Bringing together business leaders, investors and global visionaries with the pioneering entrepreneurs rooted in Cambridge, this unique event will include the world’s first public discussions on next-generation quantum, photonics and artificial intelligence breakthroughs, exclusive insights from the leaders driving AI regulation and responsible innovation, and unrivalled access to the people and ideas shaping the global technology agenda.
The programme is anchored by a line-up of heavyweight keynote speakers, intimate fireside chats and thought-provoking panel debates, promising both inspiration and provocation across the week, as well as an immersive introduction to the world-renowned Cambridge tech ecosystem.
Professor Sana Khareghani, AI Policy Lead for Responsible AI UK and former head of the UK Government Office for AI, will compare global innovation ecosystems – while renowned entrepreneur/ author Margaret Heffernan will tackle the complex balance of danger and opportunity in AI, addressing how society can engage with it more productively despite the propaganda surrounding new technologies.
In a series of intimate fireside conversations, Ilyas Khan, founder of Quantinuum, the world’s largest integrated quantum computing company, will explore the technologies redefining computation; Raspberry Pu founder Eben Upton will sit down with London Stock Exchange chair Michael Findlay to share the inside story and strategy behind Raspberry Pi’s landmark listing; and serial entrepreneur Kristian Segerstrale, co-founder of Playfish and Chair of Super Evil Megacorp, will talk scaling and selling gaming ventures.
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Sir Nick Clegg –
recently President of Global Affairs at Meta and one of the most influential voices in global tech policy – also returns to Cambridge to discuss the geopolitics of AI with former MP, Dr Julian Huppert (now Director of Jesus College Intellectual Forum), examining the regulatory approaches of different regimes, and the challenges of scaling technology ethically across political and cultural contexts.
This year’s panel programme brings equal weight and urgency with bold debates and roundtable discussions around the future of computation from the UK’s very heartland, asking the questions we all want the answers to: How close are we to realising Quantum commercial reality? Is photonics ready for prime time? Can silicon leapfrog its own limits?
Experts Kosten Metreweli, Principal VC and Startups, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Mark Slack, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of CMR Surgical, the British $3billion surgical robotics company, will also be debating how to super-charge the next generation of unicorns.
In another poignant panel discussion, chaired by Tabitha Goldstaub MBE, author of How to Talk to Robots, Cambridge’s world-leading AI ecosystem will be put under the spotlight with contributions from Dr Tom Diethe, Head of The Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Executive Director).
As well as practical workshops and master classes, there will be exclusive site visits and behind-the-scenes tours of some of Cambridge’s most influential technology companies. Innovation Alley will see a live innovation showcase of 84 of the brightest Start-ups and Scale ups – including Forefront RF, Secondmind, Levidian, HutanBio, Spotta, HotHouse Therapeutics, Zizo and many more.
Plus, the muchScale Up Pitching Event where five emerging ventures illumion, CambridgeSurgical Models, Reclinker, Kodiaq Technologies and Sqwish will battle it out on the main stage in front of investors and the media.
The programme will additionally accommodate around 240 students in a dedicated Tech Futures programme designed to raise awareness among young people – especially those from diverse and under-represented backgrounds – about the broad range of careers available in the tech sector, including paths they may never have considered before.
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