unConference Sessions
Session Overview
unConference Sessions
The unConference is a special crowd-created event where everyone participates.
Picture this:
18 hosts leading 18 mini-sessions;
All sessions happening in the same room at mostly the same time;
Sessions are open format — each session can be a round table, mini panel, workshop, an experience - everything goes.
Topics span everything: AI applications, societal challenges, indigenous wisdom, emerging technologies, business models, personal development...;
Sessions have been as intimate as 3 people and as large as 20 people.
You can jump from one session to another at any point.
• 7. Each session is 45min;
Schedule:
9.00-9:45 (Circle 1 ) "Who Is in Charge? Human Governance in the Age of AI"
9.00-9:45 (Circle 3) “Sustainable Development: Have we Gotten it Wrong?”
9.00-9:45 (Circle 4) “Positive Possibilities of the AI Future”
09.30-11.00 (Circle 2) “Sustainable Development: Have we Gotten it Wrong?”
**10.00-10.45 (Circle 1) “**The Power of Storytelling in the Age of AI”
**10.00-10.45 (Circle 3) “**The Swiss Great Walk (Experience): Empowering People Made of Potential out of Homelessness”
10.00-10.45 (Circle 4) “What is wellbeing in a changing world?”
10.00-10.45 (Circle 5) “Beyond the Game: Financing a Climate‑Resilient Sports Economy”
**10.00-10.45 (Circle 6) “**Polish your Profile”
11.00-11.45 (Circle 1) “What Future Are We Building With AI?”
11.00-11.45 (Circle 2) “A Pause Before Davos: What Would You Bring to the Moon?”
11.00-11.45 (Circle 3) “Which Problems Should Never Be Solved by Companies?”
**11.00-11.45 (Circle 4) “**Are Social Networks Still Social? Rethinking Digital Communities”
Sessions Description and Hosts:
9.00-9:45 (Circle 1 )
"Who Is in Charge? Human Governance in the Age of AI"
Hosted by Thomas Juli
Description:
As AI accelerates decisions across organizations, accountability risks drifting into systems by default. This session offers senior leaders a focused space to examine what it now takes to remain in charge of direction, decisions, and consequences. Through structured dialogue and shared inquiry, participants explore where responsibility must remain explicitly human — and what leadership in the AI age truly requires.
9.00-9:45 (Circle 3)
“Sustainable Development: Have we Gotten it Wrong?”
Hosted by Thomas Kopinski
Description:
AI is everywhere and we are still struggling to measure the ripple effects such as declining attention spans or loss of deep thinking, most likely ignited by social media and the digital transition. Here, we will discuss the role of the human in times where AI 'knows' everything and information. has become a commodity. What do we need to know to be able to enter this age? What does research have to say about this? Can we draw from personal experience to prepare ourselves and protect our children?
9.00-9:45 (Circle 4)
“Positive Possibilities of the AI Future”
Hosted by Giovanni (Johnny) Gabriele
Description:With all the doom and gloom around our AI future, this talk aims to illuminate the possible positive impacts around employment, truth, health tech, and overall freedom enablement that AI can bring.
0930 - 1100 (Circle 2)
“Sustainable Development: Have we Gotten it Wrong?”
Hosted by Maryam Rana — Delegate Adam Foundation
Description:We will explore why traditional approaches to sustainability, focusing on environmental, economic, and social pillars, have stalled. This interactive session examines the critical role of culture and social cohesion in rebuilding trust across political, economic, and institutional systems. Through guided dialogue, participants will assess how reimagining sustainable development through a cultural lens can accelerate meaningful global change.
10.00-10.45 (Circle 1)
“The Power of Storytelling in the Age of AI”
Hosted by Doroteya Nancheva — Content Creator
Description:In an age where content is everywhere and attention is scarce, storytelling remains the most powerful way to create connection, trust, and meaning — even as the tools we use to tell stories continue to evolve. In this session we will explore how to find your personal story and core message, and translate lived experience into stories that feel authentic and relevant. We will discuss how storytelling frameworks can support your branding, content creation, and professional visibility, and how AI can be used as a practical assistant — not to replace your voice, but to help amplify ideas, save time, and scale storytelling across platforms. Participants leave with practical visual storytelling techniques and actionable tips for creating memorable content when time, attention, and energy are limited — such as during Davos week.
10.00-10.45 (Circle 3)
“The Swiss Great Walk (Experience): Empowering People Made of Potential out of Homelessness”
Hosted by Andrew Funk
Description:We'll have walked 150 km in 5 days to unDavos for 150 million homeless people and aim to inspire our audience towards action in the spirit of dialogue.
10.00-10.45 (Circle 4)
“What is wellbeing in a changing world?”
Hosted by Ann Badillo — CEO Advisor Polymathic
Description:Warm Data Labs are a kind of high-altitude campfire. Expect stories, moments of resonance, unexpected insights, and the kind of learning that can only happen across contexts. When we pay attention to our senses, our relationships, and the liminal space between perspectives, something subtle shifts. New collective perceptions begin to surface.We’re living in a time of increasing complexity and overlapping crises—climate, culture, capital, meaning. The invitation is not to "solution", but rather, to listen differently. To sense together. To improvise at the edge of what we think we understand. On this magic mountain, the capacity to respond doesn’t live in expertise alone. It emerges when people gather with curiosity, presence, and a willingness to relate in new ways—when we slow down enough to notice how the world assembles itself differently in each of us.
10.00-10.45 (Circle 5)
“Beyond the Game: Financing a Climate‑Resilient Sports Economy”
Hosted by Kishan Changlani
Description:World Climate Athletes will draw on the World Economic Forum’s first dedicated insight work on sport and sustainability, Sports for People and Planet, which introduces a new framing for the global sports economy. In this framing, sport is already a 2.3 trillion economy and is projected to reach 8.8 trillion by 2050, yet up to 1.6 trillion in annual value is at risk if we fail to tackle physical inactivity, climate breakdown and nature loss as interconnected challenges. This roundtable is an opportunity to interrogate that lens together and stress‑test what it means in practice for how we invest, operate and lead across sport.Along the way, we’ll unpack key elements from the report including resource stewardship and low-carbon growth, sport at the heart of cities and active societies, and purpose-driven capital and sponsorship.
10.00-10.45 (Circle 6)
“Polish your Profile”
Hosted by Matthias Lüfkens
Description:Your social media profile is your new business card. LinkedIn is your Rolodex.But is your profile really working for you?In this interactive session, we’ll take a candid look at real profiles—yours included. Bring your LinkedIn or X profile and let’s roast it (kindly), refine it, and turn it into a powerful personal branding tool.Together, we’ll explore:When did you last update your profile - and does it reflect who you are now?Does your LinkedIn profile stand out in a crowded feed?Are you connecting with the right people on X and beyond?Does your profile communicate credibility, clarity, and purpose in seconds?Expect practical tips, honest feedback, and collective learning so you leave with a profile that truly represents you and opens doors.
11.00-11.45 (Circle 1)
“What Future Are We Building With AI?”
Hosted by Shaje Ganny
Description:During this panel, we will explore the future of humanity in an AI-shaped world. If we project ourselves 5 to 10 years ahead, based on the decisions we are making right now, what kind of society are we building? What does “progress” look like when machines can generate, persuade, decide, and act at scale?We will challenge ourselves with the hard questions: Is this the future we actually want to live in? What must remain uniquely human, and what are we willing to delegate to systems? What guardrails are needed to protect human agency, dignity, and sovereignty in an age of accelerating capability? And who is responsible for making those guardrails real: governments, companies, educators, citizens, or all of the above?Finally, we will aim to define what “human-centric AI” truly means today, and what it must mean tomorrow, not as a slogan, but as a practical standard for how we design, deploy, and adopt AI in the real world.
11.00-11.45 (Circle 2)
“A Pause Before Davos: What Would You Bring to the Moon?”
Hosted by Lakshmi Karan — Founder LunARC
Description:To kick off an intense Davos week, this session creates a moment of spaciousness and shared imagination. This is an interactive, creative session - not a panel.Participants from any field are invited to anchor in their own expertise and imagine how the future of their work might take shape on the Moon, 50 years from now! Using the Moon as a blank canvas, the session offers a gentle pause before the week begins: a space to breathe, listen, and explore possibilities together.Selected ideas may be included in LunARC’s Lunar University experiment, with the possibility of symbolic inclusion in a future lunar payload.
11.00-11.45 (Circle 3)
“Which Problems Should Never Be Solved by Companies?”
Hosted by Ed DeSanto - Founder CEO @ Personal MagicDescription:A circle discussion where we’re gonna raise questions like:What kinds of problems get worse when profit is the main driver?Where does competition actively block progress?Which incentives distort outcomes even when intentions are good?Can regulation fix this — or is the structure wrong from the start?What alternative structures handle these problems better?
11.00-11.45 (Circle 4)
“Are Social Networks Still Social? Rethinking Digital Communities”
Hosted byFrancesca Gargaglia
Description:Social media was supposed to connect us. Instead, it increasingly feels polluted by misinformation, rage bait, performative content, and dynamics that are bad for our mental health. Many people are disengaging on purpose, spending less time on public platforms or retreating into private spaces, while new models of digital communities are quietly emerging elsewhere. In this session, we’ll have an honest conversation about what went wrong, why trust has collapsed, and whether we are witnessing the decline of social media as we know it or the beginning of something better. Will we go back to the old platforms, or are we moving toward new forms of digital connection altogether?
0930 - 1100 (circle 2): Sustainable Development: Have we Gotten it Wrong?
‘Sustainable Development: Have we Gotten it Wrong?’ will explore why traditional approaches to sustainability, focusing on environmental, economic, and social pillars, have stalled. This interactive session examines the critical role of culture and social cohesion in rebuilding trust across political, economic, and institutional systems. Through guided dialogue, participants will assess how reimagining sustainable development through a cultural lens can accelerate meaningful global change.
Host / Speakers
Maryam Rana — Delegate Adam Foundation
10.00-10.45 (circle 2): Homeless Entrepreneur
Host / Speakers
Andrew Funk
10.00-10.45 (Circle 1) - The Power of Storytelling in the Age of AI
In an age where content is everywhere and attention is scarce, storytelling remains the most powerful way to create connection, trust, and meaning — even as the tools we use to tell stories continue to evolve. In this session we will explore how to find your personal story and core message, and translate lived experience into stories that feel authentic and relevant. We will discuss how storytelling frameworks can support your branding, content creation, and professional visibility, and how AI can be used as a practical assistant — not to replace your voice, but to help amplify ideas, save time, and scale storytelling across platforms. Participants leave with practical visual storytelling techniques and actionable tips for creating memorable content when time, attention, and energy are limited — such as during Davos week.
Host / Speakers
Doroteya Nancheva — Content Creator
10.00-10.45 (Circle 4) - What is wellbeing in a changing world?
Warm Data Labs are a kind of high-altitude campfire. 🏕️ Expect stories, moments of resonance, unexpected insights, and the kind of learning that can only happen across contexts. When we pay attention to our senses, our relationships, and the liminal space between perspectives, something subtle shifts. New collective perceptions begin to surface.
We’re living in a time of increasing complexity and overlapping crises—climate, culture, capital, meaning. The invitation is not to "solution", but rather, to listen differently. To sense together. To improvise at the edge of what we think we understand. On this magic mountain, the capacity to respond doesn’t live in expertise alone. It emerges when people gather with curiosity, presence, and a willingness to relate in new ways—when we slow down enough to notice how the world assembles itself differently in each of us.
Host / Speakers
Ann Badillo — CEO Advisor Polymathic
10.00-10.45 (Circle 5) - Beyond the Game: Financing a Climate‑Resilient Sports Economy
World Climate Athletes will draw on the World Economic Forum’s first dedicated insight work on sport and sustainability, Sports for People and Planet, which introduces a new framing for the global sports economy. In this framing, sport is already a 2.3 trillion economy and is projected to reach 8.8 trillion by 2050, yet up to 1.6 trillion in annual value is at risk if we fail to tackle physical inactivity, climate breakdown and nature loss as interconnected challenges. This roundtable is an opportunity to interrogate that lens together and stress‑test what it means in practice for how we invest, operate and lead across sport.
Along the way, we’ll unpack key elements from the report including resource stewardship and low-carbon growth, sport at the heart of cities and active societies, and purpose-driven capital and sponsorship.
11.00-11.45 (Circle 1) - What Future Are We Building With AI?
During this panel, we will explore the future of humanity in an AI-shaped world. If we project ourselves 5 to 10 years ahead, based on the decisions we are making right now, what kind of society are we building? What does “progress” look like when machines can generate, persuade, decide, and act at scale?
We will challenge ourselves with the hard questions: Is this the future we actually want to live in? What must remain uniquely human, and what are we willing to delegate to systems? What guardrails are needed to protect human agency, dignity, and sovereignty in an age of accelerating capability? And who is responsible for making those guardrails real: governments, companies, educators, citizens, or all of the above?
Finally, we will aim to define what “human-centric AI” truly means today, and what it must mean tomorrow, not as a slogan, but as a practical standard for how we design, deploy, and adopt AI in the real world.
11.00-11.45 (Circle 2) - A Pause Before Davos: What Would You Bring to the Moon?
To kick off an intense Davos week, this session creates a moment of spaciousness and shared imagination. This is an interactive, creative session - not a panel.
Participants from any field are invited to anchor in their own expertise and imagine how the future of their work might take shape on the Moon, 50 years from now! Using the Moon as a blank canvas, the session offers a gentle pause before the week begins: a space to breathe, listen, and explore possibilities together.
Selected ideas may be included in LunARC’s Lunar University experiment, with the possibility of symbolic inclusion in a future lunar payload.
Host / Speakers
Lakshmi Karan — Founder LunARC
the session
9.00-9.45 (Circle 3) - Collective Intelligence: The Role of the Human in Times of AI
9.00-9.45 (Circle 4) - Positive Possibilities of the AI Future
10.00-10.45 (Circle 2) - Sustainable Development: Have We Gotten it Wrong?
10.00-10.45 (Circle 6) - Polish Your Profile
11.00-11.45 (Circle 4) - Are Social Networks Still Social? Rethinking Digital Communities
Social media was supposed to connect us. Instead, it increasingly feels polluted by misinformation, rage bait, performative content, and dynamics that are bad for our mental health. Many people are disengaging on purpose, spending less time on public platforms or retreating into private spaces, while new models of digital communities are quietly emerging elsewhere. In this session, we’ll have an honest conversation about what went wrong, why trust has collapsed, and whether we are witnessing the decline of social media as we know it or the beginning of something better. Will we go back to the old platforms, or are we moving toward new forms of digital connection altogether?
unConference
The unConference is where unDavos Summit Members take over. Apply to host your own 45-minute session for up to 30 people. Format is yours—round tables, mini panels, workshops, experiences. Last year included leadership tango.
Topics span everything: AI applications, societal challenges, indigenous wisdom, emerging technologies, business models, personal development, unconventional approaches to familiar problems. If you have expertise, a question worth exploring, or an experience to share, propose it.
Only unDavos Summit Members can host sessions. Sessions are open to the public for free—this is where the broader Davos community discovers what Members are building and thinking about.
Apply to speak here: https://undavos-apply-to-speak.glide.page/
Join the telegram group here to meet and talk to the other unConference attendees: https://t.me/+JmeMpjXtbZhjNjVh
Application form opens in December. Spaces are limited. Best proposals get the room.