Bringing technical and policy people together to understand and govern the risks of frontier AI.
The second edition of the TechGov Forum brings technical researchers, policy makers and funders together on one problem: how to govern AI systems that are advancing quickly toward transformative capability. It’s two days at Prince Philip House, London.
Speaking at the forum
Full line-up- Robert Trager Keynote · Oxford Martin AIGI
- Lisa Soder Panellist · European AI Office
- More to come Announced until the event
- Dates
- 14–15 November 2026Saturday – Sunday
- Venue
- Prince Philip HouseCarlton House Terrace, London
What to expect in 2026
Two days at Prince Philip House on 14–15 November 2026, built around three focus areas: trustworthy auditing, verifiable AI, and AI R&D automation. We ran the first dedicated technical AI governance track anywhere, in 2025; this is the second edition. Attendance is by application, and the room is curated for experience, influence and cross-sector perspective.
Focus areas
Trustworthy auditing
Third-party evaluators work through black-box APIs, on roughly a week’s notice, and rarely get a reliable upper bound on what a model can do. The map from a benchmark score to a real-world risk pathway stays largely undrawn — which is precisely the map policymakers need in order to write a guardrail that binds.
Verifiable AI
An agreement is only as good as the ability to check it. Tamper-resistant hardware that keeps a trustworthy record of what a chip was used for — how much compute ran, whether an evaluation took place — turns unverifiable self-reporting into claims a counterparty can test.
AI R&D automation
As models take on more of the research loop, the pace of capability gain and the difficulty of overseeing it move together. This track asks what can actually be measured about automated AI R&D — before the measurement problem outruns the measurers.
Programme
Speakers & panel discussions
Keynotes and anchor talks in the main theatre, as well as panels briefed in advance and kept deliberately unscripted.
Workshops
Concurrent working sessions tied to the talks, including a scenario exercise where participants take the roles of labs, evaluators and national institutes.
Poster sessions
Researchers present current work through every break, directly across from the theatre, with a dedicated ERA Fellowship session.
Organisation fair & networking
Partner and organisation stands for hiring and collaboration, founder pitches to funders over lunch, and bookable 1:1 office hours.
Present a poster
A poster session runs through both days, featuring research from across the frontier of technical AI governance — and attendees can speak directly with the people doing it. The hall sits directly across from the theatre, open through every break.
Work in progress is welcome
We would rather see a sharp open problem than a finished result nobody can act on. Prior publication is fine — preprints, published papers and unpublished work are all eligible.
Who it is for
Work sitting in or across the three focus areas — trustworthy auditing, verifiable AI, and AI R&D automation — and the cross-cutting work that connects them.
What happens next
Abstracts close on 2 October. All authors are notified of the outcome, and the poster hall is open through every break on both days.