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Will you make a stand with us this International Women’s Day?

On 4 March, we’ll come together with The Circle to explore how we can protect women and girls in an increasingly turbulent global landscape, and drive change through collective action.

Founded by Annie Lennox alongside other leading women, The Circle is a global feminist organisation bringing together women and allies to create a fairer, safer world.

The evening will be hosted by Nuala McGovern, journalist and presenter of BBC Woman’s Hour, in conversation with co-founder of the Malala Fund, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Raakhi Shah, CEO of The Circle, and Delphine Uwamahoro, founder of Our Sisters’ Opportunity in Rwanda.

One in three women in the world will experience violence in their lifetime. Join us on International Women’s Day to make a stand and demand change.

Speakers:

Raakhi Shah, CEO, The Circle

Delphine Uwamahoro, Founder and Executive Director, Our Sisters’ Opportunity

Ziauddin Yousafzai, Co-founder of Malala Fund

Chair:

Nuala McGovern, Award-winning BBC News TV and Radio presenter

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Can democracies still function when truth itself is destabilised – and what will it take to restore public trust?

Around the world, democracies are being outpaced by a rapidly evolving information crisis. AI-generated deepfakes, automated propaganda, and weaponised synthetic media are now flooding public discourse faster than institutions can respond. What the world is witnessing is a runaway surge of falsehoods, which is turbo-charging a deeper collapse in our democratic capacity to verify what’s real, deliberate together, and hold power to account.

At this pivotal moment, Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, is bringing forward a new framework for understanding and repairing the deeper democratic fractures beneath the disinformation crisis. This event marks the first public discussion of that work.

Eliot is joined by award- winning investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr – campaigner for a free and accountable press – for a timely discussion in collaboration with Media Revolution campaigners and early adopters of the Bellingcat ARC framework. Together they will examine how AI is supercharging already established disinformation networks – and what new civic, investigative, and institutional infrastructures are needed to rebuild shared reality.

Speakers:

Eliot Higgins, Founder, Bellingcat

Carole Cadwalladr, Investigative Journalist

Chair:

Liz Pendleton, Co-Founder, Media Revolution

 

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In the past year, AI capabilities have rapidly advanced across fields ranging from coding to higher mathematics. Industry valuations and capital expenditure have soared to hundreds of billions of dollars, and nations are racing to build their own “sovereign” compute capacity. Sceptics warn of an AI bubble, but governments increasingly fear missing out on what could be the most fundamental general-purpose technology since electricity. 
The Observer’s Global AI Index aims to make sense of this landscape in the 93 countries that invest in artificial intelligence. Now in its sixth year, it’s the leading ranking of countries in their investment, implementation and innovation in artificial intelligence.
Hear from The Observer’s data scientists as they discuss the latest rankings, trends and changes, before a conversation led by editor-in-chief, James Harding, about what this means. 

Speakers: 
Patricia Clarke, Technology Reporter, The Observer 
Serena Cesareo, Senior Researcher, The Observer 
Hannah Schuller, Data Reporter and Researcher, The Observer 
Chair: James Harding, Editor in Chief, The Observer 
In Partnership with The Observer.
 
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From debates over impartiality and political pressure to digital consumption habits and culture-war narratives, this Great Room discussion brings together leading voices to examine what a renewed, resilient BBC could become.
Speakers:
Alan Rusbridger, Journalist and Editor, Prospect Magazine
Manveen Rana, Journalist and Podcast Host, The Times
Lewis Goodall, Journalist, Broadcaster (The News Agents) and Author
Hardeep Matharu, Editor-in-Chief, Byline Times
Chair:
Nina Nannar, Arts Editor, ITV News
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In the RSA’s historic Great Room – the home of ideas since the Enlightenment – cognitive scientist Gaurav Suri explores how both human and AI minds emerge from vast, hidden networks of neural activity. A clear, compelling introduction to the science behind intelligence, attention and learning.
Speaker:
Gaurav Suri, Cognitive Scientist and Psychologist (Associate Professor, San Francisco State University)
Chair:
David Malone, Documentary Filmmaker and Author
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