A few of the interesting pictures follow!!
The scene from my hotel room. Although the room itself brought back fond memories of my student days, staying at the YMCAs, the view was fantastic!!
Only the Swiss can think of playing golf in the snow!!!
Closing session with CNN interview
Thinking back to the Davos experience, these are my observations in a random order:
Davos is an excellent forum for the leaders of the world’s nations and companies to come together, exchange ideas and form consensus on various issues; and swap [...]
Adaptation to Climate Change
On Friday, we had some Technology Pioneer specific sessions that I am not going to bore you with. However, I did attend one session on an extremely important subject that has not gotten the share of mind that it deserves. That subject is ‘adaptation to climate change’. Regardless of [...]
Today, I decided to learn about three topics about which I have very little understanding – Nuclear, Water and carbon trading. I found all three of these topics fascinating and learned quite a bit from the people that have given these topics quite a bit of thought.
Nuclear Energy vs. Non-Proliferation
This panel had the most [...]
During last night’s reception, the founder of WEF, Dr. Klaus Schwab told us “first timers” that we should not expect to sleep while at Davos, ‘You can sleep when you get back home’ were his exact words. I thought that this was said in jest but I am learning the truth in these words. [...]
Well, here I am in the storied valley of Davos, Switzerland – the site of World Economic Forum annual meetings (http://www.weforum.org). I have heard about the WEF annual meetings for so long that being invited to the 2008 meeting is a dream-come-true. However, being here after being honored by the WEF as a [...]
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