The Programme

Four days, six tracks, no filler. Twenty named sessions are locked — titles, formats, stages and times. Ten run on Mainstage A; ten run across Stages B, C and D, the workshop rooms and the public pavilions.

Hosts and guests are deliberately unconfirmed until 17 February 2027, thirty days out. That gives early-stage founders, first-time speakers and students a fair shot at the same stages as the household names.

Main stage sessions

• Opening Address — The Discovery Stack in 2027
• The Future of Labs — Fireside Chat
• Keynote 01 — Five Demos, Fifteen Minutes Each
• The Self-Driving Lab — From Bench to Fleet
• The Robotic Surgeon — Live Theatre, Narrated
• Longevity Moves to the Clinic — Fireside Chat
• Keynote 02 — Models That Discover
• Sovereign Capital Meets Deep Tech — Main Stage Panel
• Hackathon Finals — Top 8 Pitch on the Main Stage
• Closing Address — Looking Ahead to Edition 02

Child stage sessions

• The State of Biotech Capital, Q1 2027 — Stage B
• Foundation Models for Biology — Stage B Deep Dive
• Decentralised Science: Funding Without Gatekeepers — Stage C
• Augmented Reality: The Surgeon’s Next Screen — Stage D
• Wet Lab Meets Dry Lab — Stage B Roundtable
• Open Hardware for Labs — Stage D Lightning Talks
• Protein Design, Hands-On — Workshop Cohort
• Agentic Research Workflows — Workshop Cohort
• Data Sovereignty in Clinical AI — Stage B Panel
• Science Communication in the Age of AI — Pavilion F