World Economic Forum 2025

The 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, centered around the theme "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age", will provide an important space to delve into the fundamental principles of Rebuilding Trust, Reimagining Growth, and Safeguarding the Planet. 

This Annual Meeting is set to welcome over 2,500 leaders from diverse sectors, including government, business and civil society, as well as esteemed scientific, academic, and cultural thinkers. 

Holcim will host several events dedicated to advancing decarbonization and circularity within the built environment. Dialogue will focus on the significance of innovation and collaboration in making cities circular and resilient.

The transition to circular construction demands reimagining of how we design, build and procure. Designers and developers are rethinking buildings from the ground up, creating structures that prioritize adaptability, longevity and material reuse. Industries and entrepreneurs are pioneering new ways to manufacture, use and recycle materials, transforming the construction sector into a driver of sustainability, while public procurers are setting new standards that lead the way toward significant system change. 

Together with Goals House, Holcim will explore the interplay between innovative design, sustainable material manufacturing, and forward-thinking procurement policies.

Today’s built environment delivers the essentials for human life on an astonishing scale. Cities provide unique ecosystems that can be adapted to accelerate the integration of living architecture, particularly in dense urban areas. With evolving infrastructure needs, the broad “built environment” sector has an opportunity to embark on a gradual transformation whereby our cities, neighborhoods and built places become the engines of a thriving future where humans and nature co-evolve and prosper. 

Holcim is hosting a dinner-debate with leading voices in the built environment to explore innovative ways to unleash a nature-positive transformation of our buildings and our cities.

The future of sustainable and circular cities lies in rethinking the materials that build them. Entrepreneurs are pioneering new ways to manufacture, use and recycle materials, transforming construction and associated industries into drivers of sustainability. With advanced technologies breaking down barriers, industries long seen as challenging to decarbonize now find themselves leading the charge toward important systemic change. 

This high-level panel with representatives from across the entrepreneurial, investment, business, regulatory and policy making spheres will focus on highlighting and championing the significance of disruptive innovations in developing sustainable construction practices in urban hubs.