Monday, January 19 | 11AM - 7PM
Tuesday, January 20 | 8:30AM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, January 21 | 9AM - 5:30PM
Thursday, January 22 | 9AM - 6PM
Where power meets purpose.
In Davos, global decisions are made. In the FQ Lounge™, they gain perspective.
As world leaders gather to define the agenda for leadership and progress, the FQ Lounge™ brings humanity into the conversation by centering the voices driving responsible growth, intentional innovation, and a redefined future of work.
This is where leadership, innovation, and collaboration meet to turn global priorities into real-world outcomes. From high-level discussions with the world’s most influential leaders to the connections that turn shared vision into measurable impact, the FQ Lounge™ transforms dialogue into action.
Please RSVP to join us in the FQ Lounge™ @ Davos, where all are welcome—no conference badge required.
Change is not something to manage, it is something to embrace. Today’s leaders are turning uncertainty into opportunity by fostering curiosity, confidence, and connection. In this session, visionaries share how they are guiding teams through transformation with optimism and purpose. Learn how to lead with agility, inspire trust, and build momentum in a world that never stops evolving.
AI is now a conversation for every leader, not just the technologists. From marketing to finance to talent, executives are joining forces to turn data and intelligence into shared advantage. This discussion explores how cross-functional collaboration is shaping strategy, accelerating innovation, and aligning teams around a common vision for growth.
In a world where attention is the ultimate asset, culture has become the new currency of business. From media to fashion to tech, women are leading with creativity and cultural fluency to shape influence and drive growth. This conversation explores how storytelling, community, and brand purpose are redefining business success. Discover how creativity not only connects audiences but fuels innovation, loyalty, and leadership across every industry.
AI is opening a new frontier of opportunity for businesses and communities, transforming how we create, solve problems, and collaborate. The question now is how to harness this momentum in ways that expand access, strengthen trust, and drive meaningful impact. This session brings together visionaries who are using intelligent tools to spark innovation and uplift people in every corner of society.
Across the world, people are redefining how they shop, connect, and engage with brands. Expectations are rising and behaviors are shifting, creating a powerful invitation for companies to listen and design with cultural fluency. In this conversation, global leaders unpack how they are tailoring experiences to local needs while building relationships that transcend borders.
Innovation is entering a new era, one shaped not by speed alone but by the values and human truths that determine whether ideas actually create impact. As leaders navigate rapid technological and cultural shifts, the real differentiator becomes how intentionally we design for people, communities, and long-term trust. This conversation brings together visionaries who are building products, systems, and cultures grounded in empathy and shared purpose.
From rising consumer expectations to the rapid acceleration of AI and the global competition for digital advantage, retail now sits at the center of some of the world’s most critical shifts. As customers expect experiences that are seamless, predictive, and deeply personal, retailers must transform not only how they sell but how they understand people at scale. This session convenes leaders shaping the next era of AI-driven retail to explore how companies can harness intelligence responsibly to drive growth, strengthen trust, and set new standards for connection in an increasingly interconnected marketplace.
A more connected world thrives when every voice is recognized and every individual has room to contribute. Today’s workplaces and communities are proving that broader representation fuels creativity, trust, and long-term growth. This conversation brings together leaders who are shaping cultures where people feel valued, heard, and empowered to drive positive change.
Women are stepping into their power as investors, directing capital toward the spaces that have been overlooked. Nowhere is this more urgent than in women’s health, a sector that remains dramatically underfunded. This conversation brings together investors and leaders who are reshaping the landscape by channelling resources into innovations built for and by women. They will share how gender smart investing is unlocking serious economic opportunity and previously untapped capital at scale.
Across industries, leaders are recognizing that meaningful sustainability does not happen in silos, but through shared commitment and collective action. The Fashion Pact and other cross-sector collaborations are proving that when businesses unite around people, planet, and progress, communities thrive and transformation accelerates. This session brings together voices driving that momentum, showing how connection and accountability power real-world impact. Join us as we explore what it takes to move further, faster, together.
Women’s health evolves alongside every stage of career and leadership. From fertility to menopause and beyond, these experiences shape how women lead, connect, and thrive. This conversation brings together leaders and innovators reimagining how workplaces can support women through every chapter of their health journeys. Because when women are supported to lead fully, everyone benefits.
Around the world, the evidence is clear: women’s economic leadership is one of the most powerful engines of global growth. As the United States prepares to host the G20 in 2026, the opportunity is to transform proven potential into global performance. This conversation brings together policymakers, business leaders, and changemakers who are shaping a future where women are not only participating in the economy, but powering it. Join us to explore the milestones, partnerships, and bold actions that will define the road to G20 and unlock growth for communities everywhere.
A new generation of leaders is rewriting the rules of influence, impact, and innovation across every corner of society. Their momentum is shifting what progress looks like today. This conversation brings together some of the most visionary next-gen changemakers who are redefining leadership through courage, creativity, and community.
Inside every organization, policy is often viewed as the fine print, yet the leaders who craft it know it can become one of the most powerful tools for driving clarity, trust, and long-term growth. These executives sit at this critical intersection, translating complex expectations into frameworks that help people do their best work and help companies operate with purpose and consistency. This conversation brings together leaders shaping the next generation of business policy to explore how thoughtful guidance can strengthen teams, elevate trust, and move entire organizations forward.
As technology becomes more advanced, the need for humanity becomes more essential. From digital communities to AI-driven creativity, the most successful innovations are those that keep people at the center. This session highlights leaders and creators designing tech that builds trust, amplifies creativity, and strengthens belonging.
A new era of leadership in wealth is unfolding, and women are charting the course. As decision-makers, investors, and innovators, they are reshaping how capital is managed, measured, and mobilized for growth. This conversation highlights women leading with vision and purpose, turning financial power into a force for progress. Discover how the great wealth transfer is not just changing who holds the wealth, but how it is used to shape the future of investing, our economies and communities.
As leaders increasingly rely on AI, data, and predictive analytics to make decisions at speed, reputation is no longer shaped solely by performance—but by how human those decisions feel. This conversation explores why empathy, judgment, and lived understanding remain essential to leadership credibility in an algorithm-driven world, and how leaders balance technological advantage with human accountability.
The future of work is built on partnership. Across industries, men are playing a key role in creating environments where every voice is heard and every idea can grow. In this conversation, leaders share how they are building trust, fostering connection, and modeling leadership in action. When we lead together, progress becomes a shared success.
A new era of learning is unfolding, fueled by technology and curiosity. As AI reshapes how we work, forward-thinking leaders are turning reskilling into a shared opportunity for growth and innovation. This conversation highlights how companies are building cultures that encourage continuous learning, creative problem-solving, and personal development at every level. Discover how unlocking potential through learning drives performance, purpose, and progress for all.
In a world where attention is the ultimate asset, culture has become the new currency of business. From media to fashion to tech, women are leading with creativity and cultural fluency to shape influence and drive growth. This conversation explores how storytelling, community, and brand purpose are redefining business success. Discover how creativity not only connects audiences but fuels innovation, loyalty, and leadership across every industry.
The definition of great leadership is evolving. Today’s leaders are balancing purpose with performance, empathy with agility, and global responsibility with local impact. This conversation brings together executives, founders, and changemakers who are charting a new course for leadership that values connection as much as capability. Discover how vision, authenticity, and collaboration are shaping the next horizon of success.
Women’s health is increasingly recognized as both a social priority and a powerful economic catalyst, driving workforce resilience, smarter systems, and transformative innovation across society. As new technologies, data, and care models advance, leaders are developing breakthrough solutions that address long-neglected needs, from reproductive and chronic care to longevity and preventative health across every life stage. This conversation brings together innovators at the forefront of women’s health to explore how these strides are delivering better outcomes, stronger productivity, and sustainable growth that benefits everyone.
Exploring the evolving dynamics of the CMO–CEO relationship as a critical unlock for responsible innovation, global growth, and sustainable change—grounded in shared goals and a mastery of artificial intelligence. Aligning closely with the CEO and harnessing AI are each in the CMO’s best interest; mastering both elevates the role’s stature, necessity, relevance, and salience, ultimately driving long-term success.
Innovation rarely succeeds in isolation. It thrives when investors, operators, and institutions act as partners with a shared stake in what comes next. This panel explores how the most forward-thinking organizations are redefining partnership across financial services and beyond, turning collaboration into a growth strategy. Discover how investing with intention, insight, and mutual accountability fuels smarter innovation and more resilient outcomes.
In a moment where leadership is being reimagined, the definition of modern masculinity is evolving alongside it. In this conversation, we’ll unpack how men can cultivate mental well-being and lead with intention, shaping a healthier, more human future of leadership. We’ll explore what it means to build a life grounded in meaning, relationships, and real-world impact.
As AI capabilities converge, advantage is no longer defined by the tools themselves, but by the people shaping how they’re trusted and applied. It’s a shift that places curiosity, trust, and shared ways of working at the center of momentum. This conversation explores how CEOs and CHROs are intentionally designing cultures, behaviors, and leadership signals that invite experimentation and learning. Because when technology evolves at speed, the human edge is what helps progress take hold.
In an era where intelligence can be automated, trust remains uniquely human. As AI reshapes how work gets done and decisions are made, leaders face a defining moment: what to scale with technology, and what must be intentionally designed through values, accountability, and care. This fireside conversation explores a new model of leadership rooted in trust as a strategic advantage. One that prioritizes connection over control, resilience over rigidity, and responsibility alongside innovation. Join us to hear how today’s leaders are showing up with clarity and courage, building cultures and systems that strengthen trust, unlock collective potential, and shape a future that works for both business and society.
As AI becomes embedded across every brand touchpoint, opportunity is being shaped not just by intelligence, but by how thoughtfully it’s brought to market. This conversation explores how marketing leaders are translating AI capabilities into relevance, trust, and connection with audiences worldwide. From storytelling and signal-setting to adoption and growth, the session spotlights how brand acts as the bridge between innovation and impact.
In this fireside chat, a co-CEO reflects on the intentional choice to lead alongside a female co-CEO and why balanced perspectives are essential for navigating complexity at global scale. From governance and culture to decision-making and long-term growth, the conversation explores how shared leadership strengthens trust, accountability, and outcomes. As companies play an increasingly critical role in expanding financial access worldwide, this discussion unpacks how leadership by design is shaping the future of inclusion, resilience, and lasting impact.
True legacy is not about preservation alone, it’s about progress rooted in purpose. As heritage brands navigate a rapidly changing world, sustainability has become central to how leaders honor what came before while evolving for the future. This session explores how enduring fashion houses approach stewardship across generations, weaving craftsmanship, environmental and social responsibility, and long-term values into a living legacy. Join us for a conversation on what it means to carry legacy forward with intention, relevance, and impact that endures.
As the economy shifts from industrial to digital, "creativity" now demands the architectural reimagining of AI infrastructure, supply chains, and sustainable power. This session explores the invisible backbone of the modern economy: where smart capital meets high-tech manufacturing. Join industry leaders as they discuss the physical mechanisms required to support the exponential speed of AI innovation and power a resilient, growth-oriented future.
Women’s health is at a transformative moment, with advancements in science, data, and leadership opening doors to unprecedented opportunities. From addressing systemic challenges to tackling broader health inequities, this session will explore how strategic investments in women’s health create ripple effects that extend far beyond the individual. Panelists will discuss how prioritizing women’s health drives innovation, improves workplace performance, and strengthens communities and economies.
In this defining era, the choices made by today’s leaders will determine the future of organizations and communities alike. Across the technology landscape, senior women are meeting the moment by anchoring innovation in empathy. We invite you to a celebratory evening honoring women leaders dedicated to upskilling the workforce, guiding their teams through change with a people-first mindset, and expanding the landscape of opportunities. Learn how their vision is defining the new standard for leadership.
Digital communities are becoming powerful engines for learning, trust, and real-world change. Today’s TikTok creators are translating complex systems like cybersecurity, cultural literacy, sustainability, and entrepreneurship into clarity that moves people forward. This conversation brings together creators who’ve built trust at scale and leaders navigating what that trust means for business and policy. Join us to explore how digital participation becomes economic momentum, and how engaging the right voices can unlock impact far beyond the feed.
AI is reshaping work, not by replacing people, but by raising what’s possible. As leaders rethink how work gets done, AI is creating new opportunities to cut through complexity, amplify strengths, and refocus teams on what matters most. In this conversation, C-Suite leaders share how they’re using intelligent tools to unlock momentum, elevate performance, and spark more meaningful work.
Lasting progress takes root when communities are activated and supported by policy that reflects lived realities. As the global agenda for women and children continues to evolve, mobilizing people on the ground has become one of the most powerful forces for change. This conversation explores how community-led momentum can shape policy, strengthen trust, and accelerate impact.
Please join us for a curated reception in Davos featuring women's basketball legend, Sue Bird. Between bold conversation and cocktails, this unforgettable evening will bring together leaders across sport, business, and culture.
With growth, investment, and interest in women's sports at an all-time high, we will explore the role we can all play in shaping the future of this booming industry, and how sports have the power to grow the next generation of women leaders in every arena. Be part of the movement, and help shape what comes next.
How agent-based AI systems—powered by enterprise data, orchestration layers, and decision engines—are enabling autonomous campaign execution, real-time personalization, and continuous optimization across channels.
How CMOs are defining system architecture, human-in-the-loop controls, and governance models to operationalize agentic AI responsibly at scale.
This session explores how CMOs and their C-suite peers are developing future-ready marketing organizations capable of leading responsibly in an AI-driven era. From establishing ethical AI practices to cultivating continuous-learning cultures, marketing leaders are shaping not only how their companies communicate but how they operate.
A look at how much CMOs need to continue to champion the role of brand in driving business growth and as an imperative in overall marketing strategy against the backdrop of AI acceleration and focus. What does the role of brand become in this new world, and what is the CMO’s responsibility in weaving brand and storytelling with the power of personalization and the new unlocks in data technology affords? And how must marketing organizations need to be reworked and rewired for optimal impact?
This session articulates the need for CMOs and CEOs to be in lockstep on business growth through shared metrics. It also will explore the relationship between CMOs and CIOs around marketing and enterprise data–that powers AI and personalization–as well as cross-functional workflows and ownership in the Era of AI–all this, of course, against the backdrop of rapidly shifting geopolitical, economic, and technological environments.
Group dialogue to close the program, collectively articulating takeaways and next steps for CMOs and how they, in partnership with C-suite peers, need to rethink and redesign the mechanics and organization to best optimize for marketing’s new complexity, from AI and analytics to customer experience and cultural fluency
Lasting progress takes root when communities are activated and supported by policy that reflects lived realities. As the global agenda for women and children continues to evolve, mobilizing people on the ground has become one of the most powerful forces for change. This conversation explores how community-led momentum can shape policy, strengthen trust, and accelerate impact.
We are entering a moment defined by transactional decisions. Where long-standing relationships and principles feel subject to change. Where the media environment is fragmented and changing. In this conversation, The New York Times’ Meredith Kopit Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin explore how businesses and leaders, including The Times itself and the news industry more broadly, are navigating this moment and take advantage of the opportunities that widespread change always brings to build long-term sustainable businesses and change.
The future of leadership is being written by those willing to lead across differences, with clarity, curiosity, and courage. In a world defined by complexity, the leaders who thrive are those who understand how power moves, how inclusion shows up in practice, and how diverse perspectives drive better outcomes. This conversation brings together female leaders committed to redesigning leadership for the world as it is and the future ahead.
In an era of deepfakes and generative content, how do we preserve the integrity of the live sporting moment? Join us for a conversation on how we protect the “human” in sports while embracing the tools of the future. We’ll explore why live, human-made content is more valuable than ever, the critical need to safeguard athlete likenesses and intellectual property, and how elite performers are using AI to push the boundaries of what the human body can achieve. Learn how the sports world is breaking barriers—not just on the field, but in the digital landscape.
Women are not lagging in AI because of lack of capability, but because systems have not yet been designed with their realities in mind. Today, women are 20 to 22 percent less likely to use generative AI than men, even when access is equal, signaling a missed opportunity for innovation at scale. When women actively engage with AI, the technology becomes more nuanced, more human, and more responsive to the realities of how we live and work. This conversation welcomes leaders to reframe the challenge as a growth imperative, spotlighting research that shows how intentional, tailored learning experiences can rapidly accelerate adoption.
Digital trust is becoming one of the most powerful drivers of connection, credibility, and growth in today’s economy. As AI, data, and emerging technologies reshape how we live and work, leaders are being called to pair innovation with accountability and transparency. This conversation brings together leaders who understand that digital trust is not just a technical consideration, but a leadership mandate that shapes culture, reputation, and long-term impact. Join us to explore how values-led decision-making can build confidence and momentum for what comes next.
With AI commanding executive focus, CMOs are navigating complex trade-offs between speed, innovation, and responsibility while representing the consumer’s voice at the leadership table. This session examines how marketing leaders align purpose with growth across global markets, making high-stakes decisions when technological
We are standing at the AI frontier, where rapid technological progress is redefining how economies grow and compete. The opportunity is vast, but so is the responsibility to guide this transformation with care. In this panel, leaders explore what the data reveals, what’s already delivering impact, and what responsible growth looks like in practice. Join the conversation to discover how leaders can power AI-driven growth with intention, accountability, and long-term value.
Longevity is no longer a personal pursuit reserved for weekends and wellness apps. It is a strategic imperative shaping how leaders build sustainable performance, resilient teams, and enduring impact. As burnout rises and expectations shift, executives have a powerful opportunity to model habits that support long-term vitality at work and beyond. This conversation invites leaders to reflect on their own behaviors and explore how everyday choices can influence team wellbeing, finances, culture, and outcomes.
Against the backdrop of Davos, where global leaders gather to shape what’s next, Jay Rosenzweig sits down with Katie Telford for a candid conversation on leadership grounded in equality, joined by a special guest. From the early influences that shape a leader’s worldview to the responsibility leaders carry on the world stage, the conversation spans the personal and the global. Together, they explore why equality isn’t a nice-to-have but a core leadership principle, and what it takes to build high-performing teams and cultures where trust, belonging, and ambition coexist.
As global influence becomes increasingly interconnected, capital is shaping opportunity in new and powerful ways. This conversation explores how trust, perspective, and long-term thinking are guiding the next era of global wealth, with a focus on building what lasts. Together, we’ll unpack how relationships and conviction-led leadership can unlock enduring value across borders and generations, fostering connection, possibility, and momentum for the future.
The mass uprising across Iran in 2026 has reignited popular demands for an end to authoritarian rule and a transition toward representative governance.
Today’s protests is a continuation of the Woman, Life, Freedom mass uprising, which emerged from tragedy and grew into a movement that refuses to fade—led by a new generation redefining how change takes shape under pressure. This panel explores how civil society sustains momentum when anti-regime protests, such as those that erupted in all 31 provinces during December-January, are met with repression, state violence, and digital control. From storytelling, documentation, and connectivity to cross-border advocacy, we will examine how people-led and women-led organizing continues to build collective power and shape what comes next.
Vitality is the new measure of success, shaping how we think, lead, and sustain momentum over time. As work intensifies and burnout threatens performance, brain health has become a defining factor in clarity, resilience, and long-term impact. This session brings together leaders and experts exploring how cognitive vitality influences careers, caregiving, and leadership at every stage of life.