London Tech Week 2026: AI, AGI, Quantum Computing, and the Next Frontier of Deep Tech

How LTW 2026 Is Structured: Two Worlds, Six Stages

London Tech Week 2026 is built around a simple idea: the industry now runs on two parallel but interdependent engines — the enterprise organisations trying to modernise at scale, and the startup frontier pushing into what comes next. Enterprise World is where senior leaders confront the strategic decisions they can no longer postpone. The AI Arena anchors the programme with three days that move from vision to implementation to full‑scale organisational reinvention. The Core Stage tackles the infrastructure layer (cloud, cybersecurity, data, and quantum) that determines whether transformation succeeds or stalls. And the Transformation Stage brings the conversation down to the operational level, where finance, sales, marketing, and customer teams are already feeling the pressure of technological change. This is the world for leaders who need to make decisions that affect thousands of people, not just product roadmaps.

Running alongside it is Startup World which is wired for experimentation. The Founders Stage distils the lived experience of entrepreneurs who have taken companies from zero to unicorn. The Ignition Stage showcases the UK’s most promising early‑stage talent through the Tech Nation Rising Stars Final, giving investors and corporates a direct line to the next generation of breakout companies. And the Deep Tech Stage pushes even further out into space, robotics, materials science, life sciences, defence, and planet tech. Together, the two worlds form a single ecosystem: one that lets enterprise leaders see what’s coming and gives founders a clear view of what the market actually needs.

The Nine Themes Shaping the 2026 Agenda

The 2026 agenda is built around nine themes that reflect the pressure points every senior leader is now navigating. Each theme captures a different dimension of business and technological reality.

Applied AI and Responsible AGI

Implementing AI at scale now requires leaders to balance acceleration with accountability. The challenge is no longer whether AI can deliver value, but how to deploy increasingly powerful systems responsibly when their behaviours, failure modes, and emergent capabilities are not yet fully understood. This theme examines the organisational shift from experimentation to enterprise‑wide AI deployment, the governance models needed to manage AGI‑level systems, and the frameworks that help leaders build trust, safety, and transparency into technologies that evolve faster than policy or regulation. It’s about designing oversight that scales with capability, ensuring that innovation doesn’t outpace the guardrails required to protect customers, employees, and society. 

Enterprise Growth and Resilience

Building growth and resilience in 2026 means preparing the enterprise for a world where intelligent systems operate autonomously, data moves to the edge, and threats evolve faster than legacy defences. Leaders are now expected to integrate agentic AI into workflows, redesign architectures around edge computing, and strengthen next‑generation cybersecurity as a core pillar of competitiveness. This theme explores how organisations can future‑proof themselves by modernising infrastructure, accelerating automation, and building operational resilience that can withstand volatility — technological, economic, and geopolitical. It’s about treating resilience not as risk mitigation, but as a strategic advantage that determines which companies scale and which fall behind. 

The Next Frontier in Deep Tech

Breakthroughs across space technology, robotics, defence systems, advanced materials, and life sciences are accelerating at a pace that outstrips most boardroom planning cycles. What once sat on the horizon is now entering commercial reality, forcing leaders to rethink how they evaluate scientific risk, allocate capital, and build organisational readiness for technologies that can redefine entire industries. This theme explores how frontier science moves into market deployment, how companies can build early exposure to deep‑tech innovation, and why traditional strategy models struggle when breakthroughs emerge faster than governance structures can adapt. It’s a call for boards to expand their time horizons, upgrade their technical literacy, and prepare for a decade where the competitive edge comes from understanding technologies that were, until recently, considered speculative. 

The Foundations of AI Infrastructure

Every credible AI strategy rests on an invisible layer of compute, cloud, and data infrastructure that determines how far and how fast an organisation can scale intelligent systems. As models grow more capable and workloads become more demanding, leaders must rethink capacity planning, cost structures, and architectural choices. This theme examines the shift toward high‑performance compute, the redesign of cloud environments for AI‑native workloads. 

Unicorns’ Lessons in Scaling and Success

The companies that broke through to unicorn scale weren’t simply the fastest or the most well‑funded; they were the ones that made the hardest decisions at exactly the right moments. This theme looks at the inflexion points that determined who scaled and what worked. It explores how founders built their unicorns and what they have learned along the way. 

Quantum Futures

This theme is about quantum computing that is perceived not as a distant horizon but as a near‑term force multiplier for finance, healthcare, logistics, and national security. The question is no longer “if” quantum will matter, but who will be ready when it does. Quantum technologies are moving from theoretical promise to practical impact, forcing leaders to reassess how computation, security, and industry‑specific workflows will operate in a post‑quantum world. 

The UK/Europe at the Centre of Global Tech

Within this theme, leaders will look at the region’s position in global innovation, funding, and policy. Europe has the talent, the research depth, and the regulatory influence to lead, but it also faces the risk of losing momentum to faster‑moving ecosystems. This theme confronts that tension directly.

Startups Redefining the Future

This theme explores how early‑stage founders are leveraging AI‑native product models, breakthroughs in deep‑tech research, and radically efficient go‑to‑market strategies to outpace traditional players. It highlights where new markets are forming, how capital is shifting toward frontier‑driven startups, and why the companies that will dominate the 2030s are being shaped right now by teams moving faster than regulatory cycles, procurement processes, or legacy infrastructure can keep up. 

Human Impact and National Security

The theme explores how AI, quantum compute, deep tech, and agentic systems trigger societal challenges, reshaping, for instance workforce market. For business leaders and policy makers, these are real challenges that influence their everyday decisions. 

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Some Speakers

London Tech Week 2026 brings together one of the most extensive and diverse speaker line‑ups. The official roster spans approximately 400 founders, CEOs, researchers, policymakers, and investors across AI, AGI, quantum computing, fintech, climate tech, robotics, and the broader deep‑tech ecosystem. The sheer scale of the list makes it impossible to spotlight every influential voice without turning this article into a directory. Instead, the following section highlights a curated set of leaders whose work exemplifies the frontier themes shaping LTW 2026—from generative‑AI breakthroughs to quantum acceleration and science‑driven innovation.

Mati Staniszewski 

Founder & Managing Partner, Evantic Capital

Mati Staniszewski is the Co‑Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the AI research and product company building next‑generation audio technology for businesses, developers, and creators. ElevenLabs operates two core platforms: one for generative speech, music, and sound, and another for voice agents that can listen, converse, and take action, enabling entirely new forms of human–machine interaction.

A scientist‑minded entrepreneur, Mati leads the company’s vision, research direction, and product strategy as ElevenLabs becomes a foundational layer for audio‑first experiences across entertainment, accessibility, education, and enterprise applications.

Before founding ElevenLabs, Mati worked at Palantir as a Deployment Strategist, partnering with Fortune 500 companies and government organisations on complex data and operational challenges. Earlier, at BlackRock, he helped launch the Aladdin Wealth platform, contributing to one of the world’s most widely used financial‑technology systems. Mati’s work sits at the intersection of AI, audio, and agentic systems, driving forward a future where voice becomes a primary interface for technology.

Session: ‘The Future of Human‑Technology Interaction.’

Aravind Srinivas 

Co-Founder & CEO, Perplexity

Aravind Srinivas is the CEO and Co‑Founder of Perplexity, the AI‑powered answer engine delivering more than 10 billion secure and accurate answers each year to consumers, enterprises, finance professionals, publishers, students, and decision‑makers worldwide. He leads the company’s vision, research direction, and product strategy as Perplexity builds a new paradigm for information retrieval—one grounded in transparency, accuracy, and real‑time reasoning. Before founding Perplexity, Aravind was a research scientist at OpenAI, Google, and DeepMind, where he contributed to foundational advances in modern AI systems. His work spans large‑scale language models, deep learning, and cutting‑edge research that now underpins many of the field’s most important breakthroughs.

Aravind is backed by a network of world‑class investors and advisors, including leading research scientists, top venture firms, and founders of some of the most transformational technology companies of the past decade. He holds a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras—a technical foundation that informs his approach to building rigorous, research‑driven AI products at a global scale.

Session: ‘AI is the Computer.’  

Fabian Hedin

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Lovable

Fabian Hedin is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology leader with a track record of founding and scaling innovative software companies. As Co‑Founder of Lovable, Founder and CEO of Tentium, and Founder and CTO of TenFAST, he has demonstrated a strong ability to drive both business growth and technical advancement across multiple ventures. His work spans AI‑native product development, high‑performance engineering, and the creation of tools that streamline and accelerate modern software workflows.

Fabian’s earlier roles as Frontend Lead at Depict and Full‑Stack Engineer at CurbFood further highlight his end‑to‑end technical depth. From architecting complex systems to leading engineering teams, he has built a reputation for combining strong product intuition with rigorous execution—skills that now underpin his leadership across his portfolio of companies.

Session: "Empowering the 99% in the Age of the Builder”.          

Alex Kendall

Founder & CEO, Wayve

​Alex Kendall is the co‑founder and CEO of Wayve, the company pushing autonomous driving into its next era with embodied AI. Since 2017, he has turned Wayve into one of the fastest‑growing global forces in autonomy.

A world‑leading expert in AI and robotics, Alex earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge, where his breakthrough research pioneered end‑to‑end learning for self‑driving—an approach that replaces brittle maps with adaptable, general‑purpose driving intelligence.

As CEO, he drives Wayve’s strategy and partnerships, steering the rollout of its embodied AI software across millions of vehicles. His contributions have earned him a place on Forbes 30 Under 30 and an OBE in 2025 for services to AI.

Sessions: “From UK Innovation to Global Roads: How Wayve's Embodied AI Is Shaping the Future of Autonomous Vehicles” and “In conversation with Alex Kendall: When Vision Meets Venture”

​Adam Jay

CEO, Vinted Marketplace  

Adam Jay joined Vinted in February 2022 as CEO of Vinted Marketplace, where he leads the company’s mission to make second‑hand the first choice worldwide. He oversees Vinted’s marketplace strategy, product evolution, and international growth, guiding the platform as it expands its role in the circular economy and reshapes how millions of people buy and sell pre‑loved items.

Before joining Vinted, Adam spent nearly a decade in senior leadership roles at Expedia Group and its group company Hotels.com, where he helped scale one of the world’s largest online travel businesses. His earlier career includes leadership positions at Avis and Travelport, giving him deep experience across global travel, digital marketplaces, and customer‑centric product innovation. He began his career at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he worked across strategy and transformation projects for multinational clients.

Adam holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD, grounding his leadership in both analytical rigor and global business insight.

Session: 'How Vinted is Making Second-hand the First Choice Worldwide'    

​Winston Weinberg

Co-Founder & CEO, Harvey  

​Winston Weinberg is the CEO and Co‑Founder of Harvey, the leading professional‑services platform engineered with AI for law, tax, and finance. He oversees Harvey’s product vision, strategy, and expansion as the company builds next‑generation AI systems designed to transform how the world’s most sophisticated professional organisations work.

Before founding Harvey in August 2022, Winston was an attorney at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he specialised in antitrust and securities litigation. His experience advising clients on complex, high‑stakes matters gave him a deep understanding of the analytical, research‑intensive workflows that underpin legal and financial services—insights that now shape Harvey’s product and technology roadmap.

Winston earned his J.D. from the USC Gould School of Law, where he contributed to the Southern California Law Review, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College. His career reflects a rare blend of legal expertise, product vision, and entrepreneurial execution, positioning him at the forefront of AI‑driven transformation in professional services.

Session: 'Reshaping the Legal Landscape with AI'          

Will Marshall    

Co-Founder & CEO, Planet                              

Will Marshall is a physicist‑turned‑entrepreneur and the Chairman, Co‑Founder, and CEO of Planet, the San‑Francisco–based satellite and Earth data company he co‑founded in 2010 with Chris Boshuizen and Robbie Schingler. A pioneer in Earth observation and space technology, he has led Planet from its origins in a garage to a publicly traded company with more than 800 employees, building the world’s largest fleet of Earth‑imaging satellites.

A physicist by training, Marshall brings deep technical expertise and a track record of building high‑performance engineering teams. At Planet, he oversees the company’s vision, product direction, and business strategy, steering its work as a Public Benefit Corporation committed to “accelerating humanity toward a more sustainable and secure world.”

Before founding Planet, Marshall was a Scientist at NASA/USRA, where he played a central role in shaping the Small Spacecraft Office at NASA Ames Research Center. His NASA work included serving as a systems engineer on the LADEE lunar orbiter mission, contributing to the LCROSS lunar impactor mission science team, acting as Co‑Principal Investigator on PhoneSat, and leading technical research on space debris remediation, all early demonstrations of his belief in agile, low‑cost, high‑impact space systems.

Marshall’s leadership and influence have been recognized globally. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serves on the board of the Open Lunar Foundation, reflecting his long‑standing commitment to responsible and sustainable space development.

He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester. He later completed postdoctoral fellowships at George Washington University and Harvard, grounding his entrepreneurial work in rigorous scientific research.

Session: 'Planet-Scale Intelligence: How Daily Earth Imaging Is Rewiring Climate, Security and Industry'        

Miki Kuusi

CEO, Deliveroo

Miki Kuusi is the CEO of Deliveroo and Head of DoorDash International, overseeing the company’s global strategy, operations, and expansion across more than 40 countries. He previously served as the Co‑Founder and CEO of Wolt, the Helsinki‑based technology company he launched in 2014 with a mission to bring joy, simplicity, and earnings to neighbourhoods around the world. Under his leadership, Wolt grew from a small Nordic startup into one of Europe’s fastest‑scaling technology companies, known for its product excellence, operational discipline, and distinctive culture.

Wolt joined forces with DoorDash in 2022, creating one of the world’s largest local commerce platforms. In 2025, the company further expanded by joining Deliveroo, with Miki stepping into the role of CEO to lead the combined organisation’s next chapter of growth. Today, he is responsible for unifying product, technology, and market operations across regions, while driving innovation in logistics, marketplace efficiency, and consumer experience.

Before founding Wolt, Miki played a central role in Finland’s startup ecosystem. He was part of the founding team of Slush—one of the world’s leading tech conferences—where he served as CEO and helped transform it from a local gathering into a globally recognised platform for entrepreneurship. His work at Slush contributed to positioning Helsinki as a vibrant European tech hub.

Session: 'From Algorithms to Autonomous Delivery: Bringing Innovative AI Tech to Small Business' 

Max Junestrand    

Co-Founder & CEO, Legora          

Max Junestrand is the CEO and Co‑Founder of Legora, the world’s first truly collaborative AI workspace built specifically for legal professionals. Today, Legora serves more than 500 customers across over 50 markets, enabling lawyers, in‑house teams, and legal operations leaders to work faster, more creatively, and with dramatically greater accuracy.

Under Max’s leadership, Legora has become one of the most closely watched companies in the legal‑tech ecosystem. The company is backed by many of the world’s leading venture firms—including Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Benchmark, Redpoint Ventures, and Y Combinator—and powered by a world‑class team of engineers, product builders, and lawyers working together to redefine how legal work gets done.

Max is driving a new era of productivity, creativity, and accessibility in the legal industry by championing AI tools that are not only powerful, but collaborative, transparent, and designed for real‑world legal workflows. His work sits at the intersection of advanced AI, professional services, and global regulatory transformation, positioning Legora as a foundational platform for the future of legal work.

Session: 'In Conversation with Max Junestrand | What It Really Took to Get Legora Off The Ground'          

Clay Bavor    

Co-Founder, Sierra            

​Clay Bavor is the Co‑Founder of Sierra, a company dedicated to helping businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. A visionary product leader and technologist, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he led some of the company’s most ambitious and forward‑looking initiatives.

As Head of Google Labs, he oversaw teams exploring the future of computing, including breakthroughs in augmented and virtual reality, Project Starline’s next‑generation communication technology, and the computer‑vision intelligence behind Google Lens. Earlier in his career, Clay led the product and design organisations responsible for Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Apps for Enterprise (now Workspace), shaping productivity tools used by billions of people around the world. He also contributed to foundational Google products, including Search and core advertising technologies.

Today, as CEO of Sierra, Clay is focused on redefining how organisations interact with customers through AI systems that are more capable, more intuitive, and more aligned with human needs. His work sits at the intersection of advanced AI, product design, and the future of human‑computer interaction—continuing a career defined by building technologies that meaningfully change how people communicate, collaborate, and work.

Session: 'Redefining Customer Experience Through Intelligent AI'  

James Wise    

Partner, Balderton Capital

James is a Partner at Balderton, a multistage venture firm with more than 25 years of experience backing Europe’s most ambitious founders from seed through IPO. He has been a venture investor for 15 years and became a Partner at Balderton in 2016. James invests across geographies and stages, with a particular focus on applications and models in AI, energy, and health, and works closely with a wide range of portfolio companies.

His investment track record includes companies such as Convergence (acquired by Salesforce), Sophia Genetics (Nasdaq: SOPH), GoCardless (acquired by Mollie), Depop (acquired by Etsy), Writer, Tibber, and Quantum Systems. Over his career, he has been involved in the sale and IPO of more than a dozen companies, supporting founders through every phase of growth and capital formation.

Before joining Balderton, James helped launch and run one of the UK’s first social venture funds. He has worked with entrepreneurs and businesses across Europe and Africa, and earlier in his career served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising global organisations on strategy and transformation.

James also serves as Chair of the UK Government’s Sovereign AI Fund, where he contributes to national strategy on critical AI infrastructure. In addition, he is a member of the investment committee at Christ Church, Oxford, supporting long‑term stewardship of the college’s endowment.

Session: 'AI for Global Impact: Solving the Defining Challenges of Our Time'

Alex Van Sommeren    

Honorary Professor of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Former Chief Scientific Adviser, National Security, UK, Former Managing Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners, Executive Chair, Photonic Inc.            

​Alex van Someren FREng FIET is a British engineer and cybersecurity expert who has played a defining role in the UK’s technology, venture capital, and national security landscape. He is currently the Executive Chair of Photonic, Inc., a Vancouver‑based quantum computing company advancing the next generation of scalable, fault‑tolerant quantum systems.

Alex began his career at Acorn Computer in the 1980s, where he contributed to the development of the BBC Microcomputer and the Acorn Electron, two landmark systems that helped shape the early personal‑computing era. He went on to co‑found several technology companies, including ANT Software plc (AIM: ANTP) and nCipher plc (LSE: NCH)—both of which went public on the London Stock Exchange and were later acquired.

From 2010 to 2021, Alex served as a Managing Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners, focusing on early‑stage investments in deep‑technology companies across the UK and Europe. His work helped catalyse the growth of some of the region’s most innovative startups in cybersecurity, advanced computing, and enterprise software.

In 2021, he was appointed the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security, providing independent scientific and technical advice to the UK Intelligence Agencies and to wider government. During this period, he also served as a consultant to the €1 billion NATO Innovation Fund, supporting strategic decisions on emerging technologies critical to defence and security.

Alex is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and an Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He previously held the role of Clore Innovation Professor at the Royal College of Art, reflecting his long‑standing commitment to bridging engineering, design, and national‑level innovation.

Alexander Trewby

Co-Founder & CEO, Apian

Alexander Trewby is the CEO and Co‑Founder of Apian, a healthcare logistics company using embodied AI to automate medical delivery. Apian orchestrates fleets of drones and ground robots across NHS networks, and has achieved several global firsts—including the world’s first chemotherapy flight and the UK’s first drone delivery of prescription medication—demonstrating how autonomous systems can transform clinical operations and patient care.

Before founding Apian, Alexander spent seven years at Google, where he co‑founded the Consumer Health and Wearable Health teams, helping shape Google’s early strategy at the intersection of health, data, and personal devices. He joined Google following the acquisition of Divide, the enterprise mobility startup he co‑founded, whose technology now secures more than three billion Android devices worldwide.

Earlier in his career, Alexander served as VP of Mobile at Morgan Stanley, leading mobile strategy for one of the world’s largest financial institutions. He also founded Westminster Internet, the consultancy that built the first website for a UK politician in 1996—an early signal of his instinct for emerging platforms and their societal impact.

Today, Alexander is driving Apian’s mission to build a new class of embodied‑AI infrastructure for healthcare, enabling faster, safer, and more resilient medical logistics across the UK and beyond.

Chad Edwards

Co-Founder & CEO, CuspAI              

Dr. Chad Edwards is the Co‑Founder and CEO of CuspAI, a frontier AI lab building systems that accelerate materials discovery. A deep‑tech builder operating at the intersection of advanced research and commercial scale, he holds a PhD in Quantum Chemistry and an MBA, grounding his leadership in both scientific depth and strategic execution.

Before founding CuspAI, Chad was a commercial leader at Cambridge Quantum, where he helped scale the company from 14 to more than 550 employees and guided it through its merger with Honeywell to form Quantinuum, valued at $10B. Earlier in his career, he worked at Google Quantum AI and BASF, gaining experience across quantum computing, industrial R&D, and large‑scale scientific innovation.

At CuspAI, Chad has raised more than $200M from leading investors including NEA, Temasek, and NVIDIA’s N Ventures. He is driving the development of an autonomous discovery engine designed to solve planetary‑scale physical AI challenges across semiconductors, energy, and climate—advancing a new era in how the world invents, tests, and deploys breakthrough materials.

Session: 'Intelligent Matter and the Materials of Tomorrow'

​Matt Miller

Founder & Managing Partner, Evantic Capital

Matt Miller is the Founder and Managing Partner of Evantic Capital, a transatlantic venture firm operating between Silicon Valley and Europe and built to bridge the very best of both ecosystems. Evantic combines deep US innovation roots with exceptional access across Europe and Israel, supported by a unique community of more than 140 top operators and founders known as The Legends. Through Evantic’s distinctive carry‑sharing model, Legends act as genuinely aligned partners—a committed network dedicated to helping portfolio companies win.

Evantic’s early investments include Fireworks, Harvey, ListenLabs, Lovable, N8N, Nexos, Profound, and Synthesia, reflecting the firm’s focus on backing frontier product builders and globally ambitious founders.

Before launching Evantic, Matt spent more than a decade as a Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he founded and co‑led Sequoia’s European office in London and helped shape the firm’s global strategy. His investments at Sequoia include category‑defining companies such as Carbon Black, Confluent, dbt Labs, Docker, Grafana, Hex, Tessian, and n8n, and he played a key role in supporting founders from early traction through breakout scale.

Matt began his career at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, working at the centre of the global technology ecosystem. He speaks fluent Swedish and splits his time between London, Silicon Valley, and the Nordics, considering the BA SFO–LHR route his unofficial home.

Sessions: 'The New Reality of Startup Value and Reshaping the Legal Landscape with AI'         

​Oana Jinga    

Co-Founder & CEO, Dexory                           

Oana Jinga is the CC&PO and Co‑Founder of Dexory, a highly innovative robotics and AI company based in Oxfordshire that is redefining how warehouses operate. She leads the company’s commercial and product strategy, bringing together cutting‑edge robotics, real‑time data, and AI to transform logistics operations end‑to‑end. Under her leadership, Dexory has become a pioneer in autonomous service robotics, delivering measurable business value across every stage of warehouse processes.

With a background spanning strategic partnerships at Google and product innovation at Telefónica, Oana has worked across multiple layers of the technology ecosystem—from global platforms to emerging deep‑tech. She found her sweet spot in designing, developing, and deploying robots that solve real‑world challenges in one of the world’s most complex industries: logistics.

A passionate advocate for responsible innovation, Oana is committed to educating the world on the benefits and ethics of robotics, as well as the importance of building unbiased, transparent AI systems. Her work sits at the intersection of robotics, AI, and industrial transformation, championing a future where intelligent machines augment human capability and unlock new levels of efficiency, safety, and insight.

Jacomo Corbo

Co-Founder & CEO, PhysicsX

Jacomo Corbo is the CEO and Co‑Founder of PhysicsX, a physical AI company on a mission to accelerate industrial innovation and redefine what engineering and manufacturing look like in the age of intelligent simulation. He leads the company’s vision to build AI systems that can reason about the physical world, enabling organisations to design, optimise, and deploy complex industrial technologies at unprecedented speed.

Before founding PhysicsX, Jacomo was the Co‑Founder and Chief Scientist of QuantumBlack and a Partner at McKinsey, where he helped establish one of the world’s leading applied AI organisations. From 2005 to 2008, he served as Chief Race Strategist for the Renault F1 (Alpine) Team, during which the team secured two double world championships, applying advanced analytics and simulation to race‑winning decision‑making.

Jacomo holds a PhD in computer science and a Master’s in applied statistics from Harvard University, as well as a Bachelor’s in electrical engineering from McGill University. He has been a Senior Fellow at Wharton and held the Canada Research Chair in Information Management from 2011 to 2015, reflecting a career that bridges academic excellence, elite performance engineering, and large‑scale AI deployment.

Sessions: 'The Next Wave of AI: Building, Scaling and Winning from the UK' and 'Speed-Running the Next Industrial Revolution: AI, Additive Manufacturing, and the Factories That Build Themselves' 

Conclusion

Looking at the London Tech Week 2026 agenda, it is clear that we have entered a decade defined by AI industrialisation, the rise of agentic systems, the commercial reality of quantum computing, and the acceleration of deep‑tech innovation. But LTW is not only an opportunity for showcasing tech ideas, but first and foremost, it is a platform connecting leaders who must translate technological insights into action.

Across the AI Arena, Core Stage, Transformational Stage,  Founders Stage, Deep Tech Stage and Ignition Stage, the event will provide insights and questions for executives on AI strategy: how to govern AI responsibly, where to invest in infrastructure, how to build exposure to frontier science, and how to prepare teams for a world where intelligent systems operate alongside them. For leaders willing to attend London Tech Week 2026, the event may become not only a huge source of inspiration, knowledge and potential business partners, but also a moment to reset assumptions and confront views in order to eventually align leadership around the new AI-powered reality.

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