Salons & Convenings

Three trimester salons,
one annual flagship.

The Institute convenes three trimester salons each year in New York, London, and Tokyo, with an annual flagship convening following the publication of the Annual Outlook each spring. Salons are by invitation only and designed for candor among operators, scholars, and patrons.

The Convening Architecture

Three anchor cities, one annual flagship.

HSI's convening cadence operates on three tiers. Each tier serves a different function in the Institute's institutional geography: recurring presence in three anchor cities, an annual moment alongside the Annual Outlook publication, and smaller working and field sessions called when specific research or external venues warrant.

Tier I · Trimester

Three city salons per year

One salon per year in each anchor city: New York in June, London in October, Tokyo in February. By invitation only. Approximately 30 to 45 attendees. The Institute's recurring institutional presence in three regions.

Tier II · Annual

Annual flagship convening

Held in late spring, following Annual Outlook publication in late January. The inaugural full flagship convenes in Geneva in Spring 2028 (80 to 120 attendees, two days). It is preceded by a smaller Outlook Launch convening in Geneva in Spring 2027 (40 to 50 attendees, one day) marking the publication of the first Annual Outlook. The institutional moment of HSI's year.

Tier III · Working & Field Sessions

Topic-specific and venue-anchored, by invitation

Smaller convenings of two kinds. Working Sessions are research-occasioned, tied to specific publications, and convened opportunistically. Field Sessions are venue-anchored to major external windows where senior decision-makers are already gathered: Davos, Munich Security Conference, OECD Forum, the UN General Assembly opening, Aspen Ideas, the Singapore Shangri-La Dialogue, and the Paris Peace Forum. 8 to 15 attendees, breakfast or working dinner format. Not publicly listed.

Trimester Salons 2026–2027

The Institute's standing convening tier.

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Confirmed

New York

June 10, 2026
Inaugural Salon

The inaugural HSI Salon. A private convening of operators, scholars, and founding patrons across the four pillars, hosted in New York during the late spring window when senior figures from finance, policy, and academia are most consistently in the city.

Programming is structured for candor over performance. The Salon opens with a brief institutional framing from the Executive Director, followed by structured small-group dialogue on questions drawn from the Institute's active research agenda. The evening closes with a reception over dinner.

Anchoring
Timed to the optimal NYC institutional window: post-Bilderberg, ahead of the August dispersal. The city's institutional density is the anchor; no single peer event is required to draw attendance.
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London

October 1, 2026
Autumn Salon

The London Salon convenes senior governance practitioners, regulators, and HSI patrons in the closing-evening window of London's autumn AI policy calendar. The format follows the New York model: small-group dialogue, structured around questions drawn from the Institute's research agenda, closed door.

Programming is being developed in coordination with the Institute's Strategic Council and London-based academic partners through Q3 2026.

Anchored to
The 4th Annual AI Regulation Summit (Central London, October 1, 2026), gathering government ministers, senior regulators, and industry leaders. The HSI Salon convenes that evening.
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Tokyo

February 2027
Asia Anchor Salon

The Tokyo Salon establishes HSI's Asia anchor convening, hosted in February when senior decision-makers schedule cross-Pacific engagement following Davos. Programming will be developed in coordination with Japanese policy and academic institutions through 2026.

The Tokyo Salon serves a particular function in the Institute's convening architecture: it is the anchor for cross-Pacific dialogue on AI governance, planetary risk, and the multilateral order, where U.S. and European institutional perspectives meet Asian regulatory and industrial perspectives in candid format.

Anchoring
Timed to the post-Davos window when senior leaders are scheduling Asia-region engagement. Date and venue confirmed in Q4 2026; invitations issued November 2026.
Tier II

Annual flagship convening.

The Institute's annual flagship anchors a deliberate publication-to-convening rhythm. The Annual Outlook publishes in late January, with informal HSI presence at the World Economic Forum that week to surface the year's findings to senior decision-makers in Davos. The flagship convening follows in late spring, after the Outlook has been read, debated, and absorbed across the Institute's network.

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Spring 2027 · Bridge Convening

Outlook Launch Convening, Geneva.

The publication-launch convening for the inaugural Annual Outlook. Approximately 40 to 50 attendees, one day, hosted at a partner institution in Geneva (candidate venues include the Graduate Institute Geneva and Maison de la paix). Designed to mark the launch of the Outlook and surface its findings into European policy networks ahead of the full flagship in 2028.

Spring 2028 · Inaugural Flagship

Flagship Convening, Geneva.

The Institute's inaugural full flagship convening. Approximately 80 to 120 attendees, structured across two days, combining published research presentation, working sessions, and patron convening. Geneva is selected for its institutional weight in multilateral governance and its proximity to the European policy community.

Subsequent years rotate among candidate cities including Singapore (2029) and Washington DC (2030), with rotation reviewed annually based on the Institute's research and network development.

Format and Convention

Designed for candor, not performance.

HSI Salons are closed-door, by invitation only, governed by Chatham House rules unless otherwise noted. The convening format is structured to support honest dialogue among practitioners, scholars, and operators 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 three trimester cities are fixed. Recurring annual presence in New York, London, and Tokyo is part of how the Institute builds institutional continuity in each region. The annual flagship rotates among candidate cities; working and field sessions are convened wherever specific research or external venues warrant.

Patrons

Founding Patrons receive Salon invitations.

Trimester Salon invitations and access to the annual flagship convening are extended to Founding Patrons of the Institute alongside selected scholars and operators across the Institute's research network.

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