What Bold Ideas Will Shape the Next Decades of Technological Progress?

2.10pm – 3.10pm, 30 April 2026 ‐ 1 hour

Room: Francis Crick Auditorium

Breakout 1

This session showcases cutting-edge start-ups and early innovations developing breakthrough technologies with the potential to transform industries and society. Founders and technical leaders will present what they are building today: the products, platforms, and systems emerging from frontier science and engineering, and the real-world problems these innovations are designed to solve.

Through concrete examples and live innovation stories the session explores how novel technologies are being translated into practical, scalable solutions, and what makes these approaches genuinely distinctive. Designed to inspire, it highlights the role of start-up creativity and technical ambition in turning emerging ideas into impactful technologies for the connected world.