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- Aug 22 - Aug 22, 2026
- Session no.
- S966-01
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- Future Forum
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Thomas BieblManaging Director, Public AffairsAlizé CloughExecutive Assistant, Office of the President
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Salzburg Global Future Forum: Seizing the Moment. Shaping the Future.
Some of the most consequential conversations happen not on large stages, but in rooms small enough for people to truly listen to one another. For decades, this has been how Salzburg Global convenes: bringing together thoughtful people from different fields and different parts of the world, giving them the time and the setting to think out loud, and allowing understanding to emerge through genuine exchange rather than performance. It is an approach that shapes our programs throughout the year, and the Future Forum offers a first glimpse of it. For a single day at Schloss Leopoldskron, a carefully chosen group of exceptional guests steps away from the noise of the moment to consider, together and without haste, the questions that will shape what comes next.
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Aug 22 - Aug 22, 2026
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S966-01
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The 2nd Annual Salzburg Global Future Forum brings together Nobel laureates, business leaders, journalists, diplomats, and other remarkable guests from around the world for a day of conversation at Schloss Leopoldskron, coinciding with the final week of the Salzburg Festival. Aligned with our 2026 Annual Spotlight, the Forum turns its attention to the changes reshaping our world and to the ideas, values, and people that will help define the future.
Rather than relying on traditional panels, each session takes the form of a salon conversation between two people on stage, an interviewer and a distinguished guest, before an intimate audience of invited participants. The format is designed for nuance rather than spectacle, allowing questions to unfold with curiosity, intellectual depth, and real exchange. Discussions range widely, from the future of democracy and the rule of law to international peace and security, transatlantic relations, global fragmentation, and political realignment.
- What does it take to meet this moment with clarity rather than anxiety, and where might the most promising ideas come from?
- How do open societies sustain democracy, the rule of law, and international cooperation at a time of rapid change?
- What forms of leadership and imagination can help bring a fragmented world closer together?
- And as familiar structures shift, which values should guide what replaces them?
The Forum seeks to move beyond diagnosis toward direction. It aims to surface forward looking ideas and approaches from people working to bring the world closer together rather than further apart. By convening exceptional minds across disciplines and geographies in an atmosphere of trust and genuine attention, the Forum creates space for the kind of honest, boundary crossing dialogue that rarely finds room elsewhere, and from which better possibilities can emerge.
- Nicklas Berild Lundblad, independent writer, researcher and public policy expert
- Kenneth Cukier, Deputy Executive Editor, The Economist
- Serge Haroche, Professor Emeritus of Quantum Physics, Collège de France and Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Mark Landler, London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Silvia M. Lindtner, Professor of Information and Director, Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing, University of Michigan
- Oleksandra Matviichuk, Chair of the Centre for Civil Liberties and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Eric Olander, Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, China Global South Project
- Inka Pieh, Deputy Editor in Chief, ORF Newsroom and Ö3 News Chief
- Allison Pugh, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
- Ralf Rangnick, Head Coach, Austria National Football Team
- Dan Wang, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- Ali Vaez, Senior Advisor, International Crisis Group, United States of America
Martin Weiss, President and CEO at Salzburg Global, will moderate some of these conversations.
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