Futura Innovation Conference is a global, cross-sector innovation experience taking place 19–21 October 2026 in Limerick, Ireland.
Bringing together 1,500+ participants, 400+ speakers, and 200+ sessions across 15+ venues, Futura connects the people who shape decisions, fund progress, and deliver outcomes into a single shared environment.
Hosted across a walkable city centre, Futura is designed to move beyond isolated conversations, creating the conditions for innovation to progress into real-world application.
A Connected Innovation Experience
Futura is built on a simple principle: meaningful progress emerges when the right people operate within a shared environment.
Rather than segmenting audiences by role or sector, Futura convenes industry leaders, policymakers, investors, founders, and researchers in the same conversations—each bringing a distinct perspective on how innovation is shaped, funded, regulated, and delivered.
The result is a more complete picture of how innovation moves from concept to application.
Designed for Interaction and Momentum
Futura unfolds across Limerick’s city centre, creating an experience shaped by movement, proximity, and interaction.
Participants move between venues, sessions, and informal settings, allowing conversations to continue and evolve throughout the day. This design enables stronger connections, more relevant dialogue, and a clearer path from discussion to action.
Connected Across Sectors and Markets
Futura reflects Ireland’s position as a gateway between Europe, North America and beyond.
By bringing together global and regional perspectives, the experience creates opportunities for cross-border collaboration, investment, and growth. Industry tracks operate as interconnected lenses, revealing how sectors overlap and where new opportunities emerge.
Rooted in Limerick, Connected Beyond
Limerick provides the ideal environment for a connected innovation experience.
Its compact, walkable city centre enables a highly integrated format, while its strengths in advanced manufacturing, life sciences, energy, and education position it as a growing centre for industry and research. With international access via Shannon Airport, the city offers both connectivity and focus.
Delivered by Adeo InterActive
Futura is produced by Adeo InterActive, a global event producer with over 20 years of experience delivering large-scale innovation experiences.
Since 2005, Adeo has brought together start-ups, corporates, investors, universities, and policymakers in environments designed to generate meaningful collaboration and measurable economic impact across regions and industries.
THE FUTURE OF FUTURA
Futura Innovation Conferenceis being developed as a multi-year global platform that connects innovation to real-world outcomes.
By bringing the right people together in the right environment, it creates the conditions for innovation to move into adoption, investment, and impact, building a network that grows stronger with each edition.
