Carl Benedikt Frey at OffGridHow Progress Ends

OffGrid Agenda 2026

Our theme this year will look at uncertainty and our relationship with it.

As AI and technology continue to speed the car up to our supposed destination, we鈥檒l be looking at the value of trusting in people to do their thing, creative thinking, ideas and challenging existing narratives to create something new.

Differentiation vs sameness.

We鈥檝e spent just under a year pulling together what I really believe are some of our best thinkers. They鈥檒l share their ideas, not pull their punches and look at the importance of uncertainty (and the potential fallacy of certainty), through a commercial, cultural and social lens.

Carl Benedikt Frey 鈥 How progress ends. Technology innovation and the fate of nations

Is economic and technological progress inevitable? Are we on the great leap forward, as often promised. Carl looks at the current innovation cycles as well as what has come before us, to challenge the belief in 鈥渋nevitable progress鈥, showing how technological and institutional dynamics shape national futures and innovation outcomes.