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The Ebola vaccine is a remarkable product — a single dose that immunizes rapidly and safely. But it is expensive, requires extreme cold chain storage, and is manufactured on a process that does not scale easily. CEPI is investing up to $30 million to change that, partnering with Hilleman Laboratories, Merck, and SK Bioscience in a pioneering new model for public-private partnership.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• How a new CEPI-Hilleman-Merck-SK Bioscience partnership is redesigning Ebola vaccine manufacturing to make it cheaper, more thermostable, and scalable
• Why Hilleman Laboratories operates as a for-profit entity with a nonprofit mission — a joint venture between MSD and the Wellcome Trust
• How this model was already proven with cholera vaccine development and transfer to large-scale manufacturing
• Why the same vaccine platform can be extended to develop vaccines for Marburg, Sudan virus, and Lassa fever
• How shared risk models across financial, technical, and policy dimensions create sustainable pathways for epidemic vaccines that lack commercial incentives

PANELISTS

• Laura Herman — Partner, Dalberg Advisors (Moderator)
• Richard Hatchett — CEO, CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations)
• Romano — Hilleman Laboratories

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: pharmaceutical sovereignty, Africa, Ebola vaccine, CEPI, Hilleman Laboratories, Merck, SK Bioscience, pandemic preparedness, vaccine manufacturing, public-private partnership, Wellcome Trust, cholera, Marburg, Lassa fever, global health security, epidemic response, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

1.5 billion mosquito nets distributed. 1.2 billion malaria cases averted. 72% of that impact from a single humble tool. Yet 200 million of the 220 million bed nets used annually in Africa are still imported from Asia. If malaria were eliminated, it would unlock $4 trillion in GDP on the African continent. Health innovation is not just saving lives — it is an economic engine.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• How Vestergaard scaled from 1 million to 120 million mosquito nets per year and is now localizing manufacturing in Lagos, Nigeria
• Why Colgate-Palmolive's new multi-year partnership with the WHO Foundation targets 3.7 billion people suffering from oral health disease globally
• How AI-powered diagnostics in India are detecting TB in two hours instead of two days at 60% lower cost, then expanding to lung cancer screening
• Why CareSyntax is processing 3 million surgeries annually across 4,000 operating rooms to make surgery safer, smarter, and scalable
• How 750 million Indians now hold digital health accounts — up from 150 million pre-COVID — creating massive opportunity for health tech investment

PANELISTS

• Lily — Moderator
• Patrick — Vestergaard (Malaria Elimination, Bed Net Innovation)
• Isha — Colgate-Palmolive (Oral Health & WHO Partnership)
• Charles — Healthquad (Healthcare Investment, India)
• Bjorn — Founder, CareSyntax (Surgical Intelligence)

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: global health innovation, malaria elimination, health as economic engine, Vestergaard, Colgate-Palmolive WHO, oral health, AI diagnostics, surgical intelligence, CareSyntax, India health tech, Healthquad, health investment, SDGs, health equity, Africa health, digital health India, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Healthcare costs will continue to grow — nobody should think a country spending 15% of GDP on health today can drop to 12%. The question is how to contain that growth smartly. Meanwhile, in France alone, sick leave costs have risen 55% over the past decade to over €20 billion per year. Investing in health is not a cost center — it is a return on investment that most governments have not yet learned to measure.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• Why Takeda is targeting a doubling of R&D productivity in the next five to ten years through AI and technology transformation
• How healthcare financing is growing but not at the pace of demand, creating a structural squeeze across pharmaceutical pricing and patient access
• Why Europe has been losing R&D investment for 20 years as the US and China created more attractive commercial environments
• How the US MFN pricing policy and tariff threats are forcing a global reckoning on equitable pharmaceutical cost contribution
• Why platform-based regulated health solutions can reduce deployment time by 10x and shift pharma from capital-intensive to outcome-driven models

PANELISTS

• Andrea Feigl — Senior Director, Deloitte Switzerland; CEO, Health Finance Institute (Moderator)
• Christoph Weber — President & CEO, Takeda
• Stefan Weber — VP & Head of Global Policy, Advocacy & Health Equity, AstraZeneca
• Dr. Farnaz Baruzi — Head of Pharma, Huma

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: health financing, pharmaceutical R&D, Takeda, AstraZeneca, Huma, health policy, MFN pricing, healthcare investment, R&D productivity, AI pharma, digital health platform, European pharma, health equity, global health financing, health economics, Deloitte, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Fertility decline and population aging are usually discussed as abstract demographic curves. But in the exam room, a woman undergoing IVF is often treated as a data point rather than a person. Meanwhile, AI can now outperform embryologists at selecting viable embryos — yet the most human moments in healthcare remain stubbornly undertouched by technology.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• Why fertility and longevity must be treated as a continuum across the full life course, not isolated medical specialties
• How AI is improving embryo selection accuracy in IVF while raising questions about the role of human judgment in reproductive medicine
• Why relational care — how health systems show up emotionally for patients — matters as much as clinical outcomes in fertility and aging
• How population aging creates compound pressure on health systems already struggling with workforce shortages and rising chronic disease
• Why proactive health monitoring and prevention could transform outcomes across both ends of the life spectrum

PANELISTS

• Andrea Syrtash — Founder, Pregnantish; Relationships Author (Moderator)
• Panel speakers on fertility technology, longevity medicine, and health system design

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: fertility, longevity, IVF, reproductive health, population aging, health systems, AI fertility, embryo selection, women's health, aging population, preventive care, chronic disease, healthspan, lifespan, relational care, demographic change, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Health systems were built on a paternalistic model: get sick, come to the hospital, we look after you, off you go. But patients are already using ChatGPT for health advice without their doctors' permission. In China, primary care physicians are essentially on-call 24/7 via WeChat. And the gap between care demand and provider supply is not shrinking — it is widening everywhere.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• Why AI should not be plugged into the existing faulty healthcare system but instead used to fundamentally redesign how care is delivered and prevented
• How behavioral nudges and AI-powered "digital uncles" can safely support patients between clinical visits without replacing physicians
• Why rural doctors are more receptive to AI tools than urban specialists, creating a natural pathway to closing the healthcare equity gap
• How continuous glucose monitoring paired with AI interpretation empowers patients to understand their own health data in real time
• Why the original sin of AI in healthcare is the chatbot model — it only responds when asked, but patients often do not know the right questions

PANELISTS

• Laura Herman — Partner, Dalberg Advisors (Moderator)
• Dr. Alex Liu — Tencent Health (Clinical, Academic & Private Sector Experience)

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: AI healthcare, decentralized care, digital health, Tencent Health, AI-enabled care, behavioral nudging, patient empowerment, rural healthcare, health equity, WeChat health, continuous glucose monitoring, healthcare redesign, Dalberg, preventive care, health systems, AI safety, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Philips is now at 68% agentic code generation in its software division. Clinical trials are delayed by an average of 10-12 months. And one startup has 2.4 million users and 11 million health conversations across five countries — all on WhatsApp. The convergence of AI and life sciences is not hypothetical. It is already reshaping how drugs are developed, how patients are reached, and how decisions are made.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• Why starting from the patient problem — not the technology — is the critical mental model for healthcare AI that actually delivers impact
• How Nivi's WhatsApp-based health chatbot has guided 2.4 million users across India, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand, and Indonesia through AI-powered health journeys
• Why AI decision intelligence platforms can accelerate clinical trials by three to six months, saving pharma companies hundreds of millions
• How small companies win in healthcare by seeing humans where large institutions see patients in hospital gowns
• Why rare disease is one of the most profound use cases for AI — sifting through billions of records to find patients that existing systems miss

PANELISTS

• Lily — Moderator
• Shaz Memon — VP, Philips (Enterprise Informatics)
• Sid Chakravarthy — Founder & CEO, Nivi
• Bettina Hein — Founder & CEO, Juli (Chronic Condition Management)
• Bianca — Founder & CEO, AI Decision Intelligence Platform

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: AI life sciences, healthcare AI, clinical trials, digital health, agentic AI, drug development, Philips, rare disease, WhatsApp health, health chatbot, AI decision intelligence, chronic disease management, pharmaceutical R&D, health equity, patient engagement, precision medicine, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

3.3 billion people play video games worldwide. Parents searching online for information about gaming are five times more likely to find a negative headline than a positive one. But the research tells a different story: games are driving education, mental health support, climate action, and human connection at a scale no other medium can match.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• How the pandemic revealed gaming as a social lifeline for children, shifting the narrative around screen time and digital play
• Why co-play between parents and children builds trust, creates core memories, and helps parents understand the games their kids love
• How Subway Surfers reaches 100-150 million monthly players while embedding inclusivity, diversity, and sustainability messaging
• Why AI-powered parental dashboards can provide personalized, science-based guidance on children's gaming habits in real time
• How in-game fundraising campaigns have directly funded mental health helplines and saved lives through studio-player partnerships

PANELISTS

• Ignat Bobrovich — CEO & Founder, Valvur; Founder, eSports NGO (Moderator)
• Lucy Chow — Author, Changing the Game; Investor & CES Innovation Judge
• Jude Ower — Chief Strategy Officer, PlanetPlay; Co-Host, Good Game Club Podcast
• Susanna Pollack — President, Games for Change
• Emma Richards — Head of Communications (Americas & EMEA), Tencent
• Mathias Gredal Nørvig — CEO, SYBO (Subway Surfers)

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: gaming for good, esports, healthy play, Games for Change, Subway Surfers, Tencent, PlanetPlay, gaming wellbeing, co-play parenting, gaming education, cybersecurity gaming, game design, mental health gaming, climate action gaming, gaming industry, trust in gaming, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

Productivity studies show that remote workers actually produce 10-15% less output when measured objectively — not by self-reporting, but by tangible metrics like software shipped and bugs resolved. Yet most headlines say the opposite. Welcome to Work 4.0, where the myths are louder than the data.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• Why Work 4.0 — the era of human augmentation with AI — demands a shift from static credentials like degrees to dynamic potential measures
• How the biggest challenge facing young professionals is orientation, not skills — with dozens of specialized roles within a single field like software development
• Why hybrid workplaces are the definitive trend, combining flexibility with community and driving productivity through adaptable environments
• How HR departments face a fundamental identity crisis and need honest board-level conversations about their role
• Why companies see growing demand for senior profiles while hiring fewer juniors — and what that means for the talent pipeline

PANELISTS

• Dr. Mandeep Rai — Author, The Values Compass; BBC Correspondent (Moderator)
• Chris Rios — CTO, Criteria (Talent Success Platform)
• Sead — CEO, WeAreDevelopers
• Cyril — VP, International Workplace Group (IWG)

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: future of work, hybrid work, remote work productivity, Work 4.0, human augmentation, AI workplace, talent strategy, HR transformation, flexible office space, WeAreDevelopers, IWG, workforce skills, dynamic credentials, career orientation, mental health at work, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

70% of skills in most jobs will change in the next four years. Students using AI for essays are showing short-term memory loss and cognitive decline. And one university found that 80% of incoming students had never had a conversation with a stranger. Education is not just evolving — it is facing an existential reckoning.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• Why AI literacy, critical thinking, and lifelong learning are the three essential skill categories for the AI economy
• How AI tutors are being piloted across 30+ universities globally, personalizing education while raising questions about cognitive dependency
• Why 25% of the global workforce will be African in 15 years and what that means for equitable access to AI education
• How the learning-by-doing philosophy — from robotics competitions to hands-on projects — outperforms traditional online courses
• Why education spending in the US has risen 200% in 40 years with zero improvement in student outcomes

PANELISTS

• Dr. Mandeep Rai — Author, The Values Compass; BBC Correspondent (Moderator)
• Justin Spelhaug — VP, Microsoft Elevate
• Fred Werner — ITU, AI for Good Initiative
• Cecile — Founder, Cyber Security Education Association (Geneva)
• Alex — CEO & Founder, Flylane (AI Infrastructure for Education)

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: future of education, AI literacy, EdTech, AI tutors, lifelong learning, digital skills, education reform, Microsoft Elevate, AI for Good, ITU, cybersecurity education, personalized learning, higher education, Africa education, workforce development, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF

A 60-second TikTok can teach you macroeconomics. A podcast can move markets. A single creator with a phone can outperform an entire studio. Meanwhile, cinema attendance in Europe is resurging — not for the screen, but for the collective experience of being in a room together.

WHAT THIS PANEL COVERS

• Why the pendulum is swinging back toward communal viewing experiences even as individual content consumption peaks
• How microdramas — one-minute serialized stories with massive cliffhangers — are set to become mainstream within three to five years
• Why keeping an audience is now harder than getting one, and what separates one-hit creators from sustainable media brands
• How AI is flipping the 80/20 rule of content creation from 80% execution to 80% ideation
• Why industry consolidation is threatening narrative quality as studios prioritize feeding the machine over storytelling

PANELISTS

• Kevin Matossian — Film Producer, SilverCrest Entertainment (Moderator)
• Carlo Rizzo — Co-Founder, CinemaO & The Black Cube
• Niklas Schwab — Content Creator & Founder, Hedgefonds.Henning & Hyper Magazine
• Sarthak Ahuja — Content Creator, Investment Banker & Author

unDavos is a community-driven summit running during WEF week in Davos, democratizing the conversation around global challenges.

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Tags: future of entertainment, content creation, microdramas, short form video, TikTok, creator economy, cinema, film tech, immersive media, AI content creation, media consolidation, Gen Z media, social media, streaming, audience attention, entertainment industry, unDavos, Davos 2026, WEF