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Imperial is pleased to invite you to Biosecurity at the Frontier, a high-level conference bringing together global leaders to examine emerging biological threats and the actions needed to address them. Moving beyond analysis, the conference will focus on building the frameworks, partnerships, and capabilities required to strengthen biosecurity globally.
Register your interest
Biosecurity at the frontier registrations are now open until 1 June 2026
Note: attendees will be contacted nearer the event with final details.
Conference themes
Threat reduction
The threat landscape is expanding, from weaponised natural pathogens to entirely synthetic threats. We will examine AI-enabled threat creation, novel organisms through synthetic biology, unintentional consequences from frontier biotechnology innovation, evolutionary and infectious disease modelling, food security challenges, and non-pharmaceutical protective systems.
Surveillance
Work is underway to build the next generation of detection infrastructure, bridging biology, chemistry, and engineering. We will explore integrated platforms for chemical and biological threat detection and attribution, water and air surveillance systems, microforensics, evidential-level detection, and the governance frameworks needed for cross-border data sharing and standardised reporting.
Countermeasures
Pandemic responses have shown the imperative to be able to develop and deploy rapid response capabilities at scale. We will investigate response capabilities including 'ever-warm' production systems, modular therapeutic platforms, resilient supply chains, scalable manufacturing for protein and chemical synthesis of therapeutic countermeasures, and broad-spectrum treatments that can be deployed within weeks, not years.
The full range of biosecurity concerns, from epidemics/pandemics and zoonotic disease, through engineered pathogens, accidental release and biological weapons, to plant health, crops and food systems, have become central issues for policymakers around the world. In each domain, scientific breakthroughs, technological capacities and industrial innovations have combined to present new threats and opportunities.
While acknowledging that every element of biosecurity connects to the others, this invitation-only event will focus on identifying where the latest scientific research and industrial innovations can meet the pressing policy questions being asked about directed and man-made threats to human health.
The gap between emerging threats, the technologies driving these threats, and our ability to detect, attribute and respond is widening. Closing it will require new approaches and coordination between those with the insights, authority and expertise to act. In response to these challenges, Imperial will host a high-level biosecurity conference, convening global leaders to examine these challenges and how, collectively, we can respond: moving beyond analysis to building the frameworks, partnerships and capabilities for better biosecurity.
Who should attend
- Government: defence, security and foreign policy
- International organisations: NATO, EU, UN agencies and comparable multilateral bodies
- Research institutions: Directors of biosecurity, synthetic biology, and emerging biotechnology programmes
- Industry: Executives in biotech, defence, AI, diagnostics and therapeutics
Location and venue
Address
Scale Space
58 Wood Lane,
London, W12 7RZ
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