We have made it down to the Eden Project in Cornwall for Anthropy26. It is the fourth edition, and our fourth time here as a founding sponsor. We were in the room for the first one.
That is not a coincidence, and it is not really sponsorship in the usual sense. Anthropy asks a question we have organised our own business around: if leaders from across the UK came together, what would we ask ourselves? Not how to advance a single sector or solve a problem inside one silo, but how to move forward together.
We take the same view of our own field. There are no AI experts yet, only people learning faster than others, and nobody learns fast alone. The interesting thinking about AI is not happening inside any one company or sector. It is happening in the gaps between them, which is exactly where Anthropy puts you. Three days with people from outside our usual orbit is a good corrective to agency thinking.
The 2026 agenda has been co-created with more than 900 organisations and runs across over 200 sessions. Our own interest sits at a specific intersection: the future of Britain, and what AI is actually doing to enterprise businesses. Not the version in the press releases. The version where a global organisation has to persuade tens of thousands of people to work differently, and the technology turns out to be the easy part.
Anthropy founder John O'Brien MBE has set out what he hopes participants leave with: encounters with people they would never otherwise meet, a fuller appreciation of the ambition this country holds, and a sharper sense of their own capacity to move things forward. Four years in, we can confirm it works.
If you are here too and want to talk about any of that, come and find us.
