Days: 21 JAN

The Relevance of Hispanic Leadership in a more Fragmented World

Wed 21 Jan 2026 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 3)

A private (by invitation only) dialogue session hosted by Casa Hispana.

Please note: This session will be held in Spainish.

In a global landscape increasingly shaped by fragmentation, polarization, and a growing erosion of trust, Casa Hispana convenes influential leaders from the Spanish-speaking world in Davos to reflect on the role Hispanic leadership can and must play in shaping a more cohesive, just, and sustainable future.

This high-level, intimate conversation will explore how collective action, social innovation, technology, and emerging leadership models are translating into concrete responses to today’s most pressing global challenges. The session will highlight how the Hispanic world is not only navigating complexity, but actively contributing solutions.

Designed as a curated space for dialogue, connection, and reflection, it seeks to connect ideas, people, and perspectives while positioning the Hispanic voice as an increasingly relevant and constructive force in the global conversation.

The Moral Revolution & the Well-Being Economy: Reimagining Capital, Power, and Progress

Wed 21 Jan 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Inspiration Room)

If today’s crises are moral failures, not technical ones, what responsibility do those who hold capital and power bear for changing the system they benefit from?

The world has entered a moral reckoning. Climate breakdown, widening inequality, and collapsing trust expose a hard truth: the prevailing economic model has optimized for growth while hollowing out human dignity and planetary stability. Technical fixes, incremental reforms, and smarter capital allocation are no longer sufficient. What is failing is not a lack of innovation, but a deficit of moral imagination an unwillingness to confront how power, capital, and progress are defined in the first place. At Davos 2026, this session brings together two of the most influential voices reshaping global thinking on leadership and value creation for a rare, high-level dialogue on what must change. Drawing from lived experience across emerging markets and deep Eastern wisdom traditions, they challenge the audience to rethink capitalism not as a machine to be optimized, but as a moral system shaped by human choices, values, and consciousness.

Hosted at the TPC House, this fireside conversation moves Davos beyond performance and positioning toward reflection and responsibility. It asks a question the global elite rarely pauses to face: if today’s crises are moral in nature, what kind of leaders and inner transformations are required to build a truly well-being economy?

Asia Solutions for the Global Mozzie Challenge

Wed 21 Jan 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Inspiration Room)

What if Asia’s frontline experience with mosquito-borne disease becomes the world’s strongest asset transforming regional innovation, coordination, and public health leadership into scalable solutions for a growing global mosquito challenge?

As the world gathers in Davos under the 2026 theme A Spirit of Dialogue, this session situates the global mosquito challenge within a broader systems lens where public health, climate, urbanisation, and equity increasingly intersect. Mosquito-borne diseases are no longer confined to specific geographies; they reflect a shared vulnerability in how societies anticipate, prevent, and respond to complex biological risks.

Asia sits at the frontline of this challenge. Across the region, governments, researchers, communities, and innovators have developed hard won experience in surveillance, prevention, vector control, and emerging biomedical responses. Yet much of this knowledge remains fragmented or under translated into global strategies.

Asia Solutions for the Global Mozzie Challenge convenes funders, implementing bodies, and technical leaders to explore how Asia’s practical experience can inform global pathways for prevention and resilience. Hosted at TPC House, the conversation is designed as an open, trust-based dialogue moving beyond isolated interventions toward collaborative, scalable approaches that integrate public health systems, regional coordination, and innovation in vaccines and antivirals.

Rather than offering prescriptions, the session asks how regional capability, shared learning, and cross-border partnership can shape a more prepared global response turning lived experience into collective foresight and action.

This conversation forms part of a Davos Accredited Programme

Restore Nature Day: Re-designing the Economy for Living Systems

Wed 21 Jan 2026 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 2)

What if the defining challenge of this decade is not mobilising more capital for nature but redesigning economic systems to operate within nature’s limits while restoring what we have depleted?

Restore Nature Day opens with a fundamental reframe: nature is not a sector it is the living system that underwrites every economy, supply chain, and society. Yet today’s responses remain fragmented projects without platforms, capital without coherence, ambition without stewardship.

As climate and biodiversity crises accelerate, the question is no longer whether we act, but how we design systems capable of restoring nature at scale while sustaining livelihoods and prosperity. This opening moment sets the tone for the day by bridging science, stewardship, and capital grounding participants in planetary reality while pointing toward investable, governable pathways forward.

From the biophysical limits that define our operating space, to the place-based solutions already working across Asia and the Global South, the opening remarks invite leaders to move beyond extraction, offsets, and incrementalism. Restore Nature Day is an invitation to shift from fragmented action to coherent system design where capital, industry, philanthropy, and communities align to regenerate the living foundations of our shared future.

This conversation forms part of a Davos Accredited Programme

Oceans Day: When the Ocean Becomes a Business Imperative

Wed 21 Jan 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Forum 1)

What if the ocean is no longer a sustainability issue to manage, but the clearest signal of business risk—revealing which companies are prepared to align strategy, capital, and operations for a volatile future?

Sustainability is no longer a peripheral concern. It is increasingly shaping core business risk and strategic decision-making.

Across sectors, companies are navigating rising exposure to climate volatility, regulatory pressure, supply chain fragility, and changing expectations from investors and customers. In this context, the ocean has emerged as a clear lens through which these risks converge,not as a standalone issue, but as a reflection of broader systemic exposure.

Many companies have articulated sustainability and ocean-related commitments. Far fewer have translated this urgency into strategy, capital allocation, and operational change.

This public session explores how business leaders are responding as sustainability moves from aspiration to business imperative and what this shift requires in practice.

This conversation forms part of a Davos Accredited Programme

Oceans Day: From the Living Ocean to a Living Economy

Wed 21 Jan 2026 10:30 am - 11:00 am (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Forum 1)

In a decade that will define the health of our planet, the future of the ocean has become a decisive test of our economic and governance systems. The panels here will explore how a well-being economy reframes ocean stewardship—from extraction to regeneration—by aligning capital, policy, science, and community leadership. Moving beyond fragmented projects, it highlights how trust-based collaboration and nature-positive investment models can restore marine ecosystems while sustaining livelihoods, resilience, and long-term prosperity.

Where Will the Next Billion Jobs Come From in the Age of AI?

Wed 21 Jan 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Inspiration Room)

What if the answer to AI-driven job loss is not resisting automation, but deliberately designing new institutions—mission-locked, labor-positive, and evergreen—that scale human work into a billion dignified livelihoods worldwide?

​As AI accelerates job displacement at unprecedented scale, incremental solutions are no longer sufficient. This closed-door session explores how social enterprises and social innovation could create 1 billion new jobs through new institutional models—evergreen, mission-locked, and labor-positive—to create resilient livelihoods at scale in sectors where human work remains essential, local, and non-automatable.

​Join Nobel Laureate and HE President Jose Ramos Horta, leading social innovators, policy makers and corporate leaders for this discussion.

This conversation forms part of a Davos Accredited Programme

Oceans Day Panel 4: Accelerating Africa Trade and Investment through Vibrant Maritime Economies and Supply Chains

Wed 21 Jan 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Forum 1)

How do we ensure that innovation serves ecosystems and communities — not just markets? What stands in the way of scaling regenerative ocean solutions: capital, incentives, or mindsets?

The Ocean Can’t Wait

Wed 21 Jan 2026 9:30 pm - 12:00 am (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Inspiration Room)

A private (by invitation only) Ocean Nightcap and Cocktail Session hosted by Parley for the Oceans.

This conversation forms part of a Davos Accredited Programme

Impact Endgames: How to Support the Next Generation of Impact Unicorns Globally

Wed 21 Jan 2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 2)

What if the true test of social innovation is not proof of impact, but its ability to cross borders—surviving translation into new cultures, institutions, and policies while scaling with integrity and systemic effect?

A private (by invitation only) dialogue session hosted by 100X Impact (LSE).

As social innovations move toward serious scale, the defining question becomes how proven solutions expand across regions, institutions and systems. This invitation-only salon explores what it really takes for high-impact solutions to travel – East–West and West–East — and to take root within different policy, market, and institutional environments.

The session is co-hosted by 100x Impact, a global impact initiative housed at the London School of Economics focused on backing impact ventures whose models can improve hundreds of millions of lives.