AI for Science: From Pre-Seed to Breakthrough.
An evening at Venture Café London, presented in partnership with Thinking About Thinking, on how artificial intelligence is reshaping the conduct of science: hypothesis generation, simulation, drug discovery, materials design.
The programme convened AI-for-Science startups, researchers, and investors across two focused panels and an innovation showcase. The aim was, more modestly, to examine what it takes to build technically rigorous and commercially viable AI-for-Science companies in the present funding environment.
The evening took place at Venture Café, 1 Triton Square, London NW1 3BF, on 2 April 2026 from 17:30 to 21:00 BST. Registration is now closed.
- 18:00 – 19:00Networking, refreshments, Innovation Showcase
- 19:00 – 19:10Opening remarks
- 19:10 – 19:35Panel I — Pre-Raise AI for Science
- 19:35 – 20:00Panel II — Post-Raise AI for Science
- 20:00 – 21:00Networking and close
- Dr James WhittingtonThinking About Thinking · Oxford
- Dr Ruairidh BattledayThinking About Thinking
- Bruno TrentiniNVIDIA · Oxford
- Iman MouloudiRenaissance Philanthropy
- Dan NicolauKing's College London
- Jascha AchterbergCallosum
- Eva SevensterUniversity of Bristol
- Kärt TombergExpressionEdits
- Tonya FrolovBiotech Strategy Advisor
- Botos CsabaOxford
- Sam OlofmeRevena
- Inga Van den BosscheOxford
ARIA · NVIDIA · University of Oxford · Renaissance Philanthropy · King's Institute for AI · ENCODE · UCL AI Society