Topic: Davos

Stuff By Us, Part Two

Another soundbite from a Davos discussion on user-generated content. In something of a metaphor for the UGC phenomenon, much of the most trenchant stuff came not from the formal panel members but from the audience. Jeff Jarvis, ...READ»

Live From Davos: Development and Innovation

A Columbia University economist, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, spoke at a session on global competitiveness in Davos this morning. He offered what I think is the most succinct statement of the stages economies move through on their way to ...READ»

Coverage from the World Economic Forum

Fast Company editor, Mark Vamos, is in Davos attending the annual World Economic Forum, and he's already addressed the overwhelming theme of global warming and climate change. Today, he wrote about engineering living body parts. As ...READ»

Live From Davos: What's the Key to Creativity?

The World Economic Forum at Davos has a theme every year, and the theme of the 2006 meeting is ''The Creative Imperative,'' the idea being that business leaders and society as a whole need to come up with new and creative approaches ...READ»

The Climate's Changing At Davos

The World Economic Forum is getting underway in earnest--and I do mean earnest--today in Davos. A major theme is climate change. It's a hot topic of discussion, if you'll forgive the expression, and the subject of several formal ...READ»

Davos: Out too late

I was told prior to coming that the real action, and the real value of Davos happens at night. During the day they have workshops, lectures, conferences (mostly outstanding), but the nighttime is what its about. I had that experience ...READ»

OneVoice at Davos

There's always the potential for drama, and for progress, when leaders confront the authentic voices of their people. That's what happened yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at a panel on the Middle East conflict ...READ»

Davos: Last Day

Today is the last day of my maiden voyage to Davos. I'm getting more emboldened in my belief that the real benefit to coming here is the networking...both deliberate and serendipitous. Our company (Advanced Diamond Technologies ...READ»

Double Features

Iconic conferences apparently come in pairs. Choose your winter agenda:READ»

Davos 2006: Partying Like It's 1999

Hands down, the best event at Davos was the Google party on Friday night. Never mind the glittering guest list, which included the likes of Michael Douglas and Shimon Peres (who gave an off-the-record talk). Let's talk about the ...READ»

Scandal At Davos

In tomorrow's newpapers, you'll be reading about a controversy that has erupted at Davos. ''Global Agenda,'' the magazine of the World Economic Forum, contains an article calling for a boycott of Israel. In an email to participants ...READ»

Editor's Letter

When talk is better than action.READ»

The Real Star Power At Davos

Last night, I went to a reception hosted by the Burda media group of Germany. The room at the Steigenberger Belvedere, the hotel where the real masters of the universe stay in Davos, was crowded with corporate luminaries like Michael ...READ»

First Visit to Davos

I feel like I was asked to the prom by the head cheerleader. Our company was recently selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and one of the privileges of that distinction is that I get to attend the WEF Annual ...READ»

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One Hour Later

I gave Sergey Brin a tie clip that I had made for him with his name written in diamond using our diamond deposition process. It generated a nice discussion where he made quite a few suggestions about business opportunities and new ...READ»

The Upside of Long Restroom Lines

Yet another dispatch from the first annual Bathroom Blogfest I’m standing in line at the upstairs restroom during the break at Pop!Tech, the Davos-like conference held every year at the Opera House in Camden, Maine. Pop!Tech’s ...READ»

Skiing Green

In the ski resort business, everything depends on white snow. But with the impending global climate change, ski resorts are going green, cleaning the air and offering better views of mountain landscapes.READ»

<em>Survivor</em> at Davos

In yesterday's post, I described a creativity face-off at Davos. Participants were asked to describe their vision of the keys to creativity, and the audience voted on those ideas until two finalists remained. As promised, here's the ...READ»

United They Evangelize

In one corner, we have "latte-sipping, Prius-driving, endive-munching, New York Times-reading snobs." And in the other corner, "Hummer-driving, Bible-thumping, fire-breathing, snake-handling fundamentalists." Just another skirmish ...READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events: December-January 2008

Coming in December and January: a "chip tunes" fest in New York, the World Economic Forum, and National Pie Day.READ»

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Shawn Baldwin from CMG inside the 2009 Milken Institute Global Conference

Shawn Baldwin from CMG leaves Chicago for sunny Beverly Hills in LA to attend the 2009 Milken Institute's Global ConferenceREAD»

Prophet of Productivity

Cisco CEO John Chambers sure showed the chrome-domes in Davos a thing or two.READ»

Even More 1999 Than I Thought

In a post Monday, I described the over-the-top Google party at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and noted that Google would post fourth-quarter earnings after the closing bell Tuesday. Well, post they did—an 82% increase in ...READ»

How Can You Use Social Media to Get Things Done?

Blogger, Flickr, Twitter "R" cool, but what are they really good for? Surprising lessons from the world of social entrepreneurship.READ»

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