HSI Salons and working sessions.
HSI uses salons and smaller working sessions to test research questions with practitioners, scholars, policymakers, and institutional leaders.
The Salon record
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Held
New York
The inaugural Salon at the House of the Redeemer: fourteen senior participants from finance, healthcare, law, government, the UN system, and academia, built around Horizon Scan 001.
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Held
London
The Autumn Salon at the Royal Society: twenty-two participants around one table, built around Horizon Scan 002.
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In development
Tokyo
The Asia anchor Salon, built around Horizon Scan 003. Date and venue to be confirmed as Japanese institutional partnerships are settled.
More about Tokyo
Hosted in February, when senior decision-makers schedule cross-Pacific engagement following Davos. Horizon Scan 003 turns from legal instruments to industrial ones: compute allocation, energy and grid constraint, export controls, and standards-setting, and the question of what governance means when the binding constraints are physical. Programming will be developed with Japanese policy and academic institutions.
Tokyo anchors cross-Pacific dialogue on AI governance, planetary futures, and the multilateral order, where U.S. and European perspectives meet Asian regulatory and industrial ones in candid format.
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Planned
HSI Annual Summit
The inaugural cross-program summit. Date, location, and program will be announced when confirmed.
About the Summit
Convening formats and their status
HSI distinguishes past convenings from scheduled events and plans still in development. Salons are the current public format. Smaller working sessions may be convened when a defined research question warrants them. The HSI Annual Summit is a planned part of the Institute’s convening program, with the inaugural edition targeted for May 2027.
Anchor-city salons
The New York and London Salons have published records. Tokyo is in development, with date and venue not yet confirmed. Future recurrence will be stated only when programmed.
HSI Annual Summit
A planned cross-program convening for researchers, policymakers, institutional leaders, and practitioners. The inaugural edition is targeted for May 2027; details will be announced as they are confirmed.
Topic-anchored, by invitation
Smaller convenings of two kinds. Working Sessions are research-occasioned, tied to specific publications. Field Sessions are convened around external windows where senior decision-makers already gather. Both are sited where a city contributes something specific the research needs, whether regulatory proximity, industrial depth, or field evidence from outside the usual capitals. Roughly 8 to 15 attendees. Not publicly listed.
HSI Annual Summit
HSI is planning an annual summit for researchers, policymakers, institutional leaders, and practitioners across its four research programs. The inaugural edition is targeted for May 2027. Date, location, and program details will be announced when confirmed.
Inaugural edition targeted for May 2027.
Designed for candor, not performance.
HSI Salons are closed-door and by invitation only. Prepared remarks are on the record; the discussion that follows is held under the Chatham House Rule, so what is said in it is not attributed to the person who said it. Who was present is a matter of record, published with participants' agreement. The format is built to support honest dialogue among practitioners, scholars, policymakers, and institutional leaders who otherwise rarely share a room outside formal institutional settings.
The Institute does not publish video, transcripts, or named attribution from Salons. Insights surface through subsequent published research, with sourcing handled in accordance with the rules of the convening.
The New York Salon took place in June 2026 and the London Salon in October 2026; Tokyo is in development. Any recurring series or additional working session will be described when its program and status are confirmed.
Invitations follow program relevance and capacity.
Founding Patrons may be considered alongside practitioners, scholars, policymakers, and institutional leaders. Invitations are extended subject to program relevance, format, and capacity; patronage does not guarantee attendance.