The "Thinking Ethics" seminar was launched in Geneva in February 2005. Specialists in various fields came together for workshops on 5 subjects: ethics and consciousness, ethics and knowledge, ethics and performance, ethics and disobedience, and ethics in real time. Their discussions attempted to identify furture scenarios and possible trends, and to establish what will change, what might drive the changes, and where the problem areas might arise in the next 10 years.
Conducted in association with Philias, the Swiss organisation for corporate social responsibility, the workshops involve nearly thirty speakers, and are chaired by Matt Christensen, Francis Walvogel, Imam Dr Abduljalil Sajid, Pierre Magistretti and Philip Seib, all internationally acknowledged figures.