Where the pioneers of science and computation meet the builders and capital shaping what comes next.
Breakthroughs now depend on integrating frontier science, scalable models, compute infrastructure and capital formation.
The frontier conversations shaping the next era of science, intelligence, capital — and the planet.
A green revolution driven by the synergy of technology and capital.
An energy revolution driven by AI computing power — and a new paradigm for a low-carbon economy empowered by capital. The Dual Carbon goals are not merely an emission-reduction task: they are a systematic economic transformation, restructuring the energy landscape, industrial paradigms and capital logic.
Source: BloombergNEF, Energy Transition Investment Trends.
Keynotes, panels and firesides across the six themes — building to the Exhibition and the Gala.
Two full forum days in Hong Kong. Turing and Fields laureates open each morning, with panels and fireside chats interleaved across the six themes — from the science of intelligence to sovereign compute, dual carbon and strategic capital.
Between the close of the Forum and the opening of the Gala, the Exhibition opens at the Grand Hyatt — a two-hour window for guests to move through the work on show before the evening begins.
The evening the summit builds to. Turing Award laureates and Fields medalists are the guests of honour, joined by sovereign wealth, global capital and the founders building the intelligence economy.
— the architects of the modern scientific age.
The leaders shaping frontier AI, global capital and science.
Proposed speakers · subject to final confirmation
A week of thorough scientific dialogue between the world's laureates and 200 young researchers — the model we build on.
Founded by Klaus Tschira to bridge mathematics and computer science, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) was established in 2013. Each year it brings the most distinguished mathematicians and computer scientists together with 200 young researchers from around the world for a week of in-depth exchange in Heidelberg.
Its power lies in an informal structure — laureates and rising scholars interact far beyond the podium. Funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation, with HITS and Heidelberg University as research partners, and supported by the ACM, the IMU and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Dr. Agnes Szmolenszky — Executive Director and Board Member of the HLFF. A biochemist by training, she previously led Science Education and Public Engagement at EMBL and directed the European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences, and was appointed to the HLFF board in April 2025.
"Masters of Abstraction" — Hong Kong, January 2019.
Co-hosted by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation and the Innovative Business Foundation — the HLFF's first science gathering outside Europe. A two-day programme of banquet and forum, with laureates sharing their work with young scientists at Hong Kong PolyU. The Opening Banquet was officiated by HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
Masters of Abstraction · Hong Kong · December 16 & 17, 2026
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