​Please Note: This is an independently funded, invitation-only gathering. Your contribution helps us keep The Third Space independent and accessible. Thank you.

​𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗗 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗘 | 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗳𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗡𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀

​Monday, 5 October 2026 | Frankfurt
14:00–17:00 | Private Location | Invitation / Application only

• ​40 curated guests

• ​Moderated, living-room style conversations with a lens on IDEAS & NARRATIVES | TECHNOLOGY & SECURITY | CAPITAL & SCALE

• ​The agenda will shaped by the people in the room and the questions they believe are worth carrying forward - setting up and creating a body of work that will be carried forward to Falling Walls Berlin, Davos and Munich Security Conference.

​“𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 – 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆.”
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2026

AI, deep tech and geopolitical disruption are rewriting trust, power, sovereignty and what it means to be human.

​For open democratic societies, and Europe in particular, the challenge is to remain technologically ambitious, secure and sovereign without becoming closed, extreme or afraid of change.

​𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱?

​Stories influence what societies fear, what investors fund, what engineers build, what governments regulate — and ultimately what becomes possible.

​Kicking off Frankfurt Book Fair week, we convene 40 selected guests from AI and deep tech, science and entrepreneurship, security, family offices and investment, media and publishing, authors and future thinkers, research and academia.

​People who rarely find themselves in the same room — but who are each, in different ways, shaping what comes next.

​The gathering is conceived as a prelude to a series of Third Space Dialogues during Falling Walls / Berlin Science Week, World Economic Forum week in Davos and Munich Security Conference week.

​Invited guests can register directly. Applications are welcome.

​The Third Space
Off-agenda conversations for strategic imagination, agency and resilience.

www.the-third-space.eu


Please Note: This is an independently funded, invitation-only gathering. If you are able to contribute, we’d be very grateful — your contribution helps us keep The Third Space independent and accessible.

​An invitation does not automatically include complimentary participation.