Session Formats

World Summits session formats are highly participatory and provide a safe environment for meaningful conversations between delegates, during which they can tackle complex issues.

There are different formats considered in the World Summit programme, each with a specific aim.

Sessions for all delegates together

In Conversations

Day One and Day Two will commence with an in-conversation panel, between two eminent key speakers to set the tone for each. These are self-moderated and a series of questions and drawn in advance, which each speaker will take turns in asking and responding to.

Plenaries

These sessions will present delegates with a diversity of perspectives from established thought leaders from across sectors, which are intended to both inform and provoke in-depth conversations. Q&A will form part of these sessions.

World Café

This session will involve all delegates and give them an opportunity to interrogate the ideas expressed in the morning sessions, exchange their ideas in response, start conversations, and form connections that will continue throughout the week. This session will require up to 25 table hosts who will guide and capture key outcomes of the conversations.

Parallel Sessions for Delegates to Select

Panels

The aim of this session is for delegates to hear a diversity of perspectives from thought leaders diving deeper into a cluster and topic from across sectors, in reaction to the morning’s provocation. This session will have up between three to four speakers and one moderator.

The programme will seek a measured balance of profiles for the conversations, so there is diversity in the mix between theory and practice, obstacles and opportunities, analogue and digital players, as well as a diversity of regions and cultural sectors.

Long Table sessions

There will be several long table sessions designed to encourage deeper conversations and debate amongst delegates. These sessions will each explore different key issues related to the theme. They will each require a lead facilitator and up to three provocateurs who will start proceedings.

Case Study sessions

There will be case study sessions that include presentations that explore innovative models from the arts and culture sector and beyond. These will require up to three presenters and a moderator to manage and field the Q&A section.

Workshops

A series of participatory workshops will provide delegates with space to collaborate, explore ideas practices, and co-create responses. Workshops may be ideas-based or grounded in creative practice. Each workshop will be fully facilitated by an expert and/or creative practitioner.