PATH President and CEO Steve Davis stopped by HuffPost Live at Davos on Saturday to share how he and others are working to help the fight against the Ebola virus.
Davis said PATH is working on two cool things: creating a chlorinator to help chlorinate water to scale, and running diagnostics and waste management.
Davis also expressed some frustration over the public panic that arises when a virus like Ebola makes headlines.
“I sometimes think, with all due respect, the press, and frankly, policy makers and leaders even at Davos, sometimes it’s a bit like the sixth grade soccer game — following the ball wherever it’s going, and certainly that’s been true with Ebola,” he said.
Below, more updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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“Could there be a piece of technology that figures out an intelligent next question to ask somebody? Yeah,” McAfee said.
“For 200 years of industrial technology, we’ve been making workers obsolete,” McAfee said.
McAfee said nobody knows if we’re reaching the point where technological developments could lead to unemployment.
Andrew McAfee of the MIT Sloan School of Management on HuffPost Live
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Woods said it’s normal for government entities to reach out to consulting groups, but usually the process takes a lot more time.
“The coordination has been better than I’ve ever seen it on a global scale,” Woods said.
Courtois said new devices are “enabling people to do more stuff, to do great stuff.”
Courtois also spoke about new technology being developed by Microsoft that will allow users to interact with 3D holograms.
Courtois shared how Microsoft played a role after the recent terror attacks in Paris, partnering with French law enforcement and the FBI to get police information they needed within 45 minutes of the attack’s start.
Jean-Philippe Courtois on HuffPost Live
Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, spoke about the steps his company is taking to maintain the public’s trust as data moves further into the Cloud.
Courtois said Microsoft has been focusing on several aspects: improving how they anchor the data; certification and compliance of infrastructure; and transparency.
“This is a big deal to actually report back to society what we do with data and how we deal with government requests,” Courtois said about being a transparent company.
Valerie Keller and Cheryl Grise of the EY Beacon Institute talk with HuffPost Live about how to transform your business through a better sense of purpose.
