AI isn't the future. we are.
Youth Innovation Event Offerings
From live innovation days at world-leading venues to Drone Football Tournaments to Critical Minds Youth Panels, OXIE events put young people at the centre of the most important conversations of our time.
OXIE Events bring together young people, educators, technologists, and innovators for experiences that go beyond the classroom. Each event is built around a real challenge, a real product, or a real idea — and every young person who attends leaves having contributed something that matters.
Upcoming EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENT
OXIE is bringing multiple events and activities to this years Oxford Ideas Festival!
THE DAWN OF AI: Reading and Q&A
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 2:30pm-3:30pm
Oxford Westgate Library, Queen Street, Oxford OX1 1PE
DRONE FOOTBALL
Thu 29 Oct 2026, 2pm (last entry ~6pm)
Zone ONE
Oxford North, 2 Fallaize Street, Oxford OX2 8GE
PAST EVENTS
Drone Football Bootcamps & Tournaments August 2026
THE DAWN OF AI: EDINBURGH
OXIE hosted our first Youth Innovation Day at the National Robotarium where students from across Edinburgh experieced The Dawn of AI come to life on a tour with the author.
Then the students joined a round table discussion with MP Dr. Scott Arthur and submitted a letter to His Majesty's Government and the Dept of Science, Innovation, and Technology requesting a Youth Assembly be formed as an insider pressure group to inform and advocate for the future young people want in the UK.
Drone Football Tournament May 2026
SWINDON: AI & YOUNG PEOPLE
OXIE joined up with DiversITy Talent to provide a specially curated Design Thinking Programme where 80 college students at New College created innovative solutions to problems they personally face with AI, using Vercel's v0. The most urgent problems they claim to face are:
1. Loss of Critical Thinking
2. Deepfakes & Misinformation online
3. Academic Integrity & Distrust
4. Pollution from Data Centres
5. Emotional Dependence on Chatbots
Four students won a "CyberFirst Student Leader Award" from their final projects.
SMARTSTEMS Event at Oxford University
OXIE joined up with SmartStems to deliver a special day of Engineering to 80 Year 6 Students visiting Trinity College at the University of Oxford. Our Founder, Bryanna Bone, provided AI Literacy workshops and showcased how voice cloning technology can be used in beneficial and dangerous ways. Students then got to try out a video game created with v0 by a beta reader for The Dawn of AI.
National Debate Speech & Poetry Competition
Future voices
Our flagship programme, Critical Minds: AI, culminates in a final project (a speech or poem) that can be submitted to our Future Voices competition.
Empowering the next generation of
Thinkers Leaders Innovators World Changers
National Speech Competition
Our flagship program, Critical Minds: AI, is a 6-week self-led online course designed to help students aged 11–18 explore the impact of artificial intelligence on their future.
It teaches them to question deeply, think ethically, and use creativity to help make sense of the post-AI world.
The programme its curated around the reading of the upcoming YA Novel, The Dawn of AI.
Their final project—a speech or a poem—can then be submitted to the Future Voices Competition, giving young people the opportunity to share their ideas with a national audience and influence real conversations about the future.
