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The future is
between us.
A year-round global platform connecting culture, creativity and technology – built across industry sectors and silos, and across borders. The October flagship event is where it ignites.
Contributor spotlight
Alex Schultz
Meta
A physicist who treats growth as an experiment, not an instinct.
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Jodie Eastwood
Knowledge Quarter London
Inside London’s Innovation Hub | Jodie Eastwood on the Future & Why Curiosity Matters
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Flagship event
Future Forum 2026
14-15 October 2026 · King’s Cross, London
Two days of focused discussion, cross-sector sessions, hands-on studios and unforgettable gatherings.
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Event venue
Town Hall by Bottaccio
A building that has never believed its purpose was fixed. What began as a civic hall is now one of London's most unexpected spaces – a room where different people, with different stakes, have always had to find common ground. The best venues, like the best ideas, resist easy categorisation.
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Insights
The weekend London turned code into craft
At the Southbank Centre, Peckham Digital brought together artists, coders, makers and musicians to show what happens when technology stops…
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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
Two days of focused discussion, cross-sector sessions, hands-on studios and unforgettable gatherings.
- 2000+ Delegates
- 150+ Contributors
- 6 Themes
- 4 venues
- 2 days
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Abbey Road Studios
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Liberty
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Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club
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Town Hall by Bottaccio
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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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Elif Shafak
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Systems in Motion
Rt Hon George Osborne CH
OpenAI
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Systems in Motion
Dame Julia Hoggett DBE
London Stock Exchange
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Systems in Motion
Lord Jason Stockwood
Department for Business and Trade and HM Treasury
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Human Upgrades
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE
Neuro-Bio
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Work Reimagined
David Wheldon OBE
World Federation of Advertisers (WFA)
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Press Play
Ben Drury
Yoto
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Work Reimagined
Dame Hayaatun Sillem PhD
Argentic Associates
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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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Work Reimagined
Dr Sharmla Chetty
Duke Corporate Education
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Work Reimagined
Alex Schultz
Meta
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Launched March 2026. Weekly episodes hosted by Oli Barrett MBE and Victoria Usher. Keeping the community engaged all year round.
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New Release
Inside London’s Innovation Hub | Jodie Eastwood on the Future & Why Curiosity Matters
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Universities Are the UK’s Innovation Engine | Vivienne Stern MBE on AI, Skills & the Future of Work
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The Future Needs Human Connection | Martina McDonnell on Marketing, Creativity & Connection
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What Should Young People Change About Education? | The BRIT School Students Shaping Their Future
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The Future Needs Original Thinkers | Stuart Worden OBE on Curiosity, Creativity & Ambition
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The Trillion-Dollar Space Economy Is Just Getting Started | Melissa Quinn on Space & Innovation
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Britain at a Crossroads: Can We Seize the Opportunity? | Steve Rigby on Britain’s Global Future
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How Great Leaders Thrive When Nobody Has the Answers | Marika Auramo on Leadership & Innovation
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Investing in Britain’s Future with Lord Jason Stockwood on Leadership, Investment & Innovation with Lord Jason Stockwood
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How to Stay Healthier for Longer with Dr Sophia Pathai On The Future of Ageing & Prevention with Dr Sophia Pathai
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Can Britain Lead the Renewable Energy Revolution? Jürgen Maier CBE on AI, Energy & Manufacturing with Jürgen Maier CBE
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The Man Behind GOV.UK on AI, Digital Transformation & Why Most Organisations Get UX Wrong with Ben Terrett CBE with Ben Terrett CBE
Why people come to Future Forum.
Luring busy, relevant people into one room is hard as is. Creating an atmosphere that allows them to open up and truly connect with one another, is a whole other level. Future Forum manage to do just that and more.
It’s magic.
In a world where AI is accelerating faster than our ethics can keep up, rooms like this aren’t optional. They’re essential.
Future Forum is a meeting of minds, of right brain and left brain, of artists, entrepreneurs and dreamers. Powerful connections happen and new futures are collectively imagined.
A wonderful, eclectic, rich mix of people who lead and run things, who have the capacity and potential to create and conceive big initiatives and collaborations.
I’m positive about the Future – and even more so when I attend events like this. It’s a space that sparks real connections and curiosity.
What has impressed me so far at Future Forum events is that “leaving your lane” is real and the quality of people mixing is exceptional.
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