What are the limits of AI?
Saturday 25 November 2023
SPEAKERS: Rob Bashforth, Eleanor Kavanagh-Brown, Dr Wajahat Ali Khan
Net Zero and the great energy debate
Saturday 25 November 2023
SPEAKERS: Joanna Collins, Dr Caspar Hewett, Mark Hill, Rick Moore
Net zero: can the economy and democracy survive?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Lord David Frost, Rob Lyons, Scarlett Maguire, John McTernan
Extreme weather: Can we adapt to a changing climate?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Timandra Harkness, Laurie Laybourn, Harry Wilkinson, Martin Wright
From BBC to GB News: can the media be impartial?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Michael Booker, Iain Macwhirter, Helen Searls, Baroness Stowell
Can renewables power the world?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Michaela Kendall, Simon Nash, Ralph Schoellhammer, James Woudhuysen
ChatGPT: cheating or a new tool for learning?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Catherine Breslin, Donald Clark, Omar Mohamed, Gareth Sturdy, Poppy Wood
Who gives a folk?
Sunday 29 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Brian Denny, Maeve Halligan, Denis Russell
Debating Matters: ‘Social egg-freezing empowers women’
Saturday 28 October 2023
COMPETING SCHOOLS: New City College vs Richmond upon Thames College
Is AI the end of art?
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr JJ Charlesworth, Vivek Haria, Rosie Kay, Dr Hamish Todd
Making babies in the lab: the morality of reproductive technologies
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Mehmet Çiftçi, Nicky Drury, Ann Furedi, Dr Günes Taylor
Square-eyed screenagers: are phones corrupting our kids?
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Elliot Bewick, Josephine Hussey, Molly Kingsley, Joe Nutt, Professor Sir Simon Wessely
What are the limits of AI?
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Stuart Derbyshire, Professor Anders C Hansen, Timandra Harkness, Andrew Orlowski, Dr Kathleen Stock
Terminator or tech hype? AI and the apocalypse
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Norman Lewis, Elizabeth Seger, Professor Ulrike Tillmann FRS
From Covid to climate change: have we lost faith in (the) science?
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Dr Stuart Derbyshire, Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor Mike Hulme, Graham Stringer MP, Thomas Walker-Werthza
Inventing the future: how do we unleash innovation?
Saturday 28 October 2023
SPEAKERS: Steve Jordan, Simon Nash, Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos, Sally Taplin, James Woudhuysen
For frack’s sake: how do we solve the energy crisis?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Tom Heap, Dr Caspar Hewett, Laurie Laybourn, Jordan Tyldesley, James Woudhuysen
Climate emergency: catastrophe or catastrophising?
Sunday 16 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Dr Shahrar Ali, Orsolya Kovács-Magosi, Martin Powell, Dr Nikos Sotirakopoulos
Biometrics and facial recognition
Saturday 15 October 2022
SPEAKERS: Silkie Carlo, Donald Clark, Simon Evans, Robin Tombs
From Covid to climate change: challenging the culture of fear
Sunday 10 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Sherelle Jacobs, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Nikos Sotirakopoulos, Bruno Waterfield
Is ‘Cancel Culture’ killing comedy? Really?
Saturday 9 October 2021
SPEAKERS: Alex Dale, Andrew Doyle, Simon Evans, Josephine Hussey
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