REALTECH Conference 2026

Meet new people. Connect with contemporaries. Catalyse new ideas. A new order is taking shape in robotics, defence, compute and critical infrastructure. Engineers are the architects. Europe has the talent. It sits scattered across companies, labs and capitals that rarely meet. REALTECH puts them in one room, for one day. We will convene at Battersea Power Station, a building that once carried a third of London's electricity and now houses the people rebuilding the systems that come next. Confirmed speakers Brian Taylor (Lux Aeterna) on reusable satellites Stan Boland (ex FiveAI CEO) and Andrew Bennett (UK Dynamism Fund) on re-architecting the UK for the AI age Suzanne Ashman on the Sovereign AI Fund Archie Hall (US editor, The Economist) on the limits of sovereignty Keegan McBride (Tony Blair Institute) on AI diffusion as a geopolitical force Join us.