Touchstone Webinars
Dialogues Disrupting Dogma
The GIFT.ed Touchstone Webinar series brings together bold voices, urgent issues, and systems-level thinking to help leaders navigate a world in flux.
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Partner Webinar • 10th September 2025
At War with Ourselves: Reimagining Law and Technology for a Planet in Crisis
Featuring
Nadja Skaljic
International Lawyer, WEF Global Foresight Network, Club of Rome MemberChandran Nair (Host)
Founder and Chairperson of GIFT.ed
Today’s polycrises are not anomalies. They are the outcomes of systems designed to extract, exclude, and externalise harm.
When the solutions to humanity’s polycrises are just another part of the problem, one has to ask: How do we redesign the systems that are driving collapse?
Join Nadja Skaljic and Chandran Nair as they explore the urgent need for a different kind of leadership:
How laws can drive regeneration, not just manage harm
AI as a double-edged sword: accelerating collapse or enabling transformation
What justice could look like — inclusive, regenerative, and generational
This will be a live, unflinching conversation on what must change — and how.
Why join this webinar?
Because the systems shaping our world weren’t built for resilience and it’s time we asked what comes next. This webinar goes beyond surface-level solutions to examine how law, governance, and technology can be redesigned to serve people and planet, not just preserve the status quo.
If you’re seeking practical frameworks and bold ideas for building a regenerative, inclusive future, this is the conversation you’ve been waiting for.
Past Webinars
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Economic Resilience: Innovation for ASEAN’s Future
This inaugural session brings together Sandiaga Uno, former Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia, and Chandran Nair, renowned thought leader and founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT) and GIFT.ed, for a compelling exchange on Economic Resilience: Innovation for ASEAN's Future.
This timely discussion delivers valuable perspectives and actionable insights on fostering economic resilience through organisational innovation, particularly within the ASEAN context, a region that's emerged as a key driver of global economic recovery following the pandemic.
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Economic Resilience: Innovation for ASEAN’s Future
Dr. Edward Tse, former Chairman of BCG China, speaks with GIFT.ed Founder and Chairman, Chandran Nair, about China’s state-led innovation model - a civilisational strategy that transcends tech headlines. They unpack how governance, national vision, and cultural values have shaped a system designed for rapid technological progress - and why global leaders must understand China on its terms if they hope to compete or collaborate.
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Regenerative Business: The Strategic Edge for Today’s Organisations
Carlos Álvarez Pereira, Secretary General of the Club of Rome, joins GIFT.ed Founder and Chairman, Chandran Nair, to challenge the foundations of 20th-century business strategy. Together, they make the case for regeneration — not as moral aspiration, but as strategic imperative. This session invites organisations, especially those across the Global South, to reframe complexity and care as essential capabilities in an age of overlapping crises.
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Resetting the Engine of Growth: How Business Can Thrive Within Limits
Gaya Herrington — renowned economist and author of the modern-day update to Limits to Growth — speaks with GIFT.ed Founder and Chairman, Chandran Nair, about why the pursuit of perpetual economic growth may be the greatest systemic blind spot of our time. Together, they explore what it means to build economies that operate within ecological thresholds, and how business leaders can catalyse a shift from collapse to regeneration.