World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2024 will convene leaders from government, business, and civil society to address the state of the world and discuss priorities for the year ahead. This year’s theme, Rebuilding Trust, aims to provide the crucial space to step back and focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.
Leaders from across our global businesses will be on the ground participating in public and private Marsh McLennan-led events to advance conversations to help clients and communities find clarity in an uncertain world and expand what is possible - for our health, our climate, our economy, and our work. Together, we can shape a more resilient future.
Transform your workforce through generative AI
Mercer
Generative AI is reshaping work, the workforce and the HR function. Organizations have a real opportunity to use AI to reinvent work and transform the work experience. Embracing generative AI through experimentation and learning offers considerable advantages, including higher efficiency, increased productivity and an improved customer experience.
Deep dive into the rise and influence of AI in the HR function by joining our exclusive Generative AI Forum. Stay ahead of the game by connecting with peers across multiple industries and learning from Mercer experts who are leaders in digital strategy, transformation, HR technology, vendor selection and generative AI.
Reinvent your operating model with a focus on skills
Mercer
Mercer helps organizations reinvent work for greater agility, sustainability and impact. We support companies across all industries to realize exponential gains in performance by assisting them in identifying the crucial skills they need to achieve their business objectives, deploying AI and automation to maximum advantage, and building talent platforms to create the flexibility to meet evolving market demands.
We can help you become more skills-focused and future-ready. Learn how we help organizations redesign their operating models to thoughtfully incorporate AI while shifting to skills-based approaches that enable the seamless deployment of talent to work.
Optimize your investment portfolios
Mercer Investments
Balancing investor risks, returns and reputational requirements, has become an increasingly complex challenge. Investors need to be in a position to make efficient decisions. They therefore need access to the right expertise and resources. That’s why many investors are looking externally for strategic portfolio management advice, access to manager research and support with asset allocation and day-to-day operations.
Investors are using Mercer’s outsourced investment solutions to address cost pressures, operational inefficiencies, resource constraints, regulatory changes, manager sourcing, accessing private market opportunities and impact investing, and integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into portfolios,.
We offer research, financial tools and investment solutions to help you achieve your investment goals. Consider us your outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO). Working as an extension of your team, we address issues such as investment governance and due diligence. We also cover risk mitigation, sustainability, alternative investments, and cost management. We flex our services to suit your requirements and determine the best way to future-proof your portfolio.
Simplify global benefits program management
Mercer Marsh Benefits
As employers expand their operations globally, they need to consider the scope and level of benefits they provide for increasingly diverse and mobile workforces. This includes understanding the range of health and well-being risks in each location and their impact on employee productivity and engagement. Global benefits management offers multinational organizations an effective way to manage insured employee benefits worldwide for all their employees.
Global or regional arrangements offer visibility, control, and cost savings and ensure consistency in governance while delivering solutions based on local country needs. We can help you design, build, finance, automate and manage your global or regional program to attract and keep top talent, meeting where you are on your journey, and bringing vertical sector expertise and benchmarking, local insights from 150+ countries, new ideas and new ways of working. Mercer Marsh Benefits helps unlock a simpler way to manage your programs globally and regionally to deliver benefits that truly benefit.
Improve employee wellbeing and business resilience
Mercer Marsh Benefits
The future of work depends on healthy, focused employees, while employee health and well-being influences productivity, safety, business continuity, employer brand, organizational performance and benefit costs.
Organizations need to keep costs to a minimum and protect the bottom line, while also meeting changing regulations, managing complex risk exposures, and simplifying program administration. Organizations also want to invest in their people — attract and retain the best talent and give employees benefits that truly benefit themselves and loved ones. We understand the importance of balancing both.
Workplace well-being programs are effective tools in improving employee productivity, health and well-being. Mercer Marsh Benefits helps organizations with access to high-quality, accessible and affordable health care, and the use of digital health to engage employees in a more personalized, social and convenient way. Mercer Marsh Benefits can help you understand how health impacts your employees and your business, and build a roadmap with transformative solutions using proven methodologies and analytical tools.
Identify, monitor and anticipate emerging credit risks
Oliver Wyman and Dow Jones
Harnessing state-of-the-art AI and natural language processing developed by Oliver Wyman, this unique, predictive solution analyzes thousands of global news sources in Factiva to identify indicators of emerging risks, such as financial distress and operational disruption as well as liquidity and fraud concerns. These signals surface in news media up to three months before major risk events, serving as a transparent and accurate early warning system for corporate credit risk.
Factiva Sentiment Signals enables organizations to monitor, anticipate and mitigate unprecedented credit events before they disrupt business operations and create adverse financial impact. An intuitive, easy-to-use application, Factiva Sentiment Signals provides ranked daily scoring and data visualizations showcasing patterns, trends and market shifts over time. Interactive charts link to the underlying news articles in Factiva’s unrivaled global collection, providing complete transparency and unique explainability of the relevant themes emerging in the news. Signals are captured from thousands of licensed news sources covering over 300,000 private and public companies.
Measure, monitor and manage carbon emissions
Oliver Wyman
Science-based targets and new regulatory reporting requirements are making emissions disclosure mandatory, presenting a fresh challenge for business leaders. Calculating and declaring emissions is a legal duty and requires a strategy for how to grow your business while reducing emissions.
Oliver Wyman’s 3D Carbon Accounting team delivers emissions reporting to leaders in sustainability. As one of the world’s leading strategy consultancies, we can help you deliver your decarbonization programs, validate your science-based target initiative (SBTi) goals and prepare you for upcoming regulatory disclosures. We employ a rigorous process to establish or validate a baseline for your Scope 3 emissions. Using our dynamic tool and drawing on our deep regulatory and industry expertise, we work together to enable your company to meet its reporting obligations and model future emissions and abatement scenarios to help deliver your targets.
Build a robust sustainable investment strategy
Mercer
Mercer can help you build or optimize a sustainable investment strategy that aims to help you navigate tomorrow's challenges and regulatory changes. Drawing on two decades of experience, our global team looks at progress against peers, identifies potential changes to asset allocation and assesses your portfolio's capacity to transition, delivering research, advice, tools and solutions to help you manage your risk profile while seeking favourable returns along your journey. We will produce annual progress reports on emissions, alongside carbon intensity reports.
Mitigate the risk of cyberattacks through cyber insurance
Marsh
The construction industry faces an increasing risk of cyberattacks as it becomes more digitalized. A report by the National Cyber Security Centre and the Chartered Institute of Building highlights that construction businesses are seen as easy targets by cyber criminals, with smaller companies reluctant to invest in cybersecurity measures. Spear phishing attacks, which target construction businesses due to their extensive use of subcontractors and suppliers, are also rising.
Because of these increasing risks, the demand for cyber insurance has increased, but there is still a lack of understanding about its value and the process for securing coverage. Marsh addresses some of the most common myths in cyber insurance.
Counter the catastrophic risks of climate change
Guy Carpenter
Climate change is increasingly influencing the frequency and severity of natural catastrophe perils, with physical climate risk creating acute and chronic threats. At the same time, the shift to a less-polluting, lower-carbon economy is spawning multiple transition risks.
Guy Carpenter brings you an integrated range of services designed to address multiple facets of physical risks related to climate change while leveraging the power of other Marsh McLennan businesses to tackle even more aspects of risk.
Marsh McLennan helps clients and communities bring clarity to their view of present and future risks and opportunities. See how the power of perspective creates the vision and confidence to act and thrive in an uncertain world.
Our series of events at Davos are designed to spark discussion and action on a range of issues facing business leaders in today's uncertain world, including the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work, the state of the global financial system, addressing health services gaps through financing and technology, accelerating nature-positive policies for cities, mitigating climate-related health-risk and reimagining work, retirement and society in an ageing world.
Monday, January 15
LinkedIn Live: Tapping AI's Power to Optimize our Working World
Panelists: Ravin Jesuthasan and Ana Kreacic
A new day has dawned, and generative AI is transforming rapidly how employers and individuals navigate the workplace every day. For some this means reimagining work so that organizations can run more efficiently, and for others it means reflecting on how generative AI can augment human creativity, critical thinking, and empathy.
As world leaders convene in Davos, we invite you inside the walls of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting to hear from our experts on one of the most pressing issues facing modern organizations. Join our LIVE broadcast from Davos as we explore the steps leading-edge companies can take to realize an optimized working world where human performance is elevated and amplified through the thoughtful and targeted use of artificial intelligence.
Tuesday, January 16
Future of Work: Tapping AI’s power to optimize our working world
Hosted by Mercer and Oliver Wyman, this discussion will explore steps leading-edge companies take toward realizing a vision of an optimized working world where human performance is elevated and amplified through the thoughtful and targeted use of artificial intelligence.
Financial Services: Exploring the state of the global financial system
Hosted by Oliver Wyman, this discussion will examine the state of the global financial system. We will uncover opportunities for global leaders, how investors are adjusting portfolios, the impact of new technologies, the role of regulation and how we see the financial sector evolving.
Wednesday, January 17
Health: Breaking barriers to health access bit by byte
Hosted by Mercer Marsh Benefits, this discussion will investigate the need for sustainable and inclusive healthcare financing models in the face of new challenges and explore the pivotal role of digital innovation and what organizations are doing to shape a future where healthcare is accessible and affordable for all.
Nature and Cities: Accelerating nature-positive policies for cities
Hosted by Oliver Wyman, this discussion will explore policies to advance nature-positive capital and the roles of regulators, policymakers, municipalities and cities, and the private sector. We will share experiences and key learnings from cities already implementing nature-positive policies.
Longevity: Reimagining Work, Retirement and Society
In this World Economic Forum Affiliate Session, hosted by Mercer, will explore how organizations can continue to thrive as workforce demographics change due to population aging, including redefining retirement, evolving jobs and skill-building, and supporting employees to be financially resilient, longer.
LinkedIn Live: Breaking barriers to health access bit by byte
Panelists: Joan Collar, Amy Laverock, Ricardo De Almeida, Danielle Guzman
Embracing digital solutions, along with financially sustainable approaches, is no longer just a choice but a necessity. Together we can help shape a world where healthcare is more accessible and affordable for all. Join us for a lively discussion as we explore how tech and financing can create sustainable paths to healthcare that truly benefits all.
Thursday, January 18
Strategies to Mitigate Climate-Related Health Risk
In this World Economic Forum Affiliate Session, hosted by Oliver Wyman, the panel will delve into the critical intersection of climate and health and focus on the development of robust mitigation strategies to address anticipated climate-related risks to human health. Experts will explore innovative approaches and solutions - including private sector incentivization - to safeguard communities against the health impacts of climate change, ensuring a healthier and more resilient future for all.
LinkedIn Live: Reimagining Work, Retirement & Society
Panelists: Philip Parkinson, CFA, Cara Williams and Graham Pearce
An aging global population poses unique challenges to employers, communities and individuals. How can we redefine retirement, evolve jobs and skill-building, and better support individuals’ financial resilience through longer lives?
In our WEF24 LinkedIn Live, we’re bringing the themes and discussions from Davos directly to you with a wide-ranging discussion on the future of retirement around the world. From state-run pension systems to new investment strategies to reimagined career paths, discover the most innovative strategies and emerging themes as global organizations grapple with shifting demographics and multigenerational workforces in the years to come.
Ukraine House Panel Sponsored by MMC: Enabling Recovery and Reconstruction: Investment Opportunities and Risk Insurance
Panel:
- John Doyle, CEO, Marsh McLennan
- Rostyslav Shurma, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
- Matteo Patrone, Managing Director, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus (EEC), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Julie Monaco, Global Head, Public Sector Group, Citi
- Andy Hunder, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (moderator)
A vivid example of Ukraine’s economic recovery starting now is the country having regained 4,5% of its GDP in terms of growth, amidst a war. Showing unprecedented economic resilience, Ukraine remains open for business, and with the support of its international partners enlarges its investment framework and creates access to insurance solutions. The panel will explore how existing and new possibilities will help build a better Ukraine, fueled by real investments and real returns, and keys to unlocking such investments.
These events are run on an invite-only basis, however if your organization is attending Davos and is interested in being a part of these conversations or your delegation would like to meet with ours, please register your interest here.
The report outlines the major risks the world will be facing in the coming years and anticipates a future characterized by an almost inconceivable degree of change.
The report outlines the major risks the world will be facing in the coming years and anticipates a future characterized by an almost inconceivable degree of change.