Good afternoon.

I’m absolutely delighted to join you at today’s Summit. And what a fantastic venue, the London Science Museum, a place that stands as a testament to human ingenuity, curiosity, and a shared spirit of endeavour.

I am really honoured to be in a room where that spirit is represented so strongly. Here today, we have companies finding treatments for early-stage lung cancer. Engineers using tiny atomic reactions to create heat, without fossil fuels, in small modular reactors. We have the Faraday Institution exploring whether robots can safely disassemble old batteries, and IBM working with NASA on an open-source AI model that can predict what’s happening on the surface of the Sun, 93 million miles away.

All of this made possible by the UK’s incredible research ecosystem. O

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