Past Programs

Open Forum: New World of Work: Mobilizing the Disability Workforce

January 30, 2020

Thursday, January 30, 2020 Diversity and inclusion has become a measure of performance on every corporate agenda. It has also become an important human resource issue, as talent scarcity drives HR leaders to explore untapped sources to expand their talent pools. A recent Accenture study shows that corporate America has yet to capitalize on the [...]

Open Forum: The New Era of Privacy

January 28, 2020

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 Data privacy regulation such as the EU’s GDPR, California’s CCPA, and similar legislation expected to follow in 2020 and beyond, is tilting the scales to establish privacy as a basic human right. This trend has huge implications for business models that involve personal data collection and use. The adoption of privacy [...]

Open Forum: California’s SB100: The Race to 100% Clean Energy

December 5, 2019

Thursday, December 5, 2019 California leads the nation with its ambitious programs to combat climate change, from ramping up renewable energy to driving the development of cleaner cars and its cap-and-trade program. SB100, a bill signed into law in Sept. 2018, mandates that California achieve 100% clean energy by the year 2045. This is yet [...]

Open Forum: Data-Driven Insights for Meaningful Climate Solutions

October 31, 2019

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 With recent headlines around the Climate March, the UN’s 2019 Global Climate Action Summit, and the Business Roundtable decision, the time for action is now in the fight against climate change. As businesses continue to mobilize new climate change policies and actions toward positive global impact, one of the most powerful [...]

Open Forum: The Renaissance of Silicon Part II: Startups

October 7, 2019

Monday, October 7, 2019 “With the end of Moore’s Law, new semiconductors are required for a cloud-native, data-dominated, AI-powered, IoT world. The rise of these new players will put Silicon back into Silicon Valley.” Presented in May 2019 by Navin Chaddha of Mayfield to a Churchill Club audience of 400 industry leaders, this statement was [...]

Premier: Tools and Weapons: The Promise and Peril of the Digital Age: An Evening with Microsoft President Brad Smith

September 16, 2019

Monday, September 16, 2019 Tech companies have moved fast to manifest the great promise of digital transformation, chasing rapid growth and sometimes disruption as an end in itself. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and today we are at an inflection point. Enormous challenges such as [...]

Premier: The CHURCHILLS 2019

September 12, 2019

Churchill Club proudly presents the 9th Annual CHURCHILLS—a magical event that inspires us to aim higher and do more to advance innovation, leadership, collaboration, and social benefit.

Open Forum: Putting Algorithms in the Org Chart

August 29, 2019

Thursday, August 29, 2019 Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are increasingly being used behind the scenes by companies to make all manner of business decisions. How these algorithms are set up to work is not often visible to people who are guided by them in functions across companies, from HR and finance to sales and more. [...]

Special Event: Tom Siebel & Rich Karlgaard: Opportunities, Risks, and the Digital Transformation Gold Rush

August 27, 2019

Tuesday, August 27, 2019 With the convergence of four game-changing technologies--elastic cloud computing, big data, AI, and IoT--comes many new opportunities for innovation and economic growth. At the same time, it places more companies at existential risk. Pioneering serial entrepreneur Tom Siebel has been at the forefront of several major innovation cycles, from relational databases [...]

Annual Event: 21st Annual Top 10 Tech Trends

May 16, 2019

What non-obvious trends will emerge with the potential for explosive growth in about three years? Find out at one of the Churchill Club’s most anticipated events of the year.