techUK: Tech and Innovation Summit 2026

Innovation Nation: From Breakthrough to Breakout

techUK’s fourth annual Tech and Innovation Summit follows a single idea the whole way: out of the lab, built and sold at home, and grown into a company that stays here while it wins customers worldwide. Over a day of keynotes, fireside chats, panel discussions and debates, founders, investors, researchers and policymakers will work through where the UK captures the value of its ideas, where it loses that value and what it would take to turn this around. Throughout, they will explore the technologies set to underpin the next decade of innovation, including AI, quantum, robotics, semiconductors and photonics.

Secure your ticket to:

• Hear keynotes and fireside chats from senior voices in government, research and industry on how to keep more of the UK’s innovation at home
• Follow a breakthrough through every stage in a single day, from discovery and build to market and scale, with expert panels across quantum, robotics and physical AI, semiconductors and more
• Sit in on two debates around some of the sector’s biggest unanswered questions: should government back winners, and does it matter who ends up owning our companies?
• Meet the founders, investors, researchers and policymakers who decide whether the UK’s ideas stay in the UK
• Leave with a sharper sense of where the UK wins and loses the value of its ideas, and what to do about it