Innovation Late

Let us give you a glimpse of the future and how it will be engineered. Join us to celebrate National Engineering Day 2026

London, get ready to step into the future!

This free annual event is back in London on the evening of Tuesday 3 November.

Come along to see The White Rabbit transformed into a playground for the UK’s boldest inventions and brightest minds, ahead of National Engineering Day on 4 November.

Step into a world of wonder at Innovation Late celebrating the best of British innovation and technology. For one night only, you’ll discover mind-blowing technology, immersive experiences, and inspiring talks all designed to spark your curiosity.

Hosted by science TV presenter & producer Greg Foot, come and see, touch and experience the future of engineering, and discover how it will enable us to live well in 50 years time on Earth, and beyond.

You'll hear from trailblazing speakers and discover ideas and innovations that are making a better future for people and the planet. And you’ll get to experience live demonstrations of the latest cutting-edge technology.

Drop-in anytime, and take your pick from the series of talks, exhibits and hands-on activities on offer.

Get ready for a night of fun, curiosity, and hands-on discovery. Innovation Late is your ticket to the future.

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Host and speakers
Exhibitors

Host and speakers

Host - Greg Foot

An award-winning TV & Radio Science Presenter & Producer, Greg Foot is known for the popular BBC Radio 4 show & podcast Sliced Bread and as a regular on BBC Morning live. A scientist by training (first class degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University), Greg has been making science content for close to 20 years including multiple TV series for BBC Three, BBC America & BBC Worldwide, an ambitious interactive live shows for families on YouTube (Let’s Go Live & others), and toured spectacular science theatres shows around the UK.

Chloe Lipton

Topic: The Steminist Revolution: From Misogyny to the Moon

Chloe Lipton is an astronautical engineer, science communicator and creator of The Everyday Steminist. After beginning her engineering career with the Royal Air Force, she moved into the civilian aerospace industry, eventually finding her passion in the space sector. Her work combines a love of engineering with a mission to challenge gender inequality in STEM. Today, her online community has grown to more than 200,000 people across social media, where she’s building a movement to make STEM more inclusive, more representative and ultimately better for everyone.

Jonathan Pugh

Topic: Reading life through a tiny hole

Jonathan Pugh is Director of Corporate Impact Programmes & Sustainability Reporting at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. For the past 15 years, he has been part of the journey to turn DNA sequencing from a specialist laboratory technique into a portable technology capable of reading DNA through a hole around 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. Today, it is used everywhere from hospitals to space. At Innovation Late, Jonathan will explore the engineering breakthroughs behind this technology and how they are helping improve human health around the world.

Lucy Jung

Topic: Engineering for Good: Designing a Better Future for How We Live

With a background in Innovation Design Engineering (MSc/MA) from Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, Industrial and Informatic Design (BA) from Korea University, and a Certificate of Management Excellence from Harvard Business School, Lucy specialises in user-centred innovation. She has founded and led companies dedicated to developing medical devices that seamlessly integrate engineering, clinical research, and user-centred design. Notably, her experience includes creating a neuromodulation device for people with Parkinson’s, and more recently at LYEONS, developing multisensory systems designed to support nervous system regulation in everyday life.

Katerina Spranger

Topic: When Millimetres Matter: How engineering is changing the way we plan brain procedures.

Katerina Spranger is the CEO and Founder of Oxford Heartbeat, a company that has developed PreSize, an AI-driven neurovascular software that makes brain implant procedures safer. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Oxford. In 2024, Katerina received the Princess Royal Silver Medal and in 2026, she was named first-place winner of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Women Innovators Award and was also recognised by Forbes as a “Founder Striving to Change the World.”

Exhibitors

All the exhibitors at Innovation Late are designed to be interactive, make you think and allow you to see how the latest innovations are improving today’s society.

Code with embroidery: Turn code into art as your digital patterns are stitched live by an automated embroidery machine from the University of Warwick.

Feel self-powered smart textiles: Discover wearable fabrics that generate energy and track movement to support rehabilitation with University of Loughborough.

Taste edible mist: Guess the flavour– it's harder than you think!

Play video games with your eyes: Explore the next generation of gaming tech that lets you play without a controller, mouse or keyboard.

See how music changes your heart rate: Understand how this research could shape personalised, non-invasive healthcare.

And many more...

Past events

Check out some of the interactive exhibits and talks at Innovation Late 2023 and 2024 which gave our guests insight into just some of Britain's exceptional engineering making a difference.

Photos by Layton Thompson.