FUTURE DIALOGUE - Business, science and politics in a changing world

Future Dialogue

Powering the future: rethinking energy supply and demand

Science and business can now make many things possible. In today’s fast-moving world, however, we need dialogue more than ever before – between executives and researchers, and among policy-makers and ordinary citizens.

The aim of Future Dialogue is to create a forum for that conversation. At our first very successful conference in Berlin in 2009, we looked at how to foster closer co-operation between science, business, and politics in tackling the big challenges of our time: climate change, healthcare and urbanisation.

2010’s gathering moved to China to focus on new approaches to the energy issues confronting us – today, tomorrow and in the distant future. Future Dialogue 2010 took place on September 9th in Beijing and brought together some of the world’s top scientists, business leaders, policy-makers and influential thinkers to discuss their views with an exclusive audience of around 500 senior researchers, business executives and policy-makers from China and around the world.