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Guild Types of Events & Experiences

Grey Swan Guild hosts anywhere between fifty to one-hundred and fifty events each year. They are foundational to the success of a globally-distributed Guild. We describe the differences between each style of our twelve different types of events and this year's calendar below.

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Upcoming-Events

Care to run your own proposed event within the Guild? We have now made this process easier and less haphazard. Use the attached form to present your best case for a member-driven  Atelier workshop.

Atelier Event Submission Form

Types and Descriptions of Evenets in the Guild: We tap into so many participation appetites in our variety of events. Here they are described individually below.

Marquee Events

A. Marquee Events - The Guild's Big Multi-Hour Events

Massive Explorations & Experiences that are core to the Guild. Multi-hour, hyper-relevant, mega-watt events

The Day of The Swan (April 25th)
1,000 Day Radar (Sept 24-26th, Nov 19th Executive Day),
GSG Book Festival (December 6th)

(3x Annually)

Premiere Events

B. Premieres - Fresh Intelligence for Big Minds

A Launch Pad for our newest primary, secondary research and publications. Revelatory, New Intelligence & Productions

Results and reports from our Weathervanes, Radar Collections and Cygnus Publishing teams.

(10x annually)

General Assemblies

C. General Assembly - All Leaders, All Key Members, All Contributor Year-end event

A unique annual forum for discussion of Guild opportunities, issues and futures. We were formed by members and for members, this we continue.

Our top 3% of members convene to establish direction, stake particpation, adopt key motions, make new propositions and celebrate the year past.

(1X annually)

Special Events

D. Special Events - unique opportunities or in-person live events

Events and experiences we could not pass up based on world events, Guild happenings, unique calndar celebrations or chances to meet in real life.

Leap Day of the Swan (Feb 29th)
GSG Live - our Guild's first global in-person event (Oct 24-25th)

(2-4x annually)

Community Salons

E. Salon Conversations - Thought Provoking, Intelligent Conversations

Processing what just happened or just shifted, and what it means to us collectively.

Salon #1
Platinum Swans
Salon #2
Salon #3
Grey Swans 2025

(4-5x Annually)

Regattas

F. Regattas - Quarterly New Member Onboradings

One of our favourite events of all the new energy coming into the Guild.

Meet Guild Leaders.
Discover what we're about.
Find our what's next.
Interact with others.
Way-find into your best ways to participate.

Once per quarter.
(4x Annually)

Town Halls

G. Town Halls - Quarterly Feature Global Regional Forums

Every quarter, the Guild hosts truly great world regions and their most passionate, brightest minds.

Upcoming and Future regions and cities:
https://www.greyswanguild.org/featurecities

Once per quarter.
(4x Annually)

Sprint Executive Forums

H. Sprint Executive Forums - Important Forums on What Keep leaders Up at Night

Quarterly advance research and peer discussions on the most important matters of executive life:

Disruption of Consulting
CEO Sprint Forum
CIO/CTO Sprint Forum
CMO Sprint Forum

Once per quarter.
(4x annually)

Cygnus Ventures Launches

I. Cygnus Ventures - Special Launches to Support Special Ventures

Ventures of amazing societal, educational and commercial value pop up with interesting new experiences.

For all our Cygnus venture efforts, go here:
https://www.greyswanguild.org/cygnusventures

Schedule as venture launches and support demand.
(9-10x annually)

GSG Book Club

J. The GSG Book Club

The smartest change agent's bookshelf and discussion forum.

Almost monthly.
(10x annually)

Craft-Building Series

K.. Education Days - Mini-Masterclasses and Craft-Building Series -Perpetually Learn, Relearn and Unlearn

From A-to-Z, investing in building our skills and craft together.

Education Days are a combo of three hour mini-masterclasses and 75 minute craft-building panel events.

https://www.greyswanguild.org/craftbuildingseries

Quarterly themed days.
(4+ times annually)

Ateliers

L. Ateliers - Member-Driven Workshops

Member-driven workshops proposed and run by our Guild experts

Propose your own here:
https://bit.ly/gsgsatelierform

TBD - Topics/Schedule for the Year (subject to Guild member initiative)

AI Coffeehouses

M. AI Coffeehouses- In-depth discussions on AI

Making Sense of AI
Typically Sunday morning ET discussions.

Almost weekly discussion.
(35x Annually)

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