What is a ThinkIn?
ThinkIns are a chance for everyone to have their say. Catch up on our recent favourites below.
A ThinkIn is not just another panel discussion. It’s a real editorial meeting where your insight and experience can help shape our reporting.
How it works
You can either join us in our London newsroom or online, by booking an in-person or digital ticket.
We’ll invite guests with special expertise, but anyone can speak. Just raise your digital or physical hand.
A ThinkIn is one hour long. At the end, the editor will summarise what we’ve heard.
12 JULY 2023
Can our microbiome save us? A ThinkIn with Dr James Kinross
What does the relationship with our microbiome actually look like? How do the billions of microbes in our bodies affect our moods, relationships and our long term health? Find out more about our amazing microbiome with Dr James Kinross.
What our members are watching
Fathers and sons, with Tom Allen
Join Tom in conversation with James Harding, as he talks about his recent book ‘Too Much’ and we explore his journey to being an adult and struggling with manhood
Inside Iran: a new revolution?
Who are the voices that can help inspire change? Who are the people waiting to lead Iran into the future and what would the transfer of power look like?
How do words work?
Join us for a ThinkIn with Susie Dent as we find the right words for the right time, covering any emotional, political, or social situation.
Is Brexit working?
Join us as we discuss the indicators by which to measure the current and future successes and failures of Brexit, and the stories that could bring them to life.
Recent ThinkIns
Gaza: what happens here?
Join Tortoise Media journalists in their editorial meeting to discuss what stories should be investigated further.
Can we trust Sam Altman?
Join Tortoise Media journalists in their editorial meeting to discuss what stories should be investigated further.
Ill-defined, but imperative – how should businesses adopt AI responsibly?
Join Tortoise Media journalists and guests
Gaza: what happens next?
Join Tortoise Media journalists in their editorial meeting to discuss what stories should be investigated further.
Gaza: language and the law
Join Tortoise Media journalists in their editorial meeting to discuss what stories should be investigated further.
Activism: A new era of leadership
GMT
Water: how to deal with this shit?
Join Tortoise Media journalists in their editorial meeting to discuss what stories should be investigated further.
Jane Martinson Book Launch
Join Tortoise Media journalists
The profits of purpose: How can we shift from corporate commitments to concrete action on decarbonization?
UK AI Summit Debrief
Join Tortoise Media journalists and guests
Ros Atkins Book Event
Join Tortoise Media journalists and guests
Louise Tickle Debut novel launch
Join Tortoise Media journalists and guests
The cost of poverty: how can public policy tackle the UK poverty crisis for the long term?
Join UCL and Tortoise to discuss: How can policy shift from short-term sticking plasters to long-term policy approaches?
Musk: the whiff of trouble
Join Tortoise Media journalists in their editorial meeting to discuss what stories should be investigated further.
The Right voice- the Telegraph sale, the Dacre diaspora and the rise of GB News
Join Tortoise Media journalists in their editorial meeting to discuss what stories should be investigated further.
The Selectorate – who chooses Britain’s MPs?
Join Tortoise Media journalists in their editorial meeting to discuss what stories should be investigated further.
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The News Meeting Live
In conversation with…
The Tortoise interview: Maria Ressa
Join us for a special Tortoise Interview with Maria Ressa, where she explains what she has sacrificed for the truth, and urges us to pay attention to dark forces in the online world, before it is too late.
The Tortoise Interview: Nick Hornby
On the genius of Charles Dickens and Prince
The Tortoise Interview: Michael Palin on Iraq
Spend an evening chatting with Micheal Palin
Building a fairer world: in conversation with Lawrence H. Summers
This ThinkIn will re-imagine how the world is run.
Summits
Future of Cities Summit
Join us, the Globe and Mail, and those in the worlds of business, politics and civil society to share thoughts and actions on the future of work, housing, transport and culture in our global cities.
The Tortoise Responsible Business Summit
The Tortoise Cyber Summit
The Tortoise Education Summit
Schooling after the virus: can we build back better?
The Future of Work Summit
What does the future of work really look like?
The Tortoise Climate Summit: How can we accelerate net zero?
Join us to start writing a global to-do list before the world gathers in Glasgow to work out how to save itself.
The Future of Cars Summit
Join us and invited experts to discuss the big questions about the future of cars
The Future of Money Summit
Join us an invited experts to discuss the big questions about the future of money