Media Symposia is a partnership based in Cambridge and London with a strong networks in academia, government, technology, industry, the media and the arts. We have an excellent track record producing highly topical conferences, bringing together world class experts and publishing reports.

Specialist areas covered by conferences and reports:
Artificial Intelligence; cyber security and defence; financial technology; politics and economics; manufacturing; infrastructure; geopolitics of energy and the environment; democracy; future of research-based universities; food security; transport and energy; ethics and the media; and neuroscience.

Art exhibitions and projects supported:
Houghton Revisited: Walpole Masterpieces from the Hermitage (Apollo Exhibition of the Year 2013); James Turrell, LightScape at Houghton Hall (2015); development work for Beyond Beauty: Transforming the Body in Ancient Egypt, Two Temple Place, London (2016); exhibition app for The Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill (2018): Horace Walpole Masterpieces; Saatchi Gallery - various exhibitions (2018-19); and development for upcoming Chris Levine, Inner Deep Space (2019).

Examples of Media Symposia projects, clients and partners:

• The Science & Human Dimension Project - SHDP, is a long running (est.1990) and highly respected public understanding of science, medicine and ethics programme based at Jesus College, Cambridge and co-directed by John Cornwell and Jonathan Cornwell. Through conferences, lectures, publishing and journalism the project provides a forum for research, industry, policy makers and the media to deepen and broaden their appreciation of new ideas and discoveries in science.
  
  Past SHDP events and reports include: AI - Ethical & Religious Perspectives (2019); The Singularity Summit: Consciousness, Agency, Imagination (2018); Sci-Fi in AI (2018); Memory & Imagination in Humans and Machines (in collaboration with DeepMind, 2017); Science - The Next Generation (2011); The Irrelevance of Ethics (Lecture by Alasdair MacIntyre, 2010); Ethics and the Media in an Era of Complex Moral Challenge (2010); God and the Philosophers (2008); Ethics of Human Embryo Research (2007); Report on Media and Development in Africa: A Case Study based on North Kenya (2006); Creativity and Depression (2005); The Anthropic Principle and the Multiverse (2007); Copenhagen - Science, War, and the Devil's Pact (2002); Virtual Universities (2001); Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science (2000); Consciousness and Human Identity (1997); The Next Generation (1996); Science and the Media (1995); Plato and Mathematics (1994); Sir Francis Crick on Scientific Search for the Soul (1994); Mathematical Education (1993); Reductionism's Primacy in the Natural Sciences (1992).
  
  Books published by John Cornwell and the SHDP project include: Nature's Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific Vision; Consciousness and Human Identity; and Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science (all published by Oxford University Press), and with Michael McGhee, of Philosophers and God, Continuum (2009).


• Cyber Security Forum - Media Symposia runs the Cyber Security Forum conferences at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills in London, and in Cambridge. These successful conferences explore a range of cyber security themes including positioning the UK as a leader in this field. The Cyber Security Forum is currently collaborating with a range of experts including the Cambridge Computer Laboratory to produce workshops on cyber finance, cyber innovation and cyber crime in 2012-14.


• The Rustat Conferences is based at Jesus College, Cambridge. From its founding by Media Symposia directors John and Johnny Cornwell in 2009 until 2017, Media Symposia organised all aspects of the conferences, set agendas, developed networks of specialists, published reports and raised sponsorship. Topics covered in 2009-17 included: Superintelligence and Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Inequality, UK North South Divide, Geopolitics of Oil and Energy, the Economic Crisis, the Future of Democracy, Infrastructure for Energy Security, Cities and Water, Cybersecurity, Fintech, UK Manufacturing, the Future of Research Intensive Universities, the Use and Misuse of Statistics, and Food Security. In 2017, Media Symposia handed over the management of Rustat Conferences to the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge.


• In 2014-15 Johnny Cornwell, Media Symposia director, supported the sponsorship and marketing efforts of LightScape, a major exhibition of James Turrell's work at Houghton Hall, Norfolk.


• Wide Eyed Vision - a partnership between Media Symposia and digital media specialist Dr Tudor Jenkins, director of Wide Eyed Vision, creates stunning Apps of art exhibitions and national heritage sites.


• Houghton Revisited Exhibition - a collaboration between Houghton Hall and the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Media Symposia director Johnny Cornwell arranged corporate sponsorship of this UK Exhibition of the Year 2013 at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. It saw the return of Britain's first Prime Minister's collection of masterpieces ( the Walpole Collection ) from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to Walpole's ancestral home.


• The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, an official supporter of the Cyber Security Forum conference which took place the Department's Westminster HQ.


• The Cabinet Office - Office for Cyber Security & Information Assurance, an official supporter of the Cyber Security Forum.

Other sponsors, official supporters and partners of Media Symposia organised events include:

Cisco - Official Sponsor of the Cyber Security Forum.
PA Consulting Group - Principle partner in the Cyber Security Forum.
Bank of England - supporter of Rustat Conferences on financial technology and the blockchain.
New Scientist
Nature
BP - Sponsor of the Rustat Conference on the Geopolitics of Oil & Energy.
Prospect Magazine - Sponsor of Alasdair MacIntyre Lecture on the 'Irrelevance of Ethics' at Cambridge University.

Companies and organisations which have participated in Media Symposia organised events:

Corporate
Google DeepMind
KPMG
Harvey Nash
Laing O’Rourke Group
McLaren
Willis
McAfee
Microsoft
PA Consulting Group
Cisco
Tesco
Cobbetts
Penna
IBM
BNP Paribas
Lloyds Banking Group
ING Bank
Field Fisher Waterhouse
Slaughter and May
Macquarie
Citibank
Permira
Artemis
Ernst & Young
Lord North Street Ltd
Sandaire
McKinsey & Co
Barclays Capital
Buro Happold
Aon Hewitt
Penna
Climate Change Capital
Amadeus Capital Partners

Government Department, Public Sector, NGOs
Department for Business Innovation and Skills - BIS
The Bank of England
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - FCO
Department of Energy and Climate Change - DECC
Financial Conduct Authority FCA
Institute for Fiscal Studies IFS
The Metropolitan Police
HM Prison Service
TUC
United NationsEnvironment Programme - UNEP
Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House
HM Treasury
HM Cabinet Office
Home Office
The Scottish Government
HMRC
DWP
DEFRA
HEFC
US Federal Bureau of Investigation
Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure CPNI
Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance OCSIA
International Institute for Strategic Studies - IISS
Royal United Services Institute - RUSI
Renewable Energy Foundation
UCAS
Ofgem
Shelter
YouGov
RSA
The Work Foundation


Academia
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Imperial College London
University College London
Bristol University
St Andrew’s University
Edinburgh University
University of Westminster
University of Kent
University of Hull
University of Manchester
University of Liverpool
University of Loughborough
Brunel University
Cranfield University
City University
Aston BusinessSchool
The Open University
University of Kingston
University of Warwick
Durham University
The Royal Society
The British Academy
Freiburg University
Leuven University
Humboldt University Berlin
University of Silesia
University of Milan

Media

Financial Times
The Guardian
The Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Economist
Prospect
BBC
Nature
New Scientist
Die Zeit