Hope: Our Review of Davos 2022

Welcome to a special Davos edition of Leadership Matters, a weekly newsletter on issues that matter to corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and organisations that seek to progress on the diversity, inclusion and equity front

Davos 2022 and the World Economic Forum

Against a backdrop of international crises, almost 2,500 of the world's top leaders including 50 Heads of State and Government, ?gathered last month for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos. The gathering underscored the need for solidarity and global cooperation to address pressing issues including climate change, food security, the health crisis, achieving more inclusive benefits of globalization, and an urgent and peaceful resolution to the Ukrainian situation.

Despite the global challenges, we found that conversations and discussions in Davos this year were particularly collaborative with a deep interest in working to fix global issues. Members of the 100 Women @ Davos community participated in events at the Annual Meeting as well as many of the side events which took place in Davos. As a community of impact-focused leaders, our women contributed to powerful discussions at many sessions during the week with over eighty of us present for this year's edition of Davos.

Close to the Promenade, the main street in the tiny Swiss alpine town was temporarily transformed into showrooms and hubs for global organisations, ?we secured the centrally-located, "100 Women@Davos Place" to accommodate members of our community and serving as a site for some of our activities. Below are highlights of our week.

1. Our Welcome Dinner

We marked?the start of the week of events with a group of?powerful, diverse, and impactful women leaders at a Welcome Dinner.

Special guests included: Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir, Senior Adviser, UN Women, Chair Reykjavík Global Forum; ?Silvana Koch-Mehrin, President and Founder, Women Political Leaders (WPL); Rebecca Henderson, CEO, Global Business and Board member, Randstad; Sheila Warren, CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation, former Head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets, World Economic Forum; Solveigh Hieronimus, Senior?Partner, McKinsey & Company

2. Female Quotient Equality Lounge x 100 Women@ Davos

The highlight of our week was our collaboration with The Female Quotient at the Equality Lounge @ Davos, where several of our members spoke on panels on diverse topics including supporting senior-level women in the workplace and being at the forefront of Web3. The Equality Lounge was a meeting place and a home for our community at Davos. Many thanks to the FQ team for a warm welcome!

100 Women @ Davos spoking at the Equality Lounge: Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, Editor-in-Chief, Cointelegraph | Katja Iversen, Executive Adviser, Author & Advocate | Mandy Sanghera, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur, Global Human Rights Activist |?Fatema Hamdani , Co-Founder, CEO, Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc. | Alice Bromage, Founder, Empowering Success | Dr. Marta Ra, Co-Founder, Women in Sustainable Finance |?Navroop K. Sahdev, Founder & CEO, The Digital Economist |Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director, Stellar Development Foundation

?3. We were at other tables too...

Members of our community contributed to discussions at other specially curated impact-focused events hosted by ?Finnish Flow and The Future of Cities in Davos, SDG Tent, Lan.Space, Women Founders by Heierling House of Balance.

We were particularly delighted to play a key role in the outstanding Future of Cities event which was sold out with over 600 participants. Over 85,000 viewers at the evening event with the ?Wisdom Panel Session and the Leadership Panel

Finnish Flow/The Future of Cities Leadership Panel with Dr Anino Emuwa moderated by Sabinije Von Gaffke, and the Wisdom Panel with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Sadhguru and Helena Gualinga, and moderator of the session?Vera Futorjanski- a member of our Community.

Fatema Hamdani & Christina Korp speaking at the Lan.Space Summit; Dr Mihaela Ulieru at the SDG Tent; at Women Founders by House of Balance with Elina Idrisova, Alice Bromage and Maya Marburger; Dr Efi Pylarinou at the Blockchain Hub; Dr Marta Ra moderating the “Energy - Catalyst for World Peace” panel organized on behalf of Women in Sustainable Finance

4. Our Community

Our supportive community, both original and new members, of trailblazing women leaders.

Members in Davos included: Edith Aldewereld, co-founder, Women in Sustainable Finance| Peta Milan, CEO, JET Group Global|?Olga Afanasyeva, Head of Kyiv Branch ELEKS| Kristina Lucretia Corner, Editor-in-Chief Cointelegraph

5. Reykjavik Index for Leadership Breakfast

The event with global leaders where the latest results of the Reykjavik Index for Leadership were presented by Dr. Michelle Harrison, CEO of ?Kantar Public, which co-authored the study, with Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Founder and President, Women Political Leaders and Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir, ?Chair Rekyjavik Global Forum - Women Political Leaders

6. Farewell Drinks and Looking Forward to 2023

We ended the week with Farewell drinks gathering. 100 Women@Davos will be back in Davos in 2023 with an even more extensive programme!?If you plan to be in Davos then and are interested in joining a supportive global community of change makers and would like to join us, please find reach us at [email protected] or social media pages on LinkedIn, Instagram or Twitter for how to join!

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