Thank you for joining us on 4th February 2017

On 4th February 2017, World Basic Income hosted the world's first ever conference to explore this new practical solution to global inequality and poverty. Over 130 people squeezed into Salford's oldest church, and took part in discussions that examined the proposal in great detail and from many interesting angles. Contributions from both panellists and audience members were extremely valuable and have left us all with much to think about.

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Many thanks to all who attended, spoke at or volunteered at this event. You helped to make it a brilliant day. May this be the start of something big...

The programme

Ten fantastic speakers joined us for the day, as below:

Conference opening, by Deputy Mayor of Salford Cllr John Merry, and Paul Harnett, Co-Director of World Basic Income

Panel 1 – The context for a worldwide basic income
Discussions led by:

• André Coelho, BIEN and the Portuguese basic income movement
• Max Harris, University of Oxford
  
• Aderonke Apata, Manchester Migrant Solidarity
  
• René Heeskens, founder of the Global Basic Income Foundation (Netherlands)
  

3.00pm Panel 2 – The practicalities: funding, distribution, and governance
Discussions led by:

• Hillel Steiner, University of Manchester
• Steven Janssens, Eight
• Caroline Whyte, CapGlobalCarbon
  

4.30pm Panel 3 – Building a movement
Discussions led by:

• Adam Parsons, Share The World's Resources
• Jonathan Bartley, Co-Leader of the Green Party
• John Merry, Deputy Mayor of Salford for the Labour Party

5.45pm Closing plenary, with Laura Bannister, Co-Director of World Basic Income