Upcoming Events

In 2025, the world saw the impact of a Trump Administration who entered office better prepared. How has the Trump White House restructured the traditional decision-making process for the U.S. government and what implications do these changes have as the Administration begins its second year in office. What is the overarching strategy and how can that strategy help business leaders plan for continued economic disruption?

Sarah will discuss her recent work exploring the biology of precancer and designing off-the-shelf vaccines to prevent it.

What are Critical Minerals and why do they matter? Jonathan Price, Teck President and CEO, will educate us on the demand, supply constraints and opportunity around critical minerals, and particularly copper, needed to electrify, digitise and decarbonise the global economy. 

From dopamine hacks to meal-replacements and ‘protocols’, optimisation culture promises peak health, but leaves us burnt out, disconnected and at war with our own bodies. Sarah joins us to explain how changing one’s diet may not change your life, but changing how you think about what you eat will.

In What We Ask Google, Simon explores insights from the world’s biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. Combining rigorous data analysis with storytelling, What We Ask Google candidly and accessibly reveals what humanity really cares about…

Omar and Thorold Barker will discuss how we should learn, what we should learn and the skills that students and life-long learners will need to succeed in an AI-driven world.

In conversation with John Arlidge, Andy will explore energy systems and decarbonisation. Palmer Energy is positioned around battery and energy-storage solutions supporting grid resilience, EV infrastructure and the clean energy transition.

Octopus Energy is innovating relentlessly to make energy better for consumers and the planet. It now serves 11 million customers globally, including 7.8 million in the UK, and runs rapidly expanding retail operations across France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan, further fuelling international growth. Operating across 27 countries, the Group manages a £7 billion renewables portfolio and leads thriving businesses in EV leasing, heat pumps, and solar. Greg joins us to discuss innovation, climate and the broader energy landscape.

In collaboration with Hay Festival Global, we will be joined by Baroness Helena Kennedy KC, a member of the House of Lords and one of the country’s most distinguished lawyers and accomplished legal and social reformers.

Parag will discuss how the “Middle Corridor” and “IMEC” (India-Middle East- Europe Economic Corridor) could be the infrastructure investment plays that liberate Europe from chokepoints and contribute to its strategic autonomy. He will also share thoughts on Pax Arabia – a new map to solve the Middle East.

Led by a world-class faculty of scientists, technologists, policy makers, economists and entrepreneurs, EIT aims to develop and deploy commercially sustainable solutions to solve some of humanity’s most enduring challenges. We are joined by Lisa Flashner, COO of EIT Oxford, and Prof Andrew Scott, Principal Scientist (Economics) at EIT, who will discuss their plans and ambitions for EIT Oxford.

Profound and provocative, Francis’ soon to be published memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man’, is an intimate portrait of one of the twenty-first century’s most important thinkers, an urgent study of contemporary politics – and a treatise on how the West can claw democracy back from the brink. Francis will be discussing this and more as he reflects on the past three decades and throws light on the decades to come.

In a world of longer lives and constant change, work is no longer a single straight path. It is a fabric we weave – with threads of mastery, friendship, calm, intimacy, adventure, cooperation, knowing, and amplification. How we strengthen and reweave these threads will shape not just our working lives, but our happiness, health, and sense of purpose across a century. In Living the 100-Year Life, Lynda offers a practical and deeply human guide to navigating this new reality.

In All the Wrong Moves, Scaramucci charts how both political parties, over three decades, made a series of catastrophic decisions that quietly dismantled the system supporting the American dream. He joins us, not just to discuss how we got here, but also to suggest the economic policies and constitutional reforms needed to get out.

Join us for breakfast with professor, mathematician and author, Marcus du Sautoy, at our third quarterly breakfast hosted in partnership with Hay Festival Global.

In an age of fragmented attention, where algorithms optimise for engagement rather than reflection, education must refocus on what truly matters.
Cultivating critical thinking, self-awareness, and classical virtues becomes essential to form grounded, thoughtful individuals.