Tech events in london

A one-day buildathon on "company brains" - the internal knowledge and workflow layer everyone is talking about and few have built. Lightfern is giving participants early access to its new Mac app before public launch, and the day is spent building plug-ins against real workflows, either your own or from scratch. Open to all levels of AI fluency: seasoned builders, solo founders and operators. Up to 150 participants, first come first served at the venue, so a ticket does not guarantee entry once capacity is reached. Check-in from 09:30, Lightfern demo and sponsor talks, building from 10:45, team and track submission by 11:15, submissions close at 16:00 and prizes at 16:30. OpenAI credits provided; tracks run with Jumpstart and Round Treasury. Why go: early access to an unreleased tool plus a day to build something you can take back to work. Best for operators and founders automating their own internal processes.

Student teams spend a day building an AI model to spot money-laundering-style activity on the XRP Ledger, pulling real public on-chain data themselves and choosing their own stack. Run by the UK Centre for Blockchain Technologies with Ripple, UCL CBT, the Imperial College London Data Science Society, the King's College London Blockchain Society and GirlsWhoML. Teams of up to five, or solo with team formation on arrival. Coffee from 09:30, hacking 10:30 to 16:30, pitches from 17:10, awards at 18:30, networking until 20:00. The 10,000 pound prize pool splits 5,000, 3,500 and 1,500; lunch and drinks provided. Students only. Registration is approval-gated and closes 20 October, a mandatory online session on XRP Ledger fundamentals runs beforehand, and the exact London location is shared with accepted participants. Why go: a rare student hackathon with a real dataset, an adversarial problem and a prize pool worth competing for. Best for computer science, data science and finance students who want a fraud-detection project in their portfolio.

A one-day open-models hackathon at Imperial College London, run by Noetic with the Nebius Developer Community and Imperial Entrepreneurs. The brief is deliberately open: pick a task from your work or studies you would like a model to handle, then build it on Nebius Token Factory and show a working demo by the end of the day. Roughly 60 places, applications reviewed on a rolling basis, teams of three to five with matching at the start for solo applicants. The day runs from check-in and account setup at 10:00 through a live Token Factory demo, a challenge brief, building from 11:30 with Nebius developers on the floor as mentors, submissions at 16:30, demos at 16:45 and prizes at 17:30. Free tokens and food throughout. Why go: a full build day with mentors from the inference provider in the room, not a talk about open models. Best for engineers, ML practitioners and students who want something shipped by the evening.

A daytime open-source hack run by the London Scala User Group at SiriusXM, working on Typelevel projects — the functional-programming ecosystem around Cats, Cats Effect, fs2 and friends. The format is collaborative contribution rather than talks: people pick up issues, pair on them and get changes in. The organisers explicitly say novice Scala developers are welcome and answer that question directly in the event FAQ. Why go: contributing to a library you already depend on, with its maintainers and users in the room, is the fastest way to understand it, and the open door for beginners makes this a low-risk first open-source contribution. Best for Scala developers at any level and anyone curious about functional programming in practice.

A BCS evening lecture on autonomous vehicles: how close the technology actually is, where the hard failure modes sit, and what the regulatory path looks like. Hybrid — attend in person at BCS on Copthall Avenue, or online. Why go: BCS lectures tend to be sober about timelines in a way vendor events are not, and the regulatory half of the self-driving question gets far less airtime than the perception-and-planning half even though it is the part that decides when anything ships. Best for engineers in automotive, robotics or safety-critical systems, and anyone tracking the UK regulatory picture. There is a real room in the City, so go in person if you want the discussion afterwards.

Alan Costley at the Royal Institution on the technologies competing to deliver working fusion reactors, and which of them might win the global race for clean power. Why go: fusion is the deep-tech sector where the gap between press release and physics is widest, and the Ri's lecture format is built for getting the actual engineering explained rather than the funding narrative. Best for climate-tech and deep-tech investors who need to tell the approaches apart, and for engineers who want an evening of real content in the Faraday theatre.

A one-day summit at the Hilton London Croydon, run by Croydon Business Association, bringing together tech leaders, business owners and Croydon residents around innovation and inclusion. Why go: almost every London tech event happens in a two-mile strip between Shoreditch and Soho, and south London businesses rarely get a room of their own. If you build, hire or sell outside zone 1 this is a more useful set of contacts than another Old Street evening. Best for founders and business owners in south London, and anyone whose market is outside the centre.

Jon Lindsay at King's War Studies on his book Age of Deception, which argues that widespread trust in cyberspace is precisely what enables espionage and subversion - the vulnerability is the cooperation, not the code. Hosted by the School of Security Studies in the Dockrill Room. Why go: a structural account of cyber conflict from the international-relations side rather than the threat-intel side, in a department that does this seriously. Best for security engineers and policy people who want the strategic frame their vendor briefings never supply.

An informal evening on the Second Home Spitalfields rooftop, hosted by Advapay, for UK fintech, payment and e-money businesses looking at expansion into the EEA and further. Talks, wine and networking from 16:00. Why go: post-Brexit EEA licensing is the specific, unglamorous problem blocking a lot of UK payments companies, and this is a room built around that one question rather than fintech in general. Best for payments and e-money founders and their compliance leads. Go for the people who have already done the licence, not the talks.

with Tara Ojo Agyemang (Developer Relations Engineer, Google Chrome) · Nick Ferrell (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Focused)

Two talks on getting AI agents to work on the real web and in real production systems, hosted at AutogenAI's Pentonville Road office. Tara Ojo Agyemang, a Developer Relations Engineer on Google's Chrome team, opens with WebMCP. Most agents drive websites today by reading screenshots and guessing at the DOM, which breaks the moment a button moves and leaves site owners no say in how agents use their product; she covers what WebMCP proposes instead. Nick Ferrell, Senior Lead Software Engineer at Focused, follows with the last ten per cent, the evals, observability and cost work that turns an agent demo into something that runs reliably. Free. Doors 18:00, talks from 19:00. Why go: a rare London room where the Chrome platform side and the people shipping agents are in the same conversation. Best for engineers and product people who have an agent demo working and need it to survive contact with users.

BCSWomen marks 25 years of supporting women across every stage of a technology career, at BCS on Copthall Avenue. The evening includes the group's annual AGM. Why go: a quarter-century makes BCSWomen one of the oldest continuous networks of its kind in UK tech, and an anniversary brings back people who have been in the industry for all of it - which is a different and more useful room than the usual early-career mixer. Best for women in technology at any stage, and for anyone interested in how the profession has actually shifted since 2001.

A practical cyber-resilience session at Kingston Guildhall, delivered by the Cyber Resilience Centre and hosted by Kingston Council, for SMEs, charities and public sector organisations. Why go: the Cyber Resilience Centres are police-linked and not-for-profit, so this is one of the few places small organisations get security advice with nothing being sold at the end of it. Best for small-business owners and the person who ended up responsible for IT without choosing to be.

A Geovation Hub session on how government procurement actually works - the point being that government is one of the largest customers in the world and most startups misread how its buying decisions get made. Why go: public-sector sales fails for procedural reasons far more often than product ones, and Geovation (backed by Ordnance Survey and HM Land Registry) has unusually direct sight of how the process runs. An hour here is worth more than a year of guessing at frameworks. Best for founders selling, or planning to sell, into the public sector.

A short Geovation Hub workshop on using AI to make LinkedIn a consistent visibility channel rather than something you remember occasionally. Runs straight after the procurement session on the same afternoon. Why go: founder visibility does real commercial work at seed stage and most technical founders treat it as a chore, so an hour of mechanics beats another post about posting. Best for early-stage founders doing their own marketing - and worth pairing with the government-procurement session earlier the same day if you are selling to the public sector.

A deliberately small speed-networking hour for geotech and proptech founders, hosted by Geovation at its Goswell Road hub, with an Ordnance Survey data Q&A attached. The format is structured rather than a free-for-all: short rotating conversations between founders working on location data, mapping and property technology, then open questions to the OS team about what data is available and how to use it. One hour, 15:00 to 16:00, free, places capped. Why go: the OS Q&A is the real draw — getting a straight answer about licensing and coverage from the people who hold the data usually takes weeks of email. Best for early-stage founders whose product depends on UK location data.

with Kimoon Kim (Customer Engineer, AI/ML Startups, Google Cloud) · Frankie Woodhead (CPTO, Thrive) · Evie Brockwell (Product Operations & Experimentation, New Look)

Product London's evening at Google's St Giles office, hosted by Google Cloud: three talks for product people. Kimoon Kim, Customer Engineer for AI/ML startups at Google Cloud and a two-time founder and CTO, gives a live demo of Gemini Enterprise and makes the case for moving product strategy off scattered tools onto one agent-driven platform. Frankie Woodhead, CPTO at Thrive, on building an AI-native learning and enablement platform serving over 10 million users across 70-plus countries. Evie Brockwell, Product Operations and Experimentation at New Look and a product leadership coach, on the shift from stressed to strategic as a product leader - confidence, presence and clarity rather than frameworks. Venue 1-13 St Giles High St, WC2H 8AG. RSVP on Meetup. Why go: Frankie Woodhead's talk is the one to turn up for - a platform at that scale that has genuinely gone AI-native is rare, and the numbers make it concrete. The Google Cloud demo is a vendor slot; take it as such. Best for product managers and product leaders at scale-ups.

A paid-entry evening party for the London startup scene at Big Chill King's Cross, run by Startup Network Europe. No speakers and no programme: it is several hundred founders, operators, investors and people hiring in one bar, with a ticket price (GBP 12) that keeps it to people who meant to come. Doors 18:00. Tickets are on Eventbrite and these editions usually sell out in the final week. Why go: it is the highest-volume evening of the month for cold introductions, and the sort of room where a hire or a first customer conversation starts. Best for early founders and anyone new to the London ecosystem who wants breadth rather than depth; skip it if you want a talk or a technical conversation.

with Hammed Ajibade (Lead Software Engineer, Pulse) · Gerald Crescione (Lead, AI Security Engineers Community, Snyk)

An evening on controlling AI agents that can call tools, investigate systems and take real actions, hosted at Snyk's Euston office. Hammed Ajibade, Lead Software Engineer at Pulse, asks how you actually revoke an AI agent: splitting read, recommend and execute permissions, where to put the human approval points, scoped credentials you can withdraw, and keeping an evidence trail across agent workflows. Gerald Crescione, who leads the AI Security Engineers Community at Snyk, makes the case for the role itself, combining software, security and AI engineering, and how to find and train people into it. Free, food and drink provided. Doors 18:00, talks 18:30, social from 19:30, ends 20:30. Why go: this is the operational end of agent security rather than the policy end. Best for platform and security engineers who already have agents touching production systems.

The October gathering of DevSecOps London at 123 Pentonville Road: talks on securing delivery pipelines and cloud platforms, aimed squarely at security and platform engineers. Why go: DSOLG has stayed practitioner-run and the talks are about pipelines people actually operate, which keeps it clear of the vendor-conference version of the same subject. Best for platform, SRE and application-security engineers, particularly anyone trying to put security into a delivery process without stopping it.

with Claire Donald (Panellist, MOO) · Charlotte Bullock (Panellist, Bank of London) · Sally Foote (Panellist, Ecosurety) + 3 more

A morning conference for around 80 product leaders, CPOs, directors, heads and VPs of product, on the theme Product Leadership in the AI Era. The format is a panel, two rounds of roundtables, a closing presentation and networking over lunch, finishing at 13:00. Panellists are Claire Donald (MOO), Charlotte Bullock (Bank of London), Sally Foote (Ecosurety) and Gabriel Grigorescu (The Stepstone Group). Roundtables are led by David Ingram (Rezolve AI), Bethan Ashley (thoughtbot), Patricia de Loro Le Discot (Cera) and others. Run by Product Network Europe, hosted by The Stepstone Group and sponsored by thoughtbot. The early-bird tiers have sold out and the standard tier is approval-gated with about 20 places left. Why go: the roundtable format means you talk rather than listen, and the room is senior enough that the AI conversation is about org design and delivery rather than demos. Best for product leaders running teams of ten or more.

with Geraldine Ridgeway (Speaker, MG OMD) · Shane Buckley (Speaker, Uber Advertising UKI)

The October edition of IAB UK's Last Thursday Club, at the Kodak Building, on what the trade body calls the now economy — discovery, consideration and conversion collapsing into a single moment inside the platforms and retailers people use every day. The panel argues a specific question rather than surveying the field: does retail media create new demand, or does it simply capture decisions consumers had already made? Access is restricted to IAB members, agencies and advertisers. Why go: retail media is the fastest-growing ad channel in the UK and the demand-creation-versus-harvesting question is the one that decides how much of a budget it deserves. A panel willing to take a side on it is more useful than another market-sizing deck. Best for performance marketers, commerce leads and anyone with a retail-media line in their plan.

Imperial College's late-opening showcase of its robotics research: meet the robots, see what the labs are working on and talk to the researchers behind it. 18:00 to 21:00. Three practical things the organisers want known in advance. Imperial Lates are for an 18+ audience; registration gets you into the building but does not reserve a seat at any individual talk or workshop, which are first-come, first-served; and entry is via the College Main Entrance on Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ. All spaces, the entrance and the toilets are wheelchair accessible, with lifts to the upper levels. Why go: direct access to working researchers and their hardware, free, with no sales layer in between — the opposite of a robotics trade show. Best for engineers, investors looking at deep tech, and anyone who wants to see what is actually on the bench rather than in a launch video.

with Prachi Gupta (Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Data and AI, AWS) · Raymond Afuye (Data Engineer, Smarterise Integrated Services)

The eighth meetup of the AWS London Well-Architected User Group, working through the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework with people who specialise in it. Confirmed so far: Prachi Gupta, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for Data and AI at AWS, on moving from a data lake to AI-ready analytics with S3 Tables in Amazon Quick; and Raymond Afuye, Data Engineer at Smarterise Integrated Services, on maximising efficiency on AWS through right-configuration. More speakers are being added through the month. Doors 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start, with drinks, snacks and networking afterwards. Free, RSVP through Meetup. Why go: the most active AWS user group in London, and the talks stay on architecture practice rather than product launches. Best for engineers and architects running real workloads on AWS.

Professor Luis Garicano at the LSE School of Public Policy on Messy Jobs, which he co-authored, and what AI is doing to work, careers and the wider economy. Why go: Garicano brings an economist's read rather than a technologist's, and the LSE public-policy framing pushes the conversation towards labour markets and policy rather than tooling. He is also speaking at London Business School on 22 October; this is the policy-weighted version of the same material, so choose by which angle you want. Best for policy people, and anyone planning headcount against an AI roadmap.

The second London edition of the Omni AI Analytics Meetup, at Arcadia Games, built around people who work hands-on with data, analytics and AI rather than people who present about it. The billing is real stories of putting modern tooling into practice: how practitioners build data products, what broke, and what it meant for the business on the other side. Evening format with time to talk afterwards. Why go: still early enough in its run that the room is small and the conversations are direct, and the practitioner framing keeps it away from the platform-demo circuit. Best for analytics engineers, data scientists and anyone building data products inside a company rather than selling tooling to one.

A free, informal morning meet-up at Patch Twickenham for women building, exploring or returning to entrepreneurship in ways that fit around the rest of life. Why go: it is deliberately low-stakes and it is in Twickenham, which matters - the founder community in outer London is real and badly served by a circuit that assumes you can get to Shoreditch for 6pm. Best for women at the earliest stage, including people still deciding whether there is a business in the idea.

A workshop in the River Room on the Strand, run by the Methods Centre, on how AI is reshaping and challenging social science research across both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Why go: the methods question - what it means for validity when a model does the coding, the summarising or the sampling - is being worked out right now, and a methods-centre workshop is where that gets argued properly rather than assumed away. Best for researchers, data scientists working with human data, and anyone building research tooling.

A co-founder matching evening from Tech Launchpads at the Middle Eight Hotel in Covent Garden, explicitly open to technical and non-technical people, academics included, and to people who do not yet have an idea. Why go: the no-idea-required framing is the useful part - most matching events quietly assume you arrive with a pitch, which filters out exactly the technical people everyone is looking for. Best for anyone who wants to start something and needs the other half of the team first.

KCL Tech's flagship annual event, billed as the UK's largest student-led technology conference and careers fair. A full day of talks, panels, workshops and networking that brings students and early-career talent together with founders, engineers and the companies hiring them. The audience is wider than King's: it is one of the few London days where graduate hiring teams, student builders and working engineers are in the same building, and the careers-fair half means the companies present are there to recruit rather than to market. Runs 09:30 to 17:30. Exact venue is shared on registration. Why go: if you are hiring junior engineers in London, this is the cheapest day of the year to meet several hundred of them at once; if you are early in your career, the people on the stands can actually make an offer. Best for students, graduate hirers and anyone building an early-career pipeline.

Solana's Hacker House returns to London for a thirteen-day edition in the run-up to Breakpoint 2026: a working space rather than a conference, open daily from 10:00 to 20:00, with workshops and deep dives across DeFi, security, infrastructure and applications. On site there are dedicated build zones, power and WiFi, food and lounges, plus hands-on guidance from Solana Foundation DevRel, Superteam UK and ecosystem experts. Attendance is approval-only and space is limited; the registration desk is open 10:00 to 17:00 each day and the address goes to approved guests. Sessions can be proposed through the organiser's form. Why go: thirteen consecutive days with core protocol people in the building is a different proposition from an evening meetup, and teams reliably form here. Best for developers shipping on Solana and for founders who want concentrated time with the ecosystem before Breakpoint.

with Steve Martin (VP Engineering, Monzo) · Jennie Woods (VP Engineering, Funding Circle) · Richard Marr (VP of Engineering, PensionBee) + 2 more

Two days for senior engineering leaders in fintech, banking, payments and insurance, run by CTO Craft at The Minster Building in the City. Main-stage talks are interleaved with peer-led breakouts, roundtables and networking meals; day one closes with an afterparty. The agenda is built around the problems fintech CTOs are actually carrying: responsible AI adoption and governance, technical debt and legacy systems, DORA and developer productivity, operational resilience and compliance. Speakers include Steve Martin, VP Engineering at Monzo; Jennie Woods, VP Engineering at Funding Circle; Richard Marr, VP of Engineering at PensionBee; Harry Jell, co-founder and CTO at Yonder; and Carl Sverre, Field CTO at Antithesis. Paid, with separate leader, group and vendor tiers. Why go: the peer-led format means you spend the day with other people who run regulated engineering orgs rather than listening to vendors describe them. Best for VPs of engineering, CTOs and heads of platform in fintech and financial services.

with Ajay Mathur (Data & Business Transformation, Jupiter Asset Management) · Claudia De Jeu Boronat (Lead ML Engineer, WTW) · Garry Manser (Head of Data Governance, Vanquis Banking Group) + 2 more

A five-day practitioner programme from IRM UK at etc.venues Fenchurch Street: workshops on 2, 5 and 6 November wrapped around the main conference and exhibition on 3 and 4 November. Five tracks — AI in Practice and Applied AI, Data and AI Strategy and Value, Modern Data Platforms, Architecture and Semantics, and Governance, Risk, Privacy and Responsible AI. Case studies are from working teams rather than vendors: speakers include Ajay Mathur at Jupiter Asset Management, Claudia De Jeu Boronat, Lead ML Engineer at WTW, Garry Manser, Head of Data Governance at Vanquis Banking Group, Sue Geuens of Elsevier and Daragh O Brien of Castlebridge, with eBay, Meta and the Bank of England cited on the programme. Paid: from £975 plus VAT for one day up to £2,695 for all five, with group discounts. Why go: this is the governance-and-platforms end of the data world, where the talks are about systems already in production. Best for data leads, ML engineers and governance people in regulated industries.

UKAI's day-long summit on sovereign AI: whether Britain should build its own AI stack, what government can usefully do about it, and where a mid-sized economy can realistically specialise. The trade association runs it, so the room is weighted towards policy, procurement and infrastructure rather than product. The published agenda opens at 09:30 with a keynote on sovereign AI and Britain's industrial future, then splits into parallel tracks across the day: responsible AI and standards, sustainable infrastructure, national security and operational resilience, government as a customer, investing in British AI, devolved AI and reskilling, and trust and safety. It closes at 17:30 on the UKAI Sovereign AI Compact. UKAI names no speakers on the page beyond referring to a minister. The Sovereign AI Awards are announced the same evening and take a separate booking. From £150. UKAI's own page gives the venue only as The Oval in central London, with no street address, and its header time of 12:30 contradicts the agenda's 17:30 finish. Why go: the clearest read you will get in one day on where UK AI policy and public money are actually heading, which matters if you sell to government or depend on UK compute. Best for policy, infra and gov-tech people; founders chasing customers will find the investment and procurement tracks the useful half.

Campaign Lab's fortnightly evening hack night at Newspeak House in Bethnal Green. Campaign Lab is a community of progressive data scientists, researchers and activists building election tools and rethinking how political campaigning gets analysed. The format is hands-on: people bring projects, pair on them and ship something over the evening. Explicitly open to newcomers, including people who are not data scientists. Why go: one of the longest-running civic-tech communities in London and one of very few places where campaign data work gets done in the open. The regularity is the point — it is a community you can join rather than an event you attend once. Best for data people who want their skills pointed at something civic, and for anyone curious about how campaigns actually use data.

An unconference for the people who buy, contract for and manage AI. There is no speaker line-up: the agenda is set by attendees on the day. Hosted by Posterity Global at the NatWest Accelerator space on Moorgate, 09:00 to 16:00, with networking until 17:30. Four themes are flagged in advance - moving from transactional procurement to agile commercial frameworks; assessing AI tools against real user needs, legacy IT and data quality; writing contracts that allow experimentation while covering model updates, data security, vendor lock-in and exit; and building the capability to evaluate AI bids and govern supplier performance. Free but approval-gated: you submit details and hear back within three working days. A Cardiff edition follows on 5 November. Why go: procurement is where most enterprise and public-sector AI work stalls, and this is one of the few London rooms where the commercial, legal and technical sides of it sit together. Best for procurement, commercial and legal leads.

techUK's fourth annual flagship summit, themed Innovation Nation: From Breakthrough to Breakout. A full day in central London, 09:30 to 18:00, across AI, quantum, robotics, semiconductors and photonics. Keynotes from Chris McDonald MP, Minister for Science, Innovation and Investment, and Julia Lopez MP, Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, so both front benches are on the programme. Also speaking: Sue Daley OBE and Antony Walker of techUK, Professor Paul Newman, founder and CEO of Oxa, Richard Murray, co-founder and CEO of ORCA Computing, and Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes, CEO of Stateful Robotics. Keynotes, fireside chats, panels and a debate on whether government should back winners. Member tickets are free but sold out, with a waiting list and one per organisation. Non-members GBP 170 plus VAT. Why go: the clearest read of the year on where UK industrial policy for tech is heading, with the ministers setting it in the room. Best for deep-tech founders and executives, and anyone doing policy or public affairs.

Barclays Eagle Labs' curated investor demo day for UK university spinouts: 45 ventures, all actively raising, pitching across three concurrent stages - Life Sciences; MedTech, Physical Sciences and Advanced Manufacturing; and DeepTech and Frontier Technology. Barclays says it convenes around 200 active investors per demo day. Doors 12:30 at Barclays' Canary Wharf head office, a panel first, founder pitches from 13:45, networking 15:00 to 16:15. Benjamin Storey, Barclays' Head of Investor Connectivity, opens. The panel has Tom Adeyoola, CEO of Innovate UK, Anne Dobree, Investment Director at Parkwalk, and Riam Kanso, CEO of Conception X, who also host the Life Sciences and DeepTech stages. Free to attend. Why go: a year of spinout dealflow in one afternoon, with the investors who write cheques for it in the room. Best for angels, deeptech and life-science VCs, and university commercialisation teams.

OpenAI's DevDay Exchange comes to London on 3 November, starting at 14:00. It is the regional follow-on to DevDay — a working session for developers already building on the platform rather than a launch keynote broadcast. Attendance is by application and the organisers review each one; the exact venue is shared with applicants after approval, so the address is not public. Applications were still open and under review when we checked. Why go: the Exchange format puts OpenAI's own engineers in a room with the people shipping against their API, and the London stop is the only UK date. Worth the application if you are building production features on OpenAI models and want answers from the people who maintain them. Best for engineers and technical founders already past the prototype stage.

with Ryan Britnell (Host, Twilio) · Sahar Mor (Host, Bond AI)

A free evening developer event hosted by Twilio at CodeNode, on getting AI agents out of a chat window and into the channels customers already use. Doors 17:00, one session at 18:15 on Twilio Conversations in the agentic era, then a hands-on 'Escape the IVR' build challenge with prizes from 19:00, and a reception from 20:00. Registration is subject to host approval and space is limited; attendees are asked to bring a laptop. Co-hosted with Ryan Britnell and Sahar Mor of Bond AI. Twilio has not published a speaker list beyond 'the Twilio team'. Why go: the build challenge is real hands-on time with the platform rather than a demo. It is a vendor evening though, so go for the hands-on hour and the room, not for independent content.

A small peer-led dinner for edtech founders, run monthly by the British Educational Suppliers Association at The Parcel Yard above King's Cross. 18:00 to 20:00, a light-touch host rather than a chair, and deliberately no stage, no slides and no recording. Conversation runs across growth, funding, people, product and personal leadership, with the group kept small. BESA charges a GBP 10 admin fee to hold the place and you pay for your own food and drink; no refunds. This is the middle of three editions - October has gone and December is on the 1st. Why go: edtech founders rarely get an off-record room with peers at the same stage, and the no-pitching rule here is enforced rather than aspirational. Best for founders and early operators in edtech and the adjacent schools and skills markets; not useful if you came to sell to them.

with Ana Rodrigues (Speaker, LDNUG) · David Whitney (Speaker, LDNUG)

The London .NET User Group's November meetup, at Dojo's canalside offices in the Brunel Building next to Paddington. Two talks. Ana Rodrigues gives "I Spared No Expense", on the projects she built for her own corner of the web that nobody asked for and that she built anyway — a case for personal sites and side projects made for the joy of it. David Whitney takes the second slot. Food and drinks, time to talk, and the usual move to the pub afterwards. Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: LDNUG is one of the longest-running developer communities in London and it still books speakers with something to say rather than a sponsor's deck. Best for .NET and backend developers, and anyone who misses the personal web.

Philip Greenwood and Mark Woodman run an interactive session at BCS's Copthall Avenue offices, using their Digital Acumen framework to work out where the current AI wave's automation capability frontier actually sits - which tasks it moves and which it does not. 18:30 to 20:45, in person in the City, free. It is run as an analysis the room does together rather than a talk with questions at the end, so expect to argue about examples from your own work. The BCS listing names the two speakers but gives no affiliations. Why go: most AI-and-work events either sell a tool or forecast job losses, and this one is an attempt to draw the line methodically with practitioners present. Best for engineering and product leads, and anyone who has to tell a board what automation will and will not do next year.

with James Appathurai (Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, NATO) · Dr Samantha Francis (Programme Director for AI, UKRI) · Dr Stephen Moore (Quantum Science & Technology Strategy Lead, UK Ministry of Defence) + 3 more

A one-day applied quantum and AI show at Big Penny Social in Walthamstow, running three parallel summits - Quantum + AI Compute, Security & Infrastructure, and Industry & Applications - alongside Creative LDN and Labs stages. Doors 08:30, programme through an afterparty from 16:40, close at 19:00. The speaker list is unusually senior. James Appathurai, NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber; Dr Samantha Francis, Programme Director for AI at UKRI; Dr Stephen Moore, Quantum Science and Technology Strategy Lead at the UK Ministry of Defence; Richard Murray, CEO of Orca Computing; Stuart Seymour, Group CISO at Virgin Media O2; and Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford. Tickets go through Ticket Tailor and no price is published. Why go: it is the one London room this autumn where quantum procurement, defence and security people share a building with the firms actually building the hardware. Best for infrastructure, security and R&D leads working out what quantum means for their stack.

A breakfast briefing timed for the week of the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase, running 08:30 to 11:00 in London. The panel works through four questions: where UK quantum capability actually stands and which gaps international partnership has to close; what collaboration looks like across research, supply chains and trade; how to grow domestic capability while staying open to foreign investment and talent; and what the UK can usefully copy from other countries. Aimed at government, industry and investors in the quantum sector. Free and open to non-members. No speakers announced yet. The exact venue comes with registration. Why go: quantum funding and export policy are being rewritten right now, and a two-and-a-half-hour breakfast with the people writing them is a cheaper way in than the Showcase itself. Best for quantum founders, investors and anyone with a supply-chain stake in the sector.

A full-day conference from TUV SUD on adopting AI and building the assurance needed to use it responsibly, run in partnership with the Centre of Excellence for Enterprise AI at Aston University. Registration and coffee from 09:00, sessions through to 16:00 at IET London: Savoy Place. The morning opens with Strategic Landscapes and AI Growth, with Chris Whyborn, Alexeis Garcia Perez and Paloma Laye, followed by a longer block on responsible AI and cyber resilience. Richard Skalt and Iain Bowes also speak. Refunds are available up to seven days before. Why go: assurance and conformity testing is where most AI deployment plans quietly fail, and TUV SUD certifies this work rather than just talking about it. Best for people who have to sign off AI systems in regulated or safety-critical settings.

Mind the Product brings its AI Builder Hackathon back to London for a full day of building, alongside PendomoniumX at The Mermaid on Puddle Dock. A smaller room than the first London edition, so tickets are described as super limited. Teams build through the day; the top teams take a prize package worth over £3,000 in AI tool subscriptions, and members of the winning team get tickets to next year's #mtpcon London. Speakers to be announced. Food and drinks are provided. Free but ticketed and capacity-capped, so register ahead rather than turning up, and bring a laptop — the organiser states one is required to take part. Registration is separate from PendomoniumX itself, and hackathon registrants are offered half-price entry to PendomoniumX on 5 November. Programme 11:00 to 17:00 per the registration page. Why go: a full day of hands-on building with London's product community, with a prize worth having and the conference crowd next door. Best for product managers and builders who want to leave with something working rather than notes.

An afternoon ecommerce and DTC growth conference at 83 Rivington Street, pitched as the non-corporate east London alternative. Doors and lunch from 12:30, programme from 13:30, running to 19:00. Speakers include Anthony Barone (Studio Hawk), Shivali Bennion and Cassi Idun (Shaded) and Stokely Howard (Trendy Grandad), with sessions on making raw content travel further and on growth tactics for retail and DTC brands. No refunds. Why go: the line-up is operators who run the channels rather than consultants describing them, and the room is small enough that follow-up conversations actually happen. Best for ecommerce founders and growth leads at DTC brands past their first traction.

with Imogen Levy (Chief Digital Officer, RSPCA) · Lingjing Yin (Head of Product, Royal Borough of Greenwich Council)

The first session in a new series marking ten years of Projects by IF, on when generative AI can responsibly improve public services and when a human has to step in. Imogen Levy, Chief Digital Officer at the RSPCA and previously Head of Product for NHS England's First Contact: Intelligent Navigation programme, talks through AI-powered triage and self-referral. Lingjing Yin, Head of Product at the Royal Borough of Greenwich, covers product transformation and service design in local government, including Greenwich's anti-poverty response. Discussion, then drinks and snacks at Newspeak House. Registration currently shows the event as full, with a waitlist open. Why go: triage is the sharpest version of the public-sector AI question, and both speakers have shipped it rather than theorised about it. Best for people building services in government, health or the third sector.

The monthly Cloud Native London meetup, at Just Eat's Fleet Place House office. Pizza and drinks from 18:00, welcome at 18:30, wrapping up at 20:30. Three slots on the bill: speakers from Magentic and Teleport, both still to be confirmed, and Surya Pandian from TrueLayer. Topics are not yet published. The evening is livestreamed on YouTube, so the room is the in-person half of a wider audience. Organised by Cheryl (@oicheryl), who also handles the speaking and sponsorship list. RSVPs close at 10:00 on the day, and ground-floor security will not let you up unless your name is on the list. Why go: 1,898 reviews at 4.5 is a reliable signal, and this is one of the few London rooms where the people in it run Kubernetes and platform infrastructure in production. Best for platform and SRE engineers.

The fourth Process London, run by Right Aligned and sponsored by The 3Key, on the working processes freelancers, founders and in-house teams actually use rather than the finished case-study version. At Signature Brew Haggerston, doors 18:00, talks from 18:30, finishing around 21:30. Speaking are Cillian Carroll, senior designer in Koto's London studio, Jim Sutherland, founder of Studio Sutherland, and Maddie Hutchison, a freelance strategy director. Talks cover career routes and how specific client projects were run. Early-bird and general admission tickets, limited numbers, 18+. Why go: design talks usually show the output; this series makes people explain the middle bit, which is the part that transfers. Best for designers and studio owners deciding how to structure their own work.

ACCU London restarting after a few years off, with a deliberately interactive format at The Marquis Cornwallis in Bloomsbury. Arrivals from 18:30 in The Drawing Room, finishing at 21:30. Meri Williams, ex-CTO at Monzo and Pleo and co-chair of LDX, keynotes at 19:25 on their research into how engineering skills actually improve now, with advice for juniors and seniors. Then Speed AMAs: ten-minute private one-to-one slots with Meri, Paul Grenyer (engineering lead at Haven, author of So You Think You Can Lead a Team?), Quasar Chunawala (quantitative developer at CME Group) and Paul Ardeleanu (principal architect at Vonage). Hosted by Oana May. Registrations close 2 November and spaces are limited. Why go: the Speed AMA format gets you a private answer to your actual question from someone who has done the job, which almost no meetup offers. Best for engineers and engineering leads weighing a next step.

Royal Holloway's Age of AI series takes on the classroom. The panel looks at where AI genuinely helps learners and educators, and where it collides with academic integrity, intellectual property and the habit of critical thinking a degree is supposed to build. It is deliberately cross-faculty: Dr Antara Datta (Politics, International Relations and Philosophy), Professor Adam Ganz (Music, Drama and Media Arts / CoSTAR), Professor Lucy Gill-Simmen (Royal Holloway Business School) and Dr Fauzia Idrees (Computing, Security and Mathematics), chaired by Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad. Seventy-five minutes, 18:00 to 19:15, at Stewart House on Russell Square. Free to attend. Why go: the academic-integrity argument is being settled in rooms like this rather than at product launches, and a panel spanning computing, media and business gets further than an edtech pitch would. Best for edtech founders, university staff and anyone shipping AI into assessment.

Ben Whitelaw, who writes Everything in Moderation, and Georgia Iacovou, who writes Horrific/Terrific, take their Marked as Urgent evening to the question of the UK's kid-focused social media ban: what the legislation actually does, how it compares with the Australian version it follows, and what platforms, regulators and parents do next. 18:30 to 22:00 in Newspeak Hall at Newspeak House, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG. Free. The November edition is already full — registration now joins a waiting list, and the hosts release places as they come back, so sign up rather than turning up on the night. Why go: online-safety policy is usually argued about by people who have not read the statute, and these two do it for a living and are funny about it. Best for anyone building, moderating or regulating a consumer platform that UK teenagers use.

A full day at BCS on Copthall Avenue treating human health, animal health and the shared environment as one system rather than three separate problems. The morning runs on AI for health: medical diagnosis after large language models, AI in mental healthcare, and a session explaining where AI regulation now stands. Before lunch there is a hands-on tutorial on building low-code AI agents for health, farming and food. The afternoon turns to quantum technologies for health and food, opening with an introduction to quantum computing for people who have not met it. 09:30 to 17:00, in person at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Tickets through Eventbrite; the listing does not name speakers. Why go: the one-health framing plus the quantum half makes this broader than the usual clinical-AI day, and the low-code agent tutorial is the rare conference session you leave having built something. Best for health and life-sciences technologists, and for regulatory people who need the technical picture.

A two-hour founder panel at Patch Twickenham, convened by coach Kate Rainford-Foakes after last year's edition sold out. Four founders talk through what the first steps actually cost them: Harriet Hastings of Biscuiteers, Steph Douglas of Don't Buy Her Flowers, Nadia Simonds of Lune & Wild, and Sally Lovett of Stretching the City, which grew out of a yoga side business into a workplace wellbeing consultancy. They cover pricing and getting to a viable business, when to hire or ask for help, trade-offs and boundaries, and changing direction when a business stops fitting your life. Format is a 45-minute panel and quick-fire Q&A, then small-group discussion, then coffee. 10:00 to 12:00. Step-free access from Arragon Road; children welcome. Why go: four people who have actually built the thing, talking about money and mistakes rather than vision. Best for anyone at or before the first-hire stage, and for founders taking the consumer-brand route rather than the venture one.

A one-day data sprint on London housing, organised by Jam Coombes at Newspeak House. The premise is that the planning and housing data needed to understand the crisis already exists, and the work is turning it into an argument someone can act on. Teams of data scientists, urban planners and policy people take real London planning and housing datasets and build the most well-evidenced story they can — policy briefs, dashboards or models, not toy problems. Runs 10:00 to 19:30 on the First Floor, with cash prizes voted on by the other hackers. Why go: a hackathon with a real dataset and a real question beats a sponsored one with neither, and the judging-by-peers format keeps it honest. Best for data scientists, analysts and planners who want a day on something that matters.

A day for young performers to attend seminars, workshops, chat to exhibitors and watch our stage to give them guidance, and support.

This event is open to anyone who works in or is interested in the tech industry, whether you are a developer, designer, engineer, entrepreneur, student, or hobbyist. You can meet new people, share your experiences, learn from others, and find potential collaborators or mentors.

Hear from CEOs, MDs, Professors & Researchers in healthcare and life sciences. Explore UK-Vietnam investment and future of patient care.

This event is open to anyone who works in or is interested in the tech industry, whether you are a developer, designer, engineer, entrepreneur, student, or hobbyist. You will be able to meet new people, share your experiences, learn from others, and find potential collaborators or mentors.

with Slava Baranovskiy (Founder; Entrepreneur in Residence, Brunel Business School, Eligent Club)

A four-hour in-person session from Eligent Club combining a workshop, a panel discussion, networking and a startup pitch slot. It works through building a tech startup from concept to international markets: where to find and validate an idea, finding and testing a co-founder, MVP development and product-market fit, generating revenue from day one, bootstrapping versus raising, marketing and sales, common failure patterns from real case studies, and when to expand abroad. Slava Baranovskiy, founder of Eligent Club and entrepreneur in residence at Brunel Business School, runs it. Free, 16:00 to 20:00 at Westminster Business School on Marylebone Road. The event is filmed. The organiser moved this edition from 24 October to 7 November and extended the finish from 18:00 to 20:00. Why go: the pitch slot and the four-hour length make it a working afternoon rather than a talk, which suits people at the idea stage who want their thinking challenged out loud. One speaker covers the whole arc, so expect breadth rather than depth.

Join the UK’s leading Trade Association for HealthTech at the flagship event for our industry.

Three-day London edition of Beyond the Map at Kings Place: geospatial data, mapping platforms and location intelligence, for engineers and product teams working with spatial data.

The monthly London meetup for people building on the Authenticated Transfer Protocol — the open standard for decentralised publishing that underpins Bluesky but is increasingly being used for things that are not a social network at all. This edition has "Introducing Bluemoji" from @aendra.com on moji.blue, with one or two further talks still open to anyone who wants a slot. Organised by @aendra.com, @davenash.com and @alice.mosphere.at in Newspeak Hall, 19:00 to 22:30. Free. Why go: a genuinely technical room on an open protocol that is still early enough that the people in it are shaping it. Best for developers curious about decentralised identity and data, and anyone who has wondered what else atproto can carry.

Flagship 2-day summit for senior MarTech, CX & digital leaders in London. Case studies, panels, fireside chats & networking.

A joint techUK semiconductor, scale-up and photonics session on getting growth-stage capital into UK chip companies. Arrivals 09:30, programme 10:00 to 11:50, networking lunch from 12:00. Two sessions: Funding the idea, on accessing semiconductor finance, and Beyond the cheque, on partnerships, commercialisation, exports and R&D. Speakers are Peter Stephens, Government Partnerships at Arm; Samuel Taylor, Senior Innovation Advisory Partner at ForrestBrown; and Thomas Mahon, Patent Attorney at Page White Farrer. Free, but booking is members-only. The venue comes with registration. Why go: semiconductor capital is the narrowest funding pipe in UK tech, and this is the rare session that puts R&D credits and patent strategy next to the equity question instead of treating them as someone else's problem. Best for hardware and photonics founders past prototype, and the advisers around them.

Ukie's annual funding day for UK games companies: investors, publishers and funds on how games businesses are being financed in 2026, with pitching and one-to-one sessions.

A festival of ideas exploring the research and innovation shaping tomorrow’s built environment, including the prestigious Kemp Lecture

City Business Networking events are for quality professionals. Light buffet lunch. No speakers, just networking. Dress code: professional.

An afternoon conference marking the launch of techUK's report Satellite Data for Sustainable Growth, 13:30 to 17:30 in London, closing with a networking reception. Matthew Evans, techUK's COO, opens and Charlie Candy, Chief Revenue Officer and UK Managing Director at Planet, gives the keynote. The connectivity and market-access panel brings in Simon Rose of Airbus Defence and Space, Elizabeth Quintana from Ofcom, Rui Zuo of Eutelsat and Iuri Struta of S&P Global. The second panel, on space data and AI, has Serah Lister from the Government Commercial Authority, Dr Jonathan Lancelot of UWE Bristol and Andy Norris of SAC, followed by an SME and start-up showcase with DCat and CATALYST Earth. Free and open to non-members. Venue details come with registration. Why go: the UK space-data sector is small enough that this is most of it in one afternoon, and the operator-plus-regulator mix on the panels is unusual. Best for earth-observation and connectivity founders, and investors looking at the sector.

Hosted by NatWest Accelerator Taking place at 94 Moorgate.

WiTT's annual discussion among women tech entrepreneurs

AI on Tap: Real AI. Real People. Real Beer.** **📍** London’s monthly meetup for AI-curious business minds *Cut through the AI noise - over a pint.* ***Tired of AI hype and jargon? So are we.*** AI on Tap is a no-BS meetup for London’s business leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, and knowledge workers who want to understand how AI is actually being used in the real world - without needing a computer science degree. No pitches. No slides. No tech bro talk. ***What to Expect*** Imagine a night down the pub with those mates of yours who’re actually doing AI – not just talking about it.

A focused Pitch and Networking night with live startup pitches, direct investor feedback, and time to meet relevant founders and peers.

FStech's CyberSecurity Live conference returns to London, covering the biggest trends in cyber security technology for financial services.

Two days at the Barbican for people who lead design teams rather than people who want another craft workshop. Registration from 09:00 on 11 November, with day two opening at 10:00; both days end with a long social slot from 17:00. Optional workshops run on 13 November, 09:30 to 12:30. The programme is built around design leadership itself — organisational structure, influence, and running teams — with Rebecca Groves hosting and talks from Liz Danzico, Dan Makoski, Kevin Bethune, Michelle Lee, Rich Rutter, Marla Mitelman and Kwame Nyanning, plus lunchtime conversation sessions with Morgane Peng, Chris How, Ben Sheppard and Aleks Melnikova. Paid; prices are on the ticket page rather than the programme page. Why go: one of the few UK conferences aimed squarely at design directors and heads of design, and the two-hour evening slots are where the actual peer conversations happen. Best for design leaders and anyone about to become one.

A chance to share & learn from peers in leading purpose-driven organisations in the UK across a series of collaborative talks & workshops.

How can educators and students connect, learn and flourish in an AI-enabled university?

The Smart Retail Tech Expo connects retailers and tech experts to explore solutions that boost customer experiences and growth.

Join London's independent PropTech Networking Event to Connect with innovators and Discuss Cutting-Edge Property Tech Solutions

with Dima Zborovskiy (ML Director, Deliveroo/DoorDash) · Sylvain Viguier (Director of AI, Graphcore)

The thirteenth edition of In The Loop, London's monthly agentic AI meet-up, held this month in Deliveroo's London office. Dima Zborovskiy, ML Director at Deliveroo/DoorDash, talks about The 24/7 ML Team and their vision for autoresearch agents. Sylvain Viguier, Director of AI at Graphcore, has a talk still to be confirmed. Doors 18:00, talks from 18:30, wrap-up at 20:00, and networking carries on at the venue or a nearby pub. The series is run by Xcede and Rod Rivera and has previously been hosted by V7 Labs, Doubleword, Artanis, Zopa and Zilch. Free and no approval needed, with 101 places still open when we checked. The organiser does not publish the street address; it comes with your registration. Why go: a monthly room where the speakers are running agents in production rather than demoing them, and thirteen editions in it still draws practitioners rather than spectators. Best for ML and platform engineers and product people building agentic systems.

Expert insight. Live business audit. Curated ecosystem access. One evening to transform how you build your business. Are you ready?

Business networking event in central london. Connect w/ tech entrepreneurs, startup founders, finance professionals, B2B pros and investors.

techUK's flagship health and social care dinner: informal networking, dinner and keynote speeches, 18:30 to 23:00 in central London. Business attire. Two confirmed keynotes carry it. Dr Penny Dash, Chair of NHS England, and Rob Thomson, Chief Digital Information Officer at the Department of Health and Social Care. The room is health-tech businesses wanting visibility with NHS and departmental stakeholders, plus members of techUK's Health and Social Care Programme. Sponsored by Cognizant. Paid, and not cheap: individual member GBP 320 plus VAT, SME member GBP 260, non-member GBP 620, tables of ten from GBP 1,720. The exact central London venue comes with registration. Why go: the chair of NHS England and the DHSC's CDIO at the same dinner is as close as health tech gets to hearing the buying side say what it wants. Best for commercial leads at health-tech companies, and worth it for the table conversations rather than the speeches.

A morning session at the Barclays Innovation Hub in Shoreditch, run with Innovate Finance, bringing together fintech founders, investors and people inside the incumbents. Breakfast format, 08:30 to 11:00, with the usual mix of short content and a long networking window. Innovate Finance is the UK industry body, so the room tends to pull in policy and regulatory people alongside the operators. Free, registration on Eventbrite. Why go: the Barclays Rise building is where a lot of UK fintech deal conversation starts, and a free breakfast with Innovate Finance in the room is a cheap way into it. Best for early-stage fintech founders and anyone selling into banks.

with Deb Ashton (Founder & SVP, Strategic Customer Experience, Certinia)

An independent Salesforce-ecosystem conference run by Salesforce Ben at Protein Studios in Shoreditch — deliberately not a Salesforce-run event, and pitched against the sales-led official ones. Registration 08:00, programme 09:00 to 18:00. Full-day format: keynote plus breakouts, optional pre-registered workshops, customer case studies and structured networking through an event app, with around 500 attendees expected. Content is weighted to AI, data, integrations and platform strategy, with an admin track. Deb Ashton, Founder and SVP of Strategic Customer Experience at Certinia, is confirmed; the full agenda lands closer to the date. Paid; priority early bird has sold out and the published early-bird figure is 375 with no currency printed. Why go: an honest read on the Salesforce platform from people who do not work for Salesforce. Best for senior admins, developers, architects and Salesforce technology leaders.

A one-day event exploring the opportunities and challenges that AI agents present for research and innovation.

SAVE THE DATE & join us for a day of Engagement, Networking and Learning on Thursday 12 November 2026.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are hosting an Areas of Research Interest (ARI) event at UCL East.

Twenty-eighth London edition of Disrupt: short, high-tempo talks on the future of work and people technology, run by HR Gazette at GEDU House in Stratford.

Live After Dark edition of 11:FS's Fintech Insider podcast at Village Underground: a recorded panel on the state of financial services, then drinks with London's fintech community.

Join us in London for the AI for Equity book launch - connect, and explore how AI can boost fairness!

This lecture asks how we should think about reliance on AI when that reliance may itself shape the development of epistemic capacities.

Join us to explore the current state of data in schools and find out what works and what doesn't.

A day on Solana's market microstructure and DeFi landscape, two days before Breakpoint opens: what is changing at the protocol level, what it means for DeFi teams, and how onchain traders are positioned. 09:00 to 18:00, exact address shared on registration. Run from the Jito Events calendar, with Anza, Ellipsis Labs, Firedancer, Helius, Jito Foundation, Multicoin Capital, Triton One, Temporal and World listed as sponsors - effectively the Solana infrastructure and trading stack in one room. Attendance is free but selective, with priority given to Solana builders, core developers and onchain traders. No speaker list is published yet. Why go: microstructure is where Solana's performance work shows up in trading outcomes, and this is the only London date where the people building the sequencing and the people trading against it compare notes. Best for DeFi engineers and quant teams.