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Wednesday 5 December 2018
07:45

Robert Kaplan

The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century

Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of eighteen books on foreign affairs and travel, including Earning the Rockies, In Europe’s Shadow, Asia’s Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts.

His latest book, The Return of Marco Polo’s World, is a collection of essays which draws on decades of firsthand experience as well as encounters with preeminent realist thinkers. In it, Kaplan outlines the timeless principles that should shape America’s role in a turbulent world: a respect for the limits of Western-style democracy; a delineation between American interests and American values; an awareness of the psychological toll of warfare; a projection of power via a strong navy, and more.

Tuesday 18 September 2018
07:45

Doug Gurr

Amazon UK Country Manager on AI everywhere: the future enterprise

Amazon is at the forefront of using AI at scale, across the whole enterprise.

Hear from Doug Gurr about the transition from humans to AI and robots: how do the two relate to each other at corporate level and how does this change the way the company integrates new staff and thinks about working practices and leadership? What is it really like to work with robots? And what are the implications of this shift for staff, for investors and for society?

This event is part of the Pi/Quantum Black series on ‘AI and us’. It will take place at the Quantum Black offices near Trafalgar Square.

Tuesday 13 November 2018
07:45

Kevin Sneader

Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company

McKinsey and Company operates in 65 countries globally, with 28,000 staff  and 2,000 partners.

Join us to hear the firm’s new Global Managing Partner talk about the economic challenges and opportunities we face today and how he will steer McKinsey through these.

Thursday 5 July 2018
07:45

Ask me anything on AI

with Chris Wigley and Dr Ines Marusic of QuantumBlack and Richard Peters of Decoded

This is the first in the Pi/QuantumBlack series on artificial intelligence, AI and us.

It is hard to move these days without running into something to do with AI: we use the technologies every day, through our phones and computers, and we are bombarded with breathless and conflicting opinions as to whether they will harm or heal our world. In mounting this series, we aim to provide attendees with a broad introduction to AI and what it can do for us, as well as to cut through to some of the core questions that the technologies raise for business, for society and for our sense of self.

Tuesday 9 October 2018
07:45

Rob Wainwright

Former Executive Director of Europol on Money Laundering - where we are and where we should be

Money laundering is a huge issue globally – estimates put the sums involved at 2-5% of global GDP. European legislation has been tightened to address the problem, but it is not operating effectively. Not only does it not keep pace with the perpetrators but it also does not achieve what it sets out to do, being focussed more on compliance than on identified problem flows of money.

Sir Rob Wainwright, former Executive Director of Europol will talk about the problem and how we can make progress towards meeting our real goals in this area.

Thursday 6 September 2018
07:45

Azeem Azhar

What AI does and doesn't change

AI is a general purpose technology which will optimise, accelerate and accentuate all our pre-existing systems, forcing them to metamorphosize, break or take us to unpleasant conclusions. Now is the time to figure out what we want our future to look like and which principles of value we should defend, because this ‘new machine’ is not bound by the speed of human thought.

What won’t, can’t or is less likely to change (things like subjective human experience, families, community, climate change, migration & power)? How will we reconcile the immutable parts of our human lives with the parts that are changing rapidly and profoundly? And where does the influence lie?

Tuesday 6 June 2017
07:45

Lynda Gratton

100 Year Life

In her book, co-written with Andrew Scott, Lynda outlines the challenges and intelligent choices that all of us, of any age, need to make in order to turn greater life expectancy into a gift and not a curse. This is not an issue for when we are old but an urgent and imminent one for right now.

Join us to hear Lynda discuss what this means for our finances, education, careers, relationships and how to succeed in creating a fulfilling 100-year life.

Thursday 18 May 2017
07:45

Misha Glenny

Organised crime and cyber crime

Misha Glenny is a British journalist who specializes in south-eastern Europe and global organized crime. He is the author of McMafia, an exhaustive look at global organized crime and a critique of globalization’s dark side. His most recent book was DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You.

After university he joined The Guardian as its Central Europe correspondent and later the BBC. He specialised in reporting on the Balkans independence wars in the late 1980s and early 1990s that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia. While at the BBC, Glenny won 1993’s Sony Gold Award for his ‘outstanding contribution to broadcasting’. He has also written three books about Central and Eastern Europe.

Glenny advised the US and some European governments on policy issues and for three years ran an NGO helping with the reconstruction of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. He sits on the Global Witness Advisory Board.

Thursday 12 July 2018
08:00

Quantum Decoded

Decoded in 1 hour with Kathryn Parsons and Matt Lilley

Join Decoded CEO, Kathryn Parsons, and quantum educator, Matt Lilley, for a one hour deep dive into the world of quantum computing.

Ask any question and see the technologies in action.

Limited availability.

Thursday 11 October 2018
07:45

Yves Daccord

Is there space for global humanitarian action in an isolationist world?

Enduring economic stagnation and increasing mistrust of politics is fuelling populism, nationalism, and cultural and religious clashes. It is indicative of increasing scepticism in government and bureaucracy among many Western democracies and youth especially. 

It would be a mistake, however, to overestimate the recent surge in nationalistic sentiment across Europe and North America, as deteriorating global crises and time itself may yet provide conditions for greater institutional enforcement and legal structures at the global level.

How does the ICRC get access in a climate of mistrust and work across frontlines, armed groups, and country borders to help those most in need?

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07:45

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Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford

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