The Future Forum

Culture. Capital. Conversation.

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Not a conference. Not a festival. A salon.

Spencer House, St James’s - 30 May 2026.

Culture. Capital. Conversation.

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The final conversation at the London launch of The Future Forum explored youth culture in 2026 with Tilda Swinton in conversation with Rae Ashton, Solomon Pace-McCarrick and Habi Diallo.

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The second conversation at the London launch of The Future Forum explored AI and the Arts with Sougwen Chung, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Adam Thirlwell, expertly moderated by Aaron Hicklin.

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Opening conversation of the London launch of The Future Forum: Sanam Vakil chairing a brilliant discussion on geopolitics with Peter Frankopan, Tina Fordham and Janan Ganesh.

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The venue is set. A new gathering begins.

Spencer House
St James’s, London
30 May 2026

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The inaugural date is set.
Join us at Spencer House as The Future Forum opens its doors.

30 May 2026.

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Expertise once carried weight. Now authority competes with virality. Credentials matter less than confidence. Complexity is flattened into certainty. How do we decide who deserves our trust? What makes someone credible to you today?

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We romanticise the starving artist and demonise the commercial one. But creativity does not exist outside systems. Where do we draw the line between compromise and survival? Is creativity stronger inside commercial systems or outside them?

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Technology now helps us decide, measure, remember and recommend. We rely on it to validate what we see and hear. As convenience expands, boundaries rarely do. At what point does trust shift too far, and where should the line be drawn? Where do you place your trust today, and why?

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Disagreement was once intellectual. Somewhere along the way, it became personal. Opposing views are no longer treated as ideas, but as threats. What did we lose when we stopped sitting across from people who think differently? Name a belief you respect, even if you disagree.

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Most conversations today are performances. We speak to be agreed with, not understood. We listen to reply, not to learn. Before we talk about the future, we must ask: are we still capable of dialogue that changes us? Tell us about a conversation that genuinely changed your mind.