The return of CogX.
Smaller rooms. Bigger ideas.
11 years bringing clarity to the work of AI and emerging technology.
Get in TouchWhat we're building in 2026
Studios
AI podcasts and media that go deep. Infrastructure, policy, science, money. No softball questions.
Learn moreSalons
30–80 people. Hand-picked. AI-matched networking. No lanyards. One topic. The right room.
Learn moreAwards
Recognising exceptional AI companies since 2017. Winners meet investors through the CogX Syndicate.
Learn moreLabs
We don't just award companies — we build them. Venture studio. Operator-led. Infrastructure-first.
Learn moreCogX Studios
We're not starting a podcast. We're building a production platform.
Long-form, technically rigorous shows about AI — the infrastructure, the policy, the companies, the science, the money.
The Shows
- The Innovator's Take — Weekly news. 3–5 guests pick the story they want to lead with.
- Icons — Two icons of tech meet for the conversation they've always wanted to have.
- 20/20 — One guest. Their journey. What would they do differently?
- CogX Explains — Single-topic explainers. Animation + voiceover.
Looking for: builders, researchers, operators, investors, policymakers with skin in the game.
CogX Salons
The smartest room you've been in this year.
Intimate gatherings of 30–80 people — hand-picked by invitation, with AI-matched networking powered by Neevie.
No panels of six. No expo hall. One topic. One evening. The right people.
Each Salon is hosted by a venue partner and curated around a single theme — AI infrastructure, climate tech, health AI, policy, or whatever the room needs.
CogX Awards
Since 2017, CogX has recognised the companies and people doing the most consequential work in AI — often before the rest of the world caught on.
Past Winners Include:
- Geoffrey Hinton — Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018
- Mustafa Suleyman — Outstanding Innovations in AI: Deep Learning (DeepMind), 2017
- Darktrace — Enterprise CXO Leader, 2020 & 2023
- UiPath — 2017 winner, $30B IPO
- OpenAI — AI Innovation, 2019
- Gwynne Shotwell — Best Innovation in Space, 2020
2026 Categories:
AI Infrastructure · AI Safety · Enterprise AI · Healthcare · Climate & Energy · Government · Finance · Breakthrough Research · Rising Star
CogX Labs
We don't just award companies — we build them.
CogX Labs is the venture studio arm — operator-led, infrastructure-first. Current builds include RIDIAN (AI infrastructure intelligence) and Neevie (voice-first AI networking for events).
Award-winning companies connect directly with investors through the CogX Syndicate.
“The most important AI event in Europe.”
“One of the high points in the European tech event calendar.”
“Thoughtful conversations, intense curiosity, and a desire to help address the world’s greatest problems.”
Founded 2015 · The O2 Arena 2023 · London & Los Angeles
About CogX
CogX started in 2015 with a daily newsletter and a weekly networking dinner — bringing together the small but growing community of people building, investing in, and thinking about artificial intelligence in London.
By 2017, those dinners had become the UK’s first major AI festival. Then we went global. Then we paused — because the format ran out of road before the mission did.
The mission hasn’t changed. The format has.
How do we get the next 10 years right?
Studios · Salons · Awards · Labs
Same question. New answers.
— Charlie Muirhead, CEO & Co-founder