Around 70 people participated in our free conference on Zoom. Videos of the presentations are now available to watch (including closed captions and transcripts).
Conference programme, including presentation abstracts and speaker biographies.
Theme
The 'cyber elite' - AI and 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 looked 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
Watch Andrew Simms' introduction (8 minutes)
- Astrid Nilsson Lewis, Oxfam Sweden
- Polluter elites
- Watch Astrid's video (13 minutes)
- Dr Stuart Parkinson, Scientists for Global Responsibility
- Polluter and cyber elites: from common problems to common solutions
- Watch Stuart's video (12 minutes)
- Download Stuart's slides (pdf)
- James Parr, Trillium Technologies
- Welcome to The Intelligence Age
- Watch James' video (13 minutes)
- Dr Simon Clark, Science communicator and author
- Climate, AI and ... me?
- Watch Simon's video (10 minutes)
- Emily Ghosh, Stockholm Environment Institute US
- Equitable transition in the face of polluter and cyber elites
- Watch Emily's video (15 minutes)
Annual General Meeting
The conference was followed by SGR's AGM (members only), 6.15-6.45 pm.
2025 AGM Agenda, including minutes of the 2024 AGM and personal statements of 3 members who have volunteered as advisors to SGR's board of directors (for election at the AGM).
