Dinner, Drinks & Debates with The Zurich Risk Club

​BlueYard, redalpine, and Johannes Reck (GetYourGuide) would like to invite you to the gathering of The Zurich Risk Club, on the evening of January 14. In an intimate setting of a maximum of 20 people, we will discuss and debate the key risks of our time, over drinks and dinner in a Jeffersonian format. However, instead of being fearful and focusing on mitigating risks - we will collectively discuss and develop strategies of how to go risk on in these ultra-volatile times—volatility and risks as opportunities, not threats. We will document & share our joint strategies after the session.

​Topics we will (attempt to) cover include:

• ​Chaos, anarchy… or transition to a new system?

  • ​The (partially wilful) decline of institutions, the untangling of historic alliances, multipolar world and bipolar societies, art of the deal geopolitics, new oligarchs - is this anarchy or just the painful transition to a new system?

  • ​What is your bull and bear case?

• ​The race between technological miracles unlocking growth vs technological shocks causing turmoil?

  • ​Compute, AI, tech-bio, robotics and other breakthrough technologies could lead to near-vertical GDP growth, and a positive step-function change in civilizational progress; however, the same technologies can (and likely will) also lead to labour market and societal shocks - maybe also unlocking new methods of terror. How do we lean in to progress while mitigating risks?

  • ​What is your bull and bear case?

• ​Following a bad / compromised peace in Ukraine, China is going to invade Taiwan

  • ​From control over compute power, supply chains, rare minerals, and trade lanes - havoc everywhere. How are you preparing? How should nation-states, and Europe in particular, prepare?

​With the occasional palate cleanser questions such as:

• ​Would you let an AI pick your life partner if it could guarantee a 99% compatibility rate? Why or why not?

• ​If you were to build a society from scratch, what existing norm would you abandon?

• ​Are there certain truths we can know without evidence?