Bilderberg 2013
6–9 June 2013
at the Grove Hotel, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

• The 35 members of the Bilderberg Steering Committee invite around 100 influential figures to attend the 3 day Bilderberg summit.
• The conference consists of nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the international economy.

Google Zeitgeist 2013
15-17 May 2013
at the Grove Hotel, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

• For a company that describes transparency as one of its “core values”, it was something of a private party.
• Google – which has been accused of invading the privacy of its customers by harvesting details about their online activity – was using its ‘dominance to influence decision-makers behind closed doors’ at the Zeitgeist event.