Breakthrough Technology Dialogues

The UP.Partners Chairman and Managing Partner explores why the next wave of technological transformation will shift from the screen to the physical world. He examines how AI is accelerating robotics and reshaping industries and cities, where the opportunities in this emerging ‘kinetic age’ lie, and what the unprecedented pace of change means for business and society.

The Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, explains why fusion has reached a pivotal moment, as scientific proof of concept gives way to the challenge of building a commercially viable industry. She examines how public investment, private capital and international competition will determine the pace of progress, before exploring how AI and next-generation supercomputing are reshaping scientific discovery - and what that could mean for the next generation of breakthrough technologies.

Microsoft Chief Strategy Officer, Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, explores the moment when AI moved from promise to practicality. He explains why breakthroughs in model performance are driving rapid adoption, particularly in software development, examines the debate around AI infrastructure investment, and argues that the technology's greatest impact may come not from efficiency gains but from expanding what businesses can create, build and achieve.

The iPod inventor and Build Collective Principal unpacks a major shift in AI, from hyperscale data centres to specialised intelligence at the edge. He explains why inference is becoming the critical battleground, and how this could reshape robotics, electrification and global competition, while interrogating where capital is flowing, and what it means for the race to stay ahead.

The ARM co-founder and deep tech investor explains how the most recent breakthroughs in quantum error correction bring our post-quantum future much closer. He examines near-term applications, investment implications, and what comes next across quantum computing, AI, and synthetic biology.