About Bled Strategic Forum
The Bled Strategic Forum is a global ideas platform founded by the government of the Republic of Slovenia. It produces events, discussions, roundtables, projects, analyses and publications.
Nik Gowing moderated the opening leaders’ panel on Europe after Brexit and COVID-19 in Slovenia on August 31st 2020.
TtU was invited to share our findings at Aberdeen University, for a group of executives and mid-career public servants. Here are highlights including TtU’s findings on push-backism, time frames, risk, and challenging conventional thinking.
The panel included the Prime Ministers of Italy, Slovenia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary and Croatia, plus the President of Serbia.
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, opened the panel by underlining the enormous global economic challenges created by the huge disruptive impact of COVID-19. She paid tribute to Thinking the Unthinkable’s ongoing work to help top leaders handle the scale of disruption.
“It came in very handy this year because the unthinkable happened,” she said at the start.
The debate attracted 70,000 viewers on the live stream.
“Generally, everybody said it was the best debate to date. It was the talk of the day,” wrote one top attendee.
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Exeter Climate Forum | Exeter, 2026
Thinking the Unthinkable partnered with the University of Exeter to deliver a thought-provoking session exploring one of the biggest barriers to climate action: how to communicate effectively in an increasingly polarised and misinformation-rich environment.
UK Nature Summit | York, 2026
The UK Nature Summit 2026, was hosted by Environment Bank at the historic Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire and moderated by Nik Gowing. The event brought together business leaders, investors, sustainability professionals and nature experts to examine how organisations can move from nature ambition to meaningful action.
CWZ Climate & Nature: Achieving Restoration at Scale | Zurich, 2026
At the opening of Climate Week Zurich 2026, Nik Gowing was invited to moderate a flagship session focused on one of the most persistent challenges in climate action: how to move from knowledge to implementation at scale.
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