The End-of-Year Review
Our year-end conference, eight hours, five speakers, and one hybrid room of one hundred in-person and two hundred online senior professionals taking stock before the diary closes for Christmas.
About the day
The End-of-Year Review is our last event of the calendar, and the only one we run as a hybrid. One hundred seats in the room at Inner Temple in London, and another two hundred online by registration, with the same printed reader sent in the post to everyone who registers in advance.
The day is built as a structured retrospective, what the year has actually taught us across strategy, communication, governance, technology, and the public conversation, with five commissioned reviews from speakers we trust to be honest in public about what they got wrong. The point is not predictions for next year, and it is not the usual end-of-year content round-up.
The point is to be in the room when intelligent and experienced people quietly admit what they were wrong about in 2026, and what they intend to carry forward into 2027. The drinks reception after is in-person only, and it is the one we look forward to most.
What you will leave with
- A written end-of-year note on the two ideas you intend to carry into the new diary
- A printed retrospective of 2026 from five senior practitioners
- Drinks with the in-person cohort, who tend to be the regulars
The chair
Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London School of Economics
Dr Aisha Okonkwo is adjunct professor at the LSE and writes a small academic blog read mostly by people who should not need it. Her work on collective attention inside large organisations has been cited in two select-committee reports. She trained as an experimental psychologist, taught in Lagos and Nottingham, and chairs Think Professionally’s flagship conference each October.
The schedule
- 09:30
- 10:00
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11:30
The year in technology
The honest assessment, with the predictions from January marked against reality.
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13:00
Lunch
Seated, in-person cohort only. Online cohort breaks for an hour.
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14:30
The year in public conversation
What changed in how senior people communicated in public.
- 16:00
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17:00
Closing fishbowl and written note
All speakers
Each attendee writes a two-paragraph personal note. We end at six.
Tickets
Early
£580
Early bird
In-person, printed reader, lunch, drinks. Released in September.
Standard
£880
Standard
In-person, printed reader, lunch, drinks reception, and the post-event written summary.
Patron
£1,280
Patron
In-person, front-table seating, the speakers’ dinner on the evening of the second, and priority booking for the following year.
Register
How to book
Booking is at the register form above. Payment is taken in full at the time of registration. The venue is Hawksmoor Hall, Inner Temple, Inner Temple Lane, London. If you have a question that needs a conversation rather than a thread, send us a sentence on the contact page and we will reply the same working day.