The Counterfactual: A Jeffersonian Debate Dinner in Helsinki

​You arrive the evening before Slush, ready for the hustle, your mind filled with the meetings happening the days ahead. But what do you see on the table in front of you? A newspaper from 10 years in the future.

​You begin reading.

​Some headlines are exactly as expected.

​Others seem impossible.

​Yet somehow they happened.

​The assumptions everyone shared in 2026 turned out to be wrong.

​If only someone had taken those possibilities seriously.

​Welcome to The Counterfactual Dinner.

Over drinks and dinner in an intimate group of no more than 16 people, we will put today's consensus to the test and work out which counterfactuals deserve a closer look, fleshing out the best ideas for the decade ahead and flagging the worst ones before anyone adopts them. One table, one conversation, in a Jeffersonian format under Chatham House rules.