About the forum
Our mission
Bring technical and policy people together to better understand and govern the risks of frontier AI.
Technical AI governance is a real sub-field now, but a young one. There are still relatively few people who genuinely understand both the engineering and the institutions — and the gap between them is where a lot of good work goes to die. A technical result that never reaches a decision-maker changes nothing. A policy written without a working model of risk pathways binds nothing that matters.
The forum exists to close that gap in the most direct way available: put both groups in one building for two days, organise the programme around the specific questions where they need each other, and design the space so that the conversations continue after the session ends.
Read the full reasoning behind the 2026 programme →
TechGov 2025
We ran the first Technical AI Governance Forum in summer 2025 in partnership with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, with a mission to advance the policy and technical breakthroughs required for reliable, secure frontier AI.
Who spoke in 2025
About ERA
ERA accelerates talent, advances research and helps build organisations working to understand and reduce risks from increasingly capable AI systems.
Based in Cambridge, ERA runs a fully funded fellowship supporting research across the full stack of frontier AI governance and technical AI safety, mentored by researchers from universities, national institutes, non-profits and frontier labs. ERA is also pioneering hardware security as a sub-field of AI safety — work that runs directly into this year’s second focus area.
Get in touch
Jack May
Events Associate, ERA
Jack studied Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh with a scholarship study abroad at UC Berkeley and a dissertation examining ethical AI through associative learning. He recently pivoted from financial services to AI safety and has joined ERA as an Events Associate to support the delivery of key events like the Technical Governance Forum. Beyond ERA, he works part-time as an AI Governance Consultant at Rayol, and is a fellow at Youth for Responsible AI in their Policy track.