Category: Networking Drinks

Tuesday 25th January 6.30 p.m – King’s College London

From cyber warfare to drones, artificial intelligence to hybrid warfare, how well are modern militaries adapting to a fast changing world? How well do decision making processes work, and how will careers need to evolve? What does the experience of Afghanistan and Iraq, and now confrontation with Russia and China tell us what is needed next?

PS21 pulls together practitioners and experts for their latest monthly chat in conjunction with King’s College London War Studies Society .

Panelists include:

Peter Apps (moderator) – Reuters Global Affairs Commentator, Executive Director, PS21.

Louise Jones – Former Intelligence Corps Officer, British Army

Linda Slapakova – Senior Analyst, RAND Europe

Charlotte Robertson – British Army Officer

Nelson McMillan – Former RN warfare officer, current reservist and tech consultant

Tickets available here

Wednesday 12 January 18:00-20:00

Online event

From Covid to international and UK politics, last year stayed unpredictable to the very end. What is 2022 likely to offer, what trends should we be watching and what does that tell us about this evolving decade?

Panelists include:

Peter Apps – Reuiters Global Affairs Commentator, Executive Director, PS21 (moderator).

Dr Maha Hosain Aziz – MA IR professor at NYU and Author of award-winning bestseller Future World Order (2020) and sequel Global Spring (2022).

Emma Burnell – Journalist, Consultant, Playwright.

Listen here to the podcast of the event

Wednesday December 8 18:30

PS21 and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry invite you to a Christmas drinks and discussion on making the world work better.
As the pandemic evolves and the world reopens, what kind of world should we be building that serves us all, particularly those groups that have been previously disadvantaged. We will be bringing together a panel with experience and expertise across business, politics, gender, disability, race, ethnicity, sexuality and more…

Peter Apps (Moderator): Executive Director, PS21 and Global Affairs Commentator, Reuters

Lara Fatah: Communications and Advocacy consultant

Emily Pomeroy-Smith: disability activist and political campaigner

Alina Meyer: gender, social inclusion and human rights specialist

Menelik Shillingford: Sector Manager, Black Business Association, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Listen to the podcast of the event here

Tuesday 5 October 19:00

Join PS21 and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, Elbridge Colby, to talk the coming face of war in the 2020s…

PS21 invites you to the second event in its exciting new series discussing ‘War in the 2020s’.

In the 2nd in our series on “War in the 2020s”, PS21 talks to Elbridge Colby, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development on 5 October at 7pm BST, putting him at the heart of the Trump administration as one of it’s leading strategic thinkers. The 2020s have seen a dramatic return to great power tension, and with it potentially conflict risk.

Elbridge Colby’s soon to be published book,The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, can be found on Amazon.

Speakers:

Peter Apps, Executive Director at PS21 and Reuters Global Affairs Commentator.

Edbridge Colby, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development.

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Tuesday 7 September 19:00

Join PS21 and former head of the US Navy, Admiral Gary Roughead to talk the coming face of war in the 2020s…

PS21 invites you to its exciting new series discussing ‘War in the 2020s’.

These virtual discussions which will also be recorded as podcasts. We will be talking recent developments in conflicts and geopolitics, and looking forward to the big issues and trends that will define the still new decade.

Our first guest has several decades of experience throughout his US Naval career in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Admiral Gary Roughead gradulated from the US Naval Academy in 1973. In 2007, he became the 29th Chief of Naval operations and is one of two officers in the Navy’s history to have commanded both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets.

Listen to the podcast of the event here

PS21 is delighted to partner with TedXLondon for the joint event below. TEDXLondon have kindly set aside tickets for PS21 supporters, and you can sign up on the link below.

On Tuesday 27th July 6:30-8:00pm they will be hosting their free monthly TED Circles session, coming together to share and discuss brilliant ideas worth spreading.

The theme of this month’s TED Circle is ‘Agree to disagree’. A topic that becomes increasingly important as we see growing polarisation in many societies, globally.

We’ll be exploring this theme through the lens of two great talks. Together we will discover whether we’re predisposed to developing political mindsets and how disagreeing productively and finding common ground can help us learn to overcome our natural tendencies to disagree.

We’ll also consider questions like:

• Can political differences really be overcome?
• How might disagreements fuel learning?
• What can we do to better understand those whose perspectives differ from our own?

Please note that this is not a drop-in event – it starts at 6:30pm and finishes at 8:00pm, so if you join us after 6:30pm you may miss out on watching the first talk and discussion.

Tickets are free. Once you have registered, you will be sent the webinar link in your confirmation email.

Click here to sign up!