Alongside IPA Director General Paul Bainsfair, speakers include cross-sector leaders such as London Stock Exchange CEO Dame Julia Hoggett DBE, Meta’s International Marketing Director Martina McDonnell, and Our Future Health CEO Dr Raghib Ali OBE.
The forum is organized around six key themes:
- Living Planet: The energy transition isn't just an engineering problem. It's a design problem, a policy problem, a finance problem. This theme brings together the people who each hold a different piece of the answer.
- Work Reimagined: The question isn't whether AI will change how we work, it's whether the people designing that change understand what work is actually for. This theme explores the human side of the productivity revolution.
- Human Upgrades: Longer lives and enhanced performance raise questions that medicine alone can't answer. This theme brings together clinicians, technologists, ethicists, and athletes to ask what we actually want when we say we want to live better.
- Press Play: Culture doesn't just reflect the future, it rehearses it. Gaming, film, fashion, and live performance have always been early warning systems for where society is heading. This theme asks who's paying attention.
- Making & Materials: The factory floor and the laboratory are converging. Bio-innovation, digital fabrication, and advanced materials are rewriting the rules of production – and the most interesting breakthroughs are happening at the edges between disciplines.
- Systems in Motion: Infrastructure used to be invisible. Now it's political, contested, and increasingly the thing that determines who wins. This theme examines the networks that underpin everything – and the people redesigning them from the outside in.
IPA members can purchase a Forum Pass for free using code IPAFORUM.