Facts and media information

Davos Catalyst is a private, curated AI summit held in Davos, Switzerland, from 12 to 15 January 2027, convening up to 200 investors, founders, corporate leaders and researchers in the week before the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.

The summit is convened around four themes: AI infrastructure, enterprise AI, sovereign and defence AI, and AI and capital. Participation is by invitation or application only, and there is no open ticket sale.

Davos Catalyst takes place from 12 to 15 January 2027 at the Davos Event Lounge in the Rätia Center, Promenade 40, CH-7270 Davos Platz, Switzerland. The opening dinner is on the evening of 12 January, the main summit programme runs on 13 and 14 January, and the summit closes with a ski race and a mountain lunch on 15 January.

Davos Catalyst takes place in the week before the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. It is an independent, privately hosted event and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the World Economic Forum.

The summit is capped at 200 participants: investors and family offices, founders and CEOs, corporate decision-makers, and senior scientists and researchers. The room is curated by hand and attendance is personal and non-transferable.

Keynotes and panels, interactive roundtables, closed-door deal rooms, a structured one-to-one meeting programme, a media studio, and hosted dinners each evening. Participation includes every dinner, every meeting, accommodation and the Mountain Finale.

• Lola Woetzel — Founder & Managing Partner, Global6
• Ulrich Ahle — Chief Executive Officer, Gaia-X
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto — Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST
• Alexandra Beckstein — Founder & CEO, QAI Ventures
• Alexander Betz — Chief Executive Officer, Degussa Group
• Tom Clausen — Partner, Petram Ventures
• Pascal Kaufmann — Founder, Lab42 and Co-Founder, AlpineAI
• Prof. Dr. Martin Hrabě de Angelis — Chair of Experimental Genetics, TUM; Research Director, Helmholtz Munich
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Burkert — WE Heraeus Seniorprofessor of theoretical astrophysics, LMU Munich

Further speakers and the full programme are shared with confirmed participants.

Davos Catalyst is organised by LDS Switzerland AG, a Swiss company, and is privately initiated and independently run. Full legal details are set out in the imprint.

Further detail is set out in the frequently asked questions about the summit, and participation begins with an application for an invitation.

DATAcated, Unite.AI and GRdigital are the media partners for Davos Catalyst 2027 and cover the summit and the work behind it.

DATAcated is a New York media company working with organisations in data, analytics and artificial intelligence. It produces and amplifies original content — interviews, explainers, newsletters and event coverage — and connects companies with speakers, trainers and experts in the field. It also supports conferences before, during and after the event, and reaches a large community of data and AI professionals.

Unite.AI is an independent publication covering artificial intelligence: research, enterprise deployment, funding and the people behind it. Its team is distributed across several countries and reports on how AI is actually used in healthcare, cybersecurity, robotics, finance and education, beyond the hype. It also examines governance, safety and the longer-term questions the technology raises.

GRdigital is the Canton of Graubünden's specialist organisation for digital transformation. The association connects business, education, tourism and public administration, supports SMEs and tourism organisations through its specialist teams, and brings together more than 130 expert council members. Its aim is for Graubünden not merely to experience digital transformation, but to actively shape it.

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