Gathering Changemakers
To Solve Real-World Challenges

The Conduit is a collaborative community of people committed to creating a just, prosperous and sustainable future.

Our members are entrepreneurs, investors, creatives, business leaders, activists, civil-society leaders and policymakers, bringing together knowledge, networks and capital for sustained positive impact.

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The Conduit is a space to build meaningful relationships and long-lasting friendships. Our members are from all over the world and from all sectors and industries. Find out how to become a member and join a growing community of passionate changemakers.

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FOOD & DRINK

We source exceptional food with a deep commitment to sustainability, working with small-scale producers predominately within the British Isles, chosen because they combine quality with responsible practices.

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OUR PROGRAMME

Discover the space to learn, exchange ideas and find inspiration. With over 150 in-person and digital events a year, focussed on community networking, leadership development, wellbeing and showcasing solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, there’s something for everyone.

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Climate Forward London

As the capital’s hub of social change, The Conduit is delighted to be welcoming The New York Times to host Climate Forward London at our Langley Street home from June 30th to July 2nd.

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Upcoming Events

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Solution Stage: Ocean CO2 Removal

From technology to nature-based solutions, what are the latest innovations harnessing the potential of the ocean to drive carbon capture and sequestration?

Solution Stage: Harnessing the Power of the Forest

Agroforestry has the unique ability to both mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Join us for an exploration into different ways in which we can harness the power of the forest to reduce – and sometimes reverse – emissions, restore tropical forests and enhance livelihoods for communities around the world.

Solution Stage: Proteins of the Future

Solution Stage, Upcoming Events

With global meat consumption at an all-time high, how can we bring down the price and drive up the quality of alternative sources of proteins to reach the tipping point where they are as affordable and successful as renewable sources of energy?

Solution Stage: Africa: Climate Vanguard, Not Climate Victim

Solution Stage, Upcoming Events

The African continent has contributed the least to global warming, yet is home to a wealth of potential for combating it. What solutions can Africa offer as a climate vanguard — and what are the opportunities and partnerships that will emerge from them?

Solution Stage: Curbing Plastic Emissions

Solution Stage, Upcoming Events

Taking the U.N. Treaty on Plastic Pollution as a unique moment in history to help drive positive tipping points, how can the plastic industry meet net-zero targets in line with the Paris Agreement? And what are the tangible initiatives that are driving the reduction of emissions from the plastic system?

Solution Stage: Systemic Solutions for Net Zero

Solution Stage, Upcoming Events

Join us for a big-picture analysis to close the conference. We will provide an overview of the global situation, looking into the future and, most importantly, focusing on the steps that we need to take right now to maintain momentum to reach each positive tipping point.

Outrage + Optimism, a live Podcast Recording with Christiana Figueres

Upcoming Events

Join the Outrage + Optimism podcast hosts Christiana Figueres, Co-architect of the Paris Agreement; Tom Rivett-Carnac, political strategist and author; and Paul Dickinson, Co-founder of CDP and author, with specially invited guests as they explore why it is so vital that we don’t let the prevailing discourse of doomism divide us and why keeping momentum is so vital to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

How inequality affects the air we breathe: a Climate Curious LIVE event

Upcoming Events

Air pollution is causing nearly 9 million premature deaths per year, worldwide, so why is no-one talking about it? Join TEDxLondon’s first-ever live recording of their chart-topping Climate Curious podcast, where, with special guest speakers, we lift the lid on the air pollution crisis. You’re invited to deep dive on the key issues in air pollution and inequality, and explore the potential solutions alongside our expert guests from science, policy, and the London community.

Jeremy Hunt on the Future of the NHS

Upcoming Events

As the former Secretary of State for Health and current Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, Jeremy Hunt believes it is possible to reduce the number of preventable deaths in the NHS to zero – in the process saving money, reducing backlogs and improving working conditions. He joins Paul Van Zyl, in conversation, to tell us how.

Strength and Balance Class with Vivobarefoot

Upcoming Events

Move better, get stronger and have fun with this practical calisthenics class presented in collaboration with Vivobarefoot, and their new education platform, VIVOHEALTH.

Fixing the Planet: An Overview for Optimists and Activists

Upcoming Events

Conduit Club member Michael Norton is launching his new book Fixing the Planet which details 40 different ways in which we are trashing the planet. For each topic, Michael provides a global perspective with facts and figures, whilst also showcasing stories of hope from people around the world. Join us for an evening that will include a discussion with five young activists, addressing topics from the book and how they see the future looking. There will be a glass of wine on arrival, champagne to toast the author who is celebrating his 80th birthday, and a signed (free) copy of the book being launched.

Foresight Session with Servane Mouazan

Upcoming Events

Are you someone who wants to invest in and ignite social change but feel stuck, overwhelmed and misaligned? Join us for an interactive foresight session, led by Impact Champion Servane Mouazan. Servane has been a life-long passionate futures-thinking facilitator and she will be facilitating a collaborative session that engages with artefacts from the future to help us re-imagine, design and articulate new ways of working that are inclusive and generate a positive impact. Over 60 minutes you will be invited to reflect and think in a space free of judgement and interruption.

Our New World with the Do School

Upcoming Events

Join us for an interactive evening of stimulating discussion, compelling insight and collaborative solution circles, in partnership with The DO. Founder and CEO of The Do, Florian Hoffman, will introduce us to his new book Our New World (Die Neue Welt), which takes the reader on a journey to the places and people that have already arrived in the future: young entrepreneurs, innovators, founders and leaders who are courageously shaping a better world. Demonstrating the huge potential for creating a better future today, Our New World provides a platform to launch into a discussion with our expert panel, addressing the climate crisis from fresh perspectives and alternative angles and focusing on the importance of community and collaboration. The event will culminate in convening in multiple Solution Circles, challenging each other to come up with answers to how we can begin to upskill individuals in order to transform our economy and organisation at speed.

The Conduit x Donmar

Upcoming Events

The Conduit is thrilled to have partnered with the DONMAR to offer our members a Dinner and Theatre package that includes tickets to a performance, with a pre theatre private dining experience at Warehouse. The next performance will be on 23rd June for A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART TWO. Ibsen’s revolutionary A DOLL’S HOUSE - first performed in 1891 - is the world’s most performed play. This audacious, hilarious and visceral sequel, by award winning writer Lucas Hnath, took Broadway by storm in 2017, and now has its UK premier at the DonmarWarehouse (and no, you do not need to have seen PART 1 to see this play

Bookish With Sathnam Sanghera: Our New Live and Online Book Club

Upcoming Events

Welcome to Bookish – the new book club for people who share a passion for powerful storytelling. Each month our community will come together in The Conduit, to meet one of the great authors of our times. For our inaugural book club we are welcoming Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland and The Boy With The Topknot. Come and join us to relax, have a cocktail with likeminded people, hear from the writer, and share your thoughts.

Circular Textiles Community Drinks

Upcoming Events

Calling The Conduit’s Sustainable Fashion community! In advance of World Circular Textiles Day (WCTD) in October we want to bring our vibrant fashion-focused members together to connect and converse over informal drinks.

Self-Care Saturday: Yoga & Breakfast

Upcoming Events

Enhance your wellbeing by nourishing your mind, body, and soul at our Self-Care Saturday which starts off with vinyasa yoga followed by a healthy breakfast at our rooftop restaurant.

Children’s Weekend Photography Workshop

Upcoming Events

Join us for our Kid’s Day at The Conduit! On Saturday 23rd July, we’ll be throwing our doors open to Conduit Kids for a fun and interactive camera-based workshop that will introduce how to take unique, thoughtful photographs. Parents welcome!

Salma El-Wardany in Conversation

Upcoming Events

Salma El-Wardany is a writer, poet and presenter and in her new book, These Impossible Things, she tells the story of three women coming to terms with the life choices that they have made. This is a tale of reconciling love, loss, faith, womanhood and friendship, and how one moment, in a life where everything feels at odds, can change everything. Join Salma as she takes us through themes of female friendships and challenging the current depiction of Muslim women in the media as well as faith, sex and love and loss.

Solution Stage: Ocean CO2 Removal

Solution Stage, Upcoming Events

From technology to nature-based solutions, what are the latest innovations harnessing the potential of the ocean to drive carbon capture and sequestration?

Move better, get stronger and have fun with this practical calisthenics class presented in collaboration with Vivobarefoot, and their new education platform, VIVOHEALTH.

Fixing the Planet: An Overview for Optimists and Activists

Upcoming Events

Foresight Session with Servane Mouazan

Upcoming Events

Our New World with the Do School

Upcoming Events

The Conduit x Donmar

Upcoming Events

Bookish With Sathnam Sanghera: Our New Live and Online Book Club

Upcoming Events

Circular Textiles Community Drinks

Upcoming Events

Self-Care Saturday: Yoga & Breakfast

Upcoming Events

Enhance your wellbeing by nourishing your mind, body, and soul at our Self-Care Saturday which starts off with vinyasa yoga followed by a healthy breakfast at our rooftop restaurant.

Children’s Weekend Photography Workshop

Upcoming Events

Salma El-Wardany in Conversation

Upcoming Events

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Soumik Datta’s Hope Notes

Peace & Justice, Insights, Arts & Culture, Featured

Who is a refugee? What does it mean to be one? Conduit Impact Champion Soumik Datta has created 'Hope Notes' a project that tells unique human stories of survival through music and animation.

Female Refugee Integration: Barrier to Employment

Peace & Justice, Past Events

In collaboration with our Impact Partner, DLA Piper, join us for a discussion on the role of the private sector in breaking down barriers faced by professional refugee women in the UK. DLA Piper have successfully initiated a professional mentoring programme, Women in Law for Women Refugees and will be launching their report on the barriers faced by refugee women post COVID. More needs to be done within businesses to respond to the evident need to provide more tailored integration support. Collaboration is key and this event will seek to create connections, start new conversations and generate calls to action.

An Evening with Rio Ferdinand and WeAre8 Founder & CEO, Sue Fennessy

Past Events, Employment & Economic Opportunity

Join acclaimed footballer and broadcaster Rio Ferdinand in conversation with Founder and CEO of WeAre8 Sue Fennessy for an exploration into the story behind WeAre8 and how they are shaping the future of digital media.

Eye on Afghanistan: Facing Famine

Peace & Justice, Past Events, Sexuality & Gender Equity

Record levels of food insecurity persist in Afghanistan with almost half the population - 19.7 million people - facing acute hunger, requiring emergency food assistance. Families are being forced to resort to desperate coping measures in order to feed their children and families. Join our expert panel for an analysis of what action needs to be taken to ease the severe hunger and food insecurity confronting an entire nation.

An Interview with tribal activist Mauricio Yekuana

Peace & Justice, Climate Action & A Sustainable Future, Featured

When Mauricio Yekuana was 10 years old, his grandfather was murdered by illegal gold miners after he refused to accept them intruding on his lands. Some years later, his uncle was shot to death whilst travelling down one of the branches of the Amazon river. His cousin survived only by hiding in the bottom of their canoe… wounded from a gunshot to the shoulder he hid there for days, terrified to come out. Mauricio is now the treasurer of the Yanomami Association, Hutukara, which led the international campaign for the protection of the Yanomami land after an influx of illegal miners in the 1980s decimated the tribe. The government finally recognized the Yanomami land as an indigenous territory in 1992, but illegal mining continues today.

Nemonte Nenquimo In Conversation with Alice Aedy

Past Events, Climate Action & A Sustainable Future

A special event at The Conduit in conversation with Nemonte. As a member of the Waorani Nation from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador, Nemonte is the first female president of the Waorani of Pastaza and the recipient of the Goldman Environmental prize. She will share her stories and insights of the destruction of the world’s largest tropical rainforest and lead us towards action that takes better care of Mother Nature.

Soumik Datta’s Hope Notes

Peace & Justice, Insights, Arts & Culture, Featured

Who is a refugee? What does it mean to be one? Conduit Impact Champion Soumik Datta has created 'Hope Notes' a project that tells unique human stories of survival through music and animation.

Female Refugee Integration: Barrier to Employment

Peace & Justice, Past Events

An Evening with Rio Ferdinand and WeAre8 Founder & CEO, Sue Fennessy

Past Events, Employment & Economic Opportunity

Eye on Afghanistan: Facing Famine

Peace & Justice, Past Events, Sexuality & Gender Equity

An Interview with tribal activist Mauricio Yekuana

Peace & Justice, Climate Action & A Sustainable Future, Featured

Nemonte Nenquimo In Conversation with Alice Aedy

Past Events, Climate Action & A Sustainable Future

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The Rise of Misinformation

The Road to COP27, Conduit Conversations Podcast

The partnership's first podcast looks at one of the threats to the transition: The rise of misinformation. We spoke to the panel of the recent GWEC/Conduit Club event on the subject, about why this problem is spiking, and what organisations are doing about it (or not doing about it, as is often the case). GWEC’s Reshmi Ladwa and Ben Backwell are joined by Jennie King, who is Head of Civic Action and Education at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and Mai Rosner, who is a campaigner at Global Witness, looking at the Digital Threats to Democracy.

Conduit Conversations with Jennie King

Season 11, Conduit Conversations Podcast

On this episode Paul talks to Jennie King, Head of Civic Action and Education at the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, leading their efforts to translate research into frontline programming and response. Jennie provides regular briefings for UK government departments and regulators on approaches to media literacy, as well as overseeing the ISD’s growing portfolio on Climate Mis and Disinformation, supporting a worldwide coalition identifying and analysing counter related harms. This is a fascinating and timely conversation delving deep into the murky world of Mis and Disinformation and its impact on making positive forward momentum against climate change.

Conduit Conversations with Juliet Kinsman

Season 11, Conduit Conversations Podcast

In this episode Paul is joined by Juliet Kinsman who has been a journalist and broadcaster for more than 25 years, working in travel for two decades. Juliet was the founding editor of Mr & Mrs Smith, most recently the first-ever Sustainability Editor for Condé Nast Traveller, and is author of ‘The Green Edit: Travel, Easy Tips for the Eco-Friendly Traveller’. Her non-profit consultancy, BOUTECO, works with award-winning brands to help them stand for something and stand out for it through their storytelling. Juliet gives us her insights into sustainable travel, what we should be thinking about when it comes to planning trips, and her top tips on how to travel better.

Conduit Conversations Live with Jean Oelwang

Season 11, Conduit Conversations Live, Conduit Conversations Podcast

In this episode Conduit Co-Founder Paul Van Zyl is joined by Jean Oelwang, founding CEO of Virgin Unite. Jean has had a remarkable career, working with some of the world’s greatest changemakers. She discusses with Paul how she was able to draw on her unique experience to write her new book, Partnering. Centred on the idea that great partnerships are vital to meaningful lives and successful organisations. This really is a wonderful conversation between peers, a dynamic interaction between two extraordinary people sharing pivotal moments in their lives.

Conduit Conversations Live with Alannah Weston

Conduit Conversations Live, Conduit Conversations Podcast

This episode sees Conduit Co-Founder Paul Van Zyl joined live at The Conduit by Alannah Weston, Chairman of Selfridges Group, a position that she has held since 2019. Alannah’s consistent mission in her role has been to empower talented people to deliver an innovative customer experience within a sustainable and ethical framework. This incredibly eye-opening conversation gave a glimpse into the workings of a company striving for a systems change, steered by a vision of purpose from Alannah.

Conduit Conversations Live with Andrey Kurkov

Season 11, Conduit Conversations Live, Conduit Conversations Podcast

Ukraine’s most famous novelist took to the stage at The Conduit to discuss his new book, Grey Bees - a dramatization of the conflict raging in his country through the lens of a mild-mannered beekeeper. The conversation was led by Kelly Falconer, founder of the Asia Literary Agency, and touched on the crisis in Ukraine. Andrey shared his signature humour, imagination and sensitivity with the audience, allowing a genuine and thoughtful discussion to emerge.