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Roundtables

Twelve seats. One problem. Nothing on the record.

Two private sessions a month. One speaker who has actually run the problem, then a discussion between people who are carrying the same one — under Chatham House Rule, with no recording, no write-up and no sponsor.

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Director level and above · Practitioners only · No vendors · London

How a session runs

Ninety minutes, twelve people, and one problem someone has already lived through.

The format is deliberately narrow. A speaker who has run the problem opens for twenty minutes — including the parts that did not work — and the rest is discussion between people carrying the same exposure. No panel, no deck, no product.

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One speaker, twenty minutes

Someone who has done the thing, not someone who sells it. They open with what they tried, what it cost and what they would do differently.

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Chatham House Rule

You may use what you hear. You may not say who said it or where they work. No recording, no transcript, no write-up afterwards.

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Twelve seats, one per organisation

Small enough that everyone speaks. One seat per organisation, so nobody is talking in front of their own reporting line.

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No sponsor, no pitch

Nobody has bought the room. We sell no software and no implementation, and the session does not end with a proposal.

Who is in the room

The useful version of this conversation does not happen in public.

Reading the regulation is the easy half. The hard part is knowing what your peers decided to evidence, what they decided to accept, and what they found when they tried to produce it under time pressure.

That conversation only happens when nobody in the room is selling, nobody is recording, and everyone has something of their own to lose.

  • Seniority Director level and above — the people who sign, certify or answer for the decision.
  • Practitioners only You are running the problem now, or you ran it recently enough to remember the detail.
  • No vendors If your organisation sells the solution, we will happily brief you separately. Not here.
  • One per organisation Two people from the same reporting line changes what gets said.
  • Requests, not registrations Every seat is reviewed against the room. Sometimes the answer is the next date.
Sessions

Two sessions a month, scheduled six months ahead.

A breakfast session and an evening session each month, on separate subjects. Request the ones you want — or subscribe to the calendar once and let future dates appear in your diary as they are scheduled.

Request your seat

Ask for the sessions you want, keep the calendar, or both.

One request covers as many sessions as you like. We reply within one working day with a seat, or with the next date that has one. There is no fee and no membership.

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Choose your sessions

Tick as many as you like. Or tick none and take the calendar instead — step 2.

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Keep the calendar (optional)

If none of these dates work, or you would rather decide later, subscribe once and every future session appears in your diary as it is scheduled.

  • What you get A calendar feed you add once. New sessions appear automatically, six months ahead.
  • What you do not get No emails. No newsletter. No follow-up unless you ask for a seat.
  • Leaving Remove the calendar in your own app whenever you like. Nothing to email us about.

Subscribing does not book a seat, and asking for a seat does not subscribe you. They are separate on purpose.

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Your details

Seats are director level and above, practitioners only, one per organisation. We check every request against the room.

No fee, no sponsor, no recording. Requests are reviewed by a person, not processed automatically.