Press Conference: An Update on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The World Economic Forum’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution has grown at start-up speed since its opening 10 months ago. To close the growing gap between emerging technologies and policy, leading governments, businesses, dynamic start-ups, academics and members of civil society have joined the Center to co-design and pilot new governance protocols and policy frameworks. The press conference will also be dedicated to announce additional Centers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Speakers:
- Seth F. Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Geneva.
- Nancy Brown, Chief Executive Officer, American Heart Association, USA.
- Yoichi Funabashi, Chairman, Asia Pacific Initiative (API), Japan.
- Jean de Dieu Rurangirwa, Minister of Information Technology and Communications of Rwanda.
- Murat Sönmez, Managing Director; Head of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum.

Moderator:
- Georg Schmitt, Head of Corporate Affairs, World Economic Forum.

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