Royal Danish Library's business forum

• Members are invited at least three times a year to learning and networking events with a selection of the world's leading experts.
• Member companies can request up to eight tickets per event.
• Exclusive events for members only with the opportunity to network and debate directly with the presenters after the performance.
• Member companies can book meeting facilities in The Black Diamond with a 15% discount.
• Special discounts at concerts and at the International Authors' Stage.
• Price DKK 25,000 excl. VAT per company annually (you subscribe to an annual membership).

Alison Taylor (US)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 at 7.30 p.m. in the Queen's Hall, The Black Diamond, Copenhagen

With her deep insight into global ethics and sustainability from decades of advising multinational companies, Alison Taylor knows the path to well-being for companies in a changing world.

Alison Taylor is a Clinical Associate Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and former CEO of Ethical Systems. She has spent the last two decades advising multinational companies on such things as risk management, sustainability, human rights, stakeholder involvement, ESG as well as ethics and compliance. Her book, Higher Ground, has been featured in the Financial Times' list of best summer reads of 2024.

In Higher Ground, Taylor argues that we are on the threshold of a new standard of business strategy – and that it is a positive change. In the new strategies, the interaction between sustainability and ethical leadership becomes the key to long-term value creation. According to Taylor, companies must focus strategically – also when it comes to their efforts within the ESG areas.

When she visits The Black Diamond in November, you can hear more about Taylor's plan for how companies can take responsibility and thrive in a world of increasing global complexity and rising public expectations.

Jeremy Rifkin (US)

Thursday 12 June 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the Queen's Hall in The Black Diamond, Copenhagen
 

How do you turn the biggest nightmare scenario into the biggest opportunity? Economist and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin has a suggestion for that. He is one of those who can give a qualified answer to how the climate crisis, AI, water shortages, refugee flows and biodiversity crisis can create a revolution for the better - and what that future can look like. Political leaders in the United States and Europe as well as in China know this, and so do the readers of Rifkin's more than 20 bestsellers about the impact of scientific and technological change on the economy, business, society and the environment.
 

According to Rifkin, the industrial era of the last 250 years has ended now, when our relationship with communication, energy, water and mobility has been radically changed in a short time. In his latest book, The Age of Resilience – Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth, Rifkin argues that we are now entering a resilient revolution, and in his forthcoming book, Planet Aqua, he focuses his thesis on one of the future's really big challenges: water.
 

When Rifkin looks to the future, it looks bright. Because humanity has proven throughout its long history that it has all the best prerequisites to turn a nightmare scenario into a revolution for the better. In November, he shows the way live from the stage in the Queen's Hall.