Programmes with a point of view.

The questionWhat does it take to run something for a hundred years?

How a century-old tea estate navigates monsoons, labour, markets and uncertainty, and what that teaches about running anything through change.

1. Estate at dawn
2. Factory floor
3. Manager's table
4. Working sessions

• A dawn walk through the estate with the people who run it
• Time in the tea factory, from leaf to auction
• An evening with the estate manager on planning around what you can't control
• Working sessions in a private planter's bungalow, with a facilitator if you want one

The questionWhat does precision look like when a whole economy is built on it?

What a culture of precision makes possible, and what it demands.

1. Manufacturing
2. Craft
3. Robotics
4. Supply chains
5. Ageing
6. Hospitality

• Factory floors in the home region of lean manufacturing
• Kyoto workshops run by the same families for generations
• Robotics and eldercare in one of the world's oldest societies
• Hospitality as a discipline, seen from behind the counter

The questionWhat does building a business look like where the rules are still being written?

How growth, capital, infrastructure and cities are reshaping three very different African economies.

1. Agriculture
2. Entrepreneurship
3. Capital
4. Infrastructure
5. Cities

• Farms and agri-businesses at the front of the region's food economy
• Founders building for markets others overlook, from mobile money onwards
• Investors and development finance: how capital actually moves
• Infrastructure and city planning, from Kigali's reinvention to Nairobi's growth
• Country chosen by theme: Kenya for agriculture and mobile money, Rwanda for governance and cities, Ghana for trade

The questionHow do places that have too little water, or too much, decide what to do?

Scarcity, flooding, reuse and policy: how places with too little water, and too much, are solving for it.

1. Scarcity
2. Old systems
3. Reuse
4. Flood defence
5. Policy

• Indian cities and villages living with too little water, and old systems that still work
• Singapore's water reuse, or the Dutch way of living below sea level
• Engineers, policymakers and communities in the same conversation
• A cohort project comparing two ways of solving the same problem

The questionWhat is India actually building, and who is building it?

How digital infrastructure, manufacturing, family enterprise and new cities are reshaping India.

1. Digital infrastructure
2. Manufacturing
3. Family enterprise
4. Cities
5. Villages

• The public digital systems that changed how a billion people pay and prove who they are
• New manufacturing, and the older clusters it is joining
• Second- and third-generation family businesses, at the table where succession is decided
• Fast-growing cities, and the villages they draw from

The questionHow are Asia's most ambitious cities planning for the next fifty years?

How three Asian cities are approaching technology, density, mobility, ageing and urban life.

1. Singapore: plan
2. Seoul: build digital
3. Tokyo: age well

• Urban planners, founders and operators in each city
• Site visits across mobility, housing, eldercare and technology
• Daily reflection, and a closing synthesis the cohort presents

The questionWhere does a meal actually come from, and what will change it?

Follow one meal backwards, and you see the whole economy.

1. Farm
2. Market
3. Plant
4. Cold chain
5. Kitchen

• Farms, markets and processing plants
• Farmers, traders, food scientists and entrepreneurs
• A project that follows one product from field to plate
• Versions for school groups, university cohorts and companies

The questionWhich ideas made the modern world, and where did they start?

Science, peace, art and engineering, followed across three countries. The Eiffel Tower, the Alps and Disneyland stay; now they all mean something.

1. Paris: engineering
2. Geneva: peace
3. CERN: science
4. Alps: climate
5. Florence: art
6. Rome: empire
7. Milan: invention

• Paris: the Eiffel Tower as engineering, the Louvre as a treasure hunt, a day at Disneyland
• Geneva: the United Nations, the Red Cross museum and CERN Science Gateway
• The Alps: Mount Titlis and what a glacier tells you about climate
• Florence, Pisa and Rome: Galileo, the Renaissance and Roman engineering
• Milan: the Leonardo da Vinci science museum
• Four student teams, each following one idea across the trip and presenting it back at school

The questionHow do you make thirty high performers feel the reward was worth it?

A city that does spectacle well: skyline, speed, food and one night the group will talk about for a year.

1. Skybridge
2. Batu Caves
3. Track day
4. Hawker night
5. Rooftop dinner

• Arrival dinner high above the city, looking across to the Petronas Towers
• Petronas Towers skybridge and the Batu Caves at first light
• A driving or track experience at Sepang International Circuit
• A night on the hawker trail, then a closing rooftop celebration with awards

The questionWhat does it take to build something that lasts?

Bridges grown from living roots over decades and rivers so clear the boats seem to float: the Khasi Hills as a setting for thinking about what lasts.

1. Shillong
2. Sohra
3. Living root bridges
4. Dawki
5. Kaziranga (optional)

• A whole heritage bungalow in the Khasi Hills, with working sessions by the fire
• The trek down to the double-decker living root bridges, and, where access allows, time with the villagers who grow them
• A day on the clear waters of the Umngot at Dawki
• An optional extension to Kaziranga for wild elephants and rhino