FusionXInnovation 2026

Now in its second year, FusionXInnovation, delivered in partnership with the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), will take place on 16 September at Culham Campus, Oxfordshire.

The event will showcase some of the most exciting early-stage start ups and future commercial opportunities emerging from the fusion ecosystem, bringing together innovators, investors, funders, partners and potential customers. ​

Through panel discussions, the Innovation Hub, exclusive site tours and networking, attendees will gain first-hand insight into how fusion-driven innovation is creating opportunities across a wide range of applications, while building connections that can accelerate commercialisation, collaboration and investment.​

Why Attend?

Discover emerging technologies, meet the innovators behind them, and explore the opportunities shaping the future of AI, robotics, healthcare, advanced manufacturing and fusion.​

• Access a Unique Pipeline of Opportunities​
  Meet founders, innovators and technology teams developing opportunities ranging from emerging concepts to companies actively seeking investment and strategic partners.​
• AI & Advanced Engineering​
  Explore opportunities spanning AI-powered engineering platforms, reasoning-based AI, digital twins, simulation technologies and advanced engineering software. Several exhibitors are applying AI to accelerate engineering design, decision-making and asset management.​
• Robotics & Industrial Automation​
  Gain insight into UKAEA’s robotics and remote handling capabilities through site visits and discussions focused on how these technologies can be deployed beyond fusion into wider industrial applications.​
• Healthcare & Medical Isotopes​
  Discover technologies addressing global isotope supply challenges through novel production methods, accelerator technologies and scalable isotope manufacturing platforms.​
• Critical Materials & Advanced Manufacturing​
  Understand how fusion requirements are driving innovation in materials processing, manufacturing techniques and supply-chain capabilities that have relevance well beyond the fusion sector.​
• High-Growth Deep-Tech Businesses​
  Meet startups and UKAEA spinouts developing technologies with applications across energy, healthcare, aerospace, computing and industrial infrastructure.​
• Curated Connections​
  Alongside the showcase, dedicated spaces will be available for private meetings, enabling direct discussions with innovators, investors and strategic partners around investment, collaboration and commercialisation pathways.​
• See What Comes Next​
  The event culminates in a Dragon’s Den-style session where selected innovators pitch directly to investors and receive live feedback on commercial viability, investment potential and future growth opportunities.
  

Some of the exhibitors include:

• Astut is pioneering a new category of reasoning-based “Explorative AI” for high-stakes decisions where there is no precedent, no dataset and no obvious path forward. Its platform generates novel, transparent and defensible decision options grounded in real-world constraints.
• C3 Systems is using novel semiconducting materials to build the next generation of radiation-hardened electronic end-to-end systems for extreme environments encountered in fission, fusion and space.
• Digital twin software for fusion components, from University of York, is aimed at extending the operational lifetime of high-risk, high-value components in fusion power plants (starting with divertors). The approach uses sensor data, AI, and physics-based modelling to support predictive maintenance and better component management under extreme conditions
• Fusion Energy Partners delivers trusted technical expertise to investors, fusion technology developers, and supply chain organizations navigating strategic opportunities in the rapidly evolving fusion energy market.
• MuWave, a high-power microwave engineering and technology company developing low-cost, high-end next generation microwave technologies for fusion, geothermal and other emerging markets. MuWave is approaching it’s Seed round to develop the second product line of high power gyrotrons using proprietary solutions.
• Singular Machines is transforming how complex engineering gets done. Its platform, coEngen, uses frontier AI to design complex machinery, facilities and infrastructure end to end, compressing work that once took large teams months into days while raising quality and traceability.
• Simvue from UKAEA is an AI-powered platform that transforms complex data and simulations into AI-ready and reproducible data, helping organisations accelerate operations, reduce computational costs, and make better decisions. Simvue is currently seeking Seed investment to accelerate commercial growth, expand AI capabilities, and scale adoption across engineering, science, energy, finance and other high-performance computing sectors.
• StandardX is building the world’s first isotope refinery for credible commercial supply: a single accelerator platform producing the full isotope portfolio from one machine, starting with medical radioisotopes that today’s cancer care and next-generation therapeutics depend on. The same platform, at higher energy and greater scale, can supply tritium as the fusion industry scales towards deployment.
• TuNED for Medical Isotopes is a UKAEA-developed beam converter, that transforms compact accelerators into precision neutron sources with tailored neutron fields. This could help relieve bottlenecks around medical isotope production from fission reactors, to strengthen industrial resilience and improve human health.

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