Reuters NEXT Europe: Inside the Inaugural London Summit

Reuters NEXT Europe brought its first invitation-only leadership summit to London on June 16, 2026, extending the Reuters NEXT series beyond its established gatherings in New York, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. The summit landed at a pointed moment: European leaders are being pressed to deliver on defense integration, energy sovereignty, industrial renewal and the rules that will govern artificial intelligence, all while power dynamics across geopolitics, technology and capital continue to shift.

Drawing on the reporting strength of Reuters' global newsroom of more than 2,600 journalists, the day's agenda spanned geopolitics, economy and markets, banking and finance, AI and technology, climate and sustainability, and business leadership.