Geoff Mulgan is a Professor at University College London (UCL), in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Policy team (STEaPP) in the engineering department. Before that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation from 2011-2019. From 1997-2004 he had roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit, director of the Performance and Innovation Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. His most recent books include Prophets at a Tangent: how art shapes social imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and When Science Meets Power (Polity, 2023/24). He has a CBE and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020.
Summit 2025
Thursday ·
8:00pm
We gather some of today’s most original thinkers to open the field of conversation. Each brings a different lens — plural intelligences, collective wisdom, philosophical rupture, planetary scale, and emergent meaning. Together, they won’t offer conclusions but provocations, setting the stage for the Summit as a space to ask not only what intelligence is, but how we want to live with it — me, we, and us.
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Friday ·
7:30pm
Now that intelligence is no longer exclusively human, how do we design institutions, models, and systems that aren’t just reactive but generative, participatory, and wise? What does it mean to govern with AI, not simply regulate it? How can institutions evolve into sense-making bodies rather than mere rule-making machines? Together, we look at institutions as living systems, capable of learning, adapting, and imagining alongside us.
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