Last year, at OECD Forum 2017, we joined forces to explore the deepening divides fragmenting our economies and societies. Together, we sought tangible solutions to bridge these divides, bringing divergent views together to find common purpose.

Building on these conversations, OECD Forum 2018 will reflect on what brings us together, moving from diagnosis to action, and shaping solutions to build these much-needed bridges.

While reflecting on the complexity of shaping policy in a post-truth world and identifying opportunities for civic engagement and co-creation with citizens, we will focus on addressing these three interconnected issues:

• International Co-operation
• Inclusive Growth
• Digitalisation

Let's reimagine:

• international co-operation for the 21st century,
  
  
• the importance for all stakeholders to co-create solutions to address global challenges

• The Triple Challenge: inequality, insecurity and immobility in a globalised world
  Tim Costello, former Chair, C20, Australian Presidency of the G20
• Addressing the SDG Measurement Challenge using the Social Progress Index
  David Cruickshank, Global Chairman, Deloitte
• Transformative change for a new climate economy
  Helen Mountford, Director, New Climate Economy Project
• Changing the technology narrative and embracing innovation
  Darlene Damm, Vice Chair & Principal Faculty of Global Grand Challenges, Singularity University
• India: Inclusive Growth and the Employment Challenge
  Terri Chapman, Social Policy Specialist and Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
  Samir Saran, Vice President , Observer Research Foundation

Help us design solutions to:

• ensure opportunity for all through better access to education, employment, healthcare and housing, making sure that growth is truly inclusive
  
  
• promote gender equality and diversity, migrants’ integration, and intergenerational equity

• Rethinking the social contract
  Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics
• It all starts with our rights to be equal
  Chiara Condi, President and Founder, LED BY HER
• Mission inclusive: paving the way to a disability-inclusive society
  Sabine Rehbichler, International Programmes & Advocacy Director, Light for the World
• Forget work-life balance, focus on quality of life
  Michel Landel, former CEO, Sodexo
• Refugees: a half-hidden alternative world
  Jonathan Wittenberg, Rabbi, New North London Synagogue

We will seek to address the need to:

• bridge the gap between policy frameworks designed in an analogue world and the era of digitalisation
  
  
• better understand and manage the implications of digitalisation for society and human progress

• Humans don't trust AI Predictions - Here's how to fix it
  Vyacheslav Polonski, Researcher, University of Oxford
• The cyberspace arms race: artificial intelligence & cyber security
  Dudu Mimran, CTO, Telekom Innovation Laboratories Israel
  
• How data is changing the fight against corruption
  Carlos Santiso, Division Chief, Innovation in Citizen Services, Inter-American Development Bank
• Technology and Human isolation
  Yuko Harayama, Executive Member, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation of the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
• Ethical AI - 10 essential ingredients
  Christina J. Colclough, Director Platform & Agency Workers, Digitalisation and Trade, UNI Global Union