Meet our 2026 speakers

Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and DemocracyEuropean CommissionVictor Gao
Chair Professor, Soochow University; Vice President, CCG; and Chairman, China Energy SecurityCenter for China and Globalization (CCG)Abigail Slater
Former Assistant Attorney GeneralThe US GovernmentChris Smalls
Co-founder and the former president of the Amazon Labor UnionLabour union activistMimoza Kusari-Lila
Minister of Trade, Industry, Entrepreneurship and InnovationGovernment of KosovoPaul Tighe
Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and EducationThe VaticanSinéad O'Sullivan
Strategy and CompetitivenessHarvard Business School/Harvard Business ReviewPaolo Benanti
AI Advisor to the Vatican and Italian GovtPontifical Gregorian UniversityDeRay Mckesson
Civil Rights Activist & PodcasterPod Save The PeopleHenry Farrell
SNF Agora Institute Professor of International AffairsJohn Hopkins UniversityMalcom Kyeyune
Writer and BloggernonePhilip Pilkington
ResearcherHungarian Institute for International AffairsGladden Pappin
PresidentThe Hungarian Institute of International AffairsEli Clifton
Co-Founder & Senior AdvisorQuincy InstituteMiriam Cates
Former MP and CommentatorThe Centre for Social JusticeCristina Caffarra
Chairperson and Co-FounderEuroStackLauren Southern
Filmmaker and ActivistLauren SouthernAl Carns
British Labour MP and former Minister for the Armed ForcesBritish GovernmentGabriele Guzzi
Academic economist, author and former advisor to the Italian Presidency of the Council of MinistersUniversity of Cassino and Southern LazioAngelica Oung
Journalist and FounderOffshore Wind Unredacted