Subject: Invitation: Foreign Policy Roundtable at WEF January 20th
From: "Sara Rubin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Erkki Keldo - MKM" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "info - MKM" <[email-masked]>, "press - MKM" <[email-masked]>, "Events Team" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:10:58 +0200

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Dear Minister Keldo,

On behalf of Foreign Policy, I’m writing to invite you to a private 
roundtable luncheon, hosted in partnership with the Novartis Foundation, on 
the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, from 12:00 - 14:00 CET at the Edelweiss Hotel.

The roundtable, titled “AI and the Future of Healthy Cities: Partnering for 
Impact and Scale,” will bring together a small group of experts to discuss 
how public-private partnerships, innovative AI, and digital tools can 
transform health systems.

The formal invitation from our CEO and the Head of the Novartis Foundation 
with additional details is below. Please note that space is very limited, 
and we ask for an indication of your participation by January 15th

Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can provide any 
additional information. I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Sara Rubin

Sara Rubin
Event Director | Foreign Policy
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Whatsapp: +1 952 836 8437

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January 13, 2026

Dear Minister Keldo,

On behalf of Foreign Policy and our partners at the Novartis Foundation, it 
is our pleasure to invite you to a private lunch roundtable, “AI and the 
Future of Healthy Cities: Partnering for Impact and Scale,” that will take 
place on Tuesday, January 20, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. CET at the 
Edelweiss Hotel on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, 
Switzerland. Given your leadership and expertise, we would be delighted if 
you would join us.

Urban populations around the world are facing increasing rates of chronic 
and cardiovascular disease, driven by rapid urbanization and widening gaps 
in prevention and care. Today, more than 
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half the global population lives in cities—91 percent are exposed to 
polluted air and nearly 40 percent lack safe sanitation services. By 2050, 
almost 70 percent of the world’s population will be in urban areas, which 
could further deepen inequities in access to care, widening pressures on 
health systems. At the same time, breakthroughs in data architecture, 
artificial intelligence, and digital health technologies are transforming 
what health systems can measure, manage, and deliver at the population and 
community levels. Against this backdrop, momentum is building for new models 
of population health management that move beyond traditional care delivery 
and leverage real-time insights to inform policy, drive sustainable 
investments, and targeted action.

Examples emerging from around the world point to the potential of 
next-generation tools to understand localized factors contributing to 
adverse health outcomes, help close health care access gaps, and transform 
population health. However, governance, interoperability, and sustained 
finance remain significant barriers to deploying AI and digital tools at 
scale. To advance effective and resilient healthy-city strategies, 
public-private partnerships are needed to transform health systems, secure 
long-term investment, and ensure that innovation is translated into 
real-time, impactful improvements to population health. Empowering local 
authorities with data and AI-powered interpretations can enable the rapid 
generation of actionable insights to drive place-based, data-informed 
interventions that improve urban health sustainably at scale.

At this critical inflection point and against the backdrop of WEF 2026, 
Foreign Policy and the Novartis Foundation will convene a closed-door, 
high-level, Chatham House Rule discussion on deploying and sustaining 
intersectoral data and AI-driven partnerships, aligned behind the goal to 
improve the health of urban populations.

Many thanks for your time as you consider this invitation. An indication of 
your interest by January 15th would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

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