Festival in numbers

The inaugural Topical Talk Festival was a huge success thanks to the fantastic efforts from participating teachers and students across the world.

Top topics

  • Earth Day

    2906 comments

  • Strikes

    2,430 comments

  • Metaverse

    1,929 comments

Country contributors

13 countries took part: France, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Spain, Uganda, United Kingdom and United States

Top five country contributors

  1. Palestine
  2. Nigeria
  3. United Kingdom
  4. United States of America
  5. Uganda

Discussions

  • 13,359 comments

    over the Festival

  • 284 comments

    on average, per day

  • 558 Standpoints

Volunteers

59

volunteers from KPMG and Clifford Chance helped to develop a discussion and 21 volunteers from The Economist helped to moderate discussions.

Volunteer Award

The Volunteer Award for outstanding discussion support went to OIlie Hutchinson from KPMG