Vision Weekend United Kingdom

Join our first-ever Vision Weekend in the United Kingdom!
Tickets and program: https://foresight.org/events/vision-weekend-uk-2026

CONFERENCE
2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Foresight Institute. For the past decades, we’ve championed frontier science and technology; supported future Nobel Prize-winning research, hosted the world’s first nanotechnology conference, and provided early platforms for AGI discussions. Now we’re ready to write the next chapter.
Over three days in London, leading researchers, builders, and funders gather to explore the scientific and technological frontiers shaping the coming decades, and how to make them reality.

Friday: VIP Gathering (by invitation): All Access ticket holders, sponsors, speakers, Foresight Fellows, and grantees
Saturday: ‘Looking Ahead’ at The Barbican
Sunday: ‘Flourishing Futures’ at Tate Modern

THEMES
– Emerging AI Paradigms: Navigating the future of intelligence
– Existential Hope Futures: Designing positive long-term scenarios
– Funding X: Innovating funding mechanisms for frontier technologies
– Life Unlimited: Extending human potential beyond current limits
– Nanotechnology: Building the future atom by atom
– Neurotechnology: Expanding cognitive capabilities
– Now What? Pathways to implementation

​CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
• Jacques Carolan (ARIA), moderator, Neurotechnology track
• Barbara Diehl (SPRIND), co-moderator, Now What? Pathways to implementation track
• Ed Boyden (MIT) on biologically accurate brain simulation
• Greg Wayne (Google DeepMind) on universal AI assistants
• Jano Costard (SPRIND) on challenges as a tool for breakthrough innovation
• Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on Foresight, 40 years later
• Dorothy Chou (Google DeepMind) on capital for the long game: financing durable innovation in an age of hype
• Irina Rish (Mila) on ‘beyond scaling’
• Chris Rozell (Georgia Tech) on closed-loop neuroengineering: algorithms that learn from the brain in real time
• Mehmet Fisek (Meridial) on Focused Research Organisation mission and setup
• Zoë Brammer (Google DeepMind) on AI for science 2030
• João Pedro de Magalhães (University of Birmingham) on hacking aging biology
• Sergey Stavisky (UC Davis) on high-bandwidth BCIs for motor and communication recovery in people with paralysis
• Ronit Kanwar (Renaissance Philanthropy) on igniting a 21st century renaissance
• Adam Shai (Simplex AI Safety) on the neural basis of intelligent behavior
• Marius Hobbhahn (Apollo Research) on AI scheming
• Jerzy Szablowski (Rice University) on precision neuromodulation through molecular engineering and focused ultrasound
• Anders Sandberg (Institute for Future Studies) on Dyson 2070: how fast can we build a Dyson sphere and how stable are they?
• Jakub Lala (Nucleate) on computational protein design for the next-generation of therapeutics
• Keith Patarroyo (Université de Montréal) on open-endedness, the final goalpost of AI
• Alberto Privitera (Università degli Studi di Firenze) on light-driven molecular spin qubits: toward room-temperature quantum technologies
• Kiril Eves (e184)
• Leah Morris (Pillar VC)
• Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow)

VIP EVENTS
With the All Access Pass you get the full Vision Weekend experience with invitations to VIP gatherings with our speakers, grantees, Fellows, and sponsors spanning all three days.
Get tickets: https://foresight.org/events/vision-weekend-uk-2026/

Powered by: Apollo Research, Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), Cambridge University Health Partners, e184, Renaissance Philanthropy, SPRIND, and And-Now.