Future Forum 2026 The future is between us.
Two days of focused discussion, cross-sector sessions, hands-on studios and unforgettable gatherings.
- 2000+ Delegates
- 150+ Contributors
- 6 Themes
- 4 venues
- 2 days
Choose your Pass Type
Three days. Four venues. One conversation.
INVITATION ONLY EVENING
3 Abbey Road, London, NW8 9AY
Abbey Road Studios
For sixty years, musicians have walked into this building and left making something nobody expected. Rock bands with orchestras. Classical engineers producing pop. Abbey Road has never believed that disciplines belong in separate rooms. Neither do we.
3 Abbey Road, London, NW8 9AY
Daytime programme
Bidborough St, London, WC1H 9AU
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.
Bidborough St, London, WC1H 9AU
INVITATION ONLY BREAKFAST
Regent St, Carnaby, London, W1B 5AH
Liberty
The building is made from the timber of two decommissioned warships – one of the most literal examples of leaving your lane in London's architectural history. Liberty has spent 150 years at the intersection of craft, commerce, and culture. A morning here needs no further justification.
Regent St, Carnaby, London, W1B 5AH
INVITATION ONLY EVENING
47 Frith Street, Soho, London, W1D 4HT
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club
Jazz is what leaving your lane sounds like. Bebop borrowed from classical, fusion borrowed from rock, soul borrowed from everywhere. Ronnie Scott's has spent sixty years hosting the kind of collisions that produce something genuinely new – which makes it the most honest venue we could have chosen.
47 Frith Street, Soho, London, W1D 4HT
How Future Forum works.
Future Talks
Ten minutes. Short enough to spark, deep enough to matter.
Future Firesides
Intimate conversations, some under Chatham House rules.
Future Circles
One big question per theme. Not consensus – collision.
Future Debates
Structured argument. Leaders asked to take a side.
Reverse Mentoring
Guidance arrives from unexpected places.
Future Studio
Real skills, demonstrated live. The making of things.
Future AI Academy
Hands-on sessions demystifying AI for every sector.
Salons
Invitation-only gatherings through the year.
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View passesHow Future Forum works.
The sweet spot of life is connecting with new people from distinct disciplines and unique backgrounds. That's also how the best ideas surface and set the stage for addressing challenges, solving problems, and innovating in otherwise unforeseen ways. Creating an environment for that kind of serendipity is at the heart of Future Forum.
Six themes. One rule. Leave your lane.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Meet the contributors.
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Elif Shafak -
Rt Hon George Osborne CH -
Dame Julia Hoggett DBE -
Lord Jason Stockwood -
Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE -
Shevaun Haviland CBE -
Dr Karim Bahou -
Dr Sharmla Chetty -
Paul Lindley OBE -
Dame Hayaatun Sillem PhD -
Prof. Andrew Bastawrous OBE -
Jodie Eastwood -
Dr Raghib Ali OBE -
Kate Taylor Tett -
David 'Shingy' Shing -
Helenor Gilmour
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.
Join us in King’s Cross.
Every pass carries the full Future Forum programme and network lounge access.
Inner Circle Pass
For C-suite, senior leaders, founders, investors and board directors.
- Full Future Forum programme access
- Delegate Lounge access
- One year subscription to Future Forum Club (includes quarterly Future Forum Club Salons)
- VIP Lounge access
- Inner Circle reception at Town Hall by Bottaccio (14 October)
- Registration concierge service
Forum Pass
For established and emerging leaders across business, government and academia.
- Full Future Forum programme access
- Delegate Lounge access
- Priority access to networking experiences
Rising Pass
For emerging talent: new manager to business director.
- Full Future Forum programme access
- Delegate Lounge access
- Access to speed mentoring
Studio Pass
For creators, storytellers and innovators.
Impact Pass
For students, charities and non-profit organisations.
Group passes: Organisations booking three or more passes benefit from preferential team pricing. Please contact us for details at registration@futureforum.co
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