Join Kathleen Fisher, CEO of the Advanced Resarch Innovation Agency (ARIA) in conversation with Matt Clifford CBE, Chair of ARIA.

The UK’s research base is one of the world’s most productive engines of discovery. This session explores how breakthroughs in AI, biology, materials, and quantum can translate into global deep-tech companies, and what’s needed to accelerate the journey from lab to market.

• What will it take to convert UK scientific excellence into global deep-tech leadership?

• Explore how new collaboration models between universities, investors, and industry are speeding up the path from discovery to deployment.

• See how mission-driven funding, translational institutes, and spin-out ecosystems are scaling breakthrough science into world-shaping ventures.