This year’s Tällberg Forum is underway in Dalarna, in northern Sweden. Among this year’s guests is Al Gore. Other guests include:

• Mary Catherine Bateson, President, Institute for Intercultural Studies, USA
• Juanita Brown, Co-Founder, World Café, USA
• Robert & Alice Evans, Plowshares, USA
• Mark Gerzon, President, Mediators Foundation, USA
• Carolyn Lukensmeyer, CEO, Global Voices, USA
• Peter Senge, Chairman, Society of Learning, USA
• Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA
• Ray C. Anderson, Founder and Chairman, Interface, USA
• Charles Handy, Author and social philosopher, UK
• HRH Princess Deema Bint Turki Ben Abdul Aziz Al-Saud
• Katherine Fulton, President, Monitor Institute, USA
• Colin Vivian Jones, Senior Management Consultant, Pygmalion Management Consultants, South Africa
• Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, Sweden
• Jan Eliasson, UN Special Envoy to Sudan, Sweden
• Robert A. G. Monks, Managing Partner, Lens Governance Advisors, USA
• Mark Moody-Stewart, Chairman, Anglo-American, UK
• Otto Scharmer, Author and Senior Lecturer, MIT, USA

Not to mention EU Commission Vice President Margot Wallström and Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf.

 Tällberg is sort of the progressive version of Davos. Here’s the description from their website:

The underlying theme of the Tällberg Forum is the radical systems transformation required to mitigate and adapt to the impact of climate change. We need to learn to think differently about the way our economic, social, financial systems, etc, function and how they fit into the natural systems. Then we need to change the way we act as individuals and as leaders in our societies. To encourage this re-learning and to help participants see themselves and their role in society differently, is the aim of the Tällberg process. The subtitle – “Learn to Live to Learn” – is chosen to indicate the need for “re-learning”.

The design of the Forum seeks to provide a balance between the wide systems-level discussions and the more action-oriented pursuit of practical solutions. This is mirrored in the program and its division between larger plenary sessions exploring the wider overarching questions, and the smaller thematic workshops referred to as “Tracks”. The tracks at Tällberg are theme-specific workshops that run over three days, making a total time of ten hours of conversations available to participants for in-depth work. They are selected to cover a wide array of complementary issues.

Program-in-progress | Tällberg Foundation.