Summit

GTA Summit Istanbul 2026

OCT7
Time to be announced · Europe / London

About this event

Where the World Meets

In October 2026, Istanbul becomes a gathering place for those shaping what comes next.

The GTA Summit brings together founders, policymakers, investors, and ecosystem builders from across Europe, Central Asia and around the world—leaders who understand that being future-ready is not only about technology itself and more about the people and systems behind it.

Over three days, participants move through a series of curated pockets across the city: Türkiye as the regional anchor, Central Asia as the rising arc, Ukraine, Syria and Gaza as a model of capability under pressure, and the GTA community as a global network preparing for its next decade. GTA partner Future Energy Ventures will also be involved with the event and activities during the week.

This is not a conference but a meeting point—a space where ideas travel, cultures intersect, and human leaders from across geographies exchange perspectives on talent, innovation, and the architecture of the future.

More upcoming events in United Kingdom

OCT
17

Real-Time Video Agents Hack - LDN

London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom
In person

The VAST Builders Challenge is a three-city technical event series bringing together founders and engineers across New York, London, and San Francisco to build production-ready AI systems. Spend the day building agents to unlock the value of video. Because video is hard to search and analyze, most of it stays in storage, unwatched and underused. Experiment with the latest AI infrastructure, collaborate with other ambitious builders, and turn your ideas into shippable prototypes - with access to expert guidance, compute, and the tools you need to ship. Hosted with VAST Data in collaboration with NVIDIA, SpaceXAI, CoreWeave and Weights & Biases. Note: Registration closes on 15th October. Prizes 1st place: NVIDIA DGX Spark™ HuggingFace Microduck Cursor Credits Cash Gift Cards The Builders Stack Here's what you get out of the box, a lightning-quick setup: Video understanding: reason over a video clip with NVIDIA Cosmos. Semantic search: find moments across hours of footage using natural language. Object detection: real-time detection and tracking across frames with YOLO. General-purpose LLMs: models from Weights & Biases to power your application logic (e.g. video agents). The VAST AI OS orchestrates the video ingestion and data layer, models are served on CoreWeave GPUs, and builders ship with Cursor. Build your own video agent or something no one’s thought of. We'll share the videos to get you started on building video agents. Speaker Brian Verkley - Director, AI Data Platform @ VAST Data Judges Abubakr Karali - Senior Solutions Architect @ Nvidia Ram B. - Sr. Developer Advocate @ VAST Data Brian Verkley - Director, AI Data Platform @ VAST Data Junaid Butt - AI Solutions Engineer @ Weights and Biases Who should attend Developers, ML/AI engineers, agent builders, and data engineers, from startups to enterprise teams working with video or multimodal AI. While individuals are welcome, we encourage teams of up to four members and will prioritize team applications. You

08:30 · Free · AwardsDetails →
OCT
17

The ancient cosmos: The James Webb Space Telescope's new revelations

The Royal Institution, London, United Kingdom
In person
  • This conference presents the latest discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope, exploring the origins of our solar system and the universe.
  • It features expert explanations of images and cosmological phenomena for those interested in space science and astronomy.
  • Attendees will gain insight into cosmic mysteries such as dark matter and the universe's shape.
19:00 · GBP 7.9 · ConferenceDetails →
Share this event