operationalize the UN's LGBTI
standards of conduct worldwide across
their businesses by 2020 the partnership
plans to enlist at least 50 other member
companies by 2020 mobilizing the private
sector the forum launched a new
initiative preparing civil society for
the fourth industry revolution aimed at
helping civil society meet the
challenges presented by the rapid
technological change the Wellcome Trust
committed two hundred and sixty million
u.s. dollars over five years to
improving our basic understanding of
depression and anxiety the research will
concentrate on psychological therapies
that can be delivered early in life and
early in the onset of illness as mental
health problems typically start at a
young age valuable 500 launched a new
campaign aimed at releasing the social
and economic potential of the 1.3
billion people around the world who live
with a disability this campaign will
seek to sign up 500 global businesses to
commit to putting disability on their
board agendas only this year a group of
70 plus countries today confirmed
intentions to commence WTO negotiations
on trade-related aspects of ecommerce
following an initial meeting in the
margins of our annual meeting positive
signs even on the trade side I hope it
will inspire other players
- from miserable stood on this stage of
Japan committed his country's three
twenties chairmanship to launch an
agenda for global data governance the
engine for growth is fueled no longer by
gasoline but more and more by digital
data the Prime Minister underlined the
forum teamed with the World Bank and
International Committee of the Red Cross
ICRC to launch a high-level group on
humanitarian investing to unlock private
sector capital for investment in fragile
economies in particular to move away
from short-term emergency driven funding
to long-term investing in people
affected by crisis
Daniel meeting has truly evolved into
also a safe and trusted space of
diplomatic dialogues the forum
facilitated multi-stakeholder diplomacy
dialogues on key global fault lines to
advance peace efforts with the support
of relevant international organizations
and the private sector in this context
we continue dialogues on Venezuela
Sahel and Syria and convene
public/private community of leaders for
a special dialogue on
israeli-palestinian relations this
meeting I just came from it also saw the
gathering of top Israeli and Palestinian
business and political leaders to
underscore the importance of a two-state
solution to the israeli-palestinian
conflict they also agreed concrete steps
to boost the Palestinian economy in the
context of the fourth Industrial
Revolution through the support of
startups and entrepreneurship this makes
a huge difference with the support of
Prime Minister Abiah of Ethiopia we held
the diplomatic dialogue on the Horn of
Africa which I hope will bolster his
efforts to bring peace and prosperity to
the rich also we initiated discussions
on the Korean Peninsula European Russian
relations and on the new development
architecture for Africa Europe
engagements through our platform the
President of Azerbaijan and prime
minister of Amenia met advanced
negotiations on the settlement of the
nagorno-karabakh conflict also today the
Greek parliament meets to ratify the
agreement that was reached following an
initial discussion in Davos exactly one
year ago to solve the name dispute with
the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia and to normalize relations
between the two countries the forum
Centre for the 14 destroyed revolution
network established in 2008 initiated by
Professor Schwab announced it had grown
to more than hundred businesses and
governments including five g7 nations
meanwhile the network also welcomed
countries of Colombia Israel UAE with
affiliated centres a pilot project to
protect airports and other critical
infrastructure structure from
cyberattacks was also launched at annual
meeting under the leadership of our new
center for cyber security I could have
continued the list is long but dear
friends let's get inspired by the UN
secretary-general Antonio Guterres that
put it in such consequential way
yesterday when he said we need more
integrated global action to repair
broken trust and uphold dignity for all
in the era of globalization 4.0
achieving this and shape a global
architecture that is adapted to the new
and pressing challenges we are faced
with is crucial this imperative will
certainly not be met unless all
stakeholders are at the table as the
forum celebrates its 50th anniversary in
that
we will not be resting on our laurels we
will be looking ahead to improve the
state of the world for the next 50 years
by continuing to leverage our platform
for public-private cooperation in the
common interest finally I would like to
thank our founder and executive chairman
professor Klaus Schwab for creating this
unique organization in 1971 if we didn't
exist
I think someone would have had to create
it because we cannot solve the most
pressing global challenges without a
unique partnership between garments
business and civil society I also would
like to thank our dear participants were
also our partners for impact and I would
like to thank my colleagues at the World
Economic Forum without your dedication
and efforts this annual meeting would
not have been possible thank you all and
see you soon and then I will do another
presentation but thank you
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ladies and gentlemen it is my great
pleasure to introduce a great friend of
the World Economic Forum a leading
global supporter of the Arts and the
vital voice for creating the access to
opportunity that is so widely important
to achieve the best of the fourth
Industrial Revolution built Vista Equity
Partners one of the largest enterprise
and software firm in the world making
him Forbes Magazine's 100 greatest
living business minds under Wright's
countless organizations that create
pipelines of talent from underserved
communities for business public sector
civil society and arts is chairman of
Carnegie Hall where signature course is
to expand the hall to bring music into
communities that might otherwise not
have access Robert's generosity in
bringing the extraordinary swings
Murtaza to Devil's is emblematic of his
values and generous spirit please join
me in welcoming Robert Frederick Smith
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good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and
Bourget thank you so much for the
wonderful introduction and frankly the
the fantastic overview of what was one
of the best if not the best annual
meetings of the world economic forum is
my pleasure to be here for as long as I
can remember music has been an essential
part of my life an essential part of my
soul I grew up in a household where
music was played all the time and even
as my life and career took me to far and
away places the right song always
brought me back home this is not an
extraordinary