TechRadar Pro is live at London Tech Week 2025!
We’re here in London to see all the latest talks, panels and news announcements as they happen.
Day one promises to be a bit of a blockbuster, with some very special guests, so stay tuned for all the updates as we see them!
Good morning and welcome to our coverage of London Tech Week 2025!
We’re live on the ground and ready for the event, which kicks off today at London’s Olympia with a welcome from the Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
That’s followed by no less than the CEO of Nvidia himself – Jensen Huang will be on stage soon. It’s bound to be a busy talk, so we’re hoping we can get in and seated soon…
We’ve made it inside Olympia, but the queues for this morning’s opening sessions are going to be major…wish us luck!
The stairway to (London Tech Week) heaven…
Ellen here, and I’m finally sat down for the keynote – there’s definitely a buzz here today. We’re not set to kick off for a few minutes, but I’d say the seating is pretty much full.
Kier Starmer takes the stage now to talk about tech as bringing about great change, and the ‘incredible contribution’ of tech and AI in health and defence – calling AI a transformative in a ‘number of industries’.
Two big announcements come with the PM’s introduction this morning – the first is that Liquidity will base their European headquarters in London, he announces – a £1.5b investment – a “vote of confidence”, he says.
The second is £1b funding for compute power to scale up capabilities by 20x – a serious investment
That’s not all though, he talks about an innovative tool being trialed around councils in the UK that takes hand written planning permission forms and turning them into digital copies in seconds – saving hours for admin workers (but admin workers shouldn’t be concerned about their jobs….?).
Starmer announces plans to ensure that 7.5 million workers are to be trained in AI by 2030 – and NVIDIA are set to sponsor a “talent pipeline”. A new tech-first training programme, a £185m investment into education at school and university level will help to “build a better future” for children across the UK – Starmer thanks the tech industry for its investment into Britain’s future.
He introduces Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for a conversation with himself and Poppy Gustafsson – Minister for Investment. Starmer and Huang both agree that the UK need to ‘lean in’ to AI – they argue it will make the country more secure with cybersecurity protections and economic growth.
AI is not just a technology, but an infrastructure, Huang argues, and that infrastructure requires serious investment and commitment.
The training for workers and students in AI technologies will be crucial, Starmer argues, and exposing young people to AI and tech will open the landscape and encourage young people to excel in the workforce.
Huang calls AI ‘The great equaliser’ – thanks to the way it makes programming and cybersecurity more accessible. AI uses prompts, and ‘speaks human’ – so no need to learn python or C++ anymore. Both the PM and Huang argue that AI will “make humans more human”.
The UK is in the ‘goldilocks’ region – Huang argues. This is because of its fantastic universities, and research communities. Pair this with the 3rd largest AI venture capital investment (behind the US and China) – and you have a perfect ecosystem. However, he points out, this is hindered by the lack of infrastructure – but Huang and the PM agree that this will soon change.
Nvidia is set to start an AI lab, and investments into quantum computing power will ‘get the flywheel going’ Huang points out – he says the UK is the ‘perfect place’ to invest.
Huang predicts that thanks to AI, every industry in the UK will soon be a tech industry. He urges all sectors to apply tech and AI to their workplaces. The UK is an envy of the world thanks to its “abundance” of AI researchers – and investments keep growing.
