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Annual Meeting · 25-27 November 2026 · Friends House, London

AE Global Summit, Open Problems for AI.

Name: AE Global Summit 2026, London. Open Problems for AI
Start: 2026-11-25T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-27T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Friends House

Our Annual Meeting. Three days in London with researchers, engineers, founders, investors and policymakers, working on the open problems in AI.

Summit website: algopreneurship.org ↗Get tickets

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Our annual conference on Open Problems for AI in research, startup and applications.

The Algorithmic Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Summit is Thinking About Thinking’s annual international conference. We bring together researchers, engineers, founders and policymakers to work on how intelligence, artificial, biological and collective, is studied, built and governed.

Talks cover artificial intelligence, machine learning, neuroscience, computer science, mathematics and cognitive science, and how these systems affect institutions, culture and work.

Speakers bring open problems and disagreements, not finished answers.

The Summit Website

algopreneurship.org

The summit has its own website. Go there for more on the programme, speakers and venue.

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Friends House, London · 25-27 November 2026

Tickets · Open

Wednesday, 25 November 2026 to Friday, 27 November 2026

Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd., London NW1 2BJ, UK

All three days

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2026 Speaker Lineup

Confirmed speakers for London 2026. We'll add more as the programme is finalised.

Dr Pushmeet Kohli

Google DeepMind

Prof Tim Rocktäschel

Recursive and UCL

Prof Zoubin Ghahramani

VP of Research, Google DeepMind

Prof Stuart Russell

UC Berkeley

Dr Ed Hughes

Inherent

Dr Katja Hofmann

Microsoft

Prof Jakob Foerster

BOLD and Oxford

Prof David Barber

SOFAIR

Prof Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Carnegie Mellon University

Dr Danyal Akarca

Callosum

Dr Vassia Simaiaki

Wayve

Dr Jonathan Richard Schwarz

Reuters

Talfan Evans

Cursive

Dr Leon Chlon

Hassana Labs and PhysicsX

Tobias Halloran

NVIDIA

Dr Artemis Seaford

Formerly ElevenLabs

Prof Skyler Wang

McGill

Prof Oana-Maria Camburu

Imperial College London

Carles Reina

Baobab Ventures

Kriti Sharma

IFS Nexus Black

Ash Ramrachia

Dwelly

Antonia Kerle

BBC

Gabriele Papievyte

XTX Markets

Carina Namih

Plural

Patrick Gilday

UCL x NVIDIA

Dr Trias Gkikopoulos

Innovate UK

Dr Jakob Mökander

General Catalyst

Mandeep Singh

Angel investor

Dr Philip Lorenz

Basecamp Research

Dr Hannah Madan

Prima Mente

Dr Kärt Tomberg

ExpressionEdits

Dr Tonya Frolov

Gathered.Bio

Inga Van den Bossche

University of Oxford

Dr Iman Mouloudi

Renaissance Philanthropy

Prof Houman Ashrafian

Weatherden

Lottie O'Brien Gore

Basecamp Research

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Pre-seed to Series A AI companies, UK based or in London on 26 and 27 November. Six finalists pitch on the main stage on Fri 27 November. The winner takes £5,000.

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Call for side events. Host your own event, now to 27 November. Tell us by 6 November.

Ambassadors and Fellows can host their own event around the Summit. Approved events go on the ambassador Luma calendar. Tell us by Fri 6 November.

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Programme

Day 1

Wednesday 25 November

Session AI Research Breakthroughs
08:40 to 09:00
Opening remarks
- Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
  Thinking About Thinking
09:00 to 09:30
Keynote
- Prof James Whittington
  Thinking About Thinking and Oxford
09:30 to 10:00
Fireside chat: AI that discovers
- Chair
  Prof James Whittington
  Thinking About Thinking and Oxford
- Guest
  Dr Pushmeet Kohli
  Google DeepMind
10:00 to 10:30
Break
10:30 to 11:00
Keynote
- Prof Tim Rocktäschel
  Recursive
11:00 to 11:30
Keynote
- Dr Ed Hughes
  Inherent
11:30 to 12:00
Panel: RSI yet?
- Chair
  Prof James Whittington
  Thinking About Thinking and Oxford
- Prof Tim Rocktäschel
  Recursive
- Dr Ed Hughes
  Inherent
12:00 to 13:00
Lunch
13:00 to 13:30
Keynote
- Prof Jakob Foerster
  Oxford and BOLD
13:30 to 14:00
Keynote
- Prof Zoubin Ghahramani
  Google DeepMind
14:00 to 14:30
Keynote
- Dr Katja Hofmann
  Microsoft
Session Building AI Labs
14:30 to 15:00
Panel: How to build a world-class AI research lab
- Chair
  Dr Felix Sosa
  Prior Computers
- Prof Jonathan Richard Schwarz
  Imperial
- Dr Vassia Simaiaki
  Wayve
- Dr Leon Chlon
  Hassana Labs
- Prof Oana-Maria Camburu
  Imperial
15:00 to 15:30
Break
Session AI Infrastructure
15:30 to 16:00
Keynote
- Dr Danyal Akarca
  Callosum
16:00 to 16:30
Panel: AWS x NVIDIA AI Infra Session
- Chair
  Dr Andy Grant
  NVIDIA
- Panellists coming soon
16:30
End of the day's sessions

Day 2

Thursday 26 November

Session AI x Safety
09:00 to 09:30
Introductory remarks
- Dr Artemis Seaford
  Formerly ElevenLabs
09:30 to 10:00
Keynote
- Prof Stuart Russell
  UC Berkeley
10:00 to 10:30
Keynote
- Speaker coming soon
10:30 to 11:00
Break
11:00 to 11:30
Keynote
- Prof Atoosa Kasirzadeh
  Google DeepMind
11:30 to 12:00
Panel: Who should get to decide that AI is safe enough to deploy? On what bases?
- Chair
  Dr Artemis Seaford
  Formerly ElevenLabs
- Prof Skyler Wang
  McGill and Meta
- More speakers coming soon
12:00 to 13:00
Lunch
Session AI x Enterprise
13:00 to 13:30
Fireside chat: The new world of business
- Chair
  Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
  Thinking About Thinking
- Guest
  Carles Reina
  Formerly ElevenLabs
- Guest
  Dr Talfan Evans
  Cursive
13:30 to 14:00
Panel: How to outcompete with AI
- Chair
  Nicolay Hagen
  Varden
- Kriti Sharma
  IFS Nexus Black
- Ash Ramrachia
  Dwelly
- Szymon Rybczak
  Tester
14:00 to 14:30
Break
Session AI x Society
14:30 to 15:00
Keynote
- Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
  Thinking About Thinking
15:00 to 15:30
Fireside chat: The post-agentic world
- Chair
  Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
  Thinking About Thinking
- Guest
  Mystery guest
15:30 to 16:00
Panel: AI x Human Flourishing
- Chair
  Prof Kevin Loi-Heng
  Avalon Insights
- Antonia Kerle
  BBC
- More speakers coming soon
18:00
Patrons Reception

Day 3

Friday 27 November

Session AI x Entrepreneurship
09:30 to 10:00
Fireside chat: The UK's AI ecosystem
- Chair
  Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
  Thinking About Thinking
- Guest
  Tobias Halloran
  NVIDIA
10:00 to 10:30
Panel: How to build a trillion-pound AI company
- Chair
  Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
  Thinking About Thinking
- Dr Jakob Mökander
  General Catalyst
- Prof David Barber
  SOFAIR
- Mandeep Singh
  Angel investor
- Gabriele Papievyte
  XTX Markets
10:30 to 11:00
Break
11:00 to 12:00
Spotlight talks from our AI Startup Competition finalists
Six finalists. The competition is open for applications.
- Presenter
  Rupert Elston
  London AI Hub
- Presenter
  Alexandre Béliard
  Google Cloud Startups
- Startup Competition Finalist
- Startup Competition Finalist
- Startup Competition Finalist
- Startup Competition Finalist
- Startup Competition Finalist
- Startup Competition Finalist
12:00 to 12:05
Backing radical ideas and startups
- Dr Trias Gkikopoulos
  Innovate UK
12:05 to 14:00
Lunch and Startup Expo
Startup booths, partner stands and VC office hours, with private rooms where founders meet investors.
Session AI x Biology
14:00 to 14:30
Keynote
- Dr Philip Lorenz
  Basecamp Research
14:30 to 15:00
Panel: Moonshots in AI x Biology
- Chair
  Dr Lottie O'Brien Gore
  Basecamp Research
- Dr Kärt Tomberg
  ExpressionEdits
- Dr Inga Van den Bossche
  University of Oxford
- More speakers coming soon
15:00 to 15:30
Break
Session AI x Medicine
15:30 to 16:00
Keynote
- Speaker coming soon
16:00 to 16:30
Panel: Moonshots in AI x Medicine
- Chair
  Prof Dan Nicolau Jr
  King's College London
- Dr Hannah Madan
  Prima Mente
- Prof Houman Ashrafian
  Weatherden
- Dr Iman Mouloudi
  Renaissance Philanthropy
- Dr Tonya Frolov
  Gathered.Bio

Summit Organisers

Director of Thinking About Thinking

Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday BMBCh (Oxon) PhD

Dr Ruairidh Battleday is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher and founder working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, neuroscience and mathematics.

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Director of Thinking About Thinking

Professor James Whittington BMBCh (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)

Professor James Whittington is a computational neuroscientist and AI researcher working at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and mathematics.

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Logistics

Dates25-27 November 2026

CityLondon

FormatIn person, three full days, with selected sessions streamed online

AudienceResearchers, engineers, founders, investors, policymakers, students

Past Speakers

Some of the people who have spoken at previous Summits. Full programmes for each year are under Past Editions below.