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LondonWeek of 18 May 2026

Mon 18 MaySun 24 May 2026 · 26 events

8:00am£295
FF
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP

Two-day intensive AI bootcamp for founders building agentic products — split across Monday and Wednesday. Capped cohort, real builds, post-bootcamp peer group included.

AI & MLFounders
5:30pmFree
TC
TBC — London (venue on Luma),

Reception focused on widening access to capital for underrepresented founders — speakers from emerging managers and deploying LPs. Held the evening before The Current Summit.

InvestorsSocial
5:45pm£35
HV
Mowgli Street Food Charlotte Street, 5 Charlotte St.

Closed-table dinner with Hussein Kanji (Hoxton Ventures) on landing your first institutional cheque — small format, founder-focused, application required.

FoundersInvestors
7:30amFree
L/
Level39, 39th Floor

Drop-in AI skills training over coffee and croissants at Level39 — Anthropic-led format covering practical Claude workflows for technical and non-technical professionals.

AI & ML
8:30am£1495
BT
Tobacco Dock, Tobacco Quay

1,000 senior banking leaders from 140+ banks and building societies gather across two days at Tobacco Dock — six themes, four theatres, and the most concentrated UK banking-transformation crowd of the year.

FintechSaaS
4:30pmFree
SR
20 Primrose St, London EC2A 2EW

STIQ's eleventh robotics & automation evening — lightning talks, panel and live demos covering warehouse automation, cobots and applied AI in robotics. The room is engineers, founders and corporate buyers.

DeepTech
4:45pmFree
FF
TBC — Central London,

Launch event for the Female Founders Rise Show — a new long-form interview series. Expect a 1:1 demo with the host and an investor-friendly room of female founders building serious companies.

FoundersSocial
5:00pm£15
TL
The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit St

Tech Leaders Meetup London — recurring senior-engineering and CTO networking format that consistently brings credible heads-of-engineering and VPs into one room.

FoundersOther
6:00pmFree
MP
Bacchanalia Mayfair, 1-3 Mount St

Closed founders' dinner co-hosted by Motive Partners and FinTech Collective for European fintech founders building enterprise-grade financial infrastructure. Application required.

FintechFoundersInvestors
8:30am£995
FG
Convene 133 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7BX

The world's largest RegTech gathering returns to London — a one-day intensive on the regulatory technology stack reshaping financial services, with senior compliance, risk and tech leaders from across Europe.

FintechSaaS
4:30pmFree
A
TBC — London (venue on Luma),

Free in-person training on working with structured data inside Claude — practical workshop for analysts, ops and PMs wanting to use LLMs against their own datasets.

AI & MLOther
5:00pmFree
SB
TBC — London (venue on Luma),

She Bytes Back × Synthesia: an honest evening on the AI workflows female operators actually use day-to-day — no LinkedIn-bait, just what works inside high-growth AI companies.

AI & MLMarketing
5:00pmFree
G
Balls Brothers Minster Court, Mincing Ln.

GeoCyclone hosts a panel on the gap between cyber-warfare myth and operational reality — defence operators, frontier-tech founders and intelligence-community alumni in conversation.

DeepTechOther
6:00pmFree
NH
Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Green Road

Newspeak House book launch with Ed Maklouf for The Majority Myth — a fresh take on how technology shapes (and breaks) collective decision-making. Discussion-format, civic-tech crowd.

SocialOther
8:00amFree
UF
TBC — Central London,

A breakfast-format conversation with Tom Adeyoola, Executive Chair of Innovate UK and one of the most credible voices on UK deeptech and industrial strategy. Capped capacity, application required.

FoundersDeepTechInvestors
4:15pmFree
T
120 Moorgate, London EC2M 6UR

Practical pitch coaching from Techstars MDs — work through your deck and your delivery in a small-group format. The clearest signal in town that your pitch is or isn't landing.

Founders
5:00pmFree
AA
Daemon, Studio C

A hands-on session on standing up a local autonomous-agent crew (CrewAI / similar) — for engineers and technical founders ready to move past playground demos into something running on their own infra.

AI & ML
6:00pmFree
M—
The Moniker, London EC3M 5AD

Monthly in-person meetup for the London AI and automation community at The Moniker in the City. A relaxed format for connecting, sharing tools and ideas, and exploring what is new in AI and automation — whether you are a practitioner or just curious. Run by MAIN (Mastering AI Network), a growing community of AI enthusiasts and professionals.

AI & MLSocial
6:30pmFree
LP
TBC — Central London (venue on Meetup),

The 26th London PyTorch meetup — talks on production ML systems, model architecture and the latest in the PyTorch ecosystem. Strong technical room, recurring monthly.

AI & MLDeepTech
6:30pmFree
B/
TBC — Central London,

Launch of the joint Block × Global Digital Finance research on the state of self-custody wallets — policy, UX and adoption, with senior policy and protocol voices on the panel.

Web3Fintech
10:00amFree
MC
Santander Work Café — Triton Square, London NW1 3AN

with Massimo Maltempi (Director, MaxMal Consulting Ltd)

Free in-person session exploring the opportunities and practical challenges of AI in healthcare — from clinical decision support and diagnostics to operations and data governance. Fourth edition of a growing series run by MaxMal Consulting. Relevant for healthcare professionals, clinicians, digital health practitioners, and tech people working at the intersection of AI and health.

AI & MLHealth & Bio
6:00pmFree
E/
TBC — London (venue on Luma),

An evening of vibe coding inside the Science Museum, hosted with ElevenLabs — bring a laptop, ship something during the session, see your code projected against the museum's exhibits.

AI & MLDesign
12:00pmFree
AC
TBC — Central London,

The London chapter of Scott Alexander's ACX community meetup — a recurring weekend gathering that pulls in unusually high-signal regulars from AI safety, biotech and policy circles.

AI & MLDeepTechSocial
2:00pmFree
SW
TBC — Central London,

Sisters Who Build is a community for women and non-binary technical founders shipping in public — recurring weekend meetup with workshop time, peer review and demos.

FoundersSocial
3:30pmFree
NH
Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Green Road

Six Silberman hosts a Sunday-afternoon discussion on how institutional design and technology design shape one another — researcher-meets-practitioner format at Newspeak House.

SocialOther