The Global Agenda: Five Topics Shaping 2025
As mid-2025 unfolds, a handful of global issues have come to define the public conversation—pressing themes that cut across borders, industries and ideologies. Artificial intelligence, trade, regulation, resilience, and immigration are no longer siloed concerns but interwoven challenges that demand fresh thinking and credible voices. As technological acceleration and geopolitical realignments intensify, the demand for insight has never been greater.
Artificial Intelligence
AI’s rapid evolution is transforming not only industries but the architecture of thought itself. Speakers like Azeem Azhar, Geoffrey Hinton, and Verity Harding offer lucid analysis of what’s next in ethics, automation, and existential risk.
Trade
Global trade is shifting from hyper-globalisation to strategic protectionism. Pascal Lamy, Dr. Linda Yueh, and Matthew Goodwin and Gita Gopinath illuminate the forces behind tariff wars, supply chain recalibration, and economic nationalism.
Regulation
As Big Tech expands its remit, governments wrestle with oversight. Kenneth Cukier, Carissa Véliz, and Renée DiResta decode the tensions between innovation, antitrust, and consumer rights.
Resilience
In an era of shocks—climate, cyber, emotional, financial—resilience is the new competitive edge. Louis Rudd, Rachel Botsman, and Adah Parris explore adaptive leadership and institutional robustness.
Immigration
Migration is once again central to national discourse. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Nelufar Hedayat, and Clint Laurent challenge audiences to consider the human, political, and economic dimensions of movement.
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