Programme

Day 1 - Monday, 12th October

Private coalition meetings are taking place in the morning.

We have arranged for the Bundeskunsthalle to open its current exhibitions from 11am. Arrive before lunch to take a self-guided tour and meet fellow attendees as you explore (the museum will be closed to the public).

  • Foyer

    Arrive and get to know other participants over lunch.

  • Forum

    Opening remarks from P4NE’s Director Jo Swinson and this year’s host, Thobile Chittenden.

  • Forum

    Kumi Naidoo explores how we can turn together to build economies that serve life.

  • Durable Policy Change in Uncertain Times: Strategies for building new economic policies that endure

    Clara Leonard | Institut Avant Garde,  Carolina Ortega Guttack | FiscalFuture, Zoe Elsner I ZOE Institute

    Turning Ownership on its Head: Steward-Ownership and the Future of Our Economy 

    Maike Kauffmann, Adrian Hensen | Purpose Foundation

    Workers in the Informal Economy: Lessons in power-building to change the rules of the game

    Laura Alfers | WIEGO, Naila Kabeer | LSE

    Building Pro-Social Monetary Systems: Redesigning money to serve communities through alternative digital currencies

    Jan Oleszczuk-Zygmuntowski | Polish Economics Network

    Governing Extreme Wealth: New mechanisms to govern concentrated wealth and power

    Fernanda Balata I Political Economist

    Community Power in the AI Economy: The Prometheus Protocol - a civic rehearsal for the AI age

    Alexandra Stef | Collective Futures, Hrishabh Sandilya | ReImagined Futures

  • Foyer

    Pause for tea, coffee, light bites.

  • Foyer

    Facilitated by Donnie Maclurcan and Charmaine Blaize

    Immense knowledge, skills, resources and opportunities lie latent within many of our movements. In this session, participants will experience an 'Offers and Needs Market' - a method used by 450 facilitators worldwide to strengthen relationships and partnerships, revealing the true wealth any community holds. Leave with new connections, access to resources, a replicable method, and a big smile on your faces!

  • Forum

    Thobile Chittenden

    Reflect on the first day of the gathering and hear the agenda for Day Two

  • Continue your conversations at our drinks reception and ‘walking’ dinner. For the first hour you can head to the rooftop and enjoy the slide!

The programme will update as we continue to confirm sessions and speakers.

Day 2 - Tuesday, 13th October

  • Foyer

    Arrive, connect, and share coffee and pastries to start the day.

  • Forum

    Hear from our host Thobile Chittenden and keynote speaker Eric Beinhocker, followed by an audience Q and A

  • Foyer

    Pause for tea, coffee, light bites and conversation.

  • Campaigning to Win: The politics of a new economy

    Sebastian Mang | Prosper, Vesna Jusup | European Centre for Digital Action

    Post-Growth Sovereignty in the Global South: Mfumo Wa Ustawi (Weave of Wellbeing)

    Joy Njeri Njihia, Cyrus Mbugua Kimani | Ntulea Africa

    Funders Exchange: A peer exchange session for philanthropy (funders only)

    Partners for a New Economy

    Narrative Strategies for a New Economy: reaching audiences with ideas that matter

    Michael Mezzatesta | Better Future Media

    Beyond Monetary Orthodoxy: Understanding and managing inflation in the polycrisis

    David Barmes | CETEx LSE, Maike Schmidt | NEF, Damon Aitken I UCL

    A Deep Listening Walk: From emotion to collective action 

    Tanja Brumbauer, Hannah Strobel | Next Economy Lab

  • Vegetarian seasonal food

    Foyer

  • The Lounge

    Grab your lunch and take a seat to watch $HARE:

    When LENA CORBYN (59), inherits a third of a British-Swiss mining empire, she aims to revolutionize Corbyn Commodities by closing a harmful coal mine in South Africa and granting employees shares of the family business. But her ambitious plan provokes existential angst in Lena's sister and niece, who will stop at nothing to preserve their privilege and the status quo.

    The system change Lena is aiming for in $HARE also happens behind the screen. See the film team’s manifesto. The fictional narrative directly influences how this story is told in real life. 

  • Forum

    Watch this space - Speakers to be announced

  • The More Than Human Legal Lab: Reimagining the law for an era of interdependence

    Brontie Ansell, Jessica Mond-Wedd | Lawyers for Nature

    Community Organising Beyond the Base: Building constituencies across divides to win on affordability

    Anna Schueler, Lotte Dohmen, Carol Peterson | Movement Hub

    Caring our way out of crisis: The transformative potential of a caring economy 

    Celine Charveriat | Pro(to)topia , Georgia Nicolau | Procomun

    Narrative Strategies for a New Economy: Practical lessons for reaching audiences with ideas that matter

    Michael Mezzatesta | Better Future Media

    Melting Planet Experience: Learning to Change Systems Through Cooperation

    Cristian Gil-Sánchez | Acción Pública

  • Foyer

  • Forum

    Come together for a final time to synthesise and share insights from your experiences in Bonn.

    Watch this space - speakers to be announced

  • Foyer

    Join us for drinks until 6pm

Artist in Residence!

Worlding New Economies

Join a creative collage-making session with our artist-in-residence, Berlin-based collage artist Niels Devisscher.

This is a drop-in space throughout the Gathering, where you can pause, process your ideas and reflections, and create something beautiful.

Each piece you contribute becomes part of an emergent, collective collage — a shared, evolving portrait of our experience of the Gathering and what new economies might look and feel like.

Online:

If you are unable to attend in person, we will record sessions taking place in the Forum and publish them on our Vimeo channel afterwards for anyone who would like to catch up online. No registration is necessary to view online.