Thursday, January 27 | 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. E.T.

MOVE: The forces uprooting us

Conversation with Parag Khanna, Managing Partner at FutureMap, and strategic advisor to governments

The map of humanity isn’t settled—not now, not ever. In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility: the ever-constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global events—wars and genocides, revolutions and pandemics—have only expedited this process. As climate change accelerates, economies collapse, governments destabilize, and technology disrupts, we’re entering a new age of mass migration, one that will scatter people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and usher in an era of radical change. As this trend continues, we ask: Which areas will people abandon and where will they resettle? Which countries will accept or reject them? As today’s world population, which includes four billion restless youth, votes with their feet, what map of human geography will emerge?

This discussion will explore the deep trends shaping the scenarios of the future, and the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move geographically over the next decades and uproot society as we know it today.

Upcoming conversations.

MOVE: The forces uprooting us