The event will host about 3,000 participants under a main theme of "A Spirit of Dialogue" and feature speakers including the US President and billionaires such as Huang and Fink.
Ken Griffin, Jensen Huang and Larry Fink are among a group of billionaires worth a collective $531 billion that are set to join the annual pilgrimage of the rich and powerful to the Swiss Alps next week.
The Citadel chief executive officer, Nvidia Corp. CEO and BlackRock Inc. chairman appear along with top bankers, politicians and more than a dozen other billionaires on the official program for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, which begins Monday. Discussion topics during the event's 56th installment range from private credit and nations' economies to nuclear power.
The event retains its enduring status as the premier networking hub for the world's grandees despite long-standing fears over rising wealth inequality and growing geopolitical tensions worldwide.
A geoeconomic confrontation and state-based armed conflict were the two biggest global risks in a survey of 1,300 leaders and experts who were polled before US troops captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and Donald Trump upped efforts to bring Greenland under his authority.
The US President is scheduled to speak Wednesday in a highly-anticipated appearance at the forum, which will host about 3,000 participants under a main theme of "A Spirit of Dialogue."
"A new competitive order is taking shape," Saadia Zahidi, managing director at the World Economic Forum, said in a preface to the survey results, released Wednesday. "Rules and institutions that have long underpinned stability are increasingly deadlocked or ineffective in managing this turbulence."
Huang, head of the world's most valuable company, is the richest individual scheduled to speak in person next week, as part of a Wednesday discussion with BlackRock's Fink, who is also interim co-chair of the World Economic Forum. The 62 year-old Silicon Valley executive has a net worth of about $155 billion through his stake in the US chip-maker, making him the world's ninth-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The total wealth of the individuals speaking this year as tracked by Bloomberg's wealth index is more than four times that of the 2025 line-up.
US billionaires make up the biggest cohort of those with 10-figure fortunes scheduled to speak, including Salesforce Inc. Chairman Marc Benioff and Coinbase Global Inc. co-founder Brian Armstrong. Dubai real estate tycoon Hussain Sajwani, a longtime Trump business partner, and Indian industrialist Sunil Bharti Mittal are among billionaires hailing from beyond the US due to make addresses.
Outside of official speakers, there are always plenty of satellite events during the day and parties in the evening, such as those that drew Wall Street titans and British footballer David Beckham last year. A longstanding quip at the ski resort is that the most important meetings are often the ones you don't know about.