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RSA Events 2025

Connect to the ideas and people shaping our world today, and tomorrow.

This season of RSA events explores the power of connection. How do our relationships and networks affect our life opportunities and outcomes, from health to wealth to happiness?

All events are available to watch on-demand. Check out the RSA Replay links below and sign up for our newsletter to receive notifications about future events and seasons.

Upcoming RSA events

  • How optimists change the world

    RSA House and YouTube

    Sumit Paul-Choudhury, former editor-in-chief of New Scientist, visits the RSA to make a vital and transformative new argument: that optimism is not only the natural state of humanity, but an essential one.

  • CEO Lecture: counting the cost of bowling alone

    RSA House and YouTube

    In his annual RSA Chief Executive's Lecture, Andy Haldane examines the profound socio-economic consequences of eroding social capital, a theme famously explored by Harvard political scientist Bob Putnam in Bowling Alone.

  • Do we really value care?

    RSA House and YouTube

    Join David Goodhart at the RSA to debate care, equality, and social progress in the next decade of the 21st century.

  • Russia's war in a global perspective

    RSA House and YouTube

    On the eve of the third anniversary of Russia’s war in Ukraine, BBC journalist Clive Myrie speaks to Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs about the far-reaching consequences of the conflict.

  • How business lost our trust

    RSA House and YouTube

    Economist John Kay explores bold new paths to restore purpose to the 21st-century corporation, showing how an obsession with shareholder value gutted some of the 20th century’s most iconic companies.

  • Accelerating action: leading the change

    RSA House and YouTube

    This International Women’s Day, the RSA invites you to a powerful event focused on advancing women’s leadership and action for systemic change featuring I. Stephanie Boyce, the trailblazing first Black President of the Law Society of England and Wales.

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  • The cost of workplace ageism

    RSA House and online

    How can tackling workplace ageism boost our economy? Our expert panel will explore how addressing ageism in the workplace could boost the UK’s economy by £9 billion annually - an essential move for the country's future prosperity.

  • Unlocking civic voice

    RSA House and Online

    Join our expert panel to hear impactful insights and experiences from community-led projects. Discover how these initiatives have empowered citizens to speak up for their communities and shape their shared future.

  • RDI Address 2024

    RSA House and YouTube

    We award the title ‘Royal Designer for Industry’ annually to designers of all disciplines who have achieved sustained design excellence, work of aesthetic value, and significant benefit to society.

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