Explore the Future with Sky News at Big Ideas Live

Join Sky News in person for their annual Big Ideas Live event – an exciting, interactive experience exploring the biggest issues facing us. Back for a second year, the live event in Shoreditch, London, will ask ‘Who Owns the Future?’

Hosted by Tom Clarke, Sky News Science and Technology Editor and Sky News presenter Sarah-Jane Mee, and featuring guest speakers from Meta, Microsoft Research and NASA, Big Ideas Live will explore the revolutionary tech changes around us and what they might mean for our future.

Panel discussions include:

• AI & Consciousness: Can AI replace your brain? Speakers including Anil Seth, professor of neuroscience at the University of Sussex and author of Being You – A New Science of Consciousness, Dr Chris Bishop from Microsoft Research, Verity Harding (former co-lead of Ethics & Society at DeepMind) will explore whether AI can ever really be human.
• Why are we still racing to space? Speakers including the UK’s Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott and Director of the UK’s space hub for research and innovation – RAL Space – Sarah Beardsley, will discuss why so many are investing so much in the space race and look at the future of space tourism.
• Will Web 3.0 change anything? Experts, including Meta’s VP of Northern Europe, Steve Hatch and blogger and author Corey Doctorow, will shed light on what Web 3.0 means, what a future in the metaverse could look like and how we make it a safe space.
• Britain vs The Rest of the World: Speakers, including Zoe McDougall from Oxford Nanopore, explore why Britain is yet to become a science and tech superpower and how we encourage the innovators and entrepreneurs of the future.

Amongst these discussions, visitors can join break-out sessions on a range of topics from leading experts, including whether technology can transform our ageing process, the future of medicine, privacy in a tech-led future and cyberwarfare. They will also hear from Dex Hunter-Torricke, from the Facebook Oversight Board – an independent body created to review some of the most difficult and significant content decisions that Instagram and Facebook have to make.

The event will feature interactive experiences and installations, such as:

• Digital and immersive art installations
• Metaverse shopping and AR try-on with Estee Lauder and Too Faced
• World-leading technology for sports and healthcare
• Robotic demonstrations
• The opportunity to try the food of the future
• Virtual reality speed dating
• And much more!

Visitors will also be able to get up close and personal with Sky News – through Q&A sessions with our correspondents, as well as insights into Sky News’ award-winning data & forensics journalism team, including the chance to try open-source journalism and UGC verification for themselves.  These techniques have been used extensively in Sky News’ recent Russia/Ukraine war coverage.

Sky News’ specialist journalists at the event will include:

• Thomas Moore, Science Correspondent
• Rowland Manthorpe, Technology Correspondent
• Deborah Haynes, Security & Defence Editor
• Tom Cheshire, Data & Forensics Correspondent

Full details of the event and link to purchase tickets available on skynews.com/bigideaslive