My Experience at the World Economic Forum — 2019

Despite a focus on the billionaire attendees at Davos and the accompanying cynicism, there is a group of participants who attend the World Economic Forum because they care about the state of the world and seek to make an impact. I am among them. As places to network and meet interesting people go, it doesn’t get better!

Two years ago I made a leap of faith by boarding a plane to Frankfurt, meeting up with Motivate2B founder, Thomas Juli to head to the World Economic Forum. After a day on the slopes at Klosters, Switzerland we test drove a beta version of a workshop with volunteer participants’, then headed to Davos, home of the World Economic Forum, to attend the open-to-the-public-forums. It was at a forum on mental health, with Matthieu Ricard and other panelists where I learned the high suicide rates due to depression and anxiety globally. The leadership consciousness program for VR/AR that I’d been working on roughly since 2008, pivoted to address this issue. I’m still working on raising pre-seed funding for a prototype now; two prototypes actually, in order to reconnect from being disconnected. Turns out my notion of replacing stigma with empathy via immersive live VR is a hard-to-convey concept best experienced to absorb and validate its potential.

World Economic Forum 2019

January I boarded a plane for Zurich, joined Peter Stevens (Scrum coach and Personal Agility founder) for the drive to Davos then the rest of the larger group, once again ably…