Policy Live is a one-day event that brings together fresh perspectives from industry, academia, business and policy to explore solutions to the UK's biggest social challenges.

Hosted by Nesta and BIT, this year's conference focused on how policy could be designed, tested and delivered for impact at scale. The event took a fresh approach to the traditional policy conference, mixing panels and keynotes with interactive sessions, hands-on experiments and workshop-style discussions.

More than 400 guests joined us in Westminster for discussions, debates and demonstrations of potential policy solutions to some of the biggest challenges faced by the UK.

We heard from influential leaders, international experts and emerging voices from across governments, the civil service, NGOs and the private sector — on topics ranging from mission-driven government to health and education, economic growth to net zero. We explored new methods of delivery, engaged with fresh evidence from leading experts, and learnt new ways of doing policy differently that could be applied to future work.

Catch the highlights, or watch back a selection of sessions from the event on our YouTube channel to hear optimistic solutions to some of the UK’s biggest policy challenges.

Policy Live will be back in 2026. If you or your organisation would like to be involved, please get in touch. You can also sign up to the Nesta newsletter to make sure you hear about our programme for 2026.