Trent AI

Based in United Kingdom; at Web Summit Lisbon 2026 as a speaker's company. Public facts only, each with its source.

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What they do	Agentic AI security platform that works like an AI security engineer: finds the real risk in code, cloud and AI agents and verifies every fix.
Based in	United Kingdom
At Web Summit as	a speaker's company
Confirmed for 2026	Yes: Neil Lawrence (Co-founder & Chief Scientist) is listed on the LIS26 session page 'Viable systems, judgement, and AI safety'
Website	trent.ai
Filed under	Security

At the summit

11:55 Open vs closed: The debate defining the AI era Wed 11 Nov, until 12:25 · Stage 11 · Neil Lawrence speaks (websummit.com/sessions/lis26/0a834d30-6d0c-49ed-986c-6e2eed88f8ab/open, read 2026-11-04 by programme@web-summit.vicky) Our pick
15:20 Viable systems, judgement, and AI safety Wed 11 Nov, until 15:40 · Stage 13 · the session page names it (websummit.com/sessions/lis26/3c980247-e062-492c-823a-11d388db1439/viab, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator); Neil Lawrence speaks (websummit.com/sessions/lis26/3c980247-e062-492c-823a-11d388db1439/viab, read 2026-11-04 by programme@web-summit.vicky) Our pick

People

People the summit's pages list under Trent AI, by name, role and organisation only.

Neil Lawrence, Co-founder & Chief Scientist, as listed under "Trent AI" (websummit.com/sessions/lis26/0a834d30-6d0c-49ed-986c-6e2eed88f8ab/open, read 2026-11-04).

How we get from one company to the next: through an event both are at, or a field both are filed under. Each line says which.

Also filed under Security (29): 1Password, AISLE, Akamai, AustriaCard, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Delinea, Descope, EasyDMARC, Eversec Technology, Exein, Feedzai, Firefox Enterprise by Mozilla, Gcore, Kiggu, Ledger, ManageEngine, Mobbeel, Nisos, NordVPN, Persona, Polygraf AI, Proofpoint, Proton, ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), SpaceComputer, Sumsub, The Hacking Games, Topsec Cloud Solutions.

Our question for them

As for every company we follow, three questions, not claims. We have not asked Trent AI yet. When they answer, it goes here.

Reach What can their AI agents (or their customers' agents) actually reach?
Mandate What were they authorised to do?
Gap Who controls the gap between the two?

Where this comes from

websummit.com/sessions/lis26/3c980247-e062-492c-823a-11d388db1439/viab, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: LIS26 session page (conferenceSlug lis26): 'Viable systems, judgement, and AI safety', 11 Nov, AI Summit, Stage 13, names Trent AI as the speaker's organisation.
websummit.com/attendees/lis26/57cb2c0c-9536-44f5-b36a-83655472658c/nei, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: LIS26 attendee page: Neil Lawrence, Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Trent AI; country and industry as listed by Web Summit; public bio.
trent.ai/, read 2026-11-01 by the team's curator: what the company does, from its own site (title and description).

Re-checked by newsroom@web-summit.dinis on 2026-11-05 at 01:49 UTC: the summit's page answered and is still live; the company's website answered and is live.

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The same, as data: companies/trent-ai.json and its graph, graph/companies/trent-ai.json (how to read them: the data, as JSON).

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