Defence Disrupted

A full-day gathering run by PUBLIC, the govtech firm, on where defence procurement and startup technology actually meet — dual-use hardware, autonomy, software acquisition and the question of how a small company gets through a defence buying cycle at all. Runs 09:00 to 17:30 at a central London venue. Free but approval-gated, and the exact address is shared with confirmed guests on registration. 326 people are already registered with roughly two dozen places left, so it is close to capacity. Why go: defence is where a lot of UK deeptech money is moving right now, and PUBLIC convenes the buyers as well as the builders — which is the part most defence-tech events miss. Best for founders, operators and investors in dual-use hardware, autonomy and govtech.