About Nesta

Nesta is an innovation foundation. For us, innovation means turning bold ideas into reality and changing lives for the better. We use our expertise, skills and funding in areas where there are big challenges facing society.

Policy Live returned in 2025 with a fresh line-up of speakers, sessions and ideas.

The challenges facing the UK are well rehearsed: low growth, struggling public services and squeezed budgets both for households and for governments. We need bold ideas that can drive the social change necessary - and we need to do policy differently.

Policy Live explored how we can do that. We heard international experts reflect on their experience of delivering complex policy programmes; explored new methods of delivery; engaged with fresh evidence from leading experts; and learnt new ways of doing policy differently that can be applied to your work.