The next wave of AI value creation will come from the industries that build the physical economy.

Aerospace, defense, semiconductors, energy, materials, and advanced manufacturing are under pressure to deliver better hardware faster, yet many still rely on engineering workflows built for a different era. Physics AI has emerged to remove this bottleneck, bringing AI-native engineering and manufacturing workflows into some of the world's most complex and consequential industries.

In this session, Laura Connell, Partner at Atomico, sits down with Chris Wigley, COO of PhysicsX, to explore what it takes to build and scale a frontier technology company in highly technical, highly regulated, and mission-critical sectors. Fresh off PhysicsX's $300 million Series C financing at a $2.4 billion valuation, Chris will discuss the emergence of physics AI, the scale of the industrial opportunity, how trust is earned with some of the world's most demanding customers, and the lessons learned from building a new category at the intersection of AI and industrial engineering.