The Future Forum

Culture. Capital. Conversation.

A private room for unlikely conversations — between artists and investors, scientists and writers — about what comes next.

The Forum

A room — not a festival, not a conference.

The Forum brings together a small, invited group for exploratory, off-the-record conversations. There are no spectators: everyone in the room is part of the conversation. Participants are invited for what they might contribute, not what they have come to announce.

We hold to a simple order of priority. Candour before consensus. Conversation before policy. What is said in the room stays in the room; what is thought in the room tends to travel further.

Conceived by Ahsan Akbar and Tilda Swinton, The Future Forum was founded in 2024 on these principles.

About the Forum

Convening I

Spencer House

London · Spencer House, St James's · 30 May 2026

Three conversations — on geopolitics, authorship in the age of machines, and the cultural imagination of the next generation — with a musical interlude in the Great Room.

Explore the convening

A private room. Candour before consensus. Conversation before policy.