Events
Chairman of Eurasia Group
Eurasia's Top Risks 2024
An essential start to the new year: Eurasia’s Chairman, Cliff Kupchan, outlines the key themes shaping the world today and the Top Risks that we face as we head into 2024.
Author and Columnist for the New York Times
How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives. In conversation with Mark Evans, Brooks explains how we can do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What aspects of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Founder of Seven Seven Six
Building on the promise of Web3
Following Alexis’s Nov 2021 session, Alexis will share his thinking on crypto and NFTs in the light of the crypto winter, outlining real use cases and investment opportunities.
Former US Secretary of State
Leadership – Six Studies in World Strategy
In conversation with John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft which he believes they embodied. To each of these studies he brings historical perspective, public experience and personal knowledge (in collaboration with How to Academy).
History Professor and Author
Unstoppable us - how humans took over the world
In this virtual event aimed at children and families, Yuval presents Unstoppable Us, the first in a new four-volume series of books for young readers. He reveals how fire shrank our stomachs, how our ancestors spoke to animals, what football can tell us about being human, how we used our superpower for good and bad… and how you have the superpower to change the world (in collaboration with How to Academy).
President and Founder of Eurasia Group
The Power of Crisis
On the day of the publication of his book in the UK, The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World, Ian will detail how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises – global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution. He will detail to how governments, corporations, and every concerned citizen can use these coming crises to create the worldwide prosperity and opportunity that 20th-century globalism promised but failed to deliver.
Technologist, business leader, and philanthropist
How to prevent future pandemics, in collaboration with How to Academy
In conversation with Amol Rajan, the BBC’s media editor, Bill will lay out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from COVID-19, explain the science of fighting pandemics, and suggest what all of us can do to help prevent another one.
Founder, the Chopra Foundation
Abundance - The Path to Inner Wealth, in collaboration with How to Academy
Mixing ancient teachings and spiritual practices with the wisdom he’s garnered over four decades as a leading figure in mind-body medicine, Deepak will demonstrate how to transcend self-generated feelings of limitation and fear in order to experience true abundance in all aspects of life.
Managing Partner, Liberty City Ventures
Investing in blockchain technologies
Liberty City Ventures have been involved in the blockchain space since 2010 (buying and mining bitcoins) and cofounded/incubated two major companies in the blockchain infrastructure ecosystem (Paxos and Lukka). As part of our crypto series, Emil joins us to share his expertise in this space.
Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam
Planetary boundaries - and why they are so critical to our survival
Johan Rockström is one of the world’s leading climate and sustainability experts. A fierce advocate for deep and rapid cuts in carbon emissions, he points to the need for an ‘exponential carbon roadmap.’ He is best known for his groundbreaking 2009 work on Planetary Boundaries, nine processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system. If we remain within these, humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come; breaching them – as we are increasingly doing – poses serious threats to our future.
Past Events
Historian, author, opinion writer
The World in 2024: Crisis, Conflict and Consequences (in collaboration with Intelligence Squared)
Director of Regional Security and Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the IISS
Conflict and competition in the Middle East: How bad can it get?