Conference begins 9am, 25 November 2025
In 2025, the Knowledge Quarter celebrates ten years as one of the world’s most dynamic innovation districts. To mark the anniversary, its flagship conference, The Future of Knowledge: From Vision to Impact, comes to Town Hall on Tuesday, 25 November 2025.
Across a full day of keynotes, panels, live Q&A and a networking reception, the conference looks at how ideas move from vision to real impact. The programme brings together Knowledge Quarter partners and invited guests: thought leaders, local leaders, innovators, policymakers, researchers, academics, students, industry practitioners, investors, cultural leaders, civil society organisations and media.
Sessions highlight frontier research, innovation and ideas from across the district, from AI and quantum technologies to life sciences, public health and education. Big themes such as climate, sustainable and inclusive growth, and the future of cities run through the day, with a focus on solutions that lead to measurable outcomes.
The Future of Knowledge is designed as a space for new connections, with structured networking and informal time for conversation built in. Institutions and entrepreneurs, artists and educators, local and global voices meet here to form partnerships, explore investment and collaborate across sectors.
More than a one off conference, The Future of Knowledge marks ten years of the Knowledge Quarter and looks ahead to how this part of London can continue to shape the UK’s knowledge economy in the decade to come.
The Knowledge Quarter (KQ) is a partnership of knowledge based organisations within a one mile radius of King’s Cross in London. Its partners include the British Library, the British Museum, Central Saint Martins, the Francis Crick Institute, Google DeepMind, UCL and Wellcome among many others.
Today the district is recognised as one of the world’s leading centres for innovation. Together its organisations generate £43.4 billion in GVA and play a major role in the UK’s knowledge economy. The area is home to around a quarter of London’s life science companies and eleven of the UK’s top fifty data science firms.
By 2032, 2.9 million square feet of new wet lab space will sit alongside collections that hold 8 million artefacts and 14 million printed works. It is this mix of cutting edge research, industry and culture that makes the Knowledge Quarter such a powerful place for discovery and collaboration.
