Held in the Royal Theatre, the forum was dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary thinking in fields like architecture, urbanism and design with an aim to anticipate the challenges of the future. It was organised in three sessions focusing on Cities, Technology and Design, and Infrastructure. The forum included a keynote speech by Norman Foster and interviews, discussions and talks from Christiane Amanpour, Alejandro Aravena, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Burdett, Olafur Eliasson, Niall Ferguson, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Jonathan Ive, Matthias Kohler, Francine Lacqua, Jonathan Ledgard, Maya Lin, Mariana Mazzucato, Nicholas Negroponte, Marc Newson, Henk Ovink, Neri Oxman, Cornelia Parker, Janette Sadik-Khan, Gillian Tett and Patricia Urquiola.