Welcome back to Exponential View. I'm Azimazar, and this is a special episode, a collection of

live dispatches I recorded on the ground at Davos, 2026. Over four days at the World Economic Forum's

annual meeting, I brought you into the corridors, the cues and the conversations as they happened.

From the unprecedented buzz around Donald Trump's arrival, Mark Carney's

stirring call for sovereignty and the practical realities of AI adoption in enterprise.

This is Davos as I experienced it.

On day one, I had just arrived at the Congress Center.

The big story everyone was talking about was, of course, Trump.

He would be speaking in a couple of days and the geopolitical tension was palpable.

But to begin with, my focus was tracking three things.

The state of AI and its move into enterprise, the

startup ecosystem and the energy transition. Welcome everyone. It's Azim here and I'm in Davos

for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. This is day one of some very brief

Sub-Sat Live reports I will give. Donald Trump is going to be here. He's going to be

speaking on Wednesday. It is a momentous moment, I think, given all of the tensions in the world

today, the geopolitics of it, shall we say, is a little bit frenetic and frantic. We have had, of course,

Venezuela, but now the Greenland issue and the frictions between the

US and European nations, many of whose leaders are going to be here, Macon speaking as well

this week. So that is perhaps part of the overarching mood. It's meant that there are more political

leaders than usual here. Of course, the other thing that is going on and the other

major question is our world, it's artificial intelligence. And again, this year, lots of the

top bosses from the AI firms are in town, lots of philanthropic, from cohere, from you.com.

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