Brave New World

Brave New World 2025
The Future of Optimism and Resilience
A Decade of Brave Conversations

This year marks the 10th edition of the Brave New World Conference, a milestone in our ongoing exploration of the future. Over the past decade, we have tackled pressing issues such as Intelligence, Disinformation, War, Attention, and AI—topics that are more relevant today than ever before. Many of the warnings and predictions from past discussions have become reality, shaping the world we now navigate.

Yet, true to our spirit, we continue to look forward. In these uncertain times, we turn our focus to optimism—how it works, how people maintain it in the face of adversity, and what a realistic, resilient, optimistic vision for the future might look like amid continuing rapid technological change. We’ll be welcoming some Brave New World alumni back to the stage, along with fresh voices who will guide us through the themes of optimism and resilience.

New Format
As we celebrate our tenth edition this year, we will shake things up a bit and try out a new approach. Instead of a two-day conference, we will host a single-day event with an additional special evening program on Thursday, September 18th. Details of this evening program will be announced soon, and conference ticket holders will have priority access to register. 

With great thanks to Naturalis for hosting us the past years, we will also be changing our venue. The new surroundings of Scheltema Leiden, a former Leiden cloth factory in the centre of the city, will bring new energy to our anniversary event. 

Brave New World Conference
Brave New World is an annual Art & Science conference for people who want to know what the future holds in store and how this will affect their business, policies and life. On Thursday September 18th 2025, the worlds of culture, philosophy, science, technology and storytelling will collide. We want to discuss what ethical and societal impact new technologies could have on human life, before the innovations are introduced in society. 

Tickets 
Regular          € 75,-        
Students        € 30,-     
Business        € 150,-  

Early Bird 
For all our loyal followers we have an early bird deal! If you know the conference and trust us that we will provide an exciting and innovative program in 2025 you can already register and receive a 15% discount as a reward for your faith in us! Use the code BIRDBNW25 in Eventbrite to get the discount, the code will be active until May 1st 2025. 

Order your tickets now on our website or directly via eventbrite.