This year’s London Tech Week is packed with established tech leaders and emerging start-up talent, mixing it with inventors, investors, policymakers and regulators.
We’re also lucky to have some of the real pioneers of the information networks we now take for granted with the presence of Tim Berners-Lee and Jimmy Wales, who are always well worth listening to.
Props to the amazing organisers, Founders Forum, Informa and London and Partners, who put on this flagship event for the UK.
Unsurprisingly, this year is all about AI. The UK Prime Minister used the opening session to unveil a major AI push with Nvidia chief Jensen Huang.
The two figureheads have unveiled a range of changes to boost Britain’s AI infrastructure, research and industrial capacity to help the UK become an “AI maker, not an AI taker.”
US chipmaker Nvidia announced it was launching the first UK sovereign AI industry forum in partnership with firms including BAE Systems, BT, Babcock, National Grid and Standard Chartered.
It did make Chatsworth a little misty-eyed for what might have been had the UK chipmaker, ARM, stayed in the UK with an LSE listing.
This could have been a pure UK AI play from top to bottom, but hey, business is business and the tech sector is by its very nature global and distributed so it’s great to have Nvidia on board.
Elsewhere on the agenda is a lot on the role of tech to counter money laundering and fraud, the application of intelligent agents to fintech. We’re very active with clients on these topics as well as updates on the progress of work to develop a digital pound, which we’re interested in from both a retail and wholesale perspective.
A whole tranche of the event is also dedicated to quantum computing this year, so we’re looking forward to hearing from the leaders of the UK’s national quantum efforts.
If you’re not briefed on quantum computing, start boning up because it is happening and it might just change everything. Probably.
For a good primer, look out for comments from speaker Ilyas Khan, Founder of Quantinuum, on the Main Stage on Tuesday, a friend of ours who has been well ahead of the game on this topic for some years.
Wishing everyone a productive and enjoyable London Tech Week.
See you all at the conference.
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