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Published: 25 June 2024

Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024

Contributors

World Economic Forum

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Kimmy Bettinger
Lead, Strategic Impact, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Sebastian Buckup
Co-Head, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Member of the Executive Committee

Alicia Patterson-Waites
Specialist, Strategic Impact, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Strategic Intelligence Platform

Stephan Mergenthaler
Head, Strategic Intelligence; Member of the Executive Committee

Minji Sung
Specialist, Content and Partnerships

Frontiers

Jamie Barclay
Consultant

Shirley Dent
Head, Public Relations

Toby Dore
Manager, Advanced Analytics

Amber Lanham
Specialist, Public Affairs

George Thomas
Manager, Public Affairs

Participating journals:

  • Frontiers in Animal Science
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Frontiers in Big Data
  • Frontiers in Built Environment
  • Frontiers in Communications and Networks
  • Frontiers in Digital Health
  • Frontiers in Energy Research
  • Frontiers in Materials
  • Frontiers in Signal ProcessingTransplant International

Acknowledgements

The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution would like to thank the members of the steering group and the Forum’s expert network, who adjudicated the top 10 technologies and authored the articles in the report.

Adviser

Martin Wezowski
Chief Futurist, SAP

Steering group

Co-Chairs

Mariette DiChristina
Dean and Professor, Practice in Journalism,
Boston University College of Communication

Bernard S. Meyerson
Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM

Members

Joseph Costantine
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, American University of Beirut

Sarah Fawcett
Senior Lecturer, Oceanography,
University of Cape Town

Frederick Fenter
Chief Executive Editor, Frontiers

Olga Fink
Assistant Professor, Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

Javier Garcia-Martinez
Professor, Chemistry and Director, Molecular Nanotechnology Lab, University of Alicante

Daniel E. Hurtado
Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Jeremy Jurgens
Managing Director, World Economic Forum

Sang Yup Lee
Senior Vice-President, Research; Distinguished Professor, Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology

Geoffrey Ling
Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Andrew D. Maynard
Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Ruth Morgan
Vice-Dean, Interdisciplinarity Entrepreneurship; Professor, Crime and Forensic Science; Director, University College London Centre for the Forensic Sciences, University College London

Elizabeth O’Day
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Olaris

Mine Orlu
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutics, University College London

Carlo Ratti
Professor, Urban Technologies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Landry Signé
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution

Wilfried Weber
Scientific Director and Professor, New Materials, Leibniz Institute for New Materials

Expert network

Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

David K Cooper
Senior Investigator, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Emanuele Cozzi
Professor, Transplantation Immunology, Padua University Hospital

Marco Di Renzo
CNRS Research Director, Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S), Paris-Saclay University

Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen
Professor, Persuasive Health Technology, University of Twente

Adriana Greco
Professor, University of Naples Federico II, Department of Industrial Engineering

David Harmon
Professor and Director, Graduate Studies, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, University of Kentucky

Thomas Hartung
Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

James Klotz
Research Animal Scientist, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

Dongwon Lee
Professor and Director, Doctoral Programs, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University

Hailong Li
Professor and Vice-Dean, School of Energy Science and Engineering, Central South University

Christos Masouros
Professor, Signal Processing and Wireless Communications, Institute of Communications and Connected Systems, University College London

Claudia Masselli
Professor, University of Naples Federico II, Department of Industrial Engineering

Bastiaan van Schijndel
Innovation Manager, ZORGTTP

Izuru Takewaki
President and Professor, Kyoto Arts and Crafts University, Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University

Hans van Vlaanderen
Director, ZORGTTP

Zequn Yang
Associate Professor, School of Energy Science and Technology, Central South University

World Economic Forum

Maria Alonso
Lead, Autonomous Systems

Vidhi Bhatia
Specialist, Communications, Digital Inclusion

Helen Burdett
Head, Technology for Earth

Valentin Golovtchenko
Lead, Climate Technology

Andreas Hardeman
Manager, Aerospace, Aviation and Travel Industries

Nikolai Khlystov
Lead, Space Technology

Jitka Kolarova
Lead, Health & Healthcare Innovation

Benjamin Larsen
Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Cathy Li
Head, AI, Data and Metaverse; Member of the Executive Committee

Pierre Maury
Strategic Integration Specialist, Mobility

Kelly Ommundsen
Head, Digital Inclusion; Member of the Executive Committee

Brynne Stanton
Lead, Bioeconomy

Karla Yee Amezaga
Lead, Data Policy

Production

Rose Chilvers
Designer, Studio Miko

Laurence Denmark
Creative Director, Studio Miko

Sophie Ebbage
Designer, Studio Miko

Martha Howlett
Lead Editor, Studio Miko

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