Deloitte and the World Economic Forum
Making an impact on the global agenda
Deloitte is a long standing strategic partner of the World Economic Forum (WEF). WEF is an international organization that connects leaders from business, government, society, and academia to shape global, regional, and industry agendas. Together, WEF and its strategic partners work collaboratively to address issues of global importance and inspire action to improve the state of the world.
Drawing on Deloitte’s experience and capabilities from across our global network, we support WEF’s mission through active leadership in communities and multi stakeholder initiatives that address pressing global challenges through our purpose-driven framework. These initiatives provide platforms for collaboration—bringing together public and private sector leaders to exchange knowledge, shape the global agenda, and scope tangible project collaborations.
Through year round engagement, including participation in major WEF convenings such as the Annual Meeting at Davos, Deloitte works alongside decisionmakers and subject matter experts to develop frameworks, ideas, and approaches that respond to an evolving global landscape.
Featured Content
The principles-based report, Board Leadership for Growth and Resilience, refreshes the 2019 Principles for Effective Climate Governance to incorporate Nature, offering a fresh perspective on how boards can effectively manage the risks and opportunities on this critical and evolving agenda. The report offers practical guidance and is a resource for board members and C-suite leaders focused on building strategic growth and resilience in the context of climate and nature sustainability governance.
To accelerate the decarbonization of heavy industry demands more than early market enthusiasm – it requires addressing the barriers that hinder suppliers from delivering low-carbon technologies and products at sufficient speed and scale. This report seeks to elevate the voices of the producers, project developers and innovators working within the hardest-to-abate heavy industrial sectors that underpin the world’s mobility and materials systems.
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Issues
As the world navigates through a global pandemic and unprecedented challenges, Deloitte joins forces with WEF and its partners and others to determine priorities and generate insights that will help stakeholders make informed decisions on critical issues. Using the depth of experience and broad capabilities of the Deloitte network, we are able to contribute to solutions for complex challenges.
As urbanization accelerates and the climate crisis intensifies, cities worldwide face a growing threat beneath their foundations: sinking cities or urban land subsidence. This report outlines practical pathways for governments and businesses to transition from reactive crisis management to proactive resilience-building – valuing land and water as strategic assets, strengthening governance and leadership, investing in resilient infrastructure and empowering communities.
The precision and scale of Earth Observation (EO) technologies are improving rapidly, with growing potential for applications across various sectors. New commercial EO providers are tailoring data solutions to organizational contexts, while government EO sources continue to expand access to large-scale open datasets. This paper seeks to address this challenge by laying out a strategic framework to help organizations fully leverage EO.
The toolkit emphasizes the importance of prioritizing quantum risk alongside existing risks and advocates for a global, cross-border approach to cybersecurity and governing quantum risk. It provides organizations with a framework to assess their quantum readiness and identifies steps to prioritize and enhance their quantum security measures.
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Perspectives
Deloitte leaders and experts share their point of views on prominent themes and current debates featured on the WEF Agenda platform. Featured items such as impact stories, podcasts, and videos showcase other Deloitte and WEF initiatives.
As AI adoption accelerates, enterprises face a “velocity paradox”: the need to scale quickly while existing workflows and governance struggle to keep pace. While AI is improving productivity, few organizations are using it to fundamentally reimagine their business. Innovation is now focusing on three areas: agentic, physical, and sovereign AI. Each opens new opportunities while demanding new operating models, governance, and investment.
In today’s dynamic global landscape, business leaders are having to constantly adapt their response to new challenges and opportunities. The need to navigate ongoing short-term disruption while positioning their organizations to capture long-term opportunities means boards and C-suites are revisiting both their strategic priorities, approach to scenario planning and their ways of working.
Women’s sports are having a big moment. This year alone, the Paris Olympics made history as the first-ever Olympic Games with gender parity among athletes, more viewers showed up and tuned in to the US’ WNBA (the Women's National Basketball Association) than ever before and revenue projections across women’s sports surpassed $1 billion globally.
Technology has fundamentally transformed the way we collectively work and connect over the last decade – from video calls with our teams and loved ones, to digital translation and working remotely, it has never been easier to collaborate seamlessly across geographic boundaries. However, in today’s complex global environment, it’s more important than ever for business leaders to create genuine human connections, to listen and learn.
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Initiatives
WEF has launched numerous private, public, and multi-stakeholder initiatives to identify and address global issues. These initiatives provide a platform for stakeholders interact, exchange knowledge and ideas, and respond to evolving issues. As a WEF strategic partner, Deloitte plays a leadership role in many of these initiatives and communities – from contributing insights that shape the global agenda to scoping project collaborations alongside the most relevant leaders and experts.
