Returning to a (new?) normal

TAGGED UNDER: Business, Global Economy & Finance, Global Health, Government & Politics, International Affairs & Security, Keynote, Workplace innovation

Raleigh Addington

editor at Chartwell Speakers

Over the past year we have witnessed an unprecedented level of upheaval in industries across the world. The events industry has been particularly challenging with all conferences switching to virtual.

At Chartwell we are beginning to see a return to speakers being booked for physical events. I would be happy to have a conversation with any event planner to discuss the factors that need to be taken into consideration when weighing up the possibility of holding a physical event in 2021.

Our speakers too are looking ahead to the “new normal” and these articles are helpful for providing insights on how this might look:

An Ounce of Pandemic Prevention – By Sally Davies, Jeremy Farrar & Jim O’Neill
Reflections on a Plague Year – By Jim O’Neill
Building Back Broader – By Raghuram Rajan
The 90% Economy that Lockdowns will Leave Behind – By Callum Williams
Hope & fears for the Global Recovery – By Martin Wolf
Lessons from a Year of Covid – By Yuval Noah Harari
Technology at Work v5.0: The New Normal of Remote Work – By Carl Benedikt Frey

A selection of speakers on this topic:

Carl Benedikt Frey, Founding Director, Future of Work Programme, Oxford University’s Martin School & Author, ‘The Technology Trap, Capital, Labor and Power in the Age of Automation’
Jennifer Zhu Scott, Executive Chairman, Commons Project, Founding Principal, Radian Partners and AI Expert
Lord Jim O’Neill, Chairman, Chatham House and Former Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs
Matt Ridley, bestselling Author, ‘The Rational Optimist’ & ‘The Evolution of Everything’ and Former Science & America Editor, The Economist
Callum Williams, Senior Economics Writer, the Economist and Author, ‘The Classical School: The Birth of Economics in 20 Enlightened Lives’
Margaret O’Mara, Howard & Frances Keller Professor of History, University of Washington and Author, ‘The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America’
Lionel Barber, Former Editor, Financial Times, and expert on US Foreign Policy and Global Macro-Trends in Global Economic Climate
Sajid Javid, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Former Home Secretary, UK Government, and Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Yuval Noah Harari, international bestselling Author, ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ and Professor, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem