Six themes. One rule. Leave your lane.
Not organised around industries, but around the six themes reshaping every one of them.
Living Planet
The energy transition isn't just an engineering problem. It's a design problem, a policy problem, a finance problem. This theme brings together the people who each hold a different piece of the answer.
Press Play
Culture doesn't just reflect the future, it rehearses it. Gaming, film, fashion, and live performance have always been early warning systems for where society is heading. This theme asks who's paying attention.
Making & Materials
The factory floor and the laboratory are converging. Bio-innovation, digital fabrication, and advanced materials are rewriting the rules of production – and the most interesting breakthroughs are happening at the edges between disciplines.
Human Upgrades
Longer lives and enhanced performance raise questions that medicine alone can't answer. This theme brings together clinicians, technologists, ethicists, and athletes to ask what we actually want when we say we want to live better.
Work Reimagined
The question isn't whether AI will change how we work, it's whether the people designing that change understand what work is actually for. This theme explores the human side of the productivity revolution.
Systems in Motion
Infrastructure used to be invisible. Now it's political, contested, and increasingly the thing that determines who wins. This theme examines the networks that underpin everything – and the people redesigning them from the outside in.
The future is between us. Future Forum 2026
Three days of focused discussion, cross-sector sessions, hands-on studios and unforgettable gatherings.
- 2000+ Delegates
- 150+ Contributors
- 6 Themes
- 4 venues
- 3 days
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Venue
Town Hall by Bottaccio
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Venue
Abbey Road Studios
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Venue
Ronnie Scott's
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Venue
Liberty
150+ people leaving their lane.
Not organised by industry. Not sorted by seniority. Chosen because they’re willing to step outside their own field, and because of what happens when they do.
Leaders, founders, scientists, policymakers and creators. Each one bringing a world outside their own.
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Press Play
Ajaz Ahmed MBE
Studio.One / AKQA
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Human Upgrades
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE
Neuro-Bio
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Press Play
Ben Drury
Yoto
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Work Reimagined
Dame Hayaatun Sillem PhD
Argentic Associations
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Work Reimagined
Dr Amelia Peterson
London Interdisciplinary School
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Human Upgrades
Dr Raghib Ali OBE
Our Future Health
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Press Play
Dr Sarah Nicolls
First Light Pianos / King’s College London
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Work Reimagined
Dr Sharmla Chetty
Duke Corporate Education
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