The latest views on the new roles of leadership and the changing issues leaders are facing are two of the themes that entrepreneur Yoshito Hori is keen to check on at this year's Summer Davos conference.

The dean of Globis Management School and managing partner of Globis Capital Partners will participate in the Swiss-based World Economic Forum's international conference, formally called the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014, taking place through Friday in China's Tianjin.

"Summer Davos is a place where people actually causing a shift (in views on leadership roles) will gather. . . . I want to see what changes are taking place, and how participants resonate with new ideas that may come up," Hori said.