This year at Davos, the sAIpien program at the MIT Media Lab, with WorldQuant, will host the first Davos AI Jam. This event will convene global leaders, researchers, and emerging talent for an immersive AI hackathon at Goals House.

This gathering is designed to move the conversation around artificial intelligence from theory to practice. By bringing senior executives, technologists, policymakers, and researchers into the same room, the event will demonstrate how AI can act as a powerful equalizer, accelerating learning, unlocking innovation, and enabling collaboration across sectors that typically do not build together.

Rather than focusing on speculative futures, participants will work hands-on with AI tools to address real-world challenges across four critical verticals:

• Finance – demonstrating how AI can expand equitable access to capital and accelerate sustainable investing at scale
• Healthcare – showcasing how AI can speed drug discovery and enable more personalized, globally accessible care
• Emerging Markets, Talent & Education – illustrating how AI can strengthen a more democratic global AI supply chain by accelerating talent development and cross-border collaboration
• Logistics, Manufacturing, Engineering & Robotics – exploring how AI can drive efficiency through predictive maintenance, intelligent design, and supply-chain optimization

In a fast-paced, two-hour innovation sprint, teams will design ambitious yet practical AI “moonshot” use cases. Guided by experts from academia and industry, each group will translate ideas into concrete outputs, including AI readiness models, strategic roadmaps, and concise pitches grounded in both commercial value and societal impact.

The event will culminate in a private reception and fireside conversation featuring Hossein Rahnama, Head of the sAIpien Program, and Igor Tulchinsky, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant. This closing dialogue will surface strategic insights from the hackathon and explore how the ideas generated can shape the next phase of AI adoption across industries.

By convening diverse voices and highlighting AI as a shared creative tool, the Davos AI Jam aims to model a new approach to innovation that prioritizes collaboration, responsibility, and global inclusion. It will underscore a simple but powerful idea: the future of AI will be shaped not only by technology itself, but by the partnerships we build and the problems we choose to solve together.

Frontiers Science House

AI for Modern Healthcare

Hossein Rahnama will be participating  in the "AI for Modern Healthcare" panel at the Frontiers Science House on Tuesday January 20th.

Will advances in artificial intelligence fundamentally transform healthcare? As AI technologies mature, established business models, value chains, and workforce skill sets are being reexamined. This panel brings together researchers, startups, healthcare providers, and regulators to explore how AI is being responsibly deployed in real-world settings, from medical imaging and clinical triage to drug discovery, and what these early implementations reveal about the future of healthcare delivery.

The sAIpien Program at the MIT Media Lab: Redefining Human AI Agency

How Perspective-Awareness and AI Chronicles Will Redefine Human Agency, the Future of Work, and Sectors like Education, Healthcare, and Finance

The future of AI isn’t just about smarter algorithms; it’s about better partners. The best partners will be Human and AI together. Generative AI was the disruption, but Perspective-Aware AI and designing Human-AI systems are the solution.

In this impact session, we highlight the MIT Media Lab sAIpien Program, a blueprint for the augmentation of Large Language Models with privacy-preserved Human-AI agents known as AI Chronicles.

Moving beyond the "one-size-fits-all" limitations of current models, we explore the emergence of "sAIpiens"—digital twins grounded in biological and behavioral data that understand the why and reasoning behind human decisions, not just the what.

This impact session highlights how the shift from "Prompt Engineering" to "Perspective Engineering" is redefining human agency. The speaker will demonstrate how these human-centric agents are setting a new standard for trust and decision-making in healthcare, finance, and governance, ensuring that as technology advances, it remains deeply aligned with human values.

The talk will be followed by a panel discussion between academic, industry, and public policy experts.