AGENDA
Delegation events are highlighted in YELLOW.
This page supplements the official SWF agenda, available on your SWF app.
6AM-5PM | Arrivals
Please see logistics for more information.
7PM | Delegation Dinner
Held at Leonardo Hotel.
10AM-12PM | Dandelion Pin Pick-up
Visit us at Organic Deli Café to meet other Dandelions and pick up your Dandelion pin for the week.
12:30PM | SWF Badge Pick-up
A delegate badge is required to attend Skoll World Forum programming. Registered delegates can check in and pick up their badges at Saïd Business School (SBS) starting at 12:30pm.
12:30-2:30PM | SWF Afternoon Tea
After picking up your delegate badge, enjoy tea and scones in the Courtyard Marquee
3-4:30PM | Before We Begin: An Intentional Start to SWF
Classroom 2 Saïd Business School
Skoll World Forum week is rich in ideas and insight. What is rarer, and increasingly necessary, are moments that help leaders integrate their learnings. This session, designed especially for first-time Skoll World Forum delegates, offers a grounded way to start your week. Through short narrative provocations, simple movement, and exchanges with other delegates, you’ll set yourself up to more deeply listen, connect, and engage in the days that follow. Hosted by Project Dandelion.4:30-6PM | SWF Welcome Reception
Kick off your week by joining other delegates and the Skoll Foundation at Saïd Business School for a welcome reception featuring drinks, light appetizers, and a chance to meet new and old friends.
6-8:30PM | Project Dandelion Dinner
The Quod Restaurant: The Red Room
Bringing the Dandelion community together to meet this year's Project Dandelion Delegation ahead of SWF.
8AM-10AM | The Morning Brief Breakfast
The Quod Restaurant: The Red Room
We encourage Teresa and Nthabiseng to attend. Hosted by Project Dandelion Co-Founder Hafsat Abiola, Morning Brief will bring together leaders working across climate, development, and community systems. Together, we’ll explore where energy is building, where barriers persist, and where stronger connection could unlock greater impact.
10-11:30AM | Forests on the Frontline: Integrated Solutions for a Thriving Future
Recommended SWF session for Novia Sagita
10-11:30AM | One Health in Action: Protecting People, Animals, & The Planet
Recommended SWF session for Monika Shukla
10-11:45AM | Living Library: Stories of Regeneration
Recommended SWF session for Teresa Muthoni & Martha De Sá
1-2PM | Global South Climate Leadership: Partnerships Rooted in Lived Experience
Recommended SWF session for all Dandelion Delegates
1-2PM | Digital Community Health at Scale
Recommended SWF session for Sara Saeed
2:30-4PM | From the Classroom to the Workforce: Building Women's Economic Power
Recommended SWF session for Martha De Sá & Alexia Hilbertidou
2:30-4PM | Powering Prosperity at Scale: A Just Green Transition
Recommended SWF session for Nthabiseng Mosia
5-6:45PM | SWF Opening Plenary
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Humans are not above or separate from nature; we are intrinsically part of it, and its lessons can guide us as individuals and as a collective. As we confront acute political, social, and ecological fracturing, nature reminds us that disruption can also lead to renewal. In this Opening Plenary, we’ll look to insights from nature’s patterns of adaptation and renewal to guide our next chapter. How can we repair our bonds with the natural world and one another? How can we rebuild trust and cohesion in communities torn by conflict? And what possibilities might emerge at the convergence of human, machine, and natural intelligence? We’ll close by turning from reflection to shared experience—inviting us into a moment of collective joy that reminds us how connection, coordination, and harmony can be practiced, not just imagined.
7-8:30PM | SWF Oxford College Dinners
Location determined in your SWF Badge Pack
Follow a Forum tradition of dining and connecting with other delegates under the soaring ceilings of historic college dining halls throughout Oxford. Locate your dinner invitation and your college destination in your badge pack. Dinners start at 7:00pm following the Opening Plenary. Stewards will help guide you to your designated college.
8-10AM | Dandelion Breakfast
Organic Deli Café
Drop in anytime between 8 and 10 to check in with the team, debrief on your SWF journey thus far, and ask any questions that may have come up in the first few days.
10-11:30AM | Women Grow Our Future: Regenerative Food Systems for People & Planet
Recommended SWF session for Teresa Muthoni
10-11:45AM | Disruption as Catalyst: Applying Nature's Cycles to Leadership Practice
Recommended SWF session for Novia Sagita & Monika Shukla
12-2PM | SWF Lunch
Saïd Business School
Provided by Skoll World Forum.
1-2:30PM | Degrees of Change: Heat, Pregnancy, and the systems we need
Marmalade Side Event, Old Fire Station
Delegates are encouraged to attend. Rising heat is placing new and growing pressure on maternal health worldwide. Evidence shows that exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy can significantly increase risks for both mothers and babies, particularly in communities already facing vulnerability. This interactive, movement-based session, hosted by Wellcome, Project Dandelion and Kite Insights, invites participants to explore the issue through a systems lens. Blending science, storytelling and lived experience, the session will examine how health systems, cities, infrastructure and policy frameworks must evolve to respond to this emerging change.
2:30-4PM | Sustaining Impact: What's Next for Big Bet Funding?
Recommended SWF session for Alexia Hilbertidou
5-6:30PM | SWF Awards Ceremony
Doors open at 4:30PM, we recommend arriving early to secure a seat!
Join us for the emotional highlight of the week: our celebration of the 2026 Skoll Awardees. We’ll honor three remarkable organizations that are driving sustainable, scalable change around the world. We’ll hear how they have innovated to disrupt entrenched challenges and embraced collective action to advance a more peaceful and prosperous world. The ceremony will culminate in a joyful celebration, as music draws us together in movement and collective expression—honoring not only the Awardees, but the shared spirit that connects this global community.
6:30-8:30PM | SWF Awards Reception
Ashmolean Museum
Celebrate and honor the 2026 Skoll Awardees with a reception at the historic Ashmolean Museum immediately following the Skoll Awards Ceremony.
*No scheduled dinner this day.
8-9:45AM | SWF Breakfast
Saïd Business School's Collaboration Cafe
Provided by Skoll World Forum.
10:30AM | SWF Closing Plenary
Doors open at 10AM, we recommend arriving early to secure your seat!
As we close the Forum Week, we will look ahead to a future of mutual flourishing—and examine the innovative approaches helping bring that vision within reach. Together with technologists, artists, scientists, and storytellers, we’ll explore how integrating heart and mind drives societal transformation and how culture can awaken empathy, mobilize action, and shape policy. We’ll consider who gets to influence that future, highlighting innovations centered in sovereignty and inclusive prosperity. We’ll close the week by stepping back to see the ecology of us—and how our interdependence shapes both the challenges we face and the futures we can build together.
11AM | Hotel Checkout
Leonardo Hotel will hold your luggage for you until your departure time. Please check the logistics page for information on the departure schedule.
12PM | SWF Final Lunch
Saïd Business School
Provided by Skoll World Forum.