London — Week of 13 Jul 2026

with Ponmugil Jeyaram (Head of QA Data Engineering, TSB Bank) · Amrita Pati (Quality Engineering Manager, easyJet) · Shanmugapriya Sabapathy (QA Lead, BBC)

The established UK conference for software testing and quality engineering, with a senior, predominantly manager-and-director audience. The 2026 line-up features QA and engineering leaders from TSB, easyJet, the BBC, the MHRA and British Business Bank across two days of talks and workshops on automation, AI in testing and quality at scale.

The 10th-anniversary edition of the UK's biggest challenger-brand festival, bringing together 1,000+ founders of consumer and FMCG brands, 100+ retail buyers and investors across a two-day programme of talks, masterclasses and an investor pitch competition. A strong room for founders, marketers and operators building product brands.

with Simran Baughen (Programme Manager, Digital Supply Chain Hub, Digital Catapult)

A free in-person morning workshop from Digital Catapult's Digital Supply Chain Hub, bringing manufacturers, operations leaders and deep-tech innovators together to tackle supply-chain resilience through collaboration, lightning talks and structured working sessions.

with Theo Ohene (Expert in Residence, Commercial Growth, King's College London)

A practical entrepreneurship workshop from King's College London's Entrepreneurship Institute on designing lean solutions and building MVPs that matter — turning research and ideas into validated products. Part of a free skills-training series led by Expert in Residence Theo Ohene.

Plexal's recurring community evening at its Here East campus — drinks, food and relaxed networking across the innovation community of founders, startups and ecosystem partners based at one of East London's leading tech hubs.

eMed and OpenAI on what applied AI actually changes in clinical care and health delivery. A short, high-signal session — worth it for the calibre of the two organisations in the room.

A one-day build sprint at Encode Hub pairing sports-betting data from TxOdds with Solana's on-chain tooling, timed to the World Cup. Run by Encode Club, London's most prolific hackathon organiser — a good room for developers who want to ship something real in a day rather than sit through talks.