While some might be excited about the snow... ("In the last 42 years, I have never seen as much snow in Davos" - WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab)... it's exciting to see how much BE is being covered at WEF at Davos this year, from a number of different aspects:
- "The Mind and the Machine - What can the latest discoveries in neuroscience and brain technologies reveal about the human mind and how it functions, and about building intelligent machines? (Wednesday 25 January)
- The Future of Economics - What major changes in theory and in practice are driving the rehabilitation of economics? Dimensions to be addressed include thirty years of failed analysis, post-crisis economics, alternative approaches. (Wednesday 25 January)
- Forging wiser leaders with Harvard University - How can new approaches lead to wiser leadership in decision-making? Idea 1: Shifting from irrational choices to evidence based policy-making and Idea 4: Translating insights from behavioural science into action. (Thursday 26 January)
- Human Network Dynamics - How is big data being used to uncover individual and collective human dynamics? Dimensions to be addressed - New measurement paradigms, patterns of individual and collective human behaviour, the role of diversity and outliers, societal impact (Thursday 26 January)
- An Insight, An Idea with Sendhil Mullainathan - A conversation with behavioural economist Sendhil Mullainathan on his breakthrough idea on how technology can improve decision-making. (Friday 27 January)
- Designing better lives - How can healthy and sustainable lifestyles be promoted? Dimensions to be explored: Understanding the drivers of rational and irrational human behaviour, creating the right incentives to make better choices, using the power of design as an agent for change, influencing behavioural change through media (Saturday 28 January)
There are also sessions on gamification and happiness/well-being.
