Town Hall Presents an evening in conversation with Dex Hunter-Torricke, founder of the Center for Tomorrow, during London Tech Week.
We are living through a period of accelerating and compounding disruption. Geopolitical instability reshaping the world order. Extreme weather events testing the limits of our infrastructure and institutions. AI capabilities advancing faster than companies, regulators, and societies can adapt. The next decade may be the most consequential in living memory, and the conversations we most need to have are the ones we keep postponing.
For nearly two decades, Dex Hunter-Torricke worked at the heart of the global technology industry, advising Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and Demis Hassabis. Last year he stepped away to found the Center for Tomorrow — a new global nonprofit, independent of Big Tech — because he believes our societies are sleepwalking into a set of challenges we are deeply underprepared for.
But Dex also believes another future is possible: one where the greatest technological transformation in history lifts every nation, not just a handful of companies; where AI amplifies human creativity and dignity; and where we preserve what is best in our societies while enabling something far greater for the next generation.
Join us for the conversation Tech Week isn’t having, and one we can no longer afford to avoid.
Dex Hunter-Torricke’s career is, in many ways, a map of the modern technology era. He began in global diplomacy, serving as a speechwriter and spokesperson in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General — an early grounding in the relationship between power, communication, and consequence that would define everything that followed.
From the UN, he moved into the heart of Silicon Valley. At Google, he became the company’s first executive speechwriter, before joining Facebook as Head of Executive Communications, where for four years he served as Mark Zuckerberg’s personal speechwriter. He went on to lead communications for SpaceX and to advise some of the most influential figures in the industry, among them Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk. His most recent role was Head of Global Communications and Marketing at Google DeepMind, placing him at the centre of the AI revolution as it accelerated beyond the expectations of almost everyone watching it.
He is also a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, and has spoken at major international forums on technology, leadership, and the future of society.
In late 2025, he left Google DeepMind. Not, he is clear, because he had grown disillusioned with technology, but because he had grown convinced that the world outside the industry had no adequate plan for what was coming.
Hosted at Town Hall, King’s Cross, this is a rare opportunity to hear from someone who has seen the future of technology from the inside, and chosen to ask harder questions about where it leads. The evening will include discussion and drinks. Places are by invitation only.
To request an invitation, please contact membership@townhall.co.uk.
