What does truly systemic thinking look like when applied boldly to the UK's connectivity challenge? The RIBA President presents The Loop, a £130bn proposal to link Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, and Bangor via a continuous high-speed elevated rail circuit operating at up to 480km/h. Far more than a transport proposal, The Loop is a provocation: if we treated the UK's movement infrastructure as an integrated system from the outset, what would we build? The session opens the day by challenging delegates to think beyond individual structures and asset boundaries, and to consider what genuine network ambition looks like.