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The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (WEF) brings together global leaders from various sectors to address major global issues and challenges. For 2025, participants convened in Davos, Switzerland from January 20 to 24 under the theme “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.”
As a strategic partner of WEF 2025, Hitachi participated in and organized various events—panel discussions, media engagements, and bilateral discussions—that called for critical collaboration and action on various issues such as climate, AI, digitalization, energy transition, and social innovation.
Panel Discussions
1.5°C: A Broken Promise or a Renewed Call to Action?
Join a panel of global leaders as they discuss that important question at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos, Switzerland, including our CEO Andreas Schierenbeck (Hitachi Energy), Sandrine Dixson-Declève (Club of Rome), Gail Whiteman (Arctic Basecamp), Ingmar Rentzhog (We Don't Have Time), Andrew Prag (We Mean Business Coalition) & Mayumi Sato (University of Cambridge) in collaboration with Arctic Basecamp and We Don't Have Time.
Why the energy supercycle is unstoppable
At this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Hitachi, Ltd. Executive Chairman Toshiaki Higashihara and Hitachi Energy CEO Andreas Schierenbeck, with Elisabeth V. Vardheim (Statnett) and Gerard Reid (Alexa Capital), participate in a Davos accredited program session on January 22 to explore the parallels between today’s energy landscape and offer insights into how global stakeholders can drive change to address the climate crises.