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Behind Summer Davos: WEF Founder Klaus Schwab’s Decades-Long Courtship of China

Nearly two decades after Klaus Schwab brought the Davos model to China, Summer Davos has become a barometer for where innovation and influence are moving next.

Every January, the World Economic Forum turns Davos, Switzerland, into a snow-covered stage for global power. Its summer gathering in China serves a different purpose: to signal where the forum believes innovation, capital and influence are heading next. Formally known as the Annual Meeting of the New Champions—more commonly called Summer Davos—this year’s meeting runs June 23 to June 25 in Dalian, China. Under the theme “Innovating at Scale,” WEF’s second-largest annual gathering is expected to draw more than 1,700 policymakers, corporate executives, entrepreneurs and academics. They will convene for high-level discussions on international commerce, A.I., energy systems, technological innovation and the evolution of the Chinese market.

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“The DNA of this meeting is around innovation,” WEF managing director Mirek Dušek, said on the Radio Davos podcast last year. “And since we are in Asia, in China, this meeting has also always been........

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