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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2027 (Davos)

Name: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2027 (Davos)
Start: 2027-01-18
Location: Switzerland

Monday, January 18, 2027 · 74 days away

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Event overview

WEF Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland; convenes ~3,000 global business, government, and civil-society leaders.

Date: 2027-01-18
Country / jurisdiction: Switzerland
Region: Europe
Category: Political
Status: scheduled

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Source trail for World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2027 (Davos)

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Primary source

weforum.org

Last reviewed

2026-04-30

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What this countdown tracks

The clock above counts down to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2027 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, expected to begin on Monday, January 18, 2027. The five-day gathering convenes around 3,000 senior leaders from business, government, civil society, and academia, framing the year's geopolitical and economic-policy agenda before the spring G7 and G20 cycles begin.

About this summit

The WEF Annual Meeting is held every January at the Davos Congress Centre and the two main town hotels — Belvédère and Steigenberger — with the open public Promenade hosting national pavilions and corporate "houses." It is the longest-running of the WEF's flagship gatherings, dating to 1971 when Klaus Schwab founded what was then the European Management Forum. The Forum is a Swiss not-for-profit foundation under the supervision of the Swiss federal government.

The 2027 edition lands at a particularly delicate moment for multilateralism: the second Trump administration's trade and AI posture, the EU's Defence Readiness Strategy, the post-COP31 climate-finance debate, and the global AI-safety regime under the EU AI Act will all dominate. Davos serves as the year's first major coordination point between CEOs, finance ministers, and central-bank governors before the spring IMF-World Bank meetings.

Agenda

Expect headline tracks on AI governance and frontier-model deployment, the global trade order and economic security, climate finance after Antalya, the future of work after generative-AI adoption, mineral and energy security, and global health architecture. The annual Global Risks Report typically launches the week before the meeting, and the Forum's Industry Strategy Officers and Champions communities run technical sessions throughout.

Past meetings

2026: WEF Annual Meeting Davos, January 19–23, 2026.
2025: WEF Annual Meeting Davos, January 20–24, 2025 — "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age."
2024: WEF Annual Meeting Davos, January 15–19, 2024.
2023: WEF Annual Meeting Davos, January 16–20, 2023.
2022: WEF Annual Meeting Davos in May 2022 — pandemic-rescheduled spring edition.

How to follow

Plenary sessions stream live on weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting and on the WEF YouTube channel. CNBC, Bloomberg TV, the Financial Times, and Reuters anchor on-site coverage. Standard hashtag: #wef27 or #Davos2027.

Pair this with peer multilateral milestones: G7 UK 2027, G20 UK 2027, G7 Évian 2026, APEC Shenzhen 2026, and BRICS Summit 2027.

FAQ

When is Davos 2027? Expected Monday, January 18 to Friday, January 22, 2027. Where is it held? Davos-Klosters, Graubünden, Switzerland — primarily at the Congress Centre. Why does Davos matter? It is the year's first major convening of CEOs, government leaders, and multilateral chiefs, and frames the policy agenda before the spring G7/G20 cycle. Is Davos open to the public? No — admission is by WEF invitation, but plenaries are streamed live and free.

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Scheduled date

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2027 (Davos) is tracked as a scheduled event. The date is suitable for countdown and calendar use, while final logistics should still be checked against the linked source.

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https://www.weforum.org/

Source host: weforum.org
Date precision: Single scheduled date from the linked source
Schema posture: Event startDate emitted because the record is single-date and scheduled/confirmed
Planning boundary: Use as a monitoring aid until the source trail is stronger

Structured data posture

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Date-first scheduled countdown

Evidence score

5/10 record signals

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Held to date-first

Evidence score5/10 signals present: primary source URL; tracked date; schema-safe date; place context; related event cluster
Date and schemaSchema-safe single date: Single-date event without a reliable public start time; date-first countdown only. Event structured data is emitted because the record is single-date and scheduled or confirmed.
Local-time readinessDate-first only: The record is not used as a city-local event page until it has a reliable time, timezone, and non-windowed date.
Record completeness1 concrete fields: country Switzerland
Weak-field watchlist4 fields to improve: verified public start time; venue; manual official-source note; historical sequence
Source freshnessweforum.org; reviewed 2026-04-30: Related crawl path: World Economic Forum 2027 (Davos), UK National Archives Cabinet Papers Release (1996/97), EU Deforestation Regulation — Application Date, G20 Miami Leaders' Summit.

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How to use this World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2027 (Davos) countdown

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Date confidence

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2027 (Davos) is tracked as scheduled for Monday, January 18, 2027; the countdown can support reminders while final logistics still belong to weforum.org. The page can emit precise Event structured data because the tracked record has a single scheduled or confirmed date.

What could change

Watch for date shifts, venue or access updates, broadcast windows, registration rules, and source corrections. The current precision is: Single-date event without a reliable public start time; date-first countdown only..

Local-time usefulness

No reliable source start time is attached yet, so the page stays date-first and avoids implying a midnight start. 74 days remain at render time.

Category context

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2027 (Davos) sits in Political with country Switzerland. Related countdown links should help users compare similar events, not create unverified event-city pages.

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Verification trail

source URL https://www.weforum.org/. trust checks: Source host: weforum.org, Date precision: Single scheduled date from the linked source, Schema posture: Event startDate emitted because the record is single-date and scheduled/confirmed, and Planning boundary: Use as a monitoring aid until the source trail is stronger. no manual editorial context is attached yet.

Record completeness

present fields: country Switzerland. missing or weak fields: verified public start time, venue, manual official-source note, and historical sequence

Related crawl path

Nearby retained events: World Economic Forum 2027 (Davos), UK National Archives Cabinet Papers Release (1996/97), EU Deforestation Regulation — Application Date, G20 Miami Leaders' Summit, and Iran Nuclear Strike One-Year Anniversary. These links should support topical discovery without creating unverified event-city pages.

Review boundary: this page tracks the public date signal, source link, category, region, and calendar posture. It does not replace official ticketing, exchange, broadcaster, organizer, court, regulator, or government notices.

Source reviewed Apr 30, 2026. The countdown record is intentionally labeled as scheduled or expected; use the source link and any range notes before treating the date as final.

Live values rendered at Nov 5, 8:16 PM UTC.

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