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2 Nov 2026 · The Oval, London
The Sovereign AI Summit
Join the boldest AI businesses in Britain. Connect with customers, capital, and government. Big ambition, big energy. The right people, one room, real momentum.
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The summit will explore six areas in dedicated tracks, examining where and how the UK can lead:
Responsible AI
Building trust and global standards to ensure that British AI is responsible, sustainable and ethical.
Sustainable AI
Powering AI leadership with efficient data centres, smarter grids and renewables, and measuring what good looks like across the whole system.
Innovation
Finding where Britain has a lasting advantage, and building the British AI technology stack from foundation models to applications.
Investment
Scaling UK AI businesses create jobs and contributes to the UK economy, but growth requires public and private capital.
Work & Skills
Developing the skills we need to lead the future, attracting world wide talent and driving adoption across all sectors of the economy.
Trustworthy AI
Building the trust that drives adoption, and getting safety and regulation right as AI capabilities advance.
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9:30 -
9:40
9:40
Welcome & Introduction
9:40 -
10:00Opening keynote: Sovereign AI and Britain's industrial future
10:00
Set the political and economic context for the day, explain why sovereign capability matters to growth, public-service transformation and national resilience, and establish the Government's ambition for the UK AI sector.
10:00 -
10:30The Government's Role in Building Sovereign Capabilities
10:30
An insight into the Government's strategic thinking on sovereign AI, and the priorities and opportunities for the year ahead.
10:30 -
11:00What Does Sovereign AI Mean for the UK?
11:00
The panel will review the minister's speech and the wider Government's position on building sovereign AI capability. What are the areas of consensus, and which areas has the Government neglected?
11:00 -
11:15
11:15
Exhibition & Comfort Break
Track A: Responsible AI
11:15 -
12:00British AI is Responsible: Setting standards
12:00
Establish a shared, working definition of responsible AI, backed by concrete standards, so that trust becomes a competitive and exportable asset rather than a compliance afterthought.
12:00 -
12:45Fair Play: Competition, Accountability and the Future of Digital Markets
12:45
How can democratic accountability and effective regulators keep competition fair, responsible and in the public interest?
Track B: Sustainable AI
11:15 -
12:00Building Sustainable Infrastructure: Powering Green AI Leadership
12:00
From energy and water efficient data centres to smarter cities, grids and renewables, the UK's chance to lead in sustainable AI infrastructure.
12:00 -
12:45Measuring Sustainable AI
12:45
What does good AI look like across the whole system, and how would we know? Responsible AI is not a bolt-on but a property of the whole system, shaped by energy and infrastructure, people and skills, inclusion, adoption, sovereignty and governance, each depending on the others. This session asks what good looks like through each of those lenses.
Track C: Innovation
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12:00Where Should Britain Specialise?
12:00
The UK cannot lead in every part of AI. This panel asks where Britain has a genuine and lasting advantage, from research strengths and world-class sectors to unique data assets, and where it should focus investment to build globally competitive AI champions.
12:00 -
12:45Building the British AI technology stack: Models, software and applications
12:45
Examine the British companies building foundation models, sector-specific tools, cyber security, agentic systems, and robotics.
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13:30
13:30
Networking lunch and Exhibition
13:30 -
14:15National security and operational resilience
14:15
Where the UK needs strategic independence across infrastructure, models, cloud and cyber to keep its critical capabilities secure.
14:15 -
15:00Sovereignty as a Solution: Building a Coalition of Middle Powers
15:00
Collaborating to build sovereign AI capabilities.
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15:15
15:15
Exhibition & Comfort Break
Track D: Investment
15:15 -
16:00Government as a strategic customer: Procurement, data and public-service AI
16:00
Explore how public procurement, trusted datasets and implementation support can help strategically important UK AI companies prove, deploy and scale their technologies while improving public services.
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16:45Scaling Sovereign Capabilities: Investing in British AI
16:45
Leading investors and founders explore why backing British AI is a strategic opportunity, and what it will take to keep the UK's next AI champions scaling here at home.
Track E: Work and Skills
15:15 -
16:00Devolved AI: Making the Regions Work
16:00
Explore how sovereign AI investment can follow Burnham's devolution agenda in practice, moving capital, compute and decision-making power out of Whitehall and into the regions best placed to put it to work.
16:00 -
16:45Reforming Education and Reskilling Britain's Workforce
16:45
Set out how education must change to prepare young people for an AI-driven economy, and how existing workers can reskill to keep pace with it.
Track F: Trustworthy AI
15:15 -
16:00Why Trust is the Key to Building Adoption
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16:45Safety and Regulation in the Age of ASI
16:45
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17:00
17:00
Exhibition & Comfort Break
17:00 -
17:30Closing plenary: The UKAI Sovereign AI Compact
17:30
Bring together the recommendations from each session and agree a concise set of government and industry commitments.
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