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From 22 to 24 January, INSEAD will be in Davos alongside the World Economic Forum as a sponsor of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Tent. Partners of the SDG Tent will convene leaders for discussions that encourage business and society to explore sustainable solutions in line with the UN SDGs.
Hosted by the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, the three INSEAD sessions echo this year’s World Economic Forum theme: Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.
Join leaders of business and society and INSEAD faculty in examining the opportunities presented by the Sustainable Development Goals.
Programme
Wednesday 22 January 12:30 - 2:00 PM | SDGs & AI for Good – Global Talent in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Launch of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2020 – a yearly report on what countries and cities are doing to enable, attract, grow and retain talent. |
Thursday 23 January 5:15 - 7:00 PM | Balancing AI Productivity and Responsibility The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the world from a productivity standpoint but also in terms of ethical and social implications. |
Friday 24 January 12:30 - 2:00 PM | Managing Inequality Together: Ensuring that Policy Makers and Business Leaders Are Not Talking Past One Another A working lunch held to define the role INSEAD can play in ensuring both governments and businesses address global inequality. |
Session Details
Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2020 Launch - Panel & Lunch
The Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) 2020 focuses on Global Talent in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and explores how to put talent at the service of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), such as reducing international inequalities, in an AI-disrupted work environment. In partnership with the Adecco Group and Google, INSEAD Professors Felipe Monteiro and Bruno Lanvin will disclose the latest rankings of the 7th edition of the GTCI, and will provide high level of visibility to the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society and the role of business in delivering the SDGs. This session will gather inputs from a variety of thought leaders on how to measure talent for impact as a contribution to the next GTCI.
Wednesday 22 January | |
12:30 - 2:00 PM | |
Promenade 139, Davos, Switzerland |
Presenters

Felipe Monteiro
Academic Director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index,
Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy,
INSEAD

Bruno Lanvin
Executive Director for Global Indices,
Executive Director of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index,
INSEAD

Ilian Mihov
Dean, INSEAD
Academic Director, the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society

Katell Le Goulven
Executive Director,
the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society
Panellists
Houlin Zhao
Secretary General,
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Alain Dehaze
CEO,
The Adecco Group

Frida Polli
Founder and CEO,
pymetrics
GTCI Partners
Panel & Cocktail
Considering the impact on productivity and the social implications of AI, we must collectively reflect on how to best develop and regulate AI now. The stakes are high. We risk constraining the transformational potential of this emergent technology, while creating new risks and future liabilities. This panel discussion convened by the INSEAD Hoffmann Institute will bring together decision makers to examine how regulators and businesses should balance the productivity gains and ethical challenges and new risks of AI. Led by INSEAD professor Theodoros Evgeniou, the panel conversation will articulate the multi-disciplinary challenge posed by AI, take stock of ongoing debates on responsible AI across stakeholder groups and present leading business and regulatory perspectives and solutions.
Thursday 23 January | |
5:15 - 7:00 PM | |
Promenade 139, Davos, Switzerland |
Speakers

Brad Smith
President of Microsoft

Murat Sönmez
Managing Director, Head of Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution & Global Network, World Economic Forum

Peter Zemsky
Deputy Dean, INSEAD

Theodoros Evgeniou
Professor of Decision Sciences and Technology Management, INSEAD
Managing inequality together: Ensuring that policy makers and business leaders are not talking past one another
Working Lunch
Business and governments alike agree that growing inequality is an issue facing many countries. However, suggestions on how to best deal with this problem vary considerably and policy makers and business leaders often have different ideas about what needs to be done and by whom. We aim to bridge the gap between business and policy makers through a series of discussions where INSEAD and its Hoffmann Institute, and The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre for the Study of Wealth Inequality play the role of convener. This panel will help define how to best play this role. Led by Mark Stabile, INSEAD Professor of Economics, Academic Director of the Stone Centre and Deputy Academic Director, The Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society.
Friday 24 January | |
12:30 - 2:00 PM | |
Promenade 139, Davos, Switzerland |
Practical Information
Disclaimer: registration and access to the SDG Tent does not give access to the World Economic Forum. The SDG Tent is outside the World Economic Forum security zone in Davos.
Created in 2019, the InTent is an umbrella organisation, coordinating and connecting projects in which Mr André Hoffmann is involved, specifically at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in January each year.
Daily management of these projects is overseen by InTent' various partners, such as the Luc Hoffmann Institute, UHCS, and INSEAD’s Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society.