The Annual Meeting 2006 is characterized by the quality of its business participation. This year 735 of the 2,340 participants are chief executives or chairmen – the highest ever since the World Economic Forum was launched in 1971. The participants will address this year’s overall theme “The Creative Imperative”.
The clear emphasis of the five-day meeting is on human imagination, innovation and the creativity necessary to address the major challenges the world is facing. Participants will kick off the meeting with “The Big Debate”, an interactive town hall-style plenary session designed to thrash out the five sub-themes of the Annual Meeting, which range from “The Emergence of China and India” and “The Changing Economic Landscape” to “New Mindsets and Changing Attitudes”, “Creating Future Jobs” and “Regional Identities and Struggles”.
Most of the 244 sessions, workshops, panel discussions, lunches and dinners, will be interactive to foster collaborative approaches to resolving issues. As such, the Annual Meeting is not a conference in the traditional sense, but the flagship of the Forum's larger set of activities – including regional meetings, task forces and initiatives – that engage top leaders from business, politics, religious groups and non-governmental organizations to shape the global, regional and industry agendas.
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