Frontiers Science House announced it will convene over 100 leaders from 16 countries to help shape the global agenda alongside the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026.

As scientific breakthroughs accelerate, too many remain disconnected from policy, capital, and the institutions that govern their impact. Frontiers Science House is designed to close that gap, creating a dedicated space where evidence informs decisions and science carries weight in the boardroom.

The program will feature more than 50 sessions across open science, health, climate, technology, and governance. CEOs, government ministers, Nobel laureates, heads of international organizations, university presidents, leading researchers, and innovators will convene at an unprecedented scale, placing science on equal footing with economics during a week that defines global priorities.

Cutting-edge science and world-leading innovation will take center stage, including contributions from Nobel Prize laureates. Victor Ambros (Physiology or Medicine, 2024) will be on hand to explore how foundational breakthroughs in biology are moving from the laboratory into real-world decision-making; and John Martinis (Physics, 2025) will discuss how quantum technologies could profoundly reshape science and industry. The race to harness AI and accelerate drug discovery will feature perspectives from Novartis, GenBio, and Eli Lilly.

Leadership from the partners of the Frontiers Science House are also part of the program, with participation of Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis, Lisa Monaco, President of Microsoft Global Affairs, and Daniel M. Skovronsky, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer of Eli Lilly.

The program will introduce new initiatives spanning global genomic data exchange, omic mapping, and the Frontiers Planet Prize, presented by Johan Rockström alongside this year’s International Champions. Jimmy Wales will mark Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary with a forward-looking discussion on the future of knowledge in the age of AI.

The role of policy will be deeply integrated into the program, with confirmed participants including Swiss State Secretary Alexandre Fasel; European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher; and senior European policy leaders including MEP Christian Ehler, Robert-Jan Smits, and Ann Mettler.

Dr Kamila Markram, CEO and Co-founder of Frontiers, said:

“Science House is built for moments like this. When leaders are making decisions that shape markets, policy, and society, science must be in the room. By bringing researchers and decision-makers together, we can move faster from discovery to impact.”

Explore the full program and the below list of organizations participating:

1. African Academy of Science
2. AE4RIA
3. Anicka Yi Studio
4. Arctic Base Camp
5. Arup
6. Australian National University
7. AXA Group
8. Better Planet Laboratory
9. Business World
10. Bühler
11. Carnegie Mellon University
12. CERN; Open Quantum Institute
13. Chalmers University of Technology
14. Charité
15. Columbia University
16. Cyprus Institute
17. Duke University
18. Eindhoven University of Technology
19. Eli Lilly and Company
20. ETH Zurich Board
21. European Innovation Council
22. European Commission
23. European Space Agency (ESA)
24. European Space Policy Institute (ESPI)
25. Fairfield Bio
26. Falling Walls Foundation
27. Fidocure
28. Flybits
29. Fusion for Energy
30. GESDA
31. Ginkgo Bioworks
32. GoodTech Advisory
33. Human Immunome Project
34. INAIT
35. Innovator
36. Institut Merieux
37. Imperial College London
38. Inclusive Brains
39. International Science Council
40. Johns Hopkins University
41. KTH Royal Institute of Technology
42. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
43. Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
44. Lifespan Academy
45. Major Inc
46. Marvel Fusion
47. Mavatar Merieux Institute
48. Microsoft
49. MIT Media Lab sAIpien program
50. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
51. National University of Singapore (NUS)
52. Necker Hospital; Paris Descartes University
53. New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
54. Novartis
55. Novo Nordisk Foundation
56. Novotron Fusion
57. NVIDIA
58. One Sustainable Health for All Foundation (OSHF)
59. Open Brain Institute (OBI)
60. Open Planet
61. Pasteur Network
62. Phagos
63. Planet Labs
64. Planqc
65. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
66. Precision Neuroscience
67. Prolific Machines
68. Quantum City, University of Calgary
69. Regeneron
70. Rhonda Barnet Advisory
71. San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (TIGET); San Raffaele Scientific Institute
72. Shanghai University of Medicine
73. SPARK Microgravity GmbH
74. Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
75. Swiss Re
76. Swiss School of Public Health
77. The Global Fund
78. UMass Chan Medical School
79. UNESCO
80. UNFCCC
81. UNSDSN
82. United Nations World Food Programme
83. University of Exeter
84. University of Johannesburg
85. University of New South Wales (UNSW)
86. University of Sydney
87. Villars Institute
88. Volvo Group
89. Voya Machine Intelligence (VMI)
90. Voyager Space Holdings
91. Wellcome Trust
92. Wikimedia Foundation
93. World Economic Forum
94. 7 Things

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