Deep Tech
The Deep Tech program at unDavos Summit 2026 covers five frontier technology areas: space, defense, quantum, robotics, and compute infrastructure. Each topic matters. Each is moving fast. And each needs capital, partners, and people who can actually build.
Our panels bring multiple perspectives on stage at once: investors, startup and scaleup founders, established corporates, operating companies, and technical experts. This mix creates real tension and real insight—not just polite agreement.
Every session runs on 5-6 questions that build a narrative. At least 1-2 are deliberately challenging. We don't do softballs.
The goal isn't conversation for its own sake. We're here to spark action: investment into companies that deserve backing, implementation projects that move technology into the real world, and partnerships between people who wouldn't otherwise meet.
The program includes structured speed networking, two major session blocks covering all five domains, and a Deep Tech Investor Reception co-hosted with AI and FinTech tracks.
If you're building, funding, or deploying frontier technology, this is where to be.
Program Schedule
Each session brings together investors, startups, established players, and operators. Panels built around 5-6 questions that drive a narrative—including the hard ones. The goal isn't just discussion. It's sparking investment, implementation projects, and partnerships that actually happen.
Space Technology and the Space Economy
Commercial space applications, satellite infrastructure, launch systems. What's commercially viable now, where capital is flowing, and how the space economy shifts from government-led to commercial.
Quantum Technology: Computing, Communications, and Strategy
Quantum computing and communications. Where the technology is, key milestones, how investors and large companies assess quantum, and geopolitical implications of quantum development.
Embodied AI: Robotics, Drones, and Autonomous Systems
AI in physical systems that see, move, adapt. Robotics for manufacturing and logistics, drones, autonomous systems. What's working in production, what's stuck in labs, where investment is flowing.
AI Data Centers and Compute Infrastructure
Infrastructure to train and deploy AI at scale. Energy, cooling, chip supply, edge versus cloud. What's needed over the next 5 years, where bottlenecks exist, how strategy is shifting.
Defense Technology and Innovation
Defense innovation accelerating under geopolitical pressure. Drones, electronic warfare, cyber, dual-use technologies. How startups and established contractors work with government buyers.
Defense Technology and Innovation
Defense innovation accelerating under geopolitical pressure. Drones, electronic warfare, cyber, dual-use technologies. How startups and established contractors work with government buyers.
Quantum Technology and Business
Quantum computing and communications. Technical progress, real-world applications, and the business of quantum—investment models, commercialization timelines, where capital is flowing.
Quantum Use Cases and Applications
Quantum computing and communications applications. Drug discovery, materials science, optimization, secure communications. What works now, what's 5-10 years out, which industries adopt first.
Quantum Technology: Computing, Communications, and Strategy
Quantum computing and communications. Where the technology is, key milestones, how investors and large companies assess quantum, and geopolitical implications of quantum development.
Space & Defense: Frontier Tech, Capital, and Deployment
Space and defense technology. Commercial space applications, defense innovation, dual-use technologies. Investors, operators, and companies building in both domains.