Yes/Cities: Helping global cities become more resilient, sustainable and prosperous
Building on the momentum of San Francisco pilot, Yes/Cities will expand to support more than 1,000 innovators across 50 cities by 2030.
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Business
Driving impact: UpLink journey towards a more sustainable future
UpLink, launched in 2020 by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Deloitte and Salesforce, is building an open innovation platform ecosystem fostering entrepreneurial solutions f...
Financial and Monetary Systems
Stakeholder Metrics Initiative: over 150 companies implement sustainability reporting metrics
A coalition of leading firms have co-created a comprehensive corporate system to highlight the need for an aligned and consistent sustainability reporting.
Built Environment and Infrastructure
IoT security: We are keeping consumers safe from cyber threats
A collaboration convened by the World Economic Forum has formed a global consensus for baseline IoT security measures to protect consumers.
Emerging Technologies
The power of AI in wildfire prediction and prevention
The FireAId initiative is addressing the increasing frequency of wildfires in Türkiye, This initiative is using AI in wildfire prediction and prevention.
Built Environment and Infrastructure
Unlocking the potential of IoT for Brazil small and medium businesses
The Forum, the Ministry of Economy and the State of São Paulo are collaborating to assist small and medium manufacturing firms in their implementation of IoT for Brazil.
Wellbeing and Mental Health
Protecting users of digital mental health apps
Most digital mental health apps are not evidence-based. We are supporting lawmakers in developing successful policies on tech for digital mental health.
Built Environment and Infrastructure
Our Alliance is creating smart city governance
Led by the Forum, the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance is the largest global initiative of its kind, promoting smart city governance
Business
How a new generation of entrepreneurs is tackling the world’s biggest challenges head on
Our open digital platform connects innovators with investors, topical experts, global organizations and government bodies who have the ability to scale their solutions.
Jobs and the Future of Work
Closing the disability inclusion gap with business leadership
Our Valuable500 initiative helps companies close the disability inclusion gap by facilitating change to unlock business, social and economic value of the 1.3 billion people with disabilit...
Built Environment and Infrastructure
Building cybersecurity in aviation
Cybersecurity in aviation: Airlines, airports and aircraft manufacturers must be protected. The Forum launched an initiative to improve cyber resilience.
Publications
Health and Healthcare Systems
Making Rare Diseases Count: How Better Data Can Unlock a Multitrillion-Dollar Opportunity
Rare diseases affect more than 300 million people worldwide and remain one of the largest areas of unmet need in global health. Strengthening rare disease data systems represents the next...
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
Board Leadership for Growth and Resilience: Guiding Principles for Climate and Nature Governance
This white paper focuses on the board-level governance of climate and nature, examining how these forces are reshaping business performance, resilience and long-term value creation.
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
Turning Challenge into Opportunity: Supplier Voices from Heavy-Emitting Sectors
To accelerate the decarbonization of heavy industry demands more than early market enthusiasm – it requires addressing the barriers that hinder suppliers from delivering low-carbon techno...
Built Environment and Infrastructure
Resilient Economies: Strategies for Sinking Cities and Flood Risks
Resilient Economies: Strategies for Sinking Cities and Flood Risks 2025 explores how cities are responding to subsidence through integrated policies, nature-based infrastructure and syste...
Technological Innovation
The Executive’s Playbook on Earth Observation
EO for nature and climate
Social Innovation
Unlocking the Social Economy: Towards Equity in the Green and Digital Transitions
Unlocking the Social Economy: Towards Equity in the Green and Digital Transitions 2025
Health and Healthcare Systems
Closing Health Gaps: A Guide to Impactful Place-Based Change
Place-based change
Energy Transition
High-Emitting Sectors: Challenges and Opportunities for Low-Carbon Suppliers
This report provides analysis from the suppliers’ perspective on the value chain, decarbonization pathways, challenges and opportunities for scaling-up zero-emission technologies.
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
First Movers Coalition: Status Report
This report captures the achievements of the First Movers Coalition in stimulating demand for low-carbon technologies in industry and transport.
Technological Innovation
Amplifying the Global Value of Earth Observation
With the involvement of 40 industry leaders, the Amplifying the Global Value of Earth Observation 2024 report explores strategic approaches to maximize EO's global impact, highlighting th...
Health and Healthcare Systems
Regionalized Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative Framework: A Framework for Enhancing Vaccine Access Through Regionalized Manufacturing Ecosystems
This report by the World Economic Forum, written in collaboration with Deloitte, presents a framework to expand regional scale vaccine manufacturing capacity to ensure safe, equitable, an...
Social Innovation
The Corporate Social Innovation Compass: Accelerating Impact through Social Enterprise Partnerships
This report produced by the Schwab Foundation and the Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with Deloitte, presents a compelling view of the dynamic intersection o...
Cybersecurity
Quantum Readiness Toolkit: Building a Quantum-Secure Economy
The Quantum Readiness Toolkit presents a set of guiding principles for organizations to navigate the quantum computing era securely. These principles cover key areas such as strategizing ...
Financial and Monetary Systems
Pushing Through Undercurrents: Sectoral and regional forces influencing technology-driven systemic risk, and resulting mitigation opportunities
This report presents insights into sectoral and regional forces that influence the spread of technology-driven systemic risk across the financial system and identifies targeted mitigation...
Forum in Focus
The Next Frontier in Fighting Wildfires: FireAId Pilot and Scaling
Wildfire severity, spread and frequency have all increased because of climate change. This poses a growing threat to forest ecosystems and high-risk rural areas. To address this worldwide...
Forum in Focus
The Chairperson’s Guide to Valuing Nature
Nature is the foundation of human existence. Although businesses depend on nature for all activities, they undervalue and neglect it as an asset, leading to poor business decisions with r...
Forum in Focus
Embedding Indigenous Knowledge in the Conservation and Restoration of Landscapes
Indigenous peoples’ and local community lands cover a third of the earth’s territories. The fact that 91% of them are in good or fair ecological condition today is a testament to the effe...
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
The Chairperson’s Guide to a Just Transition
The transition to a climate-neutral economy will impact people and geographies in different ways. The aim of this paper is to provide corporate board members with an overview of the just ...
Cybersecurity
Transitioning to a Quantum-Secure Economy
Quantum computing promises transformative simulation and modelling capabilities across a diverse range of industries. However, these advances in computational power will also introduce si...
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Artificial Intelligence
How agentic, physical and sovereign AI are rewriting the rules of enterprise innovation
Business
Three ways chairs can enhance their board’s effectiveness to drive resilience
Industries in Depth
How suppliers in heavy-emitting sectors are turning barriers into breakthroughs
Trade and Investment
3 reasons why businesses should invest in women’s sports now
Cybersecurity
Why the new NIST standards mean quantum cryptography may just have come of age
Health and Healthcare Systems
How to close global healthcare gaps using place-based change and collaborative action
Sustainable Development
Why we must innovate towards sustainable abundance
Climate Action and Waste Reduction
9 market trends shaping the future of Earth observation for climate action
Emerging Technologies
How venture capital is investing in AI in the top five global economies — and shaping the AI ecosystem
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Progress for women in the workplace stagnating in four key areas, global study reveals
Technological Innovation
Earth observation will unlock huge economic and climate value for these 6 industries by 2030
Nature and Biodiversity
How AI and Earth observation can help life on our planet
Trade and Investment
10 million reasons for the private sector to invest in social enterprise
Health and Healthcare Systems
New initiative supports equitable regional vaccine manufacturing
Business
How to thrive when uncertainty becomes the new norm for governance
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
US women are paying billions more for healthcare than men every year
Cybersecurity
5 principles to accelerate your organization’s quantum cyber readiness
Forum in Focus
How sustainability-driven enterprises can build a better future
Forum in Focus
How data helped Mexico City reduce high-impact crime by more than 50%
Health and Healthcare Systems
How can workplace health equity lead to a fair and just society?
Forum in Focus
Q&A with Jen Fisher: The rise of the ‘Chief Well-being Officer’ and why it matters
Why it's time to get your board to take the quantum threat seriously
Representation matters, but it's knowledge input that really matters
Business
How businesses can work with sports communities to become social change-makers
Forum in Focus
Leaders concerned about climate change can turn worry into action. Here’s how.
Circular Economy
How circular solutions can boost supply chain resilience and decarbonization
Organizations should make these 3 changes now to protect against the quantum computing threat
Emerging Technologies
For quantum to succeed, there needs to be a shift in mindset
Forum in Focus
One more reason to act fast on climate: economics
Emerging Technologies
What does the dawn of quantum computing mean for blockchain?
Deloitte contributors
Lara Abrash
US Chair
Zubair Al Azad
Engagement Manager
Itan Barmes
Global Quantum Cyber Readiness Capability Lead
Emma Codd
Global Inclusion Leader
William Eggers
Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Government Insights
Eamonn Kelly
Chief Futurist
Tiffany Kim
Managing Director
Anindya Mallick
Partner
Rob Massey
Partner, Global Blockchain Leader for Tax
Michele Parmelee
WEF GLCSP, President of the IOE
David Rabinowitz
Principal, Deloitte Consulting
Colin Soutar
Managing Director, Cyber Risk
Jennifer Steinmann
Global Sustainability Business Leader
Will Symons
Asia Pacific Climate & Sustainability Leader
Aloysius Teh
Asia Pacific Public Policy Leader
Steve Watkins
Specialist LeaderRelated Centres
Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains
The Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains is enabling more resilient, sustainable and inclusive manufacturing ecosystems and supply chains.
Centre for Cybersecurity
The Centre for Cybersecurity is reinforcing the importance of cybersecurity as a strategic priority and drives global public-private action to address systemic cybersecurity challenges.
Centre for Urban Transformation
The Centre for Urban Transformation is advancing public-private collaboration in cities, enabling more resilient and future-ready communities and local economies.