London — Week of 6 Jul 2026

with Kent C. Dodds (Software Engineer & Educator, EpicAI) · Daniel Avila (AI Software Engineer, creator of Claude Code Templates, Independent) · Rudrank Riyam (Apple Platforms Developer & OSS Maintainer, Independent)

The first-ever in-person edition of the AI Coding Summit brings the global GitNation community to The Trampery on Old Street for a half-day on how AI is reshaping software engineering. Headlined by educator Kent C. Dodds ("The Last Software Engineer"), with Daniel Avila (creator of Claude Code Templates) and Apple-platforms maintainer Rudrank Riyam, the afternoon mixes cutting-edge talks with hands-on, agentic-coding tooling and in-person networking. Talks also stream online across 6-7 July, but the London room is where engineers, tech leads and founders building with AI should be.

A focused institutional summit on real-world-asset tokenisation hosted at DLA Piper, convening senior finance, capital-markets and Web3 practitioners. Supported by Global Digital Finance, with sessions, lunch and an evening drinks reception aimed at the institutional digital-assets community.

Xero's flagship two-day conference for the accounting, bookkeeping and fintech community at Olympia London — keynotes, product showcases, an extensive exhibitor floor and large-scale networking for advisors and SaaS partners across the cloud-accounting ecosystem.

with Cedrine Streit (Speaker, Visa) · Nida Sattar (Speaker, Allica Bank) · Alessandro Battaglia (Speaker, Wise)

An evening panel on the fintech landscape and the rise of agentic AI in financial services, with senior speakers from Visa, Allica Bank and Wise. Hosted at BrainStation's Shoreditch campus for product, design and fintech professionals.

Networx London's flagship monthly mixer for tech startup founders, entrepreneurs, finance and B2B professionals and investors, held in a relaxed central-London venue. A high-volume, well-run room (the Networx community now numbers 12,000+ members) for making warm connections, sharing what you're building and finding collaborators or capital. Free and paid tiers available.

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 de-risking early-stage ideas through assumption testing and validation. Part of a free skills-training series led by Expert in Residence Theo Ohene.

with Emanuela Ciotti (Head of Enterprise, Compare the Market)

The 25th edition of London's analytics-engineering community meetup, hosted at Wise. Talks from practitioners on the modern data stack and analytics engineering, followed by community networking. A strong, oversubscribed recurring meetup for data professionals.

with Ciera Lowe (Speaker, Ori) · Gerard Cardoso (Speaker, nPlan) · Boris Gordts (Speaker, Holly) + 2 more

AI Tinkerers is a community of engineers actively building with foundation models — LLMs, agents and generative AI — and the London chapter (880+ builders) runs a demo-first evening of short, hands-on talks, no pitch decks allowed. This edition, hosted by Ori, features Ciera Lowe (Ori) on LLM inference cost analysis, Gerard Cardoso (nPlan) on LLM observability, Boris Gordts (Holly) on combining GenAI and reinforcement learning, Zhengyao Jiang (Weco) on an AI agent that builds ML pipelines, and Paul Hetherington (mystic) on 10x faster OSS model cold starts in Docker.