Glowing rice terraces at twilight, Bali

Inaugural Edition

Bali Futures
Forum

Date Monday, 20 July 2026
Location Uluwatu, South Bali
Format Invite Only Gathering

About the Gathering

For the craftsman,
not the keynote

Bali Futures Forum is an intimate, off-the-record gathering for futures and futures-adjacent practitioners. It is a space to share the director’s cut of our work: what we are wrestling with, what is changing in our field and practice, and what it means to do this work well.

No media. No audience. Just curious minds, good food and open-ended conversations.

The inaugural Bali Futures Forum was held in Uluwatu in July 2026, bringing together practitioners from diplomacy, foresight, technology, education, sustainability, design, science and culture. Across seven sessions, participants explored how futures practice can serve people, communities and the planet.

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Ancient Balinese temple doorway framing the Indian Ocean

What Is It

A gathering for
practitioners,
by practitioners

An off-the-record space to talk shop, show scars, and share the director's cut, not the press release version. The Bali Futures Forum is built around the conviction that the most valuable conversations in our field happen off-stage.

This is for the craftsman, not the crowd. A room small enough that every voice is heard, in a resonant location that encourages reflection about history and heritage, nature and culture, and what all that means for the future.

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Chatham House Rules

No media, no audience, no press releases. What's said here stays here.

Co-Created

Sessions are proposed and shaped by participants.

Deliberately Small

Invite only. The forum is small enough that every voice is heard.

Bali as Context

A place with its own deep relationship to time, craft, and the future. Not incidental.

Balinese cliffside at twilight
Balinese dinner under a twilight sky

Interested in
attending?

The Bali Futures Forum is invite only. If you think you should be in the room, we'd like to hear from you.

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