"We are supposed to be slim, prosperous, happy, extroverted and popular. This is our culture’s image of the perfect self. We see this person everywhere: in advertising, in the press, all over social media. We’re told that to be this person you just have to follow your dreams, that our potential is limitless, that we are the source of our own success."

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What are the hidden forces that drive your behaviour? Is there a secret code to unlock the shortcuts and hacks to navigate any social situation? Join Harpers Bazaar business book columnist Richard Kilgarriff and human behaviour investigator Vanessa Van Edwards for a masterclass in making the most of other people at work and play.

Across the hour you'll learn...

-How to Be the Most Memorable Person in the Room

-How to Save an Awkward Meeting

-The Science Behind Networking

-How to Master Public Speaking

-How to Navigate Any Social Situation

-How to Detect When People are Lying

Join Richard Kilgarriff (Bookomi, Harpers Bazaar) and Jamie Bartlett (Social Media Director at Think Tank Demos and author of the influential bestseller The Dark Net) for an exploration of the innovators, disruptors, idealists and techno-futurists who believe we are wrong and they are right. Open to Soho House members and guests of Bookomi.

An incredible journey into the past, present and future of London with some of the most influential architects, historians and writers in the capital. Featuring: 11AM - Design Museum Director Deyan Sudjic OBE (The Language of Cities), 2PM - Writer/film-maker Iain Sinclair (London Orbital, London Overground, The Last London), 4PM - BBC TV historian Dan Cruickshank (Spitalfields, The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets) and at 6PM - Elif Safak (Three Daughters of Eve) at 6pm. The day is compered by Bookomi's Richard Kilgarriff and co-hosted by Edmund Fowles and Eleanor Hedley of Feilden Fowles (BD's Young Architect of the Year 2016). Join us for one or all of the sessions - Places are free but limited to members and guests of Soho House and Bookomi.A

Ella's Kitchen founder Paul Lindley joins Bookomi's Richard Kilgarriff to share the nine characteristics of toddlers that he believes can help us all to lead a more fulfilled and successful life – from creative mindsets and learning to think divergently, to attention grabbing tactics. £10 covers a signed copy of the book and buffet breakfast.

Join one of Europe's most prominent young thinkers, historian Rutger Bregman, in conversation with Bookomi's Richard Kilgarriff.

The two will be discusssing the ideas outlined in Breman's book Utopia for Realists, which overturns existing notions about how to run society with radical yet wholly practical ideas for a happier, healthier, wealthier world.

Join Bookomi's Richard Kilgarriff for a look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, with the FT Business Book of the Year award winner and author of The Everything Store - Brad Stone.

Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighbourhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel.

Join Bookomi Curator Richard Kilgarriff and The Economist magazine's, Dan Franklin and Tom Standage for a look deep into the middle of the current century, as imagined through the minds of the magazine's biggest thinkers...What will the world of technology look like in 2050? And how will it affect the way we live and work together?

Meet triple Pulitzer prize winner, author of The World is Flat and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as he shares his thesis for the 21st century : That the planet’s three largest forces―Moore’s law (technology), the Market (globalization), and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss)―are accelerating all at once. This is a rare chance to hear him talk about his new book, THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE, An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in The Age of Accelerations with a corporate audience in the City of London.

Presented by Bookomi and hosted by Harrington Starr, Global Leaders in Financial Services and Technology Recruitment.

Join Bookomi's Richard Kilgarriff and popular scientist Helen Czerski as she explores the patterns and connections that illustrate the grandest theories in the smallest everyday objects and experiences.

What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists to survive? What do raw eggs and gyroscopes have in common? And why does it matter?

Linking what makes popcorn pop to Antarctic winds, coffee stains to blood tests or ketchup bottles to aliens in space, every thread you pull in the fabric of everyday life shows you something new about the intricate patterns of our world.

Helen Czerski regularly presents BBC programmes on physics, the ocean and the atmosphere – recent series include Colour: The Spectrum of Science, Orbit, Operation Iceberg, Super Senses, Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, as well as programmes on bubbles, the sun and our weather.

She is also a columnist for Focus magazine, shortlisted for PPA columnist of the year in 2014, and has written numerous articles for national newspapers.