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Industry Partnership serves as the World Economic Forum’s primary means for engaging its corporate partners. It leverages the Forum’s neutral platform and global networks, and focuses on three areas:
Industry, Cross-Industry, and Corporate Global Citizenship.
What is the aim of Industry Partnership?
The aims of Industry Partnership are:
a. Provide privileged exposure to the Forum’s networks and activities
b. Identify the issues that can benefit from collaborative action
c. Bring together a critical mass of the most key “movers and shakers” to create the necessary change. This change could be in understanding, regulatory involvement or behaviour by leading corporations.
What is the Value Delivered?
| Industry Partnership offers select industry leaders privileged access to the Forum's networks across business, government, academia and non-governmental organizations. In practice this leads to enhanced speaking opportunities, access to exclusive meetings, and a key role in shaping the Forum's agenda. |
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- Networking for insight
- Exclusivity and exposure
- Collaborating outside of your organisation
- Insight and exposure to new ideas
- Monitoring what is critical |
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What are the Privileges for 2009?
• Engagement and leadership roles in all thematic focus areas of the Industry IP programme
• Selected engagement with other industry IP programmes
• Access to CEO/Chairman meeting (“Governors Meeting”) during the Annual Meeting
• Invitation for a second board-level executive at the Annual Meeting
• Free access to Industry Partnership Meetings for relevant senior executives
• Free access to selected Regional Meetings for regional heads or other senior executives
• Access to the Annual Meeting of the New Champions for CEO/Chairman
Which executives are involved?
The CEO mandates activities in the Governors’ meeting in Davos. Subsequently, the following executives play key roles throughout the year:
• Business Unit Heads (Healthcare, Financial Services, Media&Entertainment)
• Regional Heads
• Senior Executives
• Thematic experts (Education, Energy, Risk, Security, etc)
How these individuals are specifically involved is explained below.
How do partner companies best engage with the Forum?
There are a number of approaches that can be combined:
- Meeting with peers.
Throughout the year, we programme a number of meetings aimed at specific executives. These are aimed at creating communities of peers, who can discuss and advance issues that are collectively important.
CEO in Davos: Our partner CEOs meet in the Governors’ meeting in Davos and in other exceptional gatherings outside the Annual Meeting.
- Playing a leadership role on a regional level.
Of note:
Annual Meeting of New Champions, China: In partnership with the Chinese Government, this meeting will bring together leading industry players with the next generation of the world’s leading fast growth companies. This meeting is aimed at C-level executives.
Regional summits: In addition to Annual Meeting in Davos and Annual Meeting of New Champions China each year, the Forum hosts private partnership meetings at regional summits throughout the year in five global regions (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East).
- Advancing specific issues/action
Throughout the year key issues are advanced through focused meetings. These may be held on your premises or other partners’, or be timed to coincide with important regional meetings of the World Economic Forum.
Who are the Forum’s Industry Partners?
Click here to see a list of our Industry Partners
Contact
For more information about our Industry Partnership Programme or our different Industry Community Groups please use our contact us form
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