On 14th of September, I received an email, inviting me to the Technology Europe Summit 2018, taking place at Royal Turnberry Hotel, Scotland.

The event will be full of professionals and networking opportunities. I’m sure this will be very interesting. However I will not come along.

The so called “Royal Turnberry Hotel” is actually owned by the most powerful man on Earth, Mr Donald Trump, President of the USA. The actual name of the hotel is “Trump Turnberry Hotel”.

Wikipedia says “Trump Turnberry is a golf resort located on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in South Ayrshire, southwestern Scotland”.

I find quite interesting that the organiser chose to replace “Trump” by “ Royal”. Does it represent an ethical dilemma? Or is the dilemma to give directly or indirectly your business to Mr Donald Trump?

Are Political opinions, business and ethic clashing? If they do, don’t host your event at Mr Trump’s hotel.

My values and opinions as a citizen of the world , are that I utterly disagree with multiple of Mr Trump’s positions including (but not limited to) that global warming does not exist.

I will therefore not contribute to more CO2 emissions by going to Scotland and il will certainly not contribute even indirectly to Mr Trump’s wealth.

Would you go?