Request an invite.
Seats are offered by invitation on seniority band and entity type.
Your details.
The role and the institution are what the seat rule turns on, so they are the two we cannot do without. A named person replies within two business days. Sending this does not put you in the room.
Before you send it.
The seat rule is not published in full yet. It is an open item on the governance and funding record, answered by 15 September 2026.
Can I send a colleague in my place?
No. An invitation names one person and does not transfer. If the right person for the room is a colleague, tell us and we will write to them.
Is there a fee?
None. No institution has ever been charged to attend one of these rooms, and nothing is sold on the day.
What does the Chatham House rule mean in practice?
You can use what you hear. You cannot say who said it, and neither can we.
Will I be named afterwards?
No remark is attributed to a person, ever. What we publish after the day is who was in it, how seats were allocated, whether a funder was present and what was said that we can repeat. No attendee list goes to anyone, including a co-host.
How are seats decided?
Seats are offered by invitation on seniority band and entity type. Board and executive, heads of function, and the people who own a digital-asset workstream. No delegations, no plus-ones, no press.
Can my institution sponsor the day?
It can co-host it. A co-host underwrites the day, and that is how the day is paid for; what it buys is the room, not a place in it. A co-host receives its name on this page and on the day, and where agreed one speaking slot placed in the agenda by us. It never receives the invitation list, a say in who is invited, or a sight of the room record before it is published. No seat is for sale at any price, to a co-host or to anyone else. Co-hosts are named here as they confirm and there will never be more than five.