Royal Danish Library's business forum
The business forum gives you inspiration and room for reflection through networking and meetings with the world's leading experts in economics, politics, philosophy and management, among other things.
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Royal Danish Library's business forum prioritises knowledge and education for managers. We present new perspectives from a selection of the world's leading experts in their field - at the intersection of economics, politics, philosophy and management.
We create a forum for new knowledge and new perspectives with room to grow. Here you can find inspiration, reflect and give yourself the opportunity to think a little bigger than what is often possible on a daily basis. The programme addresses the state of the world as well as philosophical and educational questions in relation to leading and developing in a broad sense.
The business forum also provides unique access to other experiences at The Black Diamond, exhibitions, concerts and author presentations, which can create value for employees and networks.
Membership
- Members are invited at least three times a year to learning and networking events with a selection of the world's leading experts.
- Member companies can request up to eight tickets per event.
- Exclusive events for members only with the opportunity to network and debate directly with the presenters after the performance.
- Member companies can book meeting facilities in The Black Diamond with a 15% discount.
- Special discounts at concerts and at the International Authors' Stage.
- Price DKK 25,000 excl. VAT per company annually (you subscribe to an annual membership).
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Angela Merkel (DE) in conversation with Marc-Christoph Wagner
Wednesday December 18, 2025, at 17:00 in the Queen's Hall, The Black Diamond, Copenhagen
Germany's former Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Black Diamond on the occasion of the memoir Freedom.
It is one of the most significant political figures of our time who will come to the country when Angela Merkel visits Denmark in December. For 16 years, she was at the helm of Europe's largest economy, led Germany through numerous crises and influenced politics and social conditions with her actions and stances. In Germany and internationally.
In her current book Freedom Merkel lets us into meetings and conversations with the most powerful people in the world and clearly and precisely highlights how decisions were made in decisive national, European and international moments that came to shape our time. Her book gives a unique insight into the inner workings of power - and is a resolute defense of freedom.
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Jeremy Rifkin (US)
Thursday 12 June 2025 at 7:30 p.m. in the Queen's Hall in The Black Diamond, Copenhagen
How do you turn the biggest nightmare scenario into the biggest opportunity? Economist and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin has a suggestion for that. He is one of those who can give a qualified answer to how the climate crisis, AI, water shortages, refugee flows and biodiversity crisis can create a revolution for the better - and what that future can look like. Political leaders in the United States and Europe as well as in China know this, and so do the readers of Rifkin's more than 20 bestsellers about the impact of scientific and technological change on the economy, business, society and the environment.
According to Rifkin, the industrial era of the last 250 years has ended now, when our relationship with communication, energy, water and mobility has been radically changed in a short time. In his latest book, The Age of Resilience – Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth, Rifkin argues that we are now entering a resilient revolution, and in his forthcoming book, Planet Aqua, he focuses his thesis on one of the future's really big challenges: water.
When Rifkin looks to the future, it looks bright. Because humanity has proven throughout its long history that it has all the best prerequisites to turn a nightmare scenario into a revolution for the better. In November, he shows the way live from the stage in the Queen's Hall.
More about Royal Danish Library's business forum
Royal Danish Library's business forum is a business network; a leadership network and forum for management and knowledge. Here you have the opportunity to expand your horizons with contributions from some of the world's leading experts.
The network holds a minimum of three events annually. After the public appearance in the Queen's Hall, there will be an exclusive event for members, where there will be an opportunity to meet the presenters and get a copy of the latest book for inspiration.
Previous speakers include Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz (US), German Minister of Economy and Climate Robert Habeck (DE), chairman of the UN climate panel IPCC Jim Skea, entrepreneur John Elkington (UK), former CEO of Unilever Paul Polman (NL), entrepreneur Petter Stordalen (NO) and more.
Previous events
Thought Leadership Stage: Alison Taylor (US)
From short-term profit hunting to sustainable responsibility. Meet New York University professor Alison Taylor for a conversation about ethics as crucial to the success of companies in the global markets…
Thought Leadership Stage: Margrethe Vestager in conversation with Nynne Bjerre Christensen
AI, jobs and legislation. From the digital to the everyday life of Europeans. Meet the Vice-President of the European Commission for a conversation about our future with artificial intelligence.
Thought Leadership Stage: Bent Flyvbjerg
Why do 99.5% of all mega projects fail? Bent Flyvbjerg, the world's leading expert in mega projects and author of the international bestseller "How Big Things Get Done" has answered this.