UPCOMING CONVERSATIONS

Danny Meyer built an empire on a wildly counterintuitive bet: that hospitality, real, human, generous hospitality, is a durable competitive advantage in business. He opened Union Square Cafe at 27 and went on to build Union Square Hospitality Group into one of the most respected restaurant companies in the country, home to Gramercy Tavern, The Modern, and a dozen other beloved New York institutions. He then took the same philosophy and built Shake Shack from a single hot dog cart in Madison Square Park into a global public company. Along the way he wrote the modern playbook for how business gets done, Setting the Table, required reading in boardrooms and business schools alike.

Now, in his new book What Could Possibly Go Right, he's making an even bigger bet, on optimism itself, at a moment when it's never felt more countercultural.

Topics on the table include: What has he gotten wrong? What has he learned about leading through crisis, scaling culture, and betting on people when the data says bet on efficiency? What does he know about what's coming next that the rest of us don't yet?

Join us live on October 26, 1:00–2:30 PM ET for a live conversation with Danny Meyer, moderated as a Q&A sourced from the Collective[i] Forecast community, an elite group of executives, entrepreneurs, researchers, innovators, and journalists.  

RSVP early and submit your questions for the chance to have them asked live.

The fastest-growing technology in human history is running directly into the world’s slowest-moving infrastructure: the electric grid. With interconnect queues stretching past four years, rising community resistance, and utilities passing billions in upgrade costs onto ratepayers, the current pace of AI expansion faces a hard physical ceiling.

On November 11, join clean infrastructure pioneer and former DOE Loan Programs Office Director Jigar Shah for a live, unscripted C[i] Forecast community Q&A. Named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, Shah has spent his career financing and scaling real-world energy infrastructure—from pioneering the solar PPA to overseeing $108 billion in federal loan authority.

In this session, he will tackle the looming grid crisis, the breakdown of traditional hyperscale economics, and how decentralized, low-latency compute can bypass the bottlenecks threatening tech growth.

Forecast is built around direct, candid interaction between the world’s leading innovators and a global community of leaders, researchers, journalists, entrepreneurs, and executives. RSVP now and submit your most pressing question for a chance to be selected to ask Jigar live during the session.