THE TRUTH ABOUT DAVOS: What Happens When You Don't Get Invited To Any Parties. INSIDE DAVOS: What It's Like Inside One of the World's Most Exclusive Conferences [PICS] We're reporting this week from the World Economic Forum, in which top businesspeople, politicians, influencers and media gather to discuss the world's biggest problems and how to solve them.
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One part of that solution will be technology, and we're here to learn how tech is reshaping industries, communities and countries. What's it like here in Davos? What has Davos done for us? For more than four decades, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has pitched its annual shindig in Davos as a chance for powerful leaders in business, politics, media and academia to convene in one spot to trade ideas on how to solve the pressing global problems of the day.
And for about as long, critics have dismissed the invitation-only event as nothing more than a glorified networking get-together for elites, or, as U2 singer Bono once called it, a meeting of “fat cats in the snow”. But are critics right to so quickly trash the Davos meeting? Haven’t there been at least a few tangible achievements along the way? The WEF itself thinks so. Abnormal Returns. BIG-ASS MESSAGE.