Hosted by Mark Turrell · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 124 episodes
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A community-organized series of interactive panels, talks, and networking taking place in Davos, Switzerland - and online - in parallel to the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting.
Mark Turrell hosts unDavos Summit, a society show with 124 episodes published.
95% of AI pilots fail to deliver measurable ROI (MIT, 2025). 72% of CIOs are breaking even or losing money on AI (Gartner, 2025). This 90-minute session confronts those numbers head-on — no buzzwords, no framework decks,
"I would rather overspend by $200 billion than be on the wrong side of that bet." — Mark Zuckerberg on AI infrastructure. Professor Vijay Gurbaxani argues we are at the dawn of the next industrial revolution — and most c
Dr. Vitaly Peretashenko presents Vendor Energy System, a solid-state parametric electrodynamic generator that operates without fuel, batteries, wind or solar — just physics. After a patient died during a blackout early i
Laura Herman (Potentiary), Richard Hong (TNE.AI, ex-Microsoft) and Mark Terrell (unDavos) debate whether trillion-dollar data-centre buildouts are the battleships of our era. Richard reveals how his company shrunk a one-
In five-minute lightning rounds, ten speakers delivered ideas ranging from how desire drives every mass media technology adoption cycle, to why an Oscar-winning animation was made for $4 million, to how Harvard neuroscie
Only 2% of Americans say they trust the media "a great deal." Meanwhile, AI-generated misinformation is spreading faster than anyone can fact-check it, and the economic models that once sustained journalism are collapsin
Sri Lanka surpassed its estimated government revenue by 10% in 2025 — the highest overshoot in the country's history. One year after a party once labelled "extremist" took power, diplomats who feared the worst are now st
Wendy Starland got 48 rejections before anyone would listen to her pitch for an unknown artist dressed “like a clown.” That artist became Lady Gaga. Jessica Chaijaya arrived in San Francisco from Indonesia speaking only
Todd Ault failed so many times his wife says an average person wouldn’t survive a single week of what he endures. Clayton Thomas built a social commerce fintech deployed in 80 countries and has been sued more times than
Tether makes $16–19 billion a year with roughly 100 employees — and it will never register in Europe, guaranteed. Meanwhile, the Genius Act in the US is creating a framework where banks and stablecoin issuers may soon co
In Switzerland alone, 300 billion in female money sits uninvested. Globally, the figure is 40 trillion. Meanwhile, a 30-year-old hedge fund manager from Tel Aviv who grew up in a 25-square-meter public housing unit now m
Todd Ault had $200 million in the bank and couldn’t make payroll. During COVID, with bank branches physically closed, his company was debanked for the seventh time — including his wife’s Girl Scout Cookie account. The fo
700,000 people die from suicide every year. Over a billion suffer from mental health conditions. Yet psychiatry still diagnoses depression by asking patients if they feel sad — and current medications work for only 30% o
A LiDAR sensor that sees through mud and rain. A foundational brain model trained on half a million patients. A computer vision system that boosts farm profitability 35% using just a smartphone camera. And a nonprofit ex
If the majority of AI’s value comes from cutting jobs, only a select few will become billionaires while the rest of us become jobless. SandboxAQ’s Doron Amir argues we’re at a fork in the road: Large Language Models opti
There are now more crypto users — over 400 million — than the combined populations of the United States and Canada. Eight out of ten banks are experimenting with blockchain rails. Yet the Cardano Foundation just complete
AI could boost the Swiss economy by 85 billion over the next decade — but the real signal is what’s happening at the infrastructure level. Crusoe is building a 1.2-gigawatt data center in Texas as part of Project Stargat
With 40% of government workers set to retire within five years and China deploying dark factories that build hundreds of thousands of cars without humans, this closing session asks the room to name their industry's burni
MIT's Ramesh Raskar and Prof. Dr. Kathrin Kind map the enterprise of 2030-2035: organizations that shrink in headcount but expand in capability, where every employee creates their own AI models and the 'internet of AI ag
From NVIDIA's AI factories to the EU AI Act's command-center approach, this panel maps the infrastructure layer that makes enterprise AI possible — or impossible. An NVIDIA public sector lead, a Microsoft Asia architect,
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