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As leaders gather for the UN’s climate meeting in Dubai, they must replace targets with action. Which policies would make the biggest difference? Are oil companies credible partners? And as countries with more than 4bn people hold elections next year, how might politics affect global warming? Join our editors and ask questions during the live event. You can also submit them in advance with this form.

China’s armed forces are formidable yet vulnerable. They are the world's largest, with 2m personnel. But they are untested and wrestle with corruption, convoluted command structures and America’s technology curbs. How ready is China for an attack on Taiwan? What role does politics play? And how can the world avoid stumbling into a conflict? Join our editors and ask questions during the live event. You can also submit them in advance with this form.

Countries, companies and citizens around the world are grappling with economic uncertainty and rapid technological change. The green transition. AI. Conflict in Europe and the Middle East. As countries accounting for more than half the world's population go to the polls, what will influence voters? Tom Standage, editor of The World Ahead, presents ten trends that will shape the coming year in conversation with the deputy editor of 1843 magazine, Abbie Fielding-Smith. There will be an opportunity to ask questions during the live event. You can also submit them in advance with this form.

Are you too overwhelmed by emails to get stuff done? Do you struggle to hire the right people or get them to voice their opinions candidly? Join Andrew Palmer, our Bartleby columnist and the host of Boss Class, a new podcast on management, in a discussion with Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School and Claire Hughes Johnson, the former chief operating officer of Stripe. Learn how to run a good meeting, how to give feedback and how to organise hybrid work. There will be an opportunity to ask questions during the live event. You can also submit them in advance with this form.

Around the world, governments are taking a more assertive role in the economy, as it judders from war, climate change, AI and more. Will this make the world safer, fairer and greener—or do the opposite? Our editors will discuss whether liberal markets have failed and if, instead, “homeland economics” is the way forward. Join our business affairs editor, Rachana Shanbhogue, economics editor, Henry Curr, European economics editor, Christian Odendahl, and Callum Williams, the author of the “homeland economics” cover story, to discuss this moment of global uncertainty and profound shift in policy. There will be an opportunity to ask questions during the live event. You can also submit them in advance with this form.

“Clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought.” So begins The Economist’s in-house style guide, issued to all its journalists and since the 1980s sold to the public. The new, updated edition loosens strictures yet retains tradition. Join our editors to learn the basic dos and don’ts that help us improve our writing, that we hope may help you improve yours. To ask our speakers a question, please fill out this form.

As artificial intelligence is poised to change business, politics and science, explore the consequences with our editors. Will the technology destroy jobs or make them more fulfilling? Can it uncover new aspects of the world that have eluded the human mind, to improve people’s lives? And will elections be swamped in misinformation or can AI be used to weed out the mistruths? Join us for an in-depth, visionary-yet-pragmatic look at what AI means for society—and how you can be ready for it. To ask our speakers a question, please fill out this form.