They’ve talked and talked and talked. In fact, some participants of the World Economic Forum’s plethora of events have been known to tell a selfdeprecating joke that goes something like this: Did you hear that the hot air generated by WEF panellists speaking about global warming resulted in a two-foot rise in world ocean levels?

True, the high profile business tycoons and politicians (not to mention the editors of this magazine) who gather in Davos, Switzerland, each year are fountains of knowledge who come armed with longwinded ideas that can change the world.

But do you ever wonder what happens to the ideas – indeed, all that talk – generated by the Davos conference and all the other regional WEF events throughout the year? If you do, we have the right WEF event for you.

At the end of this month, in Doha, Qatar, the World Economic Forum holds its Global Redesign Summit, the first time participants will begin putting into action a year’s worth of discussion groups and break-out sessions.

So what kind of proposals has a year’s worth of WEF events come up with? If you’re not fortunate enough to be invited to Doha (we at TRENDS are among the fortunate few), then take a look at what ideas world leaders will begin putting into action at the forum (at Davos it’s known as walking the walk):

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