AI & Machine Learning

Isambard Summit 2026

The Isambard Summit 2026 brings together leading AI and supercomputing researchers, industry partners, and technology providers for two days of discussion and networking. The event showcases the latest developments in AI at scale, sovereign infrastructure, language models, health, security, and material science, with contributions from academia, startups, an…

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48Speakers
6Sponsors
18On the bill · sessions
21Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Isambard, in alphabetical order.
Aldo Faisal
Imperial College London
Aleksej Zelezniak
King's College London
Anna Price
Babatunde Oyewo
University of Cambridge
Bidipta Sarkar
University of Oxford
Chris Edsall
University of Cambridge
Dan Lenton
AI Security Institute
David Africa
AI Security Institute
David Topping
University of Manchester
Edward Inns
Cambridge Innovation Capital
Eghbal Rahimikia
University of Manchester
Eltayeb Ahmed
University of Oxford
Evelyn Welch
University of Bristol
Fred Manby
Iambic
Gabor Csanyi
University of Cambridge
Gregory Verghese
PharosAI, King's College London
Huw Day
University of Bristol
Ian Johnson
HPE
Jake Watson
James C. Womack
Bristol Centre for Supercomputing
James McClung
VAST Data
James Womack
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
BeyondMath
Cambridge Innovation Capital
Graphcore
HPE
NVIDIA
Zenotech
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Agenda

Selected from 18 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:00–10:15

    Session 5: Keynote

    Rosalind Franklin Room - Day 2
  • 10:00–11:15

    Session 1: Welcome and Keynote

    Rosalind Franklin Room - Day 1
  • 10:45–12:00

    Parallel Session 1

    Annex - Day 2
  • 10:45–12:00

    Session 6: AI Security

    Rosalind Franklin Room - Day 2
  • 10:45–12:00

    Workshop 3: DigiEngBio Accelerator

    DigiEngBio aims to accelerate innovation at the intersection of AI and Engineering Biology by creating an integrated, accessible digital EngBio design platform leveraging Isambard …

    Workshops - Day 2
  • 10:45–12:00

    Workshop 4: Distributed PyTorch Tutorial

    This workshop will introduce how to dispatch a distributed training job on Isambard AI, bridging the gap from single node to distributed training.

    Workshops - Day 2
  • 10:45–12:00

    Workshop 5: TREs with Kubernetes on Isambard AI

    The FRIDGE project will be discussed, which uses Kubernetes to provide a secure, isolated platform for Trusted Research Environments (TREs) on shared AI infrastructure.

    Workshops - Day 2
  • 11:45–13:00

    Session 2: Large Language Models and AI Research

    Rosalind Franklin Room - Day 1
  • 11:45–13:00

    SME Focus: Part 1

    Annex - Day 1
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 21 companies show up, and 6 bet on three roles at once?

21 companies. six are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
6All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
15Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

HPE·NVIDIA·BeyondMath·Cambridge Innovation Capital·Graphcore·Zenotech

Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles48100%

Of 48 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01AI Security Institute5V
  2. 02HPESp2V
  3. 03NVIDIASp2V
  4. 04University of Bristol5V
  5. 05BeyondMathSp1V
  6. 06Bristol Centre for Supercomputing4V
  7. 07Cambridge Innovation CapitalSp1V
  8. 08GraphcoreSp1V
  9. 09ZenotechSp1V
  10. 10University of Cambridge3V
  11. 11University of Oxford3V
  12. 12Imperial College London2V
  13. 13King's College London2V
  14. 14University of Manchester2V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified6
100% of 6
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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