Two days. 30+ sessions.

Opening remarks from the host

• Cassidy BereskinHost

Opening keynote address

Keeping up with AI developments — any role for the UK?

• Professor Lord Tarassenko CBE FREng FMedSciFounding President, Reuben College, University of Oxford

Fireside chat

• Bryan TsaoChief Product Officer, Legora
• Jeremy KahnModerator

Keynote address

AI safety without certainty: how should we act when we don't know which AI future is coming?

• Philip Torr FREng, FRSProfessor of Engineering Science and Schmidt AI 2050 Senior Fellow

Fireside chat

• Professor Sir Nigel ShadboltLeading AI researcher
• Rt Hon George Osborne CHManaging Director & Head of OpenAI for Countries, OpenAI

Safeguarding critical thinking

• Adamantia VelonisModerator
• Tey BannermanHuman-centred AI educator & Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
• Isabel ParkerChief Innovation Officer, White & Case
• Lev TankelevitchAI Researcher & Behavioural Scientist, Microsoft Research
• Steven ShawAssistant Professor, King’s College London

Further speakers to be announced

Keynote address

AI for healthcare: building AI systems that connect biology, disease and drug development

• Danielle BelgraveVP of AI & Machine Learning, GSK

Fireside chat

Line up coming soon

Pre-drinks announcements

• Cassidy BereskinHost

OxGen 2026 drinks reception

Unwind after a day of cutting-edge conversations and connect over drinks with fellow attendees, speakers and the OxGen team.

OxGen 2026 VIP dinner

Exeter College, University of Oxford

Oxford's fourth-oldest college, founded on 4 April 1314 by Walter de Stapeldon, Bishop of Exeter and Treasurer of England. Dinner is served in the college hall, which dates from 1618 and looks onto a front quad completed between 1672 and 1710, beside the chapel rebuilt in neo-Gothic style in the 1850s. A few minutes' walk from the Digital Hub.

Day One post-dinner drinks

The Treasury, Cosy Club, Oxford

A nightcap in The Treasury — Cosy Club’s private room, set in the original vault of the bank the building used to be. Stained glass, dark wood panelling and low pendant light, a short walk from dinner.