The World Economic Forum (WEF) will hold the 16th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), also known as “Summer Davos,” on June 24–26, 2022 in Tianjin, China. The agenda is already available online and reads like a roadmap for a technocratic future. Transhumanism, artificial intelligence, programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and the One Health Agenda are at its core.
Key themes: Technocratic restructuring of society
- Outlook for China
- Investing in people and the planet
- New energy sources and materials
- Disruption of entire industries
- Decoding the global economy
Klaus Schwab, the WEF’s founder, does not appear on the programme, having retired as Chairman of the Board in April. Instead, WEF President Børge Brende will join the “Trade: Trends and Endgames” session. WEF Managing Director Jeremy Jurgens will also be back, after his grim cyber-forecast in Davos 2023: “93% of cyber-computers and 86% of leaders expect a catastrophic cyber-event within two years, triggered by geopolitical instability.”
CBDCs as instruments of control
Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF and former Vice-Governor of the People’s Bank of China, will speak on the “Safeguarding Growth Engines” panel. As early as 2022 he declared: “CBDCs can be programmed to serve only specific people and specific purposes—food stamps, social benefits, for example.” He even praised China’s social-credit system as a model. The danger: a digitally driven economy with real-time behavioural regulation.
Taxation: water pricing and CO₂ levies as global templates
WEF Director Gim Huay Neo has already advocated for natural-capital accounting: “Why not price water just like CO₂?” Today, carbon pricing covers only 25% of global emissions—she argues it must reach 100%.
Neurotechnology: human-machine fusion as a solution?
The “Does Neurotechnology Redefine Well-being?” panel will explore brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for mental-health treatment. “Unleashing the Brain Economy” will look at how neurotech could support ageing societies—boosting productivity, adaptability and cognitive resilience.
Other major Summer Davos topics:
- Fusion of environment, animals and humans under the One Health approach (e.g. insect-borne diseases could affect 500 million more people by 2050)
- “Nature: a $10 trillion opportunity” – turning biodiversity preservation into profitable business models; nature-based solutions could generate $10 trillion in growth by 2030 with financial-sector participation
- Rise of machines: social robots and autonomous agents in classrooms, healthcare and fashion; future AI agents running entire corporate divisions, making decisions and executing tasks autonomously
- “Who Trusts the Machines?” – global attitudes toward AI (72% of Chinese express trust vs. 32% of Americans), covering self-driving vehicles and “machine ethics”
Conclusion: A technocratic paradigm shift within reach
The 2025 Summer Davos agenda is more than an economic-policy meeting—it’s a global unveiling of technocratic plans to transform society, the economy and human existence:
- Transhumanism: BCIs merging humans and machines
- One Health: integrating climate policy, veterinary medicine and pandemic preparedness
- Digital control: CBDCs, social-credit models and targeted welfare
- Natural-capital taxation: monetizing water, CO₂, soil and biodiversity
- AI dominance: digital agents replacing human decision-making
Though some topics sound futuristic, they’re being debated, strategized and politically primed in Tianjin—between panels, pilot projects and PowerPoint slides, the outlines of a new world order emerge, steered by algorithms, financial models and extra-legitimate global bodies. Whether this leads humanity to a better or more controlled future remains open—but the path is no longer behind closed doors; it’s becoming public and systematic.
The WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions took place June 24–26, 2025.
Translated and edited by: Flo