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Futura Innovation Conference brings together 1,500+ participants, 400+ speakers, and 200+ sessions in a dynamic, walkable experience spanning multiple venues across Limerick’s city centre.

Industry leaders, policymakers, investors, founders, and researchers come together in a single shared environment, connecting conversations to real-world outcomes across sectors.

This is not a traditional conference. It is a connected experience where innovation moves into action.

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What is Futura?

One Shared Innovation Experience

Futura Innovation Conference is built on a simple idea: cross-sector collaboration in a shared environment turns innovation into global impact.

Across sectors, participants engage in conversations that connect industry, government, capital, and research. Each perspective adds context, creating a clearer path from discussion to deployment.

Hosted across Limerick’s walkable city centre, the experience is shaped by movement, interaction, and proximity. Conversations extend beyond sessions, building momentum across venues, meetings, and informal exchanges turning dialogue into action.

If you’re building for the future, there’s no better stage than Futura Innovation Conference.

FUTURA AT A GLANCE

19–21 October 2026, Limerick

  • 1,500+ participants

  • 15+ countries

  • 400+ speakers

  • 200+ sessions

  • 7 interconnected industry tracks

  • 15+ walkable venues

What You Will Experience

Futura Innovation Conference is designed for active participation, creating opportunities to engage at every stage of the experience.

You will engage directly with decision-makers across sectors, gaining insight into how innovation is funded, regulated, and delivered. As conversations continue across the city, new opportunities emerge for collaboration, investment, and growth.

The experience combines structured programming with informal interaction, creating an environment where relationships form naturally and ideas move forward.

Hear from the People Shaping What’s Next

Futura brings together senior leaders, operators, and decision-makers who are actively shaping how progress happens across sectors. Their perspectives focus on real-world application, sharing how innovation is developed, implemented, and scaled in practice.

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A Network Strengthening the Experience

Futura is hosted in Limerick, Ireland and strengthened by a network of partner cities contributing expertise, talent, and global connections.

Each city brings distinct sector strengths, creating a broader ecosystem that supports collaboration, investment, and cross-border growth.

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Event Tracks

Industry Perspectives, Connected by Design

Futura’s tracks focus on the industries driving progress, including AgTech and sustainability, enterprise, infrastructure, health, and advanced technologies. Each track offers a lens into a connected system, showing how innovation moves across industries and into real-world application.

AgTech & Sustainability

Culture, Media and Entertainment

Enterprise

Infrastructure and Logistics

Innovative Technologies

MedTech and Life Sciences

Transport and Areospace

Sponsorship Opportunities

Engage at the Centre of Innovation

Align your brand with innovation, leadership, and impact. Partnership includes:

High-impact brand visibility & exposure

Curated networking with key event stakeholders 

Dynamic thought-leadership opportunities

The Bottom Line: Partnering with Futura means positioning your organisation at the heart of global innovation, while actively supporting cross-sector growth in one of Europe’s most exciting emerging hubs.

Event Partners

 
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Be Part of Futura

Get Involved

We’re building a cross-sector movement—and we’d love your support. We are currently seeking:

  • Event Speakers
  • Government & Policymaker Collaborators
  • Steering Committee Members
  • Strategic Funding Partners

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