UK AI Forum events are primarily designed for professionals actively working in the AI space, including researchers, engineers, policymakers, and thought leaders. While our core community consists of AI professionals, we also welcome participants from adjacent fields who bring valuable interdisciplinary perspectives to discussions about AI and its impact on humanity's future.

We host five main types of events:

• Speaker series: Gatherings featuring short talks that spark deeper conversations about AI safety and security

• Research Accelerator Week: A specialised programme designed to help AI Safety researchers construct ideas, form teams, and get funding to pursue novel research.

• Research exchange dinners: Small, focused dinners that mix researchers from different institutions

• Parties: Large celebrations where AI researchers can connect in a relaxed setting and celebrate breakthroughs

UK AI Forum is strategically positioned within the broader UK innovation landscape. We're sponsored by Meridian Cambridge, which also hosts the Cambridge AI Safety Hub. We're actively building relationships with key institutions across the UK AI ecosystem - if you’d be interested in collaborating with us on an event, please get in touch!

AI safety/security is central to our mission. We believe the AI security community needs to be ambitious in its goals and approaches. UK AI Forum creates spaces where researchers in this space can consolidate interests, refine ideas, and cultivate an atmosphere of ambition and agency. 

Our goal is to amplify groundbreaking work in AI security, motivate people to pursue relevant upskilling, foster collaborations between researchers, and build bridges between technical AI development and security research.

Whether you're interested in attending our events, speaking at a salon, hosting a research dinner, or forming a more long-standing partnership, we'd love to hear from you and discuss how we can collaborate to strengthen the UK's AI ecosystem. Please feel free to reach out at ellen@meridiancambridge.org

Our community building is guided by three core principles:

1. Organic connections: We design events that facilitate natural conversation. There will be no awkward networking exercises.

2. Cross-pollination: We aim to mix participants from different institutions and disciplines to find unexpected common ground.

3. Quality over quantity: We focus on meaningful interactions, building our reputation through strong execution and gradual, organic growth

We evaluate our impact through event attendance, the number of cross-institutional collaborations formed, participant satisfaction, research output resulting from connections made at our events, and the growth of our community.