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Switzerland succeeds in business not because it is mysterious, but because it is systemically reliable. Its model combines political neutrality, legal predictability, decentralised federalism, a hard-currency tradition, and extreme specialisation in high-value sectors. Basel matters because it is not only a Swiss city: it is one of the world’s rule-making capitals for finance, home to the BIS and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Zurich matters because it concentrates banking, insurance and asset management. Geneva matters because diplomacy and commodities trading intersect there. And the wider Swiss economy matters because it still manufactures globally valuable things — drugs, instruments, engineering systems, watches, diagnostics, specialty chemicals — at a scale few rich service economies still manage.
From 9 to 12 July 2026, Davos, Switzerland, will become a meeting point for a new kind of global leadership: young founders, visionary educators, business angels, investors, diplomats, trade representatives, policymakers, and innovation leaders. The 26th Startup World Cup Championship 2026 will gather some of the world’s most forward-looking entrepreneurial and intellectual communities to evaluate youth-led startups and select the best projects of the year as World Champions 2026.
The Championship is part of a broader international movement dedicated to practical entrepreneurship education, innovation, and business diplomacy. According to the official Davos event listing, the Startup World Cup Championship brings together young and mature entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, entrepreneurs, and government representatives from more than 35 countries, with projects assessed by an international jury across innovation, feasibility, scalability, and business potential. (davos.ch)
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On March 1, 2026, World Woman Club opened the anniversary season of its 20th jubilee — a journey that began in 2006 and, according to the club’s official materials, was formally registered on March 1, 2007. This jubilee year is envisioned not as a single evening or one ceremonial event, but as an entire international season of recognition, remembrance, and a renewed vision for the future.
The summer culmination of the celebrations will take place in Davos as part of the World Woman Forum 2026, with a gala celebration on July 12, marking the high point of this historic year.
Over twenty years, World Woman Club has grown from the idea of uniting strong and ambitious women into a full-fledged international ecosystem. The club defines its mission as bringing together women leaders and women’s organisations from around the world into one multilingual global network for real progress, business cooperation, and global development. What began as a bold initiative has evolved into a respected international platform that connects women across countries, cultures, industries, and generations.
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Every year, leading entrepreneurs from five continents who are interested in developing business connections, studying and supporting innovation, establishing new trade missions, and shaping a global business civilisation gather at GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK — an international platform for a series of business forums and strategic corporate retreats.
GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK 2026 is the world’s leading arena for business diplomacy. It is a next-generation format: a trade initiative, an entrepreneurial diplomacy platform, and a continuously operating ecosystem of international business connections, where entrepreneurs gain access not only to knowledge and networking, but also to practical tools for entering the global arena.
The global economy is entering 2026 not in a state of collapse, but in a state of deep structural transition. The old sources of growth — cheap energy, globalisation without geopolitical borders, low interest rates, unlimited supply chains and predictable trade — no longer work in the same way. The world is still growing, but the quality, geography and logic of that growth are changing.
The key question for 2026 is no longer simply: “How fast will the global economy grow?”
The more important question is: “Where will growth come from?”
The answer is complex. Growth will not come from one sector, one country or one technological breakthrough. It will come from the interaction of several forces: artificial intelligence, defence and security industries, energy transition, infrastructure modernisation, demographic shifts, new consumer markets, industrial relocation, food security, digital finance, education, healthcare and the rise of middle powers.
In other words, the world economy is moving from an era of passive globalisation to an era of strategic growth.
The first major source of global growth in 2026 is artificial intelligence.
AI is no longer only a technology sector. It is becoming a general-purpose infrastructure for the whole economy. It affects finance, logistics, medicine, education, manufacturing, agriculture, defence, retail, media, law, public administration and scientific research.