The Morning
09:00 - 09:30 | REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
09:30 - 09:45 | WELCOME TO APOLITICAL DAY with Pooja Warier Hamilton, Chief Partnerships Officer, Apolitical
09:45 - 10:00 | FOUNDERS INTERVIEW | 'Apolitical: Then, Now and the Future' with...
Adam Parr, Advisor, Apolitical | Former CEO & Chairman, Williams F1 team
Robyn Scott, Co-Founder & CEO, Apolitical
Lisa Witter, Co-Founder, Apolitical | CEO, Apolitical Foundation
10:00 - 10:20 | CHAIRPERSONS' INTERVIEW | 'Governing for the Future: Two Leaders Guiding Apolitical' with...
Diego Piacentini, Former SVP, Apple & Amazon | Founder, Digital Transformation Team, Italian Government | Board Chair, Apolitical
Daniel Sachs, Founder and CEO, P Capital | Board Chair, Apolitical Foundation
10:20 - 10:50 | PANEL |'Emerging Tech: Getting Governments Ready for Quantum Computing & The New Space Race', with...
Alexander Holt, Former Digital Directorate, Scottish Government and Managing Director, Seraphim Space Enterprise
James Haywood, Research Fellow, Met Office | Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Exeter
Cori Zarek, VP North America, Apolitical
Tom Newby, Deputy Director, Head of UK Office for Quantum, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
10:55 - 11:25 | NETWORK EXCHANGE | 'Stepping into the Shoes of Public Servants and Political Leaders - Building Connections Across the Apolitical Community' with Lisa Witter
11:25 - 11:50 | COMFORT + COFFEE BREAK
11:50 - 13:00 | DEBATE | 'Updating Government - Revolution or Radical Incrementalism? Can Small Steps or Sweeping Changes Save Us from Tech, Geopolitical, and Climate Crises?' with...
Christian Bason
Catherine Day
General Sir Nick Carter CBE
Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE
Helen Zhang
Cecilia Vaca Jones
Ravi Gurumurthy
HRH Mabel van Oranje
Thembi Watt
Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE
The Afternoon
14:00 - 14:15 | KEYNOTE | Political Leadership: Why thinking like an entrepreneur is vital for survival to 2030, with Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE
14:15 - 14:30 | KEYNOTE | Building Climate Capable Governments, with Marvin Rees OBE
14:30 - 15:30 | CLIMATE SIMULATION with...
Pooja Warier Hamilton, Chief Partnerships Officer, Apolitical
Jessica Van Onselen, Director of Marketing & Communications, Apolitical
Jeremy Oppenheim, Founder & Managing Partner, Systemiq
The Rt Hon. the Baroness Helene Hayman GBE, Member, House of Lords | Chair, Peers for the Planet
14:30 - 15:30 | POLITICAL LEADERSHIP SIMULATION with...
Ximena Docarmo, Co-Head of the Accelerator, Apolitical Foundation | Co-Founder, InnovaLab
Suki Capobianco, Chief Strategy Officer, Apolitical Foundation
Edward Brooks, Executive Director, The Oxford Character Project
Greg Power OBE, Founder & Board Chair, Global Partners Governance | Author, Inside the Political Mind
Usaama Kaweesa, Councillor & Cabinet Member, Merton Council
15:30 - 15:55 | COMFORT + COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 16:30 | INTERVIEW | 'Mere Mortals: Building and supporting the pipeline with political leaders ready for the 21st century' with...
Lisa Witter, Co-Founder, Apolitical | CEO, Apolitical Foundation
Sharath Jeevan OBE, Global authority on leadership
Jennifer Nadel, Director & Co-Founder, Compassion in Politics
16:30 - 16:45 | REFLECTIONS with...
Fiona Ryland, Government Chief People Officer, UK Civil Service
Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Founder & President, Women Political Leaders | Advisor, Apolitical Foundation
Kate Poland, Policy Manager, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Sapana Agrawal, Director for Modernisation and Reform, Cabinet Office
16:45 - 17:00 | KEYNOTE |'After This Historic Year of Elections, Fragmentation and Technological Firsts: What’s Next?' with Dan Snow
17:00 - 18:00 | DRINKS RECEPTION
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