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FEIKE SIJBESMA:Â The concept of nations solving the problems of the world is not the only solution anymore.
MINA GULI:Â We need to do things differently.
ARON CRAMER: Collaboration is no longer a choice. It’s a condition of action. There are no important challenges that can be reached without collaboration these days.
There’s immense potential there, in terms of what we can do on a global basis.
LEE BOWEI:Â About three or four years ago, I made a decision that I would attend the best conferences around the world to seek new ideas, so I got involved with the World Economic Forum.
The World Economic Forum is a great aggregator of people and of data.
ARNE SORENSON: It’s really, the only place where government and industry meets as partners.
TIM BROWN: You have large company CEO’s, government leaders, academics, and now even more interestingly, we get the global shapers and the tech pioneers – the YGL’s. You have this sort of youthful exuberance of ideas.
KLAUS SCHWAB: The World Economic Forum is the world’s foremost multi stakeholder organisation to create a community of global leaders, combining a peer-to-peer approach, which creates a trust with Toplink, a digital community.
DEBORAH DiSANZO: By being a strategic partner, we are in the Health Governors’ Forum. We are in the Consumer Lifestyle Forum. We’re really engaged in a discussion where we feel we can bring our thoughts, our ideas, and our innovation to make an impact on the world.
HUGUETTE LABELLE:Â Of course, we compete in the big world but here, we cooperate.
SHAMINA SINGH: It’s a way for people working on very complex problems to come together, exchange information, and learn new information – things that they would never be able to find out in their individual circles.
FEIKE SIJBESMA: Â The Forum is providing a level of synchronisation of the thoughts between those leaders.
MAZEN DARWAZEH:Â The Forum has been the platform of creating one of the first initiatives by the private sector on a worldwide level, to start anti-corruption long before stock markets started demanding anti-corruption laws.
SARITA NAYYAR: It’s about shaping the agenda related to the industry, related to regions, and related to difficult issues. Companies have an opportunity to really play a leadership role in shaping that agenda, where those issues evolve, and how we come together to solve them.
NICHOLAS CURTIS: Fast-growing companies learn well from conversation with the larger companies. In four years, I’ve taken back (every year) a concept, which I’ve introduced into our executive team and business.
JABU MABUZA: There is also the national issue to come and say ‘what are we as a country doing to be investor-friendly’.
GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN:Â It gives you practical exposure to the key issues of development.
TSAKHIAGIIN ELBEGDORJ:Â This is an international movement to make every society a better place to live in, a better place to invest, and a better place to do business.
BENIGNO SIMEON AQUINO III: It benefits everybody to learn from everybody’s successes and especially, avoiding everybody’s failures.
PRIVAHINI BRADOO: The question becomes ‘what is it that we want the world to look like in 2030’ and participating and defining that evolution is really exciting.
JOHN RICE: This is an investment for our company and all the other companies that participate. It’s not something we do because it makes us feel good. It’s something we do because we want to become smarter and better equipped to be part of a successful company as a result of this relationship.
DALJIT SINGH:Â When everybody buys into the process, then you are pretty much assured of success, going forward.