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London tech events this week: Tech Week takes Olympia (5–11 June)

London Tech Week lands at Olympia 8-10 June.

SXSW London is still winding through Shoreditch as this goes out, and on Monday the city rolls straight into London Tech Week. If you follow tech events in London for only one week a year, this is the week. Olympia takes the main stage Monday to Wednesday, the fringe sprawls across the city until Friday, and the best room of the week might be a nightclub on a Tuesday afternoon.

The Big One: London Tech Week 2026

London Tech Week returns to Olympia from Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 June, passes from £95, with a fringe programme running across the city until 12 June. It's Europe's largest annual tech festival, and it works on two levels: the headline stages for the big-picture AI and policy conversations, and the corridors, where half of UK tech happens to be walking past you. Founders raising this year, operators hunting their next role, anyone selling into enterprise — the density of useful people per square metre doesn't get higher than this. If £95 isn't in the budget, the fringe below is where most of the actual networking lives, and most of it is free.

The week ahead, day by day

Friday 5 June

The weekend — SXSW London plays out its final days around Truman Brewery. If you have a pass, use it; the crowd thins and the conversations get better.

Monday 8 June

Tuesday 9 June — pitch day.

Wednesday 10 June

Thursday 11 June

Who should go where

Founders — Tuesday is your day: Future Worlds for proof of what funded looks like, rev London to hear funds sell themselves, Women's Health Pitch if you're in the vertical. Skip the generic mixers this week; the calendar is too good to spend an evening on small talk with no agenda.

Investors — Future Worlds Demo Day is the dealflow room of the week, full stop. The Women's Health competition is a look at an underfunded vertical with real momentum.

Builders — PyData from Friday, the AI-debugging fringe talk Monday, King's showcase Wednesday. You can have an excellent Tech Week without ever buying a pass.

Sales & marketing — The AI Summit on Wednesday puts 4,500 enterprise people in one venue. One day there beats five receptions.

Hidden gem

AI, Work, and the Future of Global Competitiveness — Chatham House x LinkedIn, Tuesday 12:00, free. A lunchtime fringe session inside Chatham House on how AI is reshaping labour markets. We spotted it because it's the rare Tech Week event where the room is policymakers and economists rather than vendors — and it costs nothing but a lunch hour.

Last week, briefly

Africa Tech Summit brought 350+ delegates to the London Stock Exchange last Friday, SXSW London opened its first Shoreditch edition on Monday, and Imperial Collider: Health gathered the health-innovation crowd at the Royal Geographical Society on Thursday. The point: the city was already warm before Tech Week even starts. Expect every room this week to be fuller than the RSVP list suggests.

Worth knowing

  • Master The Vibe (11 June) is postponed. The organiser confirmed via the Meetup group: venue availability issues, new date Tuesday 7 July. If it was in your calendar for Thursday, move it.
  • Future Worlds Demo Day is approval-gated on Luma — registrations are reviewed, not instant. Apply now, not Tuesday morning.
  • Several fringe events confirm their venue only after you register — the Monday debugging talk, the Hong Kong reception and The Afterglow all work this way. RSVP first, then check your inbox.
  • Friday 12 June, look out for Agent Craft — the "AI for the rest of us" group has swapped its usual June meetup for a one-day Tech Week unconference on AI agents. The organiser messaged members directly; more in next week's edition.

That's the week. Browse everything on the London listings, and if you're running a fringe event we've missed, submit it — Tech Week is exactly when the calendar should be complete.

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