The 18 months
that decide
the century.
Frontier capability is doubling roughly every six months. Capex commitments dwarf the build-out of the early internet. Regulation is being written in real time across three continents. The window to set the agenda is now.
Capex committed to AI infrastructure across 2026 alone.
Next-generation frontier models shipping inside the conference window.
Forecast displaced or transformed in the UK by 2030 (IPPR, 2025).
Sovereign AI strategies launching this year. Compute is geopolitics.
Capability is outrunning conversation.
The labs are shipping faster than journalists can write, faster than regulators can read, faster than enterprises can integrate. The only people who actually know what's coming are in the labs. We're putting them on a stage.
Capital is unprecedented.
Stargate. Platform 37. Sovereign GPU clusters in three Gulf states. The amount of money chasing AI infrastructure exceeds the Manhattan Project, the Interstate Highway System and the Apollo Programme combined — adjusted for inflation.
Geography is consolidating.
San Francisco. Beijing. King's Cross. Three postcodes now contain a meaningful share of the people building general intelligence. London is the youngest of them — and the only one in Europe.
The next room matters more than the last.
The conferences that shaped the internet — the Homebrew meetings, the early Webs, the first SXSWi — were small, urgent, in person. The next decade's defining gatherings will look the same. This is one of them.