Chris Ford | World Economic Forum Chris is Global Head of Investment at Towers Watson In this role he is responsible for all of the firm’s investment services to clients, including both advisory and implemented approaches and investment tools In the past, Chris has advised a wide range of the firm’s clients in the areas of strategy, implementation and monitoring in many different countries Chris’s experience includes
What is regenerative capitalism? | World Economic Forum — Chris Stokel-Walker Companies like Ford have made big steps towards being more sustainable – Bill Ford, when he was CEO, installed a huge green roof on top of a Michigan car plant that helped offset some emissions, but couldn’t counteract the huge impact of all Ford cars on the world’s roads
This coach improved everything by 1%. This is the remarkable difference . . . Couple this with Sir Bradley Wiggins’ and Chris Froome’s Tour de France successes, and the impact of marginal gains is clear Image: Financial Times As well as searching for tiny gains in predictable areas, such as nutrition, training and the design of the bikes, Brailsford went further afield
Is AI making you suffer from FOBO? Heres what can help As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly advanced, many people have developed anxieties over the potential for AI to make human skills, jobs, or even the human species itself obsolete
The new skills triad for the future of work | World Economic Forum Just as digital literacy once defined workplace readiness, three emerging skills – carbon intelligence, virtual intelligence and artificial intelligence proficiency – are becoming foundational for success in today’s job market
Bringing AI into the physical world with autonomous systems Physical autonomous systems – referred to simply as autonomous systems in this article – are the result of bringing together mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence (AI), sensor technology and connectivity
Is the world ready for the transformational power of fusion? New England, like most regions around the world, is investing in wind and solar But these energy sources are inherently variable; the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine
1. EV sales to reach one-quarter of global car sales this year This weekly round-up contains the key nature and climate news from the past week Top nature and climate news: EV sales to reach new milestone; Wildfire pollution reaches homes of one billion every year; Europe unblocked over 500 dams in 2024
Many employers plan to prioritize reskilling their workforce AI can help solve for this by augmenting skills We’re not talking about using it to replace workers Instead, a handheld, AI-driven device can become the partner and advisor to employees who have been on the job for 3–5 years, providing predictive maintenance support, training and instruction that increases their skills, so they can operate as though they were veterans of a decade
A new generation of changemakers: Meet the YGL Class of 2025 Chris Greening, Director, Global Change Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia; Yifan Hou, Lecturer, Peking University, People's Republic of China; Carlos Emilio Larreategui, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer, Universidad de las Americas, Ecuador