Full speaker lineup for RAAIS 2025
National AI policy, image/video/audio/code generation, translating frontier models into products, drug discovery, and more!
The Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) is a community for entrepreneurs and researchers advancing the science and real-world applications of AI. Ahead of our 9th annual event on June 13th, 2025 in London, we’re excited to share the full speaker lineup and what to expect on the day.
At RAAIS, we focus on translating cutting-edge research into products that solve meaningful problems. This year’s program tackles some of the most important themes in AI today — from national policy to multimodal generation, biotech, and beyond.
National AI policy
A fireside with Benedict Macon-Cooney (Tony Blair Institute) and Chris Yiu (Meta) will explore why national AI strategies matter — and what good policy actually looks like. Who’s ahead? Who’s falling behind? How should policymakers respond to accelerating capability and shifting geopolitical dynamics? And where do the world’s largest tech companies fit in?
Image, Video, Audio, and Code Generation
Just a few years ago, we predicted in the State of AI Report that transformer models would reach beyond language. That prediction is now reality — with SOTA performance across modalities.
We’ll hear from Andreas Blattmann of Black Forest Labs on building open-source image and video models. Eiso Kant of Poolside will share how they’re building the world’s most capable AI for software engineering. And Mati Staniszewski, CEO of ElevenLabs, will discuss how they became the go-to for AI audio — and what’s next.
AI for Drug Discovery
RAAIS has long spotlighted AI in science, especially in drug discovery. This year, Max Jaderberg — Chief AI Officer at Isomorphic Labs — joins us to share how the DeepMind spinout is pushing the limits of AI-first drug development. The company just announced a $600M raise and has more updates on the horizon.
From Frontier Models to Products
AI breakthroughs still originate in research — but turning them into useful products remains the hard part. Paige Bailey (Google DeepMind) will share lessons on building with foundation models of all shapes and sizes. Her talk lands just after DeepMind’s release of Gemini 2.5 Pro, now topping performance charts.
A Community of Peers
Throughout the day, you’ll meet an international group of 200 researchers, engineers, designers, founders, and policymakers — from organisations like Oxford, Wayve, NVIDIA, Meta, Imperial, UCL, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NHS, NYU, Odyssey, Cambridge, Tractable, Lambda, Fluidstack, Ginkgo Bioworks, QuantCo, Oracle, ElevenLabs, Unity, Reddit, Isomorphic Labs, DeepMind, and more.