Edelman's Global Lead, Executive Positioning, Justin Blake speaks with Edie Lush about his impressions of Davos. On the agenda: Apple, the role of the media, shifting role of business & CEOs and economic inequality.
The Homeless World Cup is an organization working year around in more that 70 countries using football as a tool to reintegrate the homeless into society.
BraveNewTalent.com Founder and CEO Tarnowski speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos. Brave New Talent builds online communities for employment. It now enables companies to build their own schools so that people can learn directly from their future employers.
UNCTAD Secretary General Supachai Panitchpakdi speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos. UNCTAD stands for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
New Economics Foundation Executive Director Stewart Wallis speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos.
New Economics Foundation is involved both research and action. The 'four horsemen of economics' - that the economy is unstable, unsustainable, unfair and makes us unhappy drives what the NEF does. The NEF is working in communities across the UK to start local businesses, from local banks to new pizza delivery companies to putting local currencies like the Brixton Pound online.
Better Place Policy Manager Yariv Nornberg speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos.
Better Place is about making Electric Vehicles work. They are building switching stations that allow you to switch your EV battery in less than five minutes. They have recently launched in Israel, and are opening in Denmark in the second half of 2012.
Chairman of the Global Green Growth Institute Han Seung-soo speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos about the work CGGI is doing to help countries like Brazil, Cambodia and Kazakhstan. CGGI helps to tailor-make programs for countries depending on their needs.
Super Better Founder Jane McGonigal speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos.
Jane turned a difficult experience - a traumatic brain injury which didn't heal well into a multi-player game. The game is designed to allow you take control of your health, allowing you to bring friends and family into your recovery.
Accenture Managing Director Peter Lacy speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos about sustainability & the UK Olympics and how companies can scale up from pilot sustainability initiatives to take sustainability across their entire operations.
Forbes President and CEO Mike Perlis speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos about professional journalism in a world of social media, and Forbes' place in it.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterrers speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos.
He sheds light on the terrifying situation in Southern Sudan, the world's newest country, where there is a dramatic humanitarian crisis. People are fleeing to South Sudan from fighting in the north, there is inter-ethnic conflict, looting, burning, raping, stealing cattle. There is no infrastructure, no economy, and there are hundreds of thousands of refugees descending in the country.
Managing Partner, TVM Capital Helmut Schühsler speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos about the difference between investing in healthcare in the emerging markets vs. more developed markets.
Thomson Reuters President of Global Sales Christopher Perry speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos about financial services & financial media in a world after the financial crisis.
Fortune Senior Editor and Author Adam Lashinsky speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos about his new book, 'Inside Apple'.
Apple controls everything - from the specific messages that are allowed out - i.e. 'revolutionary phone, the internet in your pocket, the best ipod ever made' to the few executives are ever allowed to spread the message. They are told not to deviate from the script, at all, ever.
They famously don't do market research, or focus groups, but rather Steve Jobs decided what we wanted, and gave it to us. The new CEO Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs, and comes from the manufacturing side, and it remains to be seen what kind of control he'll have over the company.
Ambassador Eric Goosby speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos about the ambitious plan to eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother to baby entirely by 2015.
There are 390,000 children born annually who are HIV+ on the planet, all in sub-saharan Africa. The US is now turning up the volume to get mothers anti-viral drugs while they are pregnant and to ensure that they get the care they need while pregnant. They're using social media sites like Facebook to remind mothers about their appointments, to tell them when to take their medication, and if they miss an appointment, to get them back into care.
The Microsoft Imagine Cup challenged young people to think about how they could use technology to change the world.
The Grants Program Winners speak with Edie Lush at Hub Davos. Dominik Tomicevic (Croatia), Mohammad Azzam (Jordan),Jason Wakizaka (the US) and (Paco) Gerardo Francisco Perez Layedra (Ecuador) chat about innovation, their inventions, the difficulties they face in their own countries, their experiences winning the Microsoft Imagine Cup and how excited they are to meet Bill Gates