Speaker Highlights

PRESENTATION: The Business of Climate Change – with Corinne Sawers and Eric Lonergan.

The co-authors of Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster – More United co-founder Corinne Sawers and economist Eric Lonergan – explore how governments can work with key stakeholders like businesses to tackle climate change in the coming decades.

PRESENTATION: The Business of Climate Change – with Corinne Sawers and Eric Lonergan.

The co-authors of Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster – More United co-founder Corinne Sawers and economist Eric Lonergan – explore how governments can work with key stakeholders like businesses to tackle climate change in the coming decades.

PRESENTATION: The Climate Challenge – with Steve Howard

Advances in technology give us reasons to be optimistic about the climate crisis. However, we need to scale new solutions and innovations at speed, focusing on making future growth and investment clean. Businesses are critical to this mission, and in this presentation, Temasek’s Chief Sustainability Officer Steve Howard will talk about the company’s role in the clean revolution.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Harnessing the Forces of Technological Change – with Matt Clifford, Dame Vivian Hunt and Herman Narula.

Author, investor and founder of Exponential View Azeem Azhar leads a discussion on what the technological revolution means for business and politics with Matt Clifford (co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First), Dame Vivian Hunt (senior partner of McKinsey & Co) and Herman Narula (co-founder and CEO of Improbable). In particular, the panel will explore how we can encourage both the public and private sectors to better shape their development and what skills are required to do this.

INTERVIEW: #Communicating in the Social Media Era – Evan Spiegel in conversation with Joanna Coles.

Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc, a social-media network used by 300 million people daily. In conversation with award-winning journalist and Snap board member Joanna Coles, he will explore how young people engage with politics and what governments can learn from companies like Snap.

Martin Lewis, the founder and chair of MoneySavingExpert.com, discusses how policy can help households through the cost-of-living crisis, and how reforms can make energy and financial markets work better.

In this panel event chaired by Emily Maitlis, Monica Harding, Mete Coban (founder of My Life My Say and Hackney Labour Councillor) and Rory Stewart (senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and former Conservative cabinet minister) discuss the opportunity for a new type of politics in Britain – based on an exploration of extensive polling – which can help to deliver a new plan for the country’s future.

In this panel event chaired by Emily Maitlis, Monica Harding, Mete Coban (founder of My Life My Say and Hackney Labour Councillor) and Rory Stewart (senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and former Conservative cabinet minister) discussed the opportunity for a new type of politics in Britain – based on an exploration of extensive polling – which can help to deliver a new plan for the country’s future.

In this panel event chaired by Emily Maitlis, Monica Harding, Mete Coban (founder of My Life My Say and Hackney Labour Councillor) and Rory Stewart (senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and former Conservative cabinet minister) discuss the opportunity for a new type of politics in Britain – based on an exploration of extensive polling – which can help to deliver a new plan for the country’s future.

A Plan for Britain with Monica Harding. Monica Harding, a 2019 Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate and director of The Britain Project, will draw on extensive polling to set the scene for the conference and show that while Britain faces profound challenges, it also lacks a plan to deal with them.

The Tony Blair Institute’s Senior Geopolitical Researcher Ruby Osman will outline the challenges that Britain faces and why it must evolve to respond to a changing world.

The Future of Britain – with Jason Arthur, Clover Hogan and Ruby Osman.

Mission 44 Chief Executive Jason Arthur, Force of Nature Founder and Executive Director Clover Hogan and the Tony Blair Institute’s Senior Geopolitical Researcher Ruby Osman, outline the challenges that Britain faces and why it must evolve to respond to a changing world.