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The program agenda for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 16th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), aka “Summer Davos,” in Tianjian, China is now online, and the meeting will tackle issues like transhumanism, AI agents, and the One Health Agenda, among others, from June 24-26.

Over the course of three days this year’s WEF AMNC in communist China will hold multiple sessions surrounding five key themes:

Outlook on China
Investing in People and Planet
New Energy and Materials
Industries Disrupted
Deciphering the World Economy

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Another name familiar to The Sociable readers that will be speaking on a panel called “Safeguarding Growth Engines” is International Monetary Fund (IMF) deputy managing director and staunch Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) advocate Bo Li.

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At last year’s AMNC, Neo talked about putting nature on the balance sheet, including putting prices on water similar to that of carbon taxes.

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“You could have […] a potentially better — or some people might say a darker world — where the government decides that units of central bank money can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography, or something of the sort, and that is very powerful in terms of the use of a CBDC, and I think also extremely dangerous to central banks.”

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Transhumanism: with the merger of humans and machines through brain-computer interfaces.

One Health: with the merger of climate change and healthcare initiatives under the umbrella of planetary health.

Taxing Nature: with the idea that in addition to carbon pricing, there should also be taxes on the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the soil we walk upon.

Rise of the Machines: with the idea that one day AI bots may replace not just our jobs, but also our friends, doctors, teachers, along with how we continue to delegate our decision making to the machines.

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