{"title": "Philanthropy and the impact economy", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/philanthropy"], "description": "A public talk titled \"Philanthropy and the impact economy\" held at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is hosted by the Marshall Institute, whose LSE Impact Economy Project brings together thinkers and practitioners to examine the field. Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen, speaks, with Professor Stephan Chambers, director of the Marshall Institute, chairing. The dialogue explores the evolving role of philanthropy within the growing global impact economy, its distinctive value, its limits, and how it shapes markets, governments and places.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/philanthropy-and-the-impact-economy-106335/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/philanthropy-impact-economy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bd4f3628cc06b9aafc8023a9d4165e09e82cbad30703d1493b52e693533f1c14-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Structural change and development", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A public lecture in the Economica Phillips lecture series, held in person at the Old Theatre and streamed online. It is hosted by Economica, the in-house international journal of LSE's Department of Economics, with Princeton professor Richard Rogerson speaking and Nobel laureate Sir Christopher Pissarides chairing. The lecture examines development through the lens of structural change, asking whether manufacturing is key to development as economies move from agriculture to services. It weighs evidence from China's manufacturing-led growth and India's service-led growth, and asks whether countries with little manufacturing growth are destined to stay poor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/structural-change-and-development-131228/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/structural-change-and-development", "image": "https://noky.io/images/078301b060c1dcb31f422b469fcba6abb1bad61cb580db81d957a9f2d79cad78-600.webp"}, {"title": "IGHI Special Lecture 2026: Global Challenges, Human Solutions", "start": "2026-11-11T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/humanitarian"], "description": "A special lecture hosted in person and online, open to all with advance registration. Dr Christos Christou, a surgeon and former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières from 2019 to 2025, discusses how medicine, leadership and politics intersect in real humanitarian settings, drawing on his work with MSF during crises including Ebola and COVID-19. The Institute of Global Health Innovation, one of Imperial College London's global challenge institutes, is behind the lecture, which is introduced by Professor the Lord Ara Darzi. The talk also looks at where academic institutions can contribute to humanitarian medicine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ighi-special-lecture-2026-global-challenges-human-solutions-74067/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/213463/ighi-special-lecture-2026-global-challenges-human-solutions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bedfc8984c5a29d014c9fd68eb0bf33fde754c8abbc982bcb706a7229e9aa57f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Dennis Gabor Lecture 2026: A collectivist, economic perspective on AI – with Professor Michael I Jordan", "start": "2026-11-18T16:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T17:45:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/ai"], "description": "The Dennis Gabor Lecture 2026 is a lecture titled \"A collectivist, economic perspective on AI\", held at Imperial College London's South Kensington Campus. It is the flagship event of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, honouring Dennis Gabor, the inventor of holography, with a series focusing on the impact of science and engineering on society. The speaker is Professor Michael I. Jordan of Inria Paris and the University of California, Berkeley, a leading researcher in computer science and statistics for over four decades, who will argue that intelligence lies as much in overall systems of cooperating humans and computers as in individual agents, and will discuss bringing microeconomic concepts into contact with computing, statistics and decision-making. The lecture is followed by a question and answer session, with a research poster session and refreshments around it, and is open to all on a first come first served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-dennis-gabor-lecture-2026-a-collectivist-economic-perspe-74084/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/214455/gabor2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/23511872fc30e2d9238c2304fedf99a54ffbe1dbb36b9699cfce207e030ee334-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Global Pharma & Biotech Summit", "start": "2026-11-10T08:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T16:20:00Z", "place": "Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry", "address": "Whitehall 12, SW1A 2DY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/biotechnology"], "description": "The Global Pharma & Biotech Summit is a hybrid gathering for the life sciences sector. Organised by the Financial Times, it brings together the leaders, investors and policymakers shaping the next phase of life sciences. More than 60 expert speakers from organisations including Novartis, GSK, Novo Nordisk, Takeda, Bayer and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency explore geopolitical and economic disruption, AI, regulation, market access and the rise of new pharmaceutical innovation hubs. Leading executives on stage include Lawrence Tallon of the MHRA, Shreeram Aradhye of Novartis, Kim Branson of GSK, Nathalie Moll of EFPIA, Richard Torbett of the ABPI and Alexander Hardy of BioMarin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/global-pharma-biotech-summit-40966/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) presents its 2026 Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah, co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies and the SOAS Middle East Institute, chaired by Dina Matar. It examines the political and economic projects being assembled around Palestine, including infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation. 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Dame Antonia Romeo, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, will reflect on how the organisation can become a global leader in modern, AI-enabled public service delivery amid a major institutional reform programme. She will be chaired by Larry Kramer, President and Vice Chancellor of LSE. The event is hosted by the School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rewiring-the-state-and-the-future-civil-service-122217/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/state-civil-service", "image": "https://noky.io/images/94b09acbc961ba1a319cd85ba8bcdda77718326444d0487696af24b966a40fc6-2000.webp"}]}