Convenings
The right people in the room.
CAS brings leaders across sectors and disciplines together to work through questions that require more than one perspective. We design each convening to test assumptions, sharpen choices, and give people something they can act on when they leave.
Designed for action
A good room should change what happens next.
We start with the decision, challenge, or opportunity that needs to move. Then we curate the people, information, questions, and format around it. Participants test assumptions and boundaries, learn from perspectives they may not otherwise encounter, and work toward clearer choices, practical solutions, and next steps.
The conversation matters because of what people can do with it afterward.
Next
No public convening is on the calendar right now.
Dates are announced first in The Signal. Recent convenings and what came out of them are below.
How we convene
Curate
Put the right question in front of the right mix of people, with the context and perspectives needed to challenge conventional thinking.
Pressure-test
Use scenarios, provocations, evidence, and structured discussion to test assumptions, expose boundaries, and understand where proposed approaches hold up or break down.
Activate
Turn what emerges into clearer choices, practical guidance, shared priorities, or defined next steps people can carry into their organizations.
Forums · Executive roundtables · Working sessions · Briefings · Tabletop exercises · Experiential events
Featured convenings
Some of our most valuable conversations happen in confidence. These examples show how CAS designs different kinds of rooms around the questions, decisions, and outcomes they need to enable.
Launch Experience · The Insider You Built · With support from Omidyar Network · September 23, 2026 · Washington, DC
A celebration with a purpose
The launch of The Insider You Built paired celebration with participation, inviting guests to consider their own boundaries with AI and leave with ideas and practical resources to carry into life and work.
Executive Roundtable · Data & Trusted AI Alliance · September 2026
Security as a Driver of Enterprise Performance
The Data & Trusted AI Alliance convened security and technology leaders in a roundtable curated by CAS Strategies to pressure-test how security can enable AI at scale, grounding the discussion in platform engineering, identity, data, shared controls, and the organizational boundaries leaders need to navigate.
Forum · With Diplomatic Courier · 2024
Global Action Forum
Built to shape the 2025 AI Action Summit. Principal-level leaders from twelve Global Majority countries, working with France’s Special Envoy to the Summit, who took part in and supported the effort, produced a Global Majority-led AI agenda and concrete recommendations delivered to the French government.
Pop-up · With Compiler, Omidyar Network, Tremau · February 2025 · Paris
Tech Policy Pop-Up: AI Action Summit
Interactive working sessions on the sidelines of the Summit, built for the policymakers and practitioners already in town. Participants moved from positions to practical questions about what trustworthy innovation requires.
Virtual Roundtable · Data & Trusted AI Alliance · With support from CAS Strategies · November 2025
Practical Steps for Deploying AI Across Your Business
The Data & Trusted AI Alliance, with support from CAS Strategies, brought small and mid-sized business leaders together for a practical conversation about moving from AI ambition to responsible deployment and the decisions organizations need to make as they put AI to work.
From conversation to action
What happens in the room should change what happens outside it.
The output depends on the question: a pressure-tested strategy, a shared agenda, a sharper operating model, requirements for a solution, or clear actions to take back to the organization. We design backward from the change the room needs to enable.
Global Action Forum
A Global Majority-led AI agenda and concrete recommendations delivered to the French government to shape the 2025 AI Action Summit.
Security Executive Roundtable
Operating questions and practitioner insight on the capabilities organizations need to scale AI securely.
A celebration with a purpose
An interactive experience that turned the book’s ideas into personal choices, giving guests practical ways to carry the lessons into their lives and work.
Client convenings
Decisions, alignment, tested assumptions, and defined next steps.
Past events
Newest first
Sep 23, 2026 · Launch Experience
The Insider You Built: Launch Experience
Guests set their own boundaries for delegated AI authority and left with tools to continue the work. With support from Omidyar Network.
Explore the book →
Sep 2026 · Executive Roundtable
Security as a Driver of Enterprise Performance
Security and technology leaders pressure-tested how security must evolve as organizations scale AI. Convened by the Data & Trusted AI Alliance and curated by CAS Strategies.
Read what surfaced →
Nov 3, 2025 · Virtual Roundtable
Practical steps for deploying AI across your business
Small and mid-sized business leaders on moving from AI ambition to responsible deployment. Convened by the Data & Trusted AI Alliance with support from CAS Strategies.
Session details →
Feb 11, 2025 · Pop-Up
Tech Policy Pop-Up: AI Action Summit edition
Trustworthy innovation for a connected world, on the sidelines of the Summit.
Event page →
Oct 2024 · Forum
Inaugural Global Action Forum
Twelve countries produced a Global Majority-led AI agenda for the 2025 AI Action Summit. Readout and report published.
Read the readout →
Have a question that needs a room?
We design convenings around decisions that need to move. From executive roundtables and board sessions to tabletop exercises and cross-sector forums, CAS curates the people, questions, and format needed to test assumptions, develop practical approaches, and turn insight into action.