ARIA x DSV: Leeds Deep Tech Collider

Co-create a vision for new materials with scientists, funders, investors.

Date: Tuesday, 12th August, 2025 Time: 5:30pm to 8pm Location: Nexus Leeds Detailed Agenda: here

The fabric of deep tech imagination has changed. New funders like ARIA are backing inventions and startups for the UK’s next trillion pound industries. Deep Science Ventures launched a new PhD in invention focused on building deep tech companies to solve global challenges.

These goals can be accelerated if not entirely unlocked by new materials. The next generation of materials will emerge from our ability to assemble molecules. New assemblers will emerge from collissions of ideas and inventors. This is your Deep Tech Collider.

At the convergence of fields like synthetic biology, Chemical engineering, NanoTech and more unprecendented possibilities are opening. Yorkshire's most curious and ambitious researchers are invited to drive their wildest visions into the world.

We’re maximising collisions between:

Yorkshire's boldest PhD’s, hackers, postdoc’s, theoreticians, professors and more
The team behind the newest Opportunity Space at ARIA
Venture Scientists from Deep Science Ventures

By exploring:

Biology Biology can assemble almost any function from local molecules how might we?

Energy If energy were effectively free what currently impractical manufacturing processes would become viable?

Production Systems Can we build antifragile stochastic production systems like chip fabs that function more like rainforests than brittle 2D grids?

Reactors What does the reactor look like for democratized programmable molecular assembly of macroscale materials?

Meet the Hosts:

Empowering scientists to reach for the edge of possibility. ARIA is a UK R&D funding agency built to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Program Directors Find paradigm shifts and fund startups, industry and labs which could make them reality.

A global decentralised, venture builder and fund. Built 50 deep tech companies worth $500m in Climate, Agriculture, Health and Computation. Runs the world’s first PhD in invention for driven individuals who want to tackle the biggest challenges in their industry.