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Innovation, Expansion, and the Global South’s Digital Shift

AI is reshaping how emerging markets innovate, scale, and compete—positioning the Global South as a driver of the next digital era. This session explores how advancements in robotics, platform ecosystems, and cross-border growth models are transforming opportunities across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The discussion will examine how AI-enabled innovation is lowering barriers to expansion, accelerating new industries, and creating a more multipolar digital economy.

WhatsApp Meetup

A meetup bringing together businesses, marketers, and regional WhatsApp Solution Providers to explore how WhatsApp for Business can drive smarter communication, stronger customer relationships, and scalable growth. The session highlights key opportunities from automation to conversational commerce while offering practical insights, real use cases and open networking between brands and the teams building these solutions.

Filming the Impossible

How do you capture the uncapturable? In this masterclass, Our Planet director Dan Tapster reveals the art and obsession behind filming the impossible moments of nature so unpredictable, dangerous, or fleeting they defy control. From the depths of the ocean to the peaks of frozen worlds, he shares the creative discipline, patience, and innovation required to turn chaos into cinema. A rare look at how the world’s most breathtaking natural moments are not just found, but earned.

Closing Remarks

Stories with an Agenda

Storytelling has long helped societies navigate power, policy, and crisis, informing, connecting, and challenging. Yet today, narratives are increasingly weaponized: 62% of Americans, according to a 2020 Pew study, cite social media as a major source of false information. How can we reclaim storytelling as a force for trust, inclusion, and impact, while guarding against manipulation?

The AI Rewrite of the Content Economy

Artificial intelligence is transforming how content is created, distributed, and consumed, upending traditional hierarchies across publishing, platforms, and advertising. As algorithms reshape what billions see, the very economics of attention are being rewritten. This session explores how AI is redefining the relationship between creators, distributors, and audiences: from personalization and automation to integrity and transparency. What does a sustainable, human-centered content economy look like when machines increasingly decide what’s shown, shared, and valued?