With a view to achieving critical, open and meaningful dialogue, the Dialogue Society organises a range of seminars, panel discussions, workshops and roundtable events at its headquarter offices in Islington. Discussions include a wide range of issues related to Dialogue Society areas of interest, reaching beyond the conventional remit of dialogue topics and speakers. They attract policy-makers, academics, researchers, journalists, professionals, students, community leaders and community group representatives of different backgrounds and cultures. It is through this engaging and expansive platform that speakers and members of the audience enter into constructive and critical dialogue on a miscellany of issues affecting their personal, professional and communal lives.

Speakers at Dialogue Society events include leading members of the political, media, academic and community sectors. Speakers have addressed a variety of topics, from community cohesion and multiculturalism to international relations, conflict resolution and diplomacy.

Participants at recent discussion events have included representatives of various foreign embassies, members of Parliament, representatives of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, prominent academics, local councillors, journalists and representatives of a range of think tanks, community groups and NGOs.

Seminars and panel discussions take place in the evening on weekdays. A forty-five to sixty minute presentation is followed by forty-five minutes of Q&A. Over snacks and light refreshments panellists and members of the audience have the opportunity to meet each other and continue their dialogue.

Roundtable events consist of a focused address by an eminent speaker followed by discussion among a select group of sixteen invited guests professionally engaged with the issue at stake. Discussions are chaired to facilitate open, lively and constructive exchange.