London — Week of 18 May 2026

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

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

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

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

The flagship of the week — 1,000 senior banking leaders, 140+ banks, two days at Tobacco Dock. The biggest concentration of UK banking-transformation decision-makers all year.

Watch the Google I/O 2026 keynote with the London AI dev community, then stay for a Build-with-AI hack night and the AIDevCamp award ceremony. The biggest collective AI watch party in the city.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A capped breakfast with Tom Adeyoola, Executive Chair of Innovate UK — one of the most credible voices on UK deeptech and industrial strategy. Application-required, small format.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

An evening of live coding inside the Science Museum, hosted with ElevenLabs — bring a laptop, ship something during the session. The most unusual room of the week.

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.

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.

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