Tech Events at The Royal Institution, London

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.

BSI's one-day conference on AI assurance at the Royal Institution on Albemarle Street: governance, standards, assurance and regulatory readiness, aimed at the people who have to sign AI off rather than build it. Doors 08:45, programme 09:15 to 17:00. Dame Wendy Hall gives the keynote; Anne Hayes, Omkar Joshi, Simon King and Manu Mateo are also listed, though the Eventbrite page carries no titles or affiliations and points to BSI's own site for the agenda. The room mixes business leaders, regulators, standards experts, AI adopters and practitioners, and BSI will present its recently launched Trust in AI report here first. In person only, 18+, and no price is published on the listing. Why go: standards and assurance are where AI deployment is now getting stuck, and BSI writes a lot of the rules in question. Best for risk, compliance, governance and policy leads, and for engineering managers who will have to evidence what they shipped.

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...

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.

This is a **theatre** and **livestream** talk from the **Royal Institution of Great Britain.** Chemist **Andrew Szydlo** returns with a spectacular, demo-filled celebration of some of the most important chemistry pioneers.

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

Scent, technology and our senses: Exploring olfaction in an increasingly digital world

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.

Join us at the Royal Institution for the talk “Art cure: The science of how the arts transform our health” Many of us consider making and consuming art to be a hobby, or even a luxury. But what if arts engagement—from classical music to salsa, poetry to pop concerts, galleries to graffiti—scientifically held the key to a longer and happier life?

Tackling The Biggest HR Issues Facing The Video Games Industry Today.

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.