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Next, it was time to meet the Shapers in the main hall for a photo op with Muhtar Kent, CEO of Coca-Cola, our largest sponsor of the Global Shapers program, and Klaus Schwab. From there, I ventured to the Africa tent with my roommate and some friends from our hall, and had a great time getting to know them better. Afterwards, I trekked up the mountain to a women’s leadership dinner. It was really neat to interact with so many successful women, some of whom were simply overwhelmingly humble, even when they were huge names in their country and beyond. We broke into table discussions on women mentoring women. 



kicked off the day with an early morning private session with a Global Agenda Council on how to engage tomorrow’s consumer in sustainability choices. I sat in a room with thirty executives who came from household-name companies. They welcomed my input on how to engage Millennials, as well as children. This was my first real experience of the week in getting to be so front-line with such powerful decision-makers. I loved getting to hear their thinking processes, and also to be able to engage in a dialogue.

We dove into project management, since that’s the bulk of our work as Hubs. Some tips that stood out to me were to mobilize our Hub members with key talking points about projects, so our message is consistent. BBC interview. The theme of Davos as being multi-layered. On the surface, you have the 500 sessions offered from Wednesday to Saturday in the Congress Centre The next layer down are private (invite-only) meetings for the Global Agenda Councils, working on everything from engaging consumers in sustainability choices, to the global epidemic of youth unemployment, to entrepreneurship, to tech innovations, and many more. Beyond that there are meetings (also known as bi-laterals) between any combination of people you can imagine.