 Good afternoon and welcome to this press conference from the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum here in Snowy Davos Thank you for joining us in the room. Thank you for joining us on the live stream Whether you're watching on Periscope or Facebook. You're equally welcome. We Quite untypically for the forum gave this press conference a humble title. We called it a press conference an update for the fourth Industrial Revolution. We actually have some quite exciting announcements to make here today To which we'll come in a second. But first, let me introduce the wonderful panel. We have to talk about the fourth Industrial Revolution First to my immediate left. We're joined by Murat Sunmes Who's the head of the Center for the fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco and also a member of the managing board of the World Economic Forum? To his left, we're joined by Yui Chi Funabashi Funabashi-san is the head of the Asia Pacific initiative Welcome and thank you for being here right at the heart and center of our panel here today We're joined by Jean de Dieu Urang Grégoire The Ministry from the Ministry of Information Communication and Technology of Rwanda. Thank you for being here Minister Further down the line. We're joined by Nancy Brown the CEO of the American Heart Association and last but not least a Fellow friend from Geneva. We're joined By Seth Berkeley the CEO of Gavi the vaccine Alliance. Thank you all for being here and Thank you for watching Murat without further ado What is the update on the fourth Industrial Revolution that we would like to share with our audience here today? Thank you, Gorg. Since we launched the Center in San Francisco in March 2016 We have assembled a dream team on all nine eight projects that we're running In addition, we have 37 business partners 10 governments who are co-locating with us Today we have announced the expansion of this concept to the global locations By announcing sister centers in Japan with Funabashi-san And Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry in India as well as the United Arab Emirates These jurisdictions are very eager to accelerate the positive impact of the fourth Industrial Revolution in their own Countries but by being a global Member of a global network. They want to also contribute to the global design of these protocols So the expansion of the network of centers is one of the major Announcements from today. We're also announcing the formation of global councils on artificial intelligence blockchain Internet of Things precision medicine autonomous vehicles and drones. These will be global governing bodies for each of these six projects consisting of governments civil society business academia as well as Technology entrepreneurs and finally we're announcing the formation of fourth Industrial Revolution Center academic fellows Which allows postdoctoral students from universities who are engaged in research in these eight or nine areas that we're working on Giving them the ability to be part of this global Ecosystem Contributing to the creation of these protocols and also for us tapping into the leading research We will have five already in place soon and they'll go back to their campuses for an ex for the second year So each year we expect to have initially five already announced by under Hoffman and we expect to have many more Thank you more at Funabashi son you represent the Asia Pacific initiative, which is one of the founding supporters of the center in Japan Why did you throw your weight behind this? Why do you think this is an important development? But first of all, thank you very much for having me here. I'm very delighted to announce the launch of Tokyo Center Japan said I should say today and this is Made up of three founding partners the World Economic Forum the Ministry of the economy trade and industry and Asia Pacific Initiative our think tank Tokyo based independent think tank First I really should emphasize that how important how crucial to set up sister Centers and I like to Upload the World Economic Forum particularly Professor Khrushchev to create this centers That technology transcend that national border the regulation however local so that what the world needs is to Find that good ways to harness the Technological prowess the same time Being focused on that social stability and Value system so I think that the We really need collaborates globally how to harness those things so I think that Sister organizations and centers Will be very much conducive to promote that cooperation second I Also like to emphasize that Critical aspect of collaborating that Private public partnership That Actually that government just cannot keep up with that a dramatic speed of the technological innovation But at the same time that Radical technology technological innovation Cannot deployed at the scale without public trust and Due process so what the world need is to Find a new way of For the government to Work with the private sector You know well in a way It is a new Model of private public partnership and I think that to Find that best formula of That Technological deployment in societies and harmonizing governance so We are very much proud to be a part of this adventure and I think Japan has much to contribute in the field such as Mobility including the driverless vehicle and the healthcare Blockchain and drones and Others so robotics So I am very much excited that to be a part of this Venture. Thank you very much Thank you very much Minister more I'd mentioned the dream team and and you and run I have been early very early members of the dream team A run has been very engaged in the San Francisco Center particularly on the area of drones Please share with us your perspective on why do you think this is important? Thank you. Yes We thank the word economic forum professor Schwab and the center for for industrial revolution We are already Benefiting for the from the work of the of the center in 2016 We got an invitation to partner with the center in Enhancing and upgrading our drone regulation I would like to say today and I'm happy to say that The regulation now have passed in cabinet last week now. We have a regulation that really can Support our drone Rollout we already have Use case or a base case or we've Zipline where we deployed drones in the delivery of Blood to remote hospitals. We are witnessing now the impact The initiative is having on our cities and lives. We are seeing now Madas being served that we are seeing now the reduction in in what is time required To deliver blood to to remote hospitals We are having now new applications and new entrants to our market interested in exploring how the drone drone can really be used to to to in various sector including agriculture collection of various data and The regulation is something that we really needed now to to promote that That's an incentive. That's a guideline that we wanted even to monitor and to secure the use of drone and to promote The interest we are seeing in in in drone application in various sectors I think we are seeing a Multiplayer effect from the young people in various innovation labs and centers Trying now to dig deep into the drone and we are seeing that Dislegration as something that will really help us manage risks Providing a platform where people can create new Opportunity new concept proven and testing the ideas and really thank the Center for the tremendous effort and and and work and we are happy and Soon will be sharing actually how now we are going to to to manage Those opportunities on our table. Thank you. Thank you very much minister And we of course appreciate your partnership Nancy you represent the American Heart Association That's not necessarily the organization one would first and foremost associate with the fourth industrial revolution and yet you've decided to partner With the San Francisco Center tell us why Well, thank you for the opportunity and it's really the honor of the American Heart Association to have the opportunity to be a partner of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Center and one of the founding partners. I might add What you should know is as perhaps context is Cardiovascular diseases that include heart disease and stroke are the number one killer of people throughout the world 17 and a half million people a year lose their life to cardiovascular diseases And we've been focused for almost a hundred years on finding new solutions Scientifically to change that trajectory for people in addition to all of the great work We do in changing environments and changing policies and inspiring people to live a more Healthful life and at the foundation of our work in science as a scientific organization We have in addition to funding science and research We have our own Institute for precision cardiovascular medicine where we are working to help deliver the right treatments to the right patients at the right time and Clearly at the center of that value proposition is data and technology We recognize the critical role that the center will play in helping to make sure that there are global Standards for data sharing and data regulation that this intersection of scientific data and data Collected by individuals is used to further and enhance scientific study But also in a way that protects and promotes What individuals and patients want and desire to have happened with their personalized health data? And we think that the center will play a critically important role in helping to Understand how many of these new technologies that are being created can contribute data for precision medicine From wearable devices and other sorts of of technologies that can give real-time information To further and rapidly advance precision medicine The final thing I might Mention is that in addition to data being such an important currency in science and technology This idea of redesigning clinical trials, which is how drugs and devices get to market We'll have real promise once we can have a universal agreement on how this data can be and should be governed for scientific use And so those are a few of the many reasons that we are so excited to partner with the center Thank You Nancy Seth the minister mentioned sipline and sipline is not just a social enterprise of the Schwab Foundation It's also an organization that had tremendous help from from Gavi to to to go where it is now This could be one example, but but tell us why is Gavi part of this of this of this work So, thank you so much and first of all to say Gavi is a child of the World Economic Forum born here 18 years ago One of the most successful public-private partnerships. We've immunized more than 650 million additional children prevented more than 9 million deaths and Provide vaccines to about 60% of the world's population in the 73 poorest countries Plus deal with epidemic diseases now you might say well What's the connection there the challenge is we want to get these vaccines to every single person and that means? We need to use technology to leapfrog to get to that last mile today often It's in urban slums. Sometimes it's in hinterlands and we were really pleased to work with Rwanda to Help bring this technology of drones to be delivering blood We originally looked at it for rabies vaccines. It turns out Rwanda's in pretty good shape with rabies But other technologies like snake venom. These are time-sensitive things now What's important about this is not every country is Rwanda? So now that we have success in Rwanda and it's being extended to the whole country We want to take this forward in Tanzania, which will be a different challenge And we're lucky to have Rwandese Scientists who will come and help do this but when they do that as we begin to move country to country How do we deal with the regulation the governance? How do we deal with the sharing of technology the data these are the problems we have and we're talking about drones But we have similar issues in terms of new ways with digital technology We're looking the child health card is the most common a piece of vital registration more than birth certificate death certificates marriage certificates How do we turn that into digital identity? How does it work with blockchain? How do we think about using that as a way to improve supply chains which will make a difference across countries? So there are many ways we can we see in working with this exciting new Forum center that can really make a difference bringing technology to the world's poor to help solve their problems Thank you Seth And I'm sure a lot of journalists in the room want to ask what will the fourth industrial revolution do with the media industry? But you're shy to ask anyway, let's let's open the floor for for question and answers. We have microphones in the room If I can have a show of hands Don't be shy You shouldn't have chosen the profession of journalism if you shy I see there is a question Yeah, very good the lady in the middle if you could state your name and organization for the sake of our livestream audience as well Yeah, my name is Kate moody from France 24 in Paris Under Emmanuel Macron's administration Paris has really been pushing itself as a new tech hub for Europe I'm wondering if there's been any thought among any of you for any of you To expand your presence in France. Is that something that's is it a message that's being heard in your industry? What's the reaction to these efforts that the that the macro administration has really been trying to get out there to make France an attractive place not just to do business but to do in space to particularly develop new kinds of technology Thank you very much more. Do you want to share with pleasure? We're Following the developments not just from the news, but we're actively engaged with the Macron government who will be here later this week In our engagement model in San Francisco is to invite select governments representative governments from around the world To collaborate with us like we have done with Rwanda In fact Rwanda moves so fast that Eileen was there fellow showed up before we open the center And we now have 10 governments engaged with us Japan followed them with Meti And we said just be patient will be there and then we launched the center So we have invited a number of governments to collaborate with us today. We have Japan Rwanda Bahrain and Inter-American Department Bank to expand into Latin America much like with Gavi into emerging countries Before I came here we signed the memorandum of understanding with the government of United Arab Emirates to open a center in the Emirates and Put a fellow into the San Francisco or work with the San Francisco Center on data policy So we will make more announcements as we have more governments and we would welcome definitely France's involvement with us and We'll make those announcements as we move forward And and I can't emphasize enough the importance of having governments focus on this technology So for us in many francophone countries having the Macron government talk about the importance of technology and engagement We hope to have some announcements later this week in working with some of those Francophone companies that can make a real difference in the countries that we work in so that enabling environment is really very important I might also add that through our work in precision medicine at the American Heart Association We have a very valued relationship with the European Society of cardiology, which is based in France And we will be in the coming months Announcing some joint projects around precision medicine that will have data and technology at the center of them Thank you very much so in short, I think Emmanuel Macron qualifies for the dream team Do we have any other questions in the room? He's a young global leader. He is a young global leader. That is that is correct Yes, there's a lady on the left side, please Press Agency who's actually financing these fourth industrial revolution centers. How much is the web part of it? More I think that's a question for you. Yeah, so we invested About 15 million dollars for the opening of the San Francisco Center and that's an annual commitment and in line with the forums Engagement with the global community. We have we're following the same model of inviting businesses to Become members on an annual basis. So as we expand into these different centers, we have the business community or in the case of UAE the government providing the initial funding to launch these centers The continuous engagement of the business community is essential because that's the that's where the doing Comes in to the picture and so far in San Francisco. We have 37 companies. It's all publicly listed and We're expanding those partnerships and earlier today when we announced the Japan Center for Navarro San I think we had seven or eight Japanese CEOs on the panel who will be part of the Japan Center so the initial funding is coming from the business community We have secured that for the three jurisdictions. I mentioned India Japan and the United Arab Emirates but that's not going to cover all the costs, but it gives us the engagement more than the financials the engagement and commitment of the business community to Make these investments and we'll invite more and more businesses to engage with us over time Thank you very much And I should also mention that we invested in in great colleagues as well at the center here in the room Also our speaker Timothy and Anne and Amanda who also all working in at the San Francisco Center And I'm happy to answer questions afterwards for you as well. Happy to put you on the spot dear colleagues Are there any other questions we have probably time for one more question Could you wait for the microphone, please? Sorry, Mr. Berkeley Could you expand on your comments about the child health car card cards and how technology will improve? Thank you. Yeah, one of the Problems in the world in my world is the fact that a third of children are not registered And that is a problem for me to be able to track You know where we're missing children, but it also becomes a problem as they get older for example We know what girls are in school We don't know what girls are out of school and later on in life for taxation or for voting registries, etc What you'd love to have is universal registration, which is something we see in the West What's interesting is that since every family virtually gets a child health card when they have an immunization If you could link that to a vital registration, you would have that introduction It would be non-controversial. It wouldn't be associated with voting or other aspects So the question is how to do it and what we want to do is link that with the work that's going on on digital Identity and also on just being able to use digital technology to track births And in fact here at this Weff will announce as part of our infuse innovation for upscale and equity We will announce that this year's challenge will be in this area And so this is an example of where the the forum brings together lots of Entrepreneurial expertise in this and the center does and so there's an opportunity for us to work together to try to drive this forward Thank you very much if there are no further questions Let's be very Swiss and and this press conference on time. Thank you very much to all our panelists today here Thank you very much for the audience. Thank you for watching