Program Highlights

The FTWeekend Interview:
Hear Ta-Nehisi Coates, author and journalist live

So what does the FTW really think?
Every morning the FT's editor, Roula Khalaf, and senior members of the editorial board discuss the big issues of the day. Here they hold their debate in public

The Future Is Local
Rana Foroohar, the FT's global business columnist, talks to Alice Waters, chef, restaurateur and food activist about what's wrong with Big Food, why local will be the new global - in food, finance, and beyond

Can the US win the tech race with China?
Chris Miller, author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, in conversation

A wine tasting with Jancis Robinson
A tour of remarkable wines with the FT’s wine columnist and Master of Wine

Capitalism and Democracy in America
Martin Wolf, FT’s chief economics commentator, in discussion with speakers to be announced

Russia, revanchism and the return of history
Serhii Plokhi, one of Ukraine’s most acclaimed historians and author of The Russo-Ukrainian War, and Catherine Belton, former FT Moscow correspondent and author of Putin’s Circle, talk to Alec Russell, FTW Editor, on the causes, course and consequences of the war

Writing across the ocean
Novelist and poet Colm Toibin on Irish-American relations, literature, and the state of of Ireland today with Frederick Studemann, FT Literary editor