A hosted innovation journey into China's Greater Bay Area for families and young people. Inside the labs, factories and campuses building robots, driverless cars and passenger drones. A young person comes home with a direction, not a souvenir.
Filmed across Shenzhen and the Greater Bay Area, where robots walk, cars drive themselves, and the future is already normal.
Produced with Novula, on the ground in the Greater Bay Area.
One method, shaped around who is travelling. Pick the group closest to yours and we will point you to the right next step.
Your group, your dates, your pace. Parents and children see the frontier together, framed before you go and made sense of when you return. No sightseeing trip with a lab visit added on.
Best for families with curious teenagers who want to inspire the next generation.
A trip with something for every age in the room. The pace and the mix are built around three generations travelling as one group, not a standard tour they all have to fit into.
Best for wider families marking a milestone with a shared experience.
A cohort of 10 to 40 students, mentored by people from the companies and labs we work with, ending in a project they have designed, built and shipped. Run in region, or brought to your city.
Best for educators and programme leaders after an experience students remember.
A formative week among peers from around the world, with the structure and care a young person travelling without family needs. Mornings in a lab or studio, afternoons in the field.
Best for students ready for a wider world and a global network.
A hosted week for 18 to 30s travelling solo. Mornings in a lab or studio, afternoons in the field, with the structure and care a young person travelling without family needs. You come home with a written next move, not a souvenir.
Best for 18 to 30s choosing a field, building a venture, or taking a year out with direction.
We design every journey around the outcome, not the itinerary.
The access we open for boards, we open for families. We frame the theme before you go, open the right rooms while you are there, and help you make sense of it when you return.
China's Greater Bay Area packs Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Guangzhou into a two hour radius. Robots that walk, cars that drive themselves, aircraft that carry passengers with no pilot. A week here shows more than a year of reading about it.
Both run 8 days across the Greater Bay Area, fully hosted, framed before you go and made sense of when you return. Dates are indicative and confirmed with your family before you commit.
Robots, flying cars and the year's turn. See out the year where next year is already being built. Humanoids on the factory floor, a pilotless aircraft, a robotaxi from the hotel.
AI, life sciences and what comes next. A spring break with a direction attached. Applied AI, robotics and the genomics labs rewriting the cost of medicine, with a hands-on build day.
Priced per person and scoped to the group, length and departure. Flights are additional. We confirm a full quote after a short call. Innovation tours also run to the United States and India on request.
This is a big decision. Take it in stages. Each step is small, and none of them commits you.
Read the sample itinerary and the brochure. Get a clear picture of where your group goes and what they come home with.
See a sample weekA short online session with our team and a family who has already been. Ask anything, including the questions you would not put in a form.
Request the next sessionReserve a place for Christmas or Easter with a refundable hold. Places are limited, and registering does not commit you to travel.
Register interestSending a young person abroad is a matter of trust. Here is how we hold it. Every figure below is set and confirmed in writing before you commit.
A small group with an Xcubed lead and Novula's team on the ground across the Greater Bay Area, from arrival to departure.
A ratio of one adult to five students, with named leads responsible for the group throughout.
UK trip leads are Enhanced DBS checked, with equivalent vetting for our team in China, a named safeguarding lead on every departure, and a clear conduct and contact policy.
Comprehensive travel and medical insurance arranged for the group, with 24 hour support and a plan for medical needs on the ground.
We handle visa guidance, coordinate flights, and use vetted accommodation and ground transport throughout the week.
A named contact for parents, a 24 hour line during the trip, and a clear escalation route. You always know who to call.
A representative week, drawn from our July 2026 tour. Your itinerary is shaped around your group and the theme you choose, so the running order changes. The kind of access does not.
Settle in, meet the group, and set the theme for the week. An evening briefing on what to look for and why it matters.
Humanoid robots on the factory floor, and the service robots already working in restaurants and hospitals. Then drones and flight.
Inside an electric vehicle maker, then a ride across the city in a driverless robotaxi. What autonomy feels like when it is normal.
Stand under a pilotless aircraft built to carry people, and meet the low-altitude economy China is building first. A hands-on session with the group.
Inside genomics, where the cost of reading a genome fell faster than the cost of computing. What that means for the next generation of care.
A mentored day in a makerspace. The students design, build and ship a small project of their own, with 3D printing and the tools the frontier runs on.
Time for the city, the culture and the people. On the July tour, a typhoon rewrote this day and it became the best one. We leave room for that.
A debrief on what each person is taking home, and the journey back. The trip ends. What it started does not.
Representative only. Company visits are confirmed per departure and shaped around your group.
Our first cohort ran the full Greater Bay Area on the Workforce 2035 Tech Tour, 25 July to 1 August 2026. Here is what they took home.
Seeing is believing. The flying car brought my daughter's drawing to life.
Jenni · Founder, Workforce 2035 · 2026
Twenty years in AI, and one week here still made me feel like a kid. An idea in the morning, a working prototype by evening.
Samani · CEO, AI Parity · 2026
This city has been engineered to allow serendipity.
Milena · GBA Innovation Tour · 2026
The relationships that open doors for boards open them for families. Decades inside the health, technology and finance ecosystems of China, the US and India.
Strategist and entrepreneur, 25 years advising on leadership and transformation across Shell, BP, Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte.
Senior data and AI executive, 20 years building analytics capability across international healthcare, insurance and customer-led organisations.
Founder and CEO of Novula, the bridge between China and the world, with direct relationships across its technology and manufacturing base.
Programme access delivered with Novula, hosted on the ground across the Greater Bay Area, based in Shenzhen.
Tell us who is coming and what you hope they take away. We follow up with the full itinerary, a guide price and a short call. Registering does not commit you to travel.
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