Our 2025 conference will again be on Zoom and free to attend.
Conference programme, including presentation abstracts and speaker biographies.
Theme
The 'cyber elite' - tech corporate leaders, such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos - are embracing many policies from the far right in their company policies and practices. The 'polluter elite' - major fossil fuel corporations and other highly polluting sections of society - have already benefited from numerous hard-right policies.
Are the interests of these two sectors starting to align? Particular areas of overlap include deregulation, energy intensification, and militarisation. This conference will look at the problems and controversies fuelled by the polluter and cyber elites, to what extent their interests are becoming entwined, and how we can challenge them.
Speakers
- Astrid Nilsson Lewis, Oxfam Sweden
- Polluter elites
- Dr Stuart Parkinson, Scientists for Global Responsibility
- Polluter and cyber elites: from common problems to common solutions
- James Parr, Trillium Technologies
- The Intelligence Age is here
- Dr Simon Clark, Science communicator and author
- Climate, AI and ... me?
- Emily Ghosh, Stockholm Environment Institute US
- Equitable transition in the face of polluter and cyber elites
Annual General Meeting
The conference will be followed by SGR's AGM (members only), 6.15-6.45 pm.
2025 AGM Agenda, including minutes of the 2024 AGM.
