Past events

This panel assesses how policy and platforms can better protect minority groups online.

Members of the Common Futures Conversations community join Sanam Nazari to discuss how to counter disinformation in an increasingly fractured geopolitical world.

How can we build trust and inclusivity in the health sector in a fractured geopolitical environment?

Sir Nick Clegg outlines how democracies can harness technology and prevent abuses.

What is missing in responses to disinformation, and what new perspectives are needed?

In a critical election year, experts look at the threats to American democracy.

Discussing the outlook for Hong Kong’s democracy movement, with many leading activists in jail, on trial, or in exile, and Beijing’s pressure on the city intensifying.

How can democracies simultaneously defend human rights and promote open societies while still engaging with leaders from non-democratic states as strategic allies?

From the Arab Spring to the 2016 Trump election win, how have democracies benefited and suffered from the impact of social media? 

What were the main lessons for today’s conflicts from the way in which the war in Iraq played out?

Lisa Monaco, the US deputy attorney general, discusses how autocratic governments and malign cyber actors use disruptive technologies to project power and engage in illicit activity.

Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and others discuss how the BBC shapes, and is shaped by, the world today.