Davos 2026 - size does matter as enterprise scaling of AI takes center stage on Day One

The first full day of the World Economic Forum gathering of the good and the great and the ‘rich-enough-to-be-here-anyway’ in Davos and a simple truth has already been aired by one panel chair who observed that much of the week would be taken up by talk of AI when the main subject of conversation wasn’t Donald Trump!

So with the US President twiddling his thumbs mid-air on Truth Social, the panel discussions kicked off with a debate around what it takes to get AI to scale, with an indicative show of hands from the audience highlighting that this is an issue that is widespread to say the least. Since the corporate jets last touched down here, AI pilots have become commonplace; AI success stories at scale are a lot less thick on the ground than the Swiss snow on the streets.

But things have moved on since last year ...