Here are four ways Davos 2026 clarified what’s at stake. Every year, the Annual Meeting’s penultimate session on Friday is the Global Economic Outlook, where leaders explain where they see the economy heading in the coming year. High-stakes geopolitical negotiations and bilateral discussions signalled significant shifts in global economic and security architecture. “My message to everybody is learn to think of the unthinkable and then stay calm, the world now is truly, genuinely multi-polar. (Authors are writers from the editorial team of the World Economic Forum.