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  • Meeting the Moment

    Convening, Engaging & Activating Silicon Valley Leaders
    The Meeting the Moment Salon Series brings together business leaders, policymakers, investors, and experts in Silicon Valley to confront the political and institutional risks shaping America’s economic future. As democratic norms are tested and governance capacity strained, this series creates a high-trust forum for clear-eyed analysis, strategic leadership, and action. The series is designed to move beyond diagnosis toward practical insight, informed engagement, and coordinated response.

Upcoming Events

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David Becker, Founder and Executive Director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), supports a largely unseen network of professional election officials — Republicans, Democrats, and independents — who administer elections in thousands of jurisdictions across the country. David will take us inside this increasingly consequential but little-understood world: what is working in American elections, where the system is genuinely vulnerable, and what those closest to it are worried about as November approaches. Most importantly, he will talk about what is at stake — and what those of us outside the election system can do to help protect the people and institutions on which our democracy depends.

Past Events

Battling Corruption and Reintroducing Accountability: Strengthening and Repairing the Guardrails, with three people who work on this full time: Scott Greytak of Transparency International U.S., Omar Noureldin of Common Cause, and Daniel Weiner of the Brennan Center for Justice. Between them they have sued to stop a $1.776 billion fund, moved a bipartisan anti-bribery bill through Congress, and spent two years cataloguing which protections were real law and which were only tradition.

Defending Democracy Through Law, Communications & Mobilization

With Norm Eisen

Building Resilient Elections

With Sam Oliker-Freidland and Amanda Callais

Election Risk Briefing 2026: What Keeps Experts Up at Night

With David Becker, Stephen Richer, Gabriel Sterling and moderated by Marisa Lagos

Algorithms for Common Ground: Reimagining Social Media and AI for Social Cohesion

Daniel Barcay, Jonathan Stray, Kristin Hansen, Rose Bloomin, Deepti

Clean Energy Strikes Back in California

Jigar Shah, Josh Becker. Moderated by Rebekah Saul Butler.

Business, Tech, and Democracy: Clean Tech, Rule of Law, Start Ups

Larry Diamond, Ben Raderstorf. Moderated by Marisa Lagos