Overview

Partnering with the World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum Annual Meetings unite global leaders from business, government and civil society to address pressing challenges and foster economic resilience. This year, NTT DATA is proud to deepen its engagement, driving responsible innovation and shaping a more inclusive, sustainable future.

The upcoming World Economic Forum Annual Meeting will take place from 19-25 January 2026.

Insights

Featured insights

Explore our latest insights on topics related to Davos 2026.
This year’s theme, “A Spirit of Dialogue,” calls on leaders across industries, regions, and generations to tackle global challenges—like AI, energy, and sustainability—through innovation, trust, and collaboration.

As AI transforms global banking, three industry leaders explore how to build trust in the digital age without losing the empathy that makes banking human.

A playbook for organization and government leaders to advance responsible AI innovation, which provides nine essential plays across three key dimensions of responsible AI.

This insights report sets out principles and practices for creating environments where innovation serves as a means to address humanity’s most pressing challenges.

At the WEF, global leaders confront the risks and opportunities of rapid AI adoption, driven by breakthroughs like DeepSeek.

John Lombard, CEO of NTT DATA Asia-Pacific, explores how agentic AI is reshaping business strategies and decision-making.

The future is here, and agentic AI is your ticket to a new era of business. Are you ready to reimagine your organization?

Our CEOs

Yutaka Sasaki

President and CEO, NTT DATA Group Corporation

At NTT DATA, we believe in the human impact of AI.

We bring real stories to life through technology-led transformation, creating tangible value for clients, society, and our people. Guided by responsibility, quality, and sustainability, we leverage emerging technologies to shape what’s next—responsibly.

This vision is embodied in our Three Positive approach:

  • Planet Positive – advancing net-zero goals and environmental responsibility
  • Prosperity Positive – driving sustainable business growth
  • People Positive – engaging employees to foster a culture of sustainability

We see AI as a force to unlock human potential. Through AI for Human Impact, we promote human-in-the-loop systems that ensure ethical, accurate, and purpose-driven innovation.

NTT DATA stands at the forefront of Responsible Innovation—building an intelligent, inclusive, and sustainable future.

Together, let’s create lasting change.

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Abhijit Dubey

President and Chief Executive Officer | Chief AI Officer, NTT DATA, Inc.

The World Economic Forum is a vital platform for shaping our shared future through dialogue. This year’s theme, “A Spirit of Dialogue,” is timely as we face geopolitical fragmentation, economic uncertainty, and the transformative rise of artificial intelligence. In this environment, open collaboration is the key to progress.

At NTT DATA, we believe innovation must serve humanity. AI can redefine progress—but only if developed responsibly. Responsible AI is a shared duty, grounded in transparency, ethics, and empathy.

Our partnership with the Forum reflects this belief, though initiatives like the Centers for Fourth Industrial Revolution, Advanced Manufacturing, Nature and Climate, and Urban Transformation. Innovation without dialogue risks isolation; dialogue without action risks irrelevance. Together, we can make the age of AI not just intelligent—but profoundly human.

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Activities

Our WEF centre activities

Each WEF centre concentrates on a specific domain and embodies WEF’s mission to improve the state of the world by fostering dialogue and action across sectors and regions.

Engagement

Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026

When: January 2026
Where: Davos, Switzerland

Workshop: Unlocking the Potential of AI-First Enterprises

When: October 2025
Where: San Francisco, USA

Urban Transformation Summit 2025

When: October 2025
Where: San Francisco, USA

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When: May 2025
Where: Milan, Italy

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Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2025

When: September 2025
Where: New York, USA

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Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2025

When: June 2025
Where: Tianjin, China

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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025

When: January 2025
Where: Davos, Switzerland

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Delegates

Our delegates

Delegates

Anne-Sophie Lotegering

CEO, Europe, NTT DATA Inc

Anne-Sophie Lotgering leads NTT DATA’s European operations and serves on the global Executive Leadership Team. With over two decades of experience in IT and telecom, she has held senior roles at Proximus NXT IT, Orange Group and Microsoft. She is recognized for driving digital transformation and client-focused innovation across cloud, data and security.

Sudhir Chaturvedi

Chief Growth officer, NTT DATA, Inc. and CEO, NTT DATA North America

Sudhir Chaturvedi is Chief Growth Officer for NTT DATA, Inc. and CEO, North America. His expertise spans Consulting, IT Services and Software as well as vertical industries, digital transformation and strategic sourcing. He has a strong background in industry-driven sales, go-to-market transformations, and execution of growth initiatives at the intersection of strategic clients, transformation initiatives and joint go-to-market with strategic partners.

Previously, Sudhir served as President of Global Markets at LTIMindtree. Before that, he was the Chief Operating Officer at NIIT Technologies. His earlier career included a succession of leadership roles at Infosys, where he drove strong growth across various business units in Europe and North America during 13 years with the company. Prior to Infosys, Sudhir held consulting roles at EY and A.F. Ferguson.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and dual MBAs from the University of Poona and the University of Leeds, focusing on Finance and Information Systems and an Advanced Management Program degree from the Wharton School.

Charlie Li

Senior Executive Vice President and Global Head of Cloud and Security, NTT DATA, Inc.

Charlie is responsible for the global Cloud and Security services business, driving portfolio transformation, sales, revenue generation, and profitable growth. His portfolio is inclusive of cloud strategy, cloud native application modernization, managed cloud infrastructure and network services, cybersecurity, and digital collaboration.

Charlie brings a wealth of experience to the NTT business in cloud strategy, enterprise infrastructure and applications and thought leadership. In his previous career paths, he has transformed, consolidated, grew, and led his previous companies to over $1B strategic growth initiatives. He consolidated and simplified a large global set of solution offerings across seven major industries in North America and scaled a new sales and delivery team from inception to 1,000+ resources in less than a year. Charlie started his career with several successful startup enterprise software companies from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Amongst his many achievements, he is the author of "Optimize Quality for Business Outcomes: A practical approach to software testing", the World Quality Report, the Digital CIO’s handbook, and multiple other publications.

Minoru Umehara

Head of Corporate Strategy Office, NTT DATA Group Corp. 

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