Punts on the River Cam in Cambridge

Itineraries

Innovation in the day.The city in the evening.

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An innovation trip should not read like a conference itinerary. These routes put research, industry and university capability alongside the music, food, architecture and countryside that make a place worth being in.

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  • Manchester · Two days

    Manchester: materials, AI and music

    The city that industrialised first, split the atom and isolated graphene — and then spent fifty years exporting music. Two days that take both halves seriously.

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  • London · Two days

    48 hours of AI in London

    The deepest concentration of AI companies and research labs in Europe, alongside the capital's museums and public programmes.

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  • Bristol & Bath · Three days

    Three days of robotics and aerospace in Bristol

    Field robotics, aerospace engineering and a city that has always made things, with the Mendips and the coast within reach.

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  • Cambridge · Weekend

    Cambridge life sciences weekend

    One of the densest biomedical research corridors in the world, in a city you can cross on foot.

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  • Glasgow and the Central Belt · Three days

    Scotland's space corridor

    Glasgow builds more small satellites than anywhere else in Europe. Scotland also has the launch sites.

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  • England and Scotland · One week

    Britain by train: five innovation cities

    Britain's compactness is the point: five distinct innovation economies inside a week, without a domestic flight.

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