In an Age of Deep Tech, The City Summit Bets on Human Connections
Insider Brief
The sixth annual City Quantum & AI Summit will bring leaders from technology, defense, finance, government and research to London’s Mansion House on Oct. 7.
The program will examine quantum and AI applications and risks across cybersecurity, finance, life sciences, space and national security.
The summit will emphasize plain-language discussions, cross-sector networking and governance for technologies developing faster than existing institutions and regulations
The technologies changing defense, medicine and finance are advancing faster than the institutions expected to manage them. Getting the right people in the same room is a critical step toward optimizing the good that these technologies can do, while minimizing potential adverse effects.
Speech at the Mansion House
Welcome all to the Annual Banquet of the WCIB and welcome to the Mansion House, the Heart of the City.
The Mansion House reminds me of the Villa Farnesina in Rome, built for Agostino Chigi, a banker who was treasurer to the Papal States in 1510 and a patron of great artists. He entertained his clients – Popes, Ambassadors, men of power – in such style that he was known as ‘the Magnificent’.
I should hope we have entertained you in such style today, that you too will say the International Bankers are Magnificent!
At one banquet, in an extravagant gesture, the silver dishes were thrown into the Tiber River after use. I therefore ask you to pick up any silver left on your tables and we shall throw it into the Thames. Or perhaps not!