J3D.AI Labs has announced that the 2027 edition of House of Collaboration will convene government, business, capital and research leaders in Davos under the theme “Antifragile Alliances and Responsible Technology Development in a Multi-Polar World.” The five-day programme runs from Sunday 17 to Thursday 21 January 2027 at Hotel Cresta Sun, Davos, marking the fourth Davos edition of the platform.
The announcement matters because it directly addresses a widening gap in global governance. Trade, technology and security are increasingly splitting along competing blocs, and each new shock pushes partners further apart. HoC 2027 asks how leaders can build alliances that become stronger because of disruption—partnerships that learn from shocks, spread risk across many actors and keep working when one part fails. The concept of antifragility, coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, describes systems that gain from stress. An antifragile alliance, in this framing, is not formed against others but across divides, growing stronger under pressure.
The 2026 edition welcomed more than 850 delegates from over 70 countries, with more than 120 speakers and 25 partners, including ministers from the New Nordics (NB8) countries and leaders from UNESCO, Invest India, NVIDIA, Cerebras, SAP and S&P Global. HoC 2027 will again host a delegation from India and expand the New Nordics track.
“Division is now the default setting of global affairs,” said Yip Thy Diep Ta, Co-Founder and CEO of J3D.AI. “In a multi-polar world, collaboration is no longer a courtesy. It is a strategic asset. We do not ask our delegates to agree on everything. We ask them to sit at one table, name their tensions honestly. An antifragile alliance is not one without conflict or disagreement. It is one that gets wiser every time it is tested.”
The programme is built as five named summits: Cybernetic Foresight Roundtables on Sunday 17 January; the Human Flourishing Summit on Monday 18 January; the New Nordics Innovation Summit on Tuesday 19 January; the Bridges to Europe Summit on Wednesday 20 January; and the Capital & Wealth Summit on Thursday 21 January, closing with the Gathering of Decacorns, Unicorns and Soonicorns. Sessions examine how frontier technologies such as AI, quantum computing, space and cyber security can be developed responsibly when no single power sets the rules. Topics include sovereign and resilient infrastructure, the energy demand of the next generation of data centres, and how public and private actors can share standards without sharing every interest.
“Responsible technology cannot be built by one country, one company or one bloc,” said Kevin Varend, Co-Founder and Managing Director of J3D.AI. “The builders, the regulators and the capital have to be in the same room early, not after the damage is done. House of Collaboration gives them a neutral place to do that, and a community that keeps them connected for the rest of the year.”
The Gathering of Decacorns, Unicorns and Soonicorns is designed for founders of high-growth companies—from those on track to a USD 1 billion valuation to those valued above USD 1 billion and USD 10 billion—and for the investors, capital allocators and policymakers who shape where growth capital goes next. The aim is to put the builders of the next decade in the same room as the people who fund and regulate them, at the moment when frontier technology decides who leads. Participation is by invitation and application.
