The main room of the metamaterials manufacturing conference 2026, hosted at The Exhcnage in Brimingham.

Reflections from the 1st Metamaterials Manufacturing Conference

Earlier this week, the MaxLLG team joined researchers and industrialists from across the UK at The Exchange in Birmingham for the inaugural Metamaterials Manufacturing Conference, organised by the UK Metamaterials Network. It was a focused, candid, and energising two days. An that left us with a clearer sense of both the scale of the challenge ahead and the community’s readiness to meet it.