Event

Regulating for growth and innovation conference

21 October 2026, 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Location: Westminster

Think tank: Social Market Foundation

This event hosted by UK think tank the Social Market Foundation examines how the UK can turn its ambition to regulate for growth and innovation into an effective regulatory system.

Sessions will include:

  • Fireside chat: what is ‘regulating for growth’ and what progress is being made in the UK? With Baroness Hayter (Chair, Industry and Regulators Committee) and Lord Willetts (Chair, Regulatory Innovation Office).
  • What does does regulating for growth look like? With Stephen Gibson (Chair, Regulatory Policy Committee), Dr Matthew Gill (Institute for Government) and Stuart Hudson (Senior Fellow, Social Market Foundation and former Senior Director of Strategy, Competition and Markets Authority)
  • What should a pro-innovation regulator actually do? With Jennings Balavari (Opsen AI), Stefano Fratta (Meta) and Sophie Tomlinson (Datasphere Initiative)
  • Governing the regulatory system – coherence, capacity and participation. With Dom Hallas (Startup Coalition), Professor Helen Margetts (The University of Oxford) and Sam Robinson (Social Market Foundation)
  • Closing keynote speech. Speaker to be announced.