A 2008 Burson-Marsteller survey ranked the forum among the world's top five most influential venues for the C-Suite executives.

[5] Past speakers in the World Business Forum included political figures such as Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, Rudy Giuliani, Tony Blair and Colin Powell.

Other speakers have been CEOs Jack Welch, Richard Branson, Herb Kelleher and John Chambers, financial experts Alan Greenspan and Jeremy Siegel, and management experts Tom Peters, Peter Drucker and Michael Porter among others.

[6] Speakers included: 75% of attendees to the World Business Forum are at director level or above, and 30% are C-Suite executives.

[9] In 2023, WOBI’s started a new Green Impact initiative it has put out a call for companies implementing effective environmental initiatives to share their stories with others on the main stage of each of this year’s World Business Forum events around the world.