reinvent business, your organization, and yourself

Over the course of four days and three nights, we connected thousands of people around the world. We used video, audio, and text, and meet in both the virtual world and the real one at more than 30 local hubs and through outdoor activities.

All times in Central European Time (CET)

16:00 - 19:30 ARRIVING

Learn about and join the curated social circles that help you navigate The Great Wave.

Unhappy Hour

What’s wrong with business today? Let it all out in the ultimate rant.

19:00 – 20:00 OPENING CEREMONY: THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS IS BEAUTIFUL

The vision for beautiful business and why it needs a Great Wave.

20:00 - 20:45 JOURNEE - FLOATING MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Enter Journee, our 3D virtual world, to see works from various artists.

20:00 - 20:45 THE SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS: INAUGURAL GATHERING

A safe space for respectful dissent, skepticism, and tough questions for our speakers.

With Megan Hustad and Jonathan Cook

21:00 - 23:00 MAIN SESSION ONE: THE ANATOMY OF A WAVE

Explore the many dimensions and meanings of a wave, from the acute (the pandemic) to the concrete (surfing), the scientific (waveology, quantum physics), and the societal (social movements).

With Easkey Britton, Shohini Ghose, Ed Gillespie, Syra Madad, Karen O’Brien, Oliver Plunkett, Carola Rackete, Sky & Tami, Maurice Mitchell and Henriett Ventura & Xavier Carmo

23:00 - 23:30 BECOME THE WAVE - A 3D AUDIO JOURNEY

Step outside, walk solo or in small groups, and immerse yourself in the sounds of this year.

23:30 - 00:30 ENDURING TRUTH – A WORLDWIDE PILGRIMAGE

Continue the collective walk while exploring the concept of truth back to its origin.

With Jonathan Cook

23:30 - 0:00 GRIEF IS CO-CREATION

Play with the many layers (and waves) of grief.

With Michèle Saint-Michel

All times in Central European Time (CET)

0:00 – 5:00 UNDERCURRENTS

House Concert & Soundwaves

With Musicians-in-Residence and FAUXPAS

Music and the Metaverse

With Jon Vlassopolus and Steve Schnur. From the Local Hub Nashville.

Songs of the Suffragettes

Live from the Local Hub Nashville.

5 2 9

Glimpses into jobs performed at night
A film by Ida Thomasdotter

Negative Space

“Nothing matters more than what never happened.” - Adam Phillips. Hear the unspoken and share unfulfilled desires.

5:00 - 10:00 SENSING

Inner Work Assignments

Complete assignments and exercises that guide your personal development alongside the program.

Cold Water, Warm Bodies 

Audio-shadow a first-time winter-swimmer.

With Marie Louise Gørvild

Wonder Walks

(Re)discover your city through old and new prompts.

With Secret City Trails

House Concert

Embodying The Wave

Join us for The Wave, an embodiment practice and movement meditation based on Roth's 5Rhythms practice.

With Chris Connors

10:00 - 12:00 MAIN SESSION TWO: WEAK SIGNALS

Explore what is out there on the horizon, barely visible to the eye: from cutting-edge technologies and scientific insights to subtle yet dramatic social shifts.

With Azeem Azhar, Keolu Fox, Liane Al Ghusain, Saru Jayaraman, Husayn Kassai, Natalie Kofler, Trevor Martin, Tim O’ Reilly, and Audrey Tang

12:15 - 13:00

The Society of Skeptics

12:15 - 13:00 NEXT VISIONS

Future Travel

A conversation between Paulo Pisano and Cherae Robinson

The Future of Democracy

A conversation between Alex Evans and Anab Jain

The Other In Me

A conversation with Nonhanhla Makuyana and Richard Teverson

Next Role Models

A conversation with Lisa Jaspers and Naomi Ryland

13:00 - 15:00 DEEP DIVES

A Soundtrack of Beautiful Business

Live from the Bangalore hub

I Came Here to Speak about Love: Loss in Business

I’ll be looking at the camera. Anyone can come in and look into my eyes. You can come in and leave at any time.

With Esther Blázquez Blanco and Carola Zafarana

Ocean Talks

Odes to the ocean by the ocean

With Easkey Britton and Ed Gillespie

Nurturing Our Nature

How do we nurture and regenerate nature—and by that, ourselves?

With Eva Karlsson, Elaine Kasket, Yasaman Sheri, Carolyn Steel, Felipe Villela, and John Vincent

Time Rebels and Good Ancestors

What can we learn from our past to take the long view?

With Roman Krznaric, Shoukei Matsumoto and Gemma Mortensen

Learning from the Liminal Space

What the spaces "in between" teach us, and how to use these learnings to redesign our current reality.

With Jonathan Kerrs and Thomas Winkelmann

Natural Coherency

A walk in nature, interwoven with the lyricism of computer code

With Twain Liu

15:00 - 17:00 PLAY TIME

Wild Solo

Alone together with nature (and Ed Gillespie)

The Beautiful Game

Choose your team and play the traditional House football game on the real and virtual fields.

Overcome Gravity

With the dancer Irina Lerman.

The Moonshot Thinking Workshop by X

With Angelie Agarwal

Fado Meets Meditation with Rute Caldeira and Cuca Roseta

Live from the Lisbon hub by Grupo Ageas Portugal

A Conversation About Making Conversation

With Laura Holson and Fred Dust

Skateboarding in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)

Learn about the work of nonprofit Skateistan which empowers children through skateboarding and education in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa.

With Arun Chaudhary, Carol Dysinger, and Oliver Percovich

The Imaginary Crisis

A conversation with Geoff Mulgan

17:00 - 19:00 MAIN SESSION THREE: IMAGINE

Explore the importance of artistic, social, and moral imagination in shaping our (post-)pandemic societies.

With Bengt Jorgen of Ballet Jorgen of Canada, Francoise Baylis, Ianne Fields Stewart, Laura Gamse, Aditi Khorana, Kenneth Mikkelsen, Neil Pymer, Martin Reeves, Léa Steinacker, and Kara Swisher

19:00 - 19:45 SOCIETY OF SKEPTICS, RIPPLES, JOURNEE

The Society of Skeptics

With Esra Karakaya and Jonathan Cook

House Concert

World Tour

20:30 - 21:30 15 TOASTS TO THE INBETWEEN

The first ever hybrid and filmed 15 Toasts dinner, celebrating the transitory space and those who inhabit it.

21:30 - 22:00 30 MINUTES MASKS

with Collectarium

22:00 - 24:00 THE GREAT MASQUERADE

A surrealistic party that invites you to be anyone you want to be

All times in Central European Time (CET)

0:00 - 5:00 UNDERCURRENTS

House Concert & DJs

With Musicians-in-Residence and Max & Mellow

Negative Space

“Nothing matters more than what never happened.” - Adam Phillips. Hear the unspoken and share unfulfilled desires.

5:00 - 10:00 SENSING

Inner Work Assignments

Complete assignments and exercises that guide your personal development alongside the program.

Strech and Flow

A live and lively yoga and movement session set to great music, with an explorative and playful edge. For those who want to literally get out of their minds!

With Carl Faure

75 Questions That Lead to Doubt

An audio journey that helps you deal with doubt. Or does it?

With Megan Hustad and Tim Leberecht

Wonder Walks

(Re)discover your city through old and new prompts.

With Secret City Trails

Sounds of the Pandemic

From abandoned streets to Zoom calls—what does COVID-19 sound like?

With Rob Hopkins

10:00 - 11:30 MAIN SESSION FOUR: FROM HUMAN-CENTERED TO HUMANE

Moving towards more-than-human design and new models of circular innovation

With Alina Bassi, Deborah Choi, Alicia Chong Rodriguez, Sophie Devonshire, Karel Golta, Hector Ouilhet, and Apoorv Sinha

12:00 - 13:00

Journee - Virtual World

12:00 - 13:00 NEXT VISIONS

The Sacred in the Profane

A conversation between Liane Al Ghusain and Casper ter Kuile

Where We Belong

A conversation between Charlotte Fox Weber and Erwin James

The Ultimate Augmentation

A conversation between Moon Ribas and Yasaman Sheri

12:00 - 13:00

Tatazumai

The Japanese Way of Calm Technology and Design
Live from the Kyoto hub

Profit and Beauty

A collective orientation exercise for business builders, gardeners, and rainmakers
Hosted by Lisa Gerkens and Gantimur Meissner

13:00 - 16:00 DEEP DIVES

I Came Here to Speak about Love: Feedback in Business

The uncomfortable concept of connection in business

With Esther Blázquez Blanco

Seeing New York City

Open your eyes with photographer Beowulf Sheehan.

Ritual Hour

Learn about and practice the power of rituals.

With Casper ter Kuile

Deep Tech: The Third Wave

Why the great convergence of science, biology, and technology will radically change all business models.

With Benjamin Joffe, Massimo Portincaso and Arnaud de la Tour

World Tour

A journey to the Local Hubs

Learning from Afghanistan

A conversation about loss of control, trust, and collectivism live from the Local Hub in Kabul

With Inge Missmahl

16:00 - 18:00 MAIN SESSION FIVE: WOUNDS THAT HEAL

From protest to policies, from wokeness to togetherness. Fighting othering, racism, and social injustice: what comes next and what can we learn from wounds that have already healed?

With Mohamad Al Jounde, Alex Evans, Ifetayo Harvey, Esra Karakaya, Mathieu Lefevre, Safiya Noble, John Powell, Ariana Alexander-Sefre, Esra Karakaya, Dar Vanderbeck, and Anna Winger.

18:00 - 18:30 FROM THE ANTHROPOCENE TO THE MICROBIOCENE

Sarah Huter in conversation with the philosopher Tobias Rees

18:00 - 19:15 HAPPY CLIMATE

How to cut carbon and get happier.

With Elizabeth Dunn and Jiaying Zhao

18:30 - 19:15 BODIES AT WORK

There is no revolution without dance!

With Aditi Khorana and Kate Shela

19:30 - 21:00 MAIN SESSION SIX: POINT BREAK

Reaching the point of no return, we explore risk and courage, surrender and communion, letting go and love—before moving on to new shores.

With Easkey Britton, Ed Gillespie, Erwin James, Suleika Jaouad, Anna Lee, DeRay Mckesson, Léa Steinacker, Mabel van Oranje, and Joshua Wong.

21:00 - 23:00 THE BUSINESS-IS-PLEASURE FEAST

A record-attempting earth-spanning breakfast-and-dinner-lunch-and-midnight-snack food festival.

23:00 - 00:00 SILENT HOUR

Enough said.

With a special appearance by Solari.

All times in Central European Time (CET)

0:00 - 5:00 UNDERCURRENTS

House Concert & DJs

With Musicians-in-Residence

When we Tango

A Tango Night at the Milonga
Hosted by the Buenos Aires hub with Pablo Pugliese and Noel Strazza

Negative Space

“Nothing matters more than what never happened.” - Adam Phillips. Hear the unspoken and share unfulfilled desires.

5:00 - 10:00 SENSING

Inner Work Assignments

Complete assignments and exercises that guide your personal development alongside the program.

Embodying the Wave

Join us for The Wave, an embodiment practice and movement meditation based on Roth's 5Rhythms practice.

With Chris Connors

Intimacy, Playfulness, Surrender

Live from the Sydney hub, with Bryony Cole, Tracey Hamilton, Bem Le Hunte and Diana Nguyen

10:00 - 11:30 THE MORNING AFTER

Regrets? I had a few. With Till Grusche.

10:00 - 12:00 JOURNEE - VIRTUAL WORLD

11:00 - 12:00 NEXT VISIONS

Leaders Who Care

A conversation between Gianpiero Petriglieri and Carola Rackete

New Currencies

A conversation between Natalie Kofler and Albert Wenger

12:00 - 17:00 DEEP DIVES

Qanon and a Hyper-Connected Society in Distress

A conversation with Tokyo-based New Yorker writer Matt Alt

Choir Practise

Because we all need practice. And we all need to sing.
With James Sills

Educating for Beautiful Business

Explore the tenets of a new curriculum

Live from the Tel Aviv hub, with Danielle Jaffit and Tami Warshavski

Friction and Flow

Building resilience in the face of adversity

With Marie Louise Gørvild, Rahaf Harfoush, Emilia Roig, Martin Thornkvist, and Marc Wallert

All About Empathy

Empathy has become a buzzword—how do you make it real?

With Mele-Ane Havea, Clare Patey, and Michael Ventura

Radical Reforms

From UBI to zebra startups to “exit to community”—exploring bold ideas for new business models, governance structures, and definitions of value.

With Guy Standing and Albert Wenger

AI Governance: Diversity by Design

How can we ensure AI enhances human agency? And should we?

With Rumman Chowdhury, John Havens, Gopichand Katragadda, Twain Liu, and Christian Mio Loclair

Roaring 20ies

The old and the young Marlene, the past and the present divide. A live Zoom documentary.

How Can We Cure Management?

Management smells bad. Do we need to kill it to humanize business?

With Rahaf Harfoush, Margaret Heffernan, Ebru Koksal, Jessica Orkin, Gianpiero Petriglieri, and Martin Reeves

Stealth, Health and Wealth

How can we ensure AI Governance prioritizes responsible data and human wellbeing?

Presented by IEEE

The Promise of Steward Ownership

Protecting businesses from extractive capital is a noble goal. Can it succeed?

With Purpose Economy

The Art of Reinvention

Christian Knoerle in conversation with Guy Kawasaki

17:30 - 19:30 MAIN SESSION SEVEN: THE NEW PLAYBOOK

This more inspirational version of the proverbial Monday morning meeting provides closing reflections and concrete calls for action, from a new renaissance age to reimagining capitalism, the workplace as a powerful catalyst of social change, and the playbook of beautiful business.

With Rebecca Henderson, Michal Lev-Ram, Alan Murray, Jessica Orkin, Joey Reiman, Keith Yamashita, and Denise Young Smith

19:30 - 20:30 CLOSING CEREMONY

Gather for one final splash and a fond farewell.

20:30 - 22:00 GOING SWIMMING!

Let’s (finally) jump in the ocean, the river, the lake, the pond, the pool, the bathtub.