TABLE LETTER OF FROM Contents The editor P.04 How Corporates Are Combating Super Apps In our third annual The Davos Manifesto 2020 provides a vision for special edition around stakeholder capitalism that touches on a range of im- P.12 Digital Leader’s Survival Guide the World Economic portant issues of our time, including fair taxation, zero Forum’s annual meeting tolerance for corruption, executive pay and respect for in Davos we tell you human rights. P.14 Helping European Corporates Punch Their Weight about new business models and approaches Building on the Manifesto 2020, this year’s program P.16 Central Bankers Embrace CBDCs that can help companies focuses on achieving maximum impact on the Forum’s Jennifer L. Schenker and governments thrive platform for public-private cooperation across six core P.18 Reshaping Global Trade For The Digital Age Editor-In-Chief, The Innovator in the digital age, and areas of activity: Ecology, Economy, Society, Industry, highlight incumbents Technology and Geopolitics. More than 160 individual P.22 How Trafigura Put Its Cybersecurity To The Test who are starting to make some headway. We also give initiatives, each capable of delivering system-wide trans- you a glimpse of what’s to come: quantum computing is formation, are active on the Forum platform. Significant P.26 Protecting Critical Infrastructure From Cyber Attacks expected to give us the ability to turn on a new teles- advances in a number of these, especially in the fields of cope into nature, and in the longer term revolutionize responsible business, the environment and social mobi- P.28 The Death Of Passwords drug design, portfolio optimization in finance and risk lity, are expected to be confirmed during the meeting. analysis for insurance companies. P.32 Quantum Computing’s Potential Initiatives to be launched at the Annual Meeting in- I will be moderating sessions on quantum computing cludes one that aims to plant one trillion trees over the and cybersecurity in Davos as well as one which will next decade and another to equip one billion people P.36 How AI-Powered Knowledge Aggregation Could Help Cure explore whether there is an opportunity to redefine the with the necessary skills in the age of the Fourth Indus- Alzheimer’s Disease carbon economy. trial Revolution. As every company is beginning to realize improving the Our readers can access the key takeaways from this bottom line can no longer be the only goal. Businesses year’s annual meeting in our January 24th newsletter. If need to reflect the values of their customers and do you haven’t already subscribed to our weekly newsletter their part to help the world achieve the U.N.’s Sustai- you can do so through our website at www.innovator. nable Development Goals. news. We pledge to do our best to give you 20/20 vision not just on what went on in Davos but to keep you up- In keeping with that Zeitgeist the Davos Manifesto 2020 dated weekly on the most important digital transforma- will underpin this year’s meeting. This document builds tion trends throughout 2020. on the original Davos Manifesto of 1973, which set out for the first time the stakeholder concept that bu- sinesses should serve the interests of all society rather than simply their shareholders.
