On the record, always
Every conversation is on the record, and every guest signs a consent before we record. Nothing said in an HCI Talks forum or a Chatham House session will appear in an episode.
Coffee Table Conversations · Series charter
Leadership conversations at a café table. Rules we publish first.
Coffee Table Conversations will be an HCI Talks series of on-record conversations with senior leaders, recorded at café tables, city by city. We publish these rules before the first episode so anyone can check our work.
IllustrativeThe studio is the table. The rules travel with us.
Our rules
Eight rules for every conversation
Last updated: 24 October 2026. We may update this charter; any change will be dated here.
Our editorial, our call
HCI Talks chooses the guests, the questions and the final edit. Venue partners and sponsors have no say in guests, questions or the edit.
Partners named plainly
When a café hosts us, we will say so at the start of the episode and in its description, in line with ASCI’s advertising disclosure guidelines.
We pay our own way
Unless an episode says otherwise, HCI Talks pays for its own food and drink at every recording.
Never sold, never given to partners
Guest and member contact details are never sold and never shared with venue partners or sponsors. We handle personal data in line with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and our privacy policy. Read the privacy policy.
Bystanders stay unidentifiable
We frame, blur or cut footage and audio so that people in the café who are not part of the conversation cannot be identified.
Corrections in the open
If we get a fact wrong, we fix it and say so. Guests see a preview before publication to check facts; the final edit remains ours.
Honest numbers only
We report only what we have measured. We never promise partners views, footfall or sales.
Questions or corrections
Write to us
For corrections, complaints or personal data, write to [email protected]. Café chains interested in hosting an episode can write to [email protected].
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