Critical Mass is hosting a Deeptech Founders Dinner as part of Deeptech London. The festival runs across the city from 5–11 October 2026 for scientists, engineers, founders and innovators building the next generation of industry. Inspired by the 1951 Festival of Britain, the week includes 20+ partner events and a 500-person flagship summit in Shoreditch on 8 October, covering fusion, robotics, space, quantum, biotech and more. The dinner takes place the evening before the summit, offering a more intimate setting to connect with fellow deeptech founders, talk candidly about real challenges and share ideas ahead of the main conference day.Critical Mass is a community partner for Deeptech London. It is a UK deeptech community that brings together founders, operators, investors and policymakers. Its mission is to speed up deeptech innovation for “generational resilience” by giving builders, capital and policy a place to meet and work together. This dinner is for deeptech founders in robotics, quantum and AI, especially those facing infrastructure bottlenecks, scaling compute or training AI models. Conversation will focus on infrastructure challenges, the bottlenecks that slow growth, and practical advice from founders who have been there.
Presented by Canopy
This dinner is presented by Canopy, whose mission is to lower the cost of innovation. Canopy acts as an AI infrastructure team extension, helping clients get better cloud and compute contracts, pricing and provider options across 50+ providers, including AWS, Azure and GCP. Before teams commit, Canopy benchmarks pricing, compares providers and structures the contract, so cloud can support growth and AI adoption without unnecessary cost, risk or lock-in. Through Canopy Forward Compute, teams can also lock in compute capacity ahead of time to hedge against rising infrastructure costs. We look forward to seeing you on 7 October.
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