The LTW 2026 Panels Worth Clearing Your Calendar For

# London Tech Week 2026: The Panels You Cannot Miss

London Tech Week returns June 8-12, and if you're a founder or investor navigating the AI landscape right now, the signal-to-noise ratio matters more than ever. Here are the five panels worth blocking your calendar for.

**"The Emerging Case for Sovereign AI Development in Europe"**

This one sets the tone for the entire week. With George Osborne representing OpenAI's interests, a sitting UK Government Minister, and Judith Dada bringing the venture perspective from Visionaries VC, expect the conversation to move well beyond abstract policy. The real tension here is commercial versus geopolitical: as the US and China tighten their grip on foundation model infrastructure, Europe faces a genuine fork in the road. Dada's presence signals that capital allocation decisions are already being shaped by sovereignty questions. Founders building anything in the infrastructure or model layer need to understand which way this debate is breaking.

**"Investing in AI: Trends, Challenges, and the Road Ahead"**

Bryan Kim from a16z, Ling Ge representing Tencent, and Adina Tecklu from Khosla Ventures on the same stage is a rare cross-Pacific view of where serious money is actually flowing. Forget the consensus takes you've read on Substack. This panel puts Western and Chinese capital perspectives in direct conversation, and the friction between those worldviews will tell you more about the next 18 months of AI investment than any report. Pay attention to what they disagree on.

**"Securing the Future of AI: The Roadmap to Safe and Ethical AI"**

Apollo Research's Marius Hobbhahn has done some of the most rigorous published work on model evaluation and dangerous capability thresholds. Jacomo Corbo from PhysicsX brings the applied science angle. This is not a compliance checkbox session. As regulatory frameworks tighten across the EU and UK, founders who understand the actual technical substance of safety debates will have a meaningful advantage. This panel is where that education happens.

**"The Next Wave of AI: Building, Scaling and Winning from the UK"**

Corbo returns on the Founders Stage, and that repeat billing matters. PhysicsX represents exactly the kind of deep-tech AI company the UK ecosystem needs more of, applying AI to complex physical simulation at genuine commercial scale. This session will get specific about what building looks like operationally, not aspirationally. If you're a founder at series A or beyond, this is the room.

**"Powering the World's AI Ambitions"**

Sikander Rashid from Brookfield and Dame Dawn Childs are talking infrastructure, and in 2026 that means data centres, energy contracts, and the physical constraints on AI growth that no one discusses enough at events like this. The compute and power bottleneck is real. Understanding where the capital is going to solve it shapes every business plan built on top of it.

Clear your schedule. The conversations happening in these rooms will not stay in these rooms.