Day 1 — Launch Day
- 10:00–10:50Welcome & Announcements — introducing BOLD & partners, with opening remarks from Oxford, UCL, and Google DeepMind
- 10:50–12:30Session 1 — Fundamental AI & Entrepreneurship. Keynote: Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital). Panel: Mark Burnett (G-Research), Raia Hadsell (Google DeepMind), Yarin Gal (Oxford), and others
- 13:30–15:00Session 2 — Compute & Sovereignty. Keynote: Michiel Bakker (MIT), “Europe 2031: What getting AI wrong means for us”. Panel with AMD, NVIDIA, Google Cloud, and Fractile
- 15:45–17:30Session 3 — Opportunities in Fundamental AI. Keynotes from BOLD's own Bidipta (Oxford) and Antoine Cully (Imperial), plus Katja Hofmann (Microsoft) and Elahe Arani (Wayve)
- 17:30–22:30Evening reception, launch party & food at the University Club
Day 2 — BOLD Workshops (BOLD and Friends)
BenchMAXXing and Breakthroughs
What benchmarks reveal and what they obscure — and whether open-endedness fundamentally resists being benchmarked at all.
Efficient Adaptation and Embodied Learning
How to deploy autonomous systems that adapt to the noisy, chaotic real world — sim vs. real, robotics vs. autonomous driving.
From IP to Equity, Innovation and Sovereignty
Accelerating the UK's path to technological sovereignty in fundamental AI, without losing open science along the way.
Prediction Markets, Collective Intelligence, and the Optimal Co-Scientist
How dispersed private information becomes reliable collective knowledge — and what the best human–AI research collaboration looks like.
Quant 2030 — Foundation Models and Open Source in Finance
Closing the gap between generative order-flow models and trading-grade tools — and what a pre-competitive, shared layer for the field could look like.
Engaging with BOLD
An audience-driven Ask-Us-Anything on BOLD's collaboration principles, plus pitches for new models of collaboration and specific projects.
Day 3 — BOLD Brainstorming
- 09:30–13:00Brainstorming sessions and presentation of BOLD's active projects
- 14:00–17:30More brainstorming and project presentations
- 17:30→BOLD Social