INVITATION ONLY
This event is invitation only. If you are interested in being added to the guest list, please complete our Register of Interest form.
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) programme support talented entrepreneurs from around the globe to turn their engineering innovations into impactful, sustainable businesses. Advance 2026 supercharges the growth of customer-validated product through rapid scale-up and international expansion.
The Advance 2026 Pitch Day with marks the culmination of a six-month journey for our entrepreneurs on our scale up programme.
Learn more about the latest innovations across the markets we support internationally. Make new connections and watch this inspiring day unfold as our innovators pitch and receive feedback from an expert panel of judges.
Advance 2026 is a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Engineering and Global Disability Innovation Hub, part of the AT2030 programme, which is funded by UK International Development. The theme for Advance 2026 is 'Accessibility, Assistive and Inclusive Technologies'.
If you are interested in international start-ups with a positive social impact, then please get in touch to seek an invitation. Please click here to learn more about the entrepreneurs for Advance 2026.
Programme
| 9.30am | Registration and refreshments |
| 10.30am | Pitches |
| 12.00pm | Lunch, networking and exhibition |
| 2.15pm | Event ends |
Photography/filming notice
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Venue and accessibility
It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team more than one week in advance of this event so that necessary arrangements can be made. Contact details: [email protected].
Further information about accessibility at Prince Philip House can be found at: https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/accessibility.
Diversity monitoring form
The Academy is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and one of our goals is to develop an engineering community fit for the future. To help us achieve this, we would like to collect some basic anonymous data about the event attendees. If you would like to help, please complete the diversity monitoring form by logging into your user account on our website and completing ‘Update my D&I data’.