Inside the world's most secretive conference

Where:
This year's conference is being held at the five-star Grove Hotel in Watford, U.K., northwest of London. Past meetings have been held across Europe and North America, including one in Ottawa suburb Kanata in 2006.

Where:
The hotel is the former home of the Earls of Clarendon, and sits on a 300-acre estate.

Where:
It features an 18-hole championship golf course, a walled garden, two swimming pools, a spa, tennis courts, two lakes, a beach, a wetland area and more.

What:
The conference agenda lists 12 very broad topics to be discussed, including "cyber warfare and the proliferation of asymmetric threats."

Who
... as is former Secretary of State and foreign affairs consultant Henry Kissinger.

What:
The agenda also lists "Current affairs" and "Developments in the Middle East," which could include the bloody civil war raging in Syria (pictured above.)

What:
The agenda lists "Africa's challenges" as one of the "megatrends and major issues" the congregation of bankers, politicians and royalty will discuss...

Protests
Renowned American radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones met with the media outside the conference, which he declared "a cesspit of globalist turds."