The World Economic Forum announced Wednesday that it decided to postpone its upcoming annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, due to safety concerns and in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, CNBC reports. The meeting, originally scheduled for January in the Alpine ski resort, will be rescheduled to “early next summer,” according to Adrian Monck, managing director of public engagement at the Forum. “However, the advice from experts is that we cannot do so safely in January.”The World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos is routinely one of the globe’s largest collections of world leaders and corporate executives. The World Economic Forum also announced Wednesday that, instead of the in-person session, it will host a “high-level,” digital forum called “Davos Dialogues” during the week of Jan. 25, 2021. Monck said the platform will feature global leaders and offer them a chance to present ideas on the state of the world in 2021.

Source: The Standard August 26, 2020 15:33 UTC