Vision Weekend United Kingdom

​Join our first-ever Vision Weekend in the United Kingdom!

​This luma event is a placeholder: in order to join the event, please purchase your ticket via the event page: https://foresight.org/events/vision-weekend-uk-2026

​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

​What to expect

​The program combines:

• ​Keynotes from leading researchers and technologists

• ​Expert office hours and focused small-group discussions

• ​1:1 connections and informal collaboration spaces

• ​Immersive experiences and live technology demonstrations

​We will also award a $10,000 grant to a project advancing the frontiers of science.

​Confirmed speakers

• ​Ed Boyden (MIT)

• ​Moxie Marlinspike (Confer) on private AI

• ​Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow)

• ​Irina Rish (Mila) on beyond scaling: toward continual and adaptive intelligence

• ​Greg Wayne (Google DeepMind) on universal AI assistants

• ​Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on Foresight, 40 years later

• ​Marius Hobbhahn (Apollo Research) on the case for AGI safety products

• ​Anders Sandberg (Institute for Future Studies) on Dyson 2070: how fast can we build a Dyson sphere and how stable are they?

• ​João Pedro de Magalhães (University of Birmingham) on hacking aging biology

• ​Dorothy Chou (Google DeepMind) on capital for the long game: financing durable innovation in an age of hype

• ​Sergey Stavisky (UC Davis) on high-bandwidth BCIs for motor and communication recovery in people with paralysis

• ​Žiga Avsec (Google DeepMind) on advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome

• ​Christopher Rozell (Georgia Tech) on closed-loop neuroengineering: algorithms that learn from the brain in real time

• ​Jerzy Szablowski (Rice University) on precision neuromodulation through molecular engineering and focused ultrasound

• ​Lynne Cox (University of Oxford)

• ​Jonah Weinbaum (Institute for Progress) on the 'launch sequence': towards a concrete agenda for defensive acceleration

• ​Peter Gehle (Tübingen AI Institute)

• ​Joe Meyerowitz (Field Foundry) fireside chat

• ​Kathleen Fisher (ARIA)

• ​Mehmet Fisek (Meridial)

• ​Jano Costard (SPRIND) on challenges as a tool for breakthrough innovation

• ​Ronit Kanwar (Renaissance Philanthropy) on fuelling scientific renaissances

• ​Adam Shai (Simplex AI Safety) on the neural basis of intelligent behavior

• ​Zoë Brammer (Google DeepMind) on AI for science 2030

• ​Leah Morris (Pillar VC) on AI for science

• ​Kirill Eves (e184)

• ​Eric Gilliam (Renaissance Philanthropy), moderator Funding X track

• ​Jacques Carolan (ARIA), moderator, Neurotechnology track

• ​Barbara Diehl (SPRIND), co-moderator, Now What? Pathways to Implementation track

​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/

​Note: Registering on Luma does not give you entry to Vision Weekend UK. A ticket purchase via our website is required to attend.

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