Tech Events by The Royal Institution

A wild evening exploring the range of careers working with animals.

From silicon to quantum crystals: Felix Flicker explores the materials shaping the future of computing.

Three short talks exploring how technology is helping us adapt to changing weather, presented by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Eiman Kanjo gives a Royal Institution talk on tiny AI: embedded, sensor-driven systems that run on optimised hardware and specialist models instead of the cloud. Expect examples from drones to health-monitoring wearables, plus privacy-preserving sensing and collaborative robots. Saturday 21 November, 7:00-8:30pm, at the Ri, 21 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BS. In person. Booking is through Eventbrite; the page lists no price and says tickets are non-refundable. Why go: a rare public talk on edge AI and low-power sensing, the part of the field that ships in devices rather than data centres. Best for hardware, IoT and health-tech builders who want the research view.

Parastoo Hashemi explores the chemistry of our brains, and asks if we might be able to create a simple chemical test to diagnose problems.

Join Steve McNeil and Michael Cutts as they use Victorian scientific equipment to try to contact the spirit world...

A beginner-friendly workshop to explore coding through fun, hands-on activities.

Explore engineering, coding and climate science by building a Raspberry Pi Pico weather station.

Become a meteorologist and create a micro:bit weather station using real sensors.

Design and build infrastructure for your own trainline.

Alan Costley at the Royal Institution on the technologies competing to deliver working fusion reactors, and which of them might win the global race for clean power. Why go: fusion is the deep-tech sector where the gap between press release and physics is widest, and the Ri's lecture format is built for getting the actual engineering explained rather than the funding narrative. Best for climate-tech and deep-tech investors who need to tell the approaches apart, and for engineers who want an evening of real content in the Faraday theatre.

Join us for this hands-on workshop to discover how we've engineered our way into space and build your own rocket!

Join us for this hands-on workshop to discover how we've engineered our way into space and build your own rocket!

This Halloween themed Family Fun Day invites you to explore the eerie side of science.

Interactive-comedy-gameshow WiFi Wars returns with more technical wizardry. Bring your phone and join the fun!

Join Jim Al-Khalili as he interviews Chris Packham about his life and work, for a live recording of popular BBC Radio 4 programme.

Psychobiologist Daisy Fancourt shows how making and enjoying art improves health and wellbeing, and how science measures its effects.

Mathematician Kit Yates returns to the Ri to explore how missing information shapes our understanding of reality.

with Saumya Kareem Reni (Director, Applied DSP & VLSI Research Group; Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster)

Dr Saumya Kareem Reni of the University of Westminster reveals how AI and advanced signal processing are dismantling the barriers to global health. From bulky lab equipment to AI-driven handheld diagnostics, this Royal Institution lecture traces the journey of point-of-care technology — and its potential to make malaria detection and tropical disease diagnosis accessible everywhere on earth. A rare intersection of DeepTech, global health, and applied AI.