A year-round global platform connecting culture, creativity and technology – built across industry sectors and silos, and across borders. The October summit is where it ignites.


The future is
between us.

The best ideas rarely stay in their lane.

The challenges shaping our future don’t belong to one industry. And neither do the answers. Future Forum brings different people, perspectives and possibilities together to make unexpected connections and find better ways forward.

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

Flagship Event 2026 13-15 October 2026 · King’s Cross, London

Three days of focused discussion, cross-sector sessions, hands-on studios and unforgettable gatherings.

  • 2000+ Delegates
  • 150+ Contributors
  • 6 Themes
  • 4 venues
  • 3 days
  • Exterior of Town Hall by Bottaccio, a Future Forum 2026 venue in King’s Cross, London Venue Town Hall by Bottaccio
  • Venue Abbey Road Studios
  • Venue Ronnie Scott's
  • 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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Testimonials
  • Luring busy, relevant people into one room is hard as is it. 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.

    Marta Krupinska Youth Business International, Cur8
  • 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.

    Victoria Gosling OBE GB Snowsport
  • In a world where AI is accelerating faster than our ethics can keep up, rooms like this aren’t optional. They’re essential.

    Pip Jamieson The Dots
  • 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.

    Jim Brown Ground + Air
  • 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.

    Prof. Andrew Bastawrous OBE Peek Vision / Vision Catalyst Fund / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • 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.

    Ben Drury Yoto
  • It was a room filled with energy, ideas and bold possibilities for the future.

    Michael Acton Smith Calm
  • The energy came from the mix: different disciplines, experiences, perspectives and ambitions, all brought together with generosity, spark and curiosity.

    Eleanor Ford Zinc VC
  • One visionary innovator after another. And these are the doers.

    David Pearl Street Wisdom
  • Future Forum has assembled a remarkable network of global thinkers, doers and connectors – scientists, government officials, media, artists, entrepreneurs, business leaders and national security experts – through artfully facilitated salons, programmes and events that create the conditions and standards for collective answers that, individually, aren’t currently known.

    Daniel Snell Arrival

Ways to be involved.

Attend.

Be in the room with the people shaping what's next. Secure your place at Future Forum London 2026 now.

Partner.

Work with us to bring together the people, ideas and conversations shaping tomorrow. From flagship partnerships to bespoke activations.

Programme partners include

UK Dept. for Business, Science, Innovation & Trade, Abbey Road Studios, Town Hall by Bottaccio, Ronnie Scott’s and Liberty.

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