00:00We do a disruption index every year to measure the amount of concern and trepidation of CEOs,
00:07global CEOs. And I think that given dealing with COVID and dealing with uncertainty,
00:14supply chain disruptions, war in Ukraine, all of those challenges globally have made CEO and
00:22leaders a bit more resilient, a bit more prepared for whatever comes their way. And it's refreshing.
00:29Now, 60% tariffs will be tough for anyone to deal with. But I like to think that as the market,
00:36we're going to be looking at deals being made versus, you know, decisions that will have
00:43long standing ramifications that no one really wants.
00:46So Trump has said that it's going to be tariffs all the way, you know, other parts of the world
00:51could say, okay, let's work with that and just absorb the extra costs, or they could bring in
00:55their own duties regime. What's your take on the world becoming more protectionist?
01:01Well, we're such a globally integrated economy, the supply chains, I just mentioned disruption
01:07from the supply chains happened because the war in Ukraine and the impacts were far standing
01:13around the world. So I think protectionism, in my opinion, is a bad idea. I think that
01:20trying to find common ground, and the right approach to what makes sense from a pricing
01:25perspective, from a protection of IP perspective, a protection of one shores perspective,
01:31is is inevitable. But I'd like to think that we are going to be able to come up with something
01:36a bit more collaborative. Look, it's the it's the spirit of what we're working on right now
01:41here in Davos is is collaboration.
01:44You haven't mentioned intelligence, you haven't mentioned artificial intelligence,
01:47you haven't mentioned sustainability, those are top of the agenda, right?
01:52Top of the agenda. And what's driving if you think about the leaps and bounds in AI,
01:58and what that means from the insatiable need for data also means insatiable need for electricity
02:03and power, which goes right toward what are sustainable solutions? How do we get to the
02:09energy transition that we all want, while still dealing with the exponential increase in demand
02:14that we're seeing?
02:16We will hear keynote speakers from world leaders and heads of institution, among them
02:20China's Vice President Jingshui Zhang. That's going to be interesting. But who else are you
02:25most interested in hearing from?
02:28Well, I always like hearing from the tech guys, because it right now, we're such a tech driven
02:34business economy. So I'm interested in hearing from the AI guys, the folks from Palantir,
02:42because they deal with big data in massive amounts and make it understandable.
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