Building What the Future Deserves, Together: Deeply Human Summit London Pre-Launch

We have the tools. Now we need each other 🙏

AI raises deeply human questions: questions no single sector, discipline, or generation can answer alone. On 2nd September, Deeply Human Innovation, together with five of London's AI communities, is bringing mission-driven individuals from across policy, technology, academia, art, and research into one room to begin answering them. In a moment when the conversation about AI is dominated by speed, fear, and competition, we want to make space for a different kind of exchange: thoughtful, honest, and deeply human.

An evening built together 🤲

This gathering is organised in the spirit of collaboration with communities across London's AI ethics space: the technologists, philosophers, educators, researchers, and community builders who make this city one of the most interesting places in the world to ask these questions: Deeply Human Innovation, Conversations on AI, She Shapes AI, AI for the Rest of Us, Occasio, BehSci Meets AI.

Speakers joining the conversation

• Amanda Brock: CEO, OpenUK
• Martin Allen Morales: CEO, Institute of Imagination
• Rushab Shah: Founder OneHive, Social Entrepreneur
• Annabel Gillard: Founder, Conversations on AI
• Iliana Grosse-Buening: Co-Founder, Deeply Human Innovation
• And many more from across London's AI communities

A first listen to the generation inheriting the future we are building

Through the Deeply Human Global Youth Imagination Lab, we are listening to thousands of people aged 16–25 from all over the world in anticipation of the Deeply Human Summit in Paris on October 2-3rd: their dreams, fears, hopes, and questions about the future being built around them. Young people from 41 countries have already responded. On 2 September, we will reveal some first responses.

"The future should be built by connected people, not just connected devices." — 19, Uzbekistan
"The greatest risk isn't replacing intelligence. It's replacing curiosity." — 16, Spain
"Please don't build a future for us. Build it with us." — 16, Nigeria

The evening

• 6:00pm: Doors open ⭐️
• 6:30pm: Welcome + first voices from the Youth Imagination Lab 🌏
• 6:50pm: Speaker Panel 🌸
• 7:30pm: Facilitated discussion rounds through our London AI Communities 💥
• 8:15pm: Connecting over drinks 🍷
• 9:00pm: Close

📍 Central London: Venue shared with everyone registered
🗓️ Wednesday 2 September 2026, 6pm UK time

Apply to join. When you do, we'll ask you one thing: what is a question you are bringing into the room?

And then: Paris 🇫🇷

What begins in London continues at the Deeply Human Summit, 2–3 October in Paris, hosted at the Learning Planet Institute, a UNESCO Category 2 Institute and UN University Hub: two days to listen deeply, question honestly, and imagine radically, under the theme Building What the Future Deserves, Together. A cross-sector gathering for leaders across technology, policy, academia, education, culture, and youth movements, including representatives from UNESCO, OECD, UN, IEEE, The Adecco Group, IKEA, Oxford University, and Harvard University.