London — Week of 2 Nov 2026

One-day interactive workshop on developments and techniques in third-party risk management for financial services, relevant to vendor, cloud and technology supply-chain risk. Time, venue and price were not published on the schedule listing at time of writing.

Join us for a groundbreaking event which explores the intersection of video games and mental health.

with Charles Mullighan (Keynote, FRS, St Jude Children's Research Hospital) · Dominique Bonnet (Chair, The Francis Crick Institute)

The 29th edition of a leading annual meeting bringing UK and European researchers together on blood cell development and disease, covering blood stem cell biology, developmental haematopoiesis, gene regulation and leukaemia research. Includes a poster exhibition and short talks from submitted abstracts. Price is not published on the event page.

with Steve Martin (VP Engineering, Monzo) · Jennie Woods (VP Engineering, Funding Circle) · Richard Marr (VP of Engineering, PensionBee) + 2 more

Two days for senior engineering leaders in fintech, banking, payments and insurance, run by CTO Craft at The Minster Building in the City. Main-stage talks are interleaved with peer-led breakouts, roundtables and networking meals; day one closes with an afterparty. The agenda is built around the problems fintech CTOs are actually carrying: responsible AI adoption and governance, technical debt and legacy systems, DORA and developer productivity, operational resilience and compliance. Speakers include Steve Martin, VP Engineering at Monzo; Jennie Woods, VP Engineering at Funding Circle; Richard Marr, VP of Engineering at PensionBee; Harry Jell, co-founder and CTO at Yonder; and Carl Sverre, Field CTO at Antithesis. Paid, with separate leader, group and vendor tiers. Why go: the peer-led format means you spend the day with other people who run regulated engineering orgs rather than listening to vendors describe them. Best for VPs of engineering, CTOs and heads of platform in fintech and financial services.

with Ajay Mathur (Data & Business Transformation, Jupiter Asset Management) · Claudia De Jeu Boronat (Lead ML Engineer, WTW) · Garry Manser (Head of Data Governance, Vanquis Banking Group) + 2 more

A five-day practitioner programme from IRM UK at etc.venues Fenchurch Street: workshops on 2, 5 and 6 November wrapped around the main conference and exhibition on 3 and 4 November. Five tracks — AI in Practice and Applied AI, Data and AI Strategy and Value, Modern Data Platforms, Architecture and Semantics, and Governance, Risk, Privacy and Responsible AI. Case studies are from working teams rather than vendors: speakers include Ajay Mathur at Jupiter Asset Management, Claudia De Jeu Boronat, Lead ML Engineer at WTW, Garry Manser, Head of Data Governance at Vanquis Banking Group, Sue Geuens of Elsevier and Daragh O Brien of Castlebridge, with eBay, Meta and the Bank of England cited on the programme. Paid: from £975 plus VAT for one day up to £2,695 for all five, with group discounts. Why go: this is the governance-and-platforms end of the data world, where the talks are about systems already in production. Best for data leads, ML engineers and governance people in regulated industries.

with Tim Flagg (Chief Executive, UKAI) · Matt Warman (Former AI Minister, UK Government) · Will Bushby (Sovereign AI Unit, UK Government) + 3 more

UKAI's day-long summit on sovereign AI: whether Britain should build its own AI stack, what government can usefully do, and where a mid-sized economy can specialise. The trade association runs it, so the room leans policy, procurement and infrastructure rather than product. The full agenda is now published: around 30 sessions across six tracks - responsible AI, sustainable AI, innovation, investment, work and skills, trustworthy AI - with Quantum Britain running alongside all day. UKAI chief executive Tim Flagg opens at 09:30 and closes at 17:45, with a government keynote after the welcome. Named chairs and panellists include Matt Warman, Baroness Thangam Debbonaire, Will Bushby of the Sovereign AI Unit, Samantha Francis of UKRI and Matthew Hodgson of Element. The Sovereign AI Awards follow from 18:00, ticket holders only. From £150 at The Oval in central London; UKAI publishes no street address. Ticket sales close on 30 October. Why go: the clearest read you will get in one day on where UK AI policy and public money are heading. Best for policy, procurement and infrastructure leads rather than product people.

A three-week agent-building competition run by SHIPYARD with Encode Club and Sahar Mor (Bond AI). Teams get 100 pounds of starting capital and build an AI agent that has to earn real revenue from real customers, with a live leaderboard tracking profit and how often a human had to step in. Stages are Learn (2-4 Nov), Build (5-13 Nov), Earn (13-18 Nov) and Demo Day on 21 Nov at Encode Hub in London. Build-phase coworking runs from a Soho office. Partner workshops come from ElevenLabs, Tavily and Daytona. Free to enter. Registration closes 31 October and goes through shipyard.london/hackathon, not the Luma page.

Explore culture, leadership and governance in managing catastrophic incident risk using case studies, peer discussion and practical insight.

Hosted at Cass Art Kingston | Explore Lino Printing with artist Eva Merendes.

Digital Portfolios and Your Passport to Opportunities.

Dave’s book Kenai was the winner (out of 221 entries) of the 3rd Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) founded by Hugh Howey,

Join Women in Tech Networking Event! Connect, inspire, and celebrate with like-minded tech entrepreneurs and professionals in London!

Elevate your network —where women in business, startups, and professional fields connect, collaborate, and grow together.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO BOOK YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE TO ATTEND THE EVENT. YOU CAN RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE. [ You are invited to take part in Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals Business Networking Event !

London's women in Business & Technology in one room. Network, connect and build the relationships that shape your career.

Campaign Lab's fortnightly evening hack night at Newspeak House in Bethnal Green. Campaign Lab is a community of progressive data scientists, researchers and activists building election tools and rethinking how political campaigning gets analysed. The format is hands-on: people bring projects, pair on them and ship something over the evening. Explicitly open to newcomers, including people who are not data scientists. Why go: one of the longest-running civic-tech communities in London and one of very few places where campaign data work gets done in the open. The regularity is the point — it is a community you can join rather than an event you attend once. Best for data people who want their skills pointed at something civic, and for anyone curious about how campaigns actually use data.

Europe's Focal Forum for Manufacturing Excellence, Formulation & Outsourcing.

Europe's Focal Forum for Manufacturing Excellence, Formulation & Outsourcing. Taking place at Radisson Blu Hotel, London Heathrow.

Europe's Leading Forum For Real-World Outsourced Biomanufacturing Performance & Delivery Excellence

Europe’s formulation, stability, drug-delivery leaders get together in London to shape the next generation of high-performance biologics.

Europe’s formulation, stability, drug-delivery leaders get together in London to shape the next generation of high-performance biologics.

Europe's Leading Forum For Real-World Outsourced Biomanufacturing Performance & Delivery Excellence.

Biologics Manufacturing | BioFormulate LIVE | BioOutsourcing.

This unmissable day brings us together for inspiring stories, powerful conversations and practical insights that drive real progress.

with Alistair Pullen (CEO and cofounder, Cosine) · Karl Havard (Chief Commercial Officer, Era4) · Meryem Arik (CEO and cofounder, Doubleword) + 1 more

A morning panel on what sovereign AI actually means for startups: where the UK stands against other countries, which initiatives are already running, and what the next 12 to 24 months look like for anyone building in the space. Twin Path Ventures hosts, with Alistair Pullen, CEO and cofounder of Cosine, Karl Havard, CCO of Era4, Meryem Arik, CEO and cofounder of Doubleword, and Dom Hallas, Executive Director of the Startup Coalition. Registration and breakfast from 08:30, panel and audience Q&A from 09:00, networking from 10:00. Sponsored by Barclays Eagle Labs, Twin Path Ventures and Google Cloud. Free, but registration needs the organiser's approval, and there are separate startup, investor and ecosystem tickets. The ecosystem allocation is already full. The organisers share contact details with their partners. Why go: four people who build and fund UK-trained models, in a room small enough to ask them something directly. Best for founders and infrastructure leads weighing on-premise or UK-hosted deployment, and investors covering the space.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the modern workplace.

An unconference for the people who buy, contract for and manage AI. There is no speaker line-up: the agenda is set by attendees on the day. Hosted by Posterity Global at the NatWest Accelerator space on Moorgate, 09:00 to 16:00, with networking until 17:30. Four themes are flagged in advance - moving from transactional procurement to agile commercial frameworks; assessing AI tools against real user needs, legacy IT and data quality; writing contracts that allow experimentation while covering model updates, data security, vendor lock-in and exit; and building the capability to evaluate AI bids and govern supplier performance. Free but approval-gated: you submit details and hear back within three working days. A Cardiff edition follows on 5 November. Why go: procurement is where most enterprise and public-sector AI work stalls, and this is one of the few London rooms where the commercial, legal and technical sides of it sit together. Best for procurement, commercial and legal leads.

techUK's fourth annual flagship summit, themed Innovation Nation: From Breakthrough to Breakout. A full day in central London, 09:30 to 18:00, across AI, quantum, robotics, semiconductors and photonics. Keynotes from Chris McDonald MP, Minister for Science, Innovation and Investment, and Julia Lopez MP, Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, so both front benches are on the programme. Also speaking: Sue Daley OBE and Antony Walker of techUK, Professor Paul Newman, founder and CEO of Oxa, Richard Murray, co-founder and CEO of ORCA Computing, and Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes, CEO of Stateful Robotics. Keynotes, fireside chats, panels and a debate on whether government should back winners. Member tickets are free but sold out, with a waiting list and one per organisation. Non-members GBP 170 plus VAT. Why go: the clearest read of the year on where UK industrial policy for tech is heading, with the ministers setting it in the room. Best for deep-tech founders and executives, and anyone doing policy or public affairs.

Hour-long live crisis-communications simulation of a cyber incident, led by Ranjeet Kaile, Executive Director of Communications, Stakeholder Engagement and Public Affairs at the NHS. Run by Roxhill Media at Myo St Paul's. GBP 50.

Live simulation of the communications response to a cyber breach, run by Roxhill Media for PR and comms professionals.

Join us for an insightful day of discussions, workshops, and presentations including the Young Scientist and Technical Investigator Award.

This event will bring together students, alumni, employers and industry collaborators of the School of Engineering & Materials Science, QMUL

Barclays Eagle Labs' curated investor demo day for UK university spinouts: 45 ventures, all actively raising, pitching across three concurrent stages - Life Sciences; MedTech, Physical Sciences and Advanced Manufacturing; and DeepTech and Frontier Technology. Barclays says it convenes around 200 active investors per demo day. Doors 12:30 at Barclays' Canary Wharf head office, a panel first, founder pitches from 13:45, networking 15:00 to 16:15. Benjamin Storey, Barclays' Head of Investor Connectivity, opens. The panel has Tom Adeyoola, CEO of Innovate UK, Anne Dobree, Investment Director at Parkwalk, and Riam Kanso, CEO of Conception X, who also host the Life Sciences and DeepTech stages. Free to attend. Why go: a year of spinout dealflow in one afternoon, with the investors who write cheques for it in the room. Best for angels, deeptech and life-science VCs, and university commercialisation teams.

OpenAI's DevDay Exchange comes to London on 3 November, starting at 14:00. It is the regional follow-on to DevDay — a working session for developers already building on the platform rather than a launch keynote broadcast. Attendance is by application and the organisers review each one; the exact venue is shared with applicants after approval, so the address is not public. Applications were still open and under review when we checked. Why go: the Exchange format puts OpenAI's own engineers in a room with the people shipping against their API, and the London stop is the only UK date. Worth the application if you are building production features on OpenAI models and want answers from the people who maintain them. Best for engineers and technical founders already past the prototype stage.

with Ryan Britnell (Host, Twilio) · Sahar Mor (Host, Bond AI)

A free evening developer event hosted by Twilio at CodeNode, on getting AI agents out of a chat window and into the channels customers already use. Doors 17:00, one session at 18:15 on Twilio Conversations in the agentic era, then a hands-on 'Escape the IVR' build challenge with prizes from 19:00, and a reception from 20:00. Registration is subject to host approval and space is limited; attendees are asked to bring a laptop. Co-hosted with Ryan Britnell and Sahar Mor of Bond AI. Twilio has not published a speaker list beyond 'the Twilio team'. Why go: the build challenge is real hands-on time with the platform rather than a demo. It is a vendor evening though, so go for the hands-on hour and the room, not for independent content.

Join London's Independent PropTech Networking Event to Connect with Innovators and Discuss Cutting-Edge Property Tech Solutions

A small peer-led dinner for edtech founders, run monthly by the British Educational Suppliers Association at The Parcel Yard above King's Cross. 18:00 to 20:00, a light-touch host rather than a chair, and deliberately no stage, no slides and no recording. Conversation runs across growth, funding, people, product and personal leadership, with the group kept small. BESA charges a GBP 10 admin fee to hold the place and you pay for your own food and drink; no refunds. This is the middle of three editions - October has gone and December is on the 1st. Why go: edtech founders rarely get an off-record room with peers at the same stage, and the no-pitching rule here is enforced rather than aspirational. Best for founders and early operators in edtech and the adjacent schools and skills markets; not useful if you came to sell to them.

Discover how engaging with art can boost health and happiness in this talk and creative workshop with leading researchers and artists.

with Ana Rodrigues (Speaker, LDNUG) · David Whitney (Speaker, LDNUG)

The London .NET User Group's November meetup, at Dojo's canalside offices in the Brunel Building next to Paddington. Two talks. Ana Rodrigues gives "I Spared No Expense", on the projects she built for her own corner of the web that nobody asked for and that she built anyway — a case for personal sites and side projects made for the joy of it. David Whitney takes the second slot. Food and drinks, time to talk, and the usual move to the pub afterwards. Free, RSVP on Meetup. Why go: LDNUG is one of the longest-running developer communities in London and it still books speakers with something to say rather than a sponsor's deck. Best for .NET and backend developers, and anyone who misses the personal web.

Philip Greenwood and Mark Woodman run an interactive session at BCS's Copthall Avenue offices, using their Digital Acumen framework to work out where the current AI wave's automation capability frontier actually sits - which tasks it moves and which it does not. 18:30 to 20:45, in person in the City, free. It is run as an analysis the room does together rather than a talk with questions at the end, so expect to argue about examples from your own work. The BCS listing names the two speakers but gives no affiliations. Why go: most AI-and-work events either sell a tool or forecast job losses, and this one is an attempt to draw the line methodically with practitioners present. Best for engineering and product leads, and anyone who has to tell a board what automation will and will not do next year.

Networx London's tech night in Fitzrovia for founders, investors and tech professionals: open networking with a focus on funding and early-stage innovation.

Networx London networking evening for founders and tech professionals with an AI, ML and cybersecurity theme, at Lucy Wong in Fitzrovia.

with David Baker (Director, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington)

The 2026 Croonian Medal and Lecture, awarded for pioneering the design of entirely new proteins and for key roles in protein structure prediction and protein engineering tools. Baker, a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, describes designing proteins from scratch using deep learning to address challenges in health, technology and sustainability.

Builder salon from Outlier Labs, supported by Project A. Opening tutorial on biocomputing from Callosum and Frontier Computing (YC S26), then about two hours of independent building, programming brain cells to control robots and fly drones, and pitches to judges from 21:30. Winning team gets a day with CL1 to pursue its idea. Arrival 18:30, intro 19:00. Exact address shared on registration; registration is subject to host approval.

Connecting MedTech founders, digital health innovators, healthcare entrepreneurs, investors and industry professionals in London!

Connect with health, fitness, beauty, and wellness founders, startups, and professionals to network, collaborate, and grow your business.

Connect with HealthTech innovators in London! Network, collaborate, and grow with like-minded professionals and industry leaders.

Join us to understand how technology is not just changing medicine, but redefining the very essence of health and well-being.

The Financial Times' flagship AI summit, convening business executives, AI researchers, policymakers and investors. Covers generative AI, AI governance and regulation, enterprise adoption, responsible AI and productivity impact through keynotes, executive panels and networking.

A breakfast briefing timed for the week of the UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase, running 08:30 to 11:00 in London. The panel works through four questions: where UK quantum capability actually stands and which gaps international partnership has to close; what collaboration looks like across research, supply chains and trade; how to grow domestic capability while staying open to foreign investment and talent; and what the UK can usefully copy from other countries. Aimed at government, industry and investors in the quantum sector. Free and open to non-members. No speakers announced yet. The exact venue comes with registration. Why go: quantum funding and export policy are being rewritten right now, and a two-and-a-half-hour breakfast with the people writing them is a cheaper way in than the Showcase itself. Best for quantum founders, investors and anyone with a supply-chain stake in the sector.

Defining Best Practice In Research Procurement

with James Appathurai (Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, NATO) · Dr Samantha Francis (Programme Director for AI, UKRI) · Dr Stephen Moore (Quantum Science & Technology Strategy Lead, UK Ministry of Defence) + 3 more

A one-day applied quantum and AI show at Big Penny Social in Walthamstow, running three parallel summits - Quantum + AI Compute, Security & Infrastructure, and Industry & Applications - alongside Creative LDN and Labs stages. Doors 08:30, programme through an afterparty from 16:40, close at 19:00. The speaker list is unusually senior. James Appathurai, NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber; Dr Samantha Francis, Programme Director for AI at UKRI; Dr Stephen Moore, Quantum Science and Technology Strategy Lead at the UK Ministry of Defence; Richard Murray, CEO of Orca Computing; Stuart Seymour, Group CISO at Virgin Media O2; and Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford. Tickets go through Ticket Tailor and no price is published. Why go: it is the one London room this autumn where quantum procurement, defence and security people share a building with the firms actually building the hardware. Best for infrastructure, security and R&D leads working out what quantum means for their stack.

Responsible AI: From Ambition to Enterprise Value

Wales Telecoms Showcase 2026 Hosted by techUK.

A full-day conference from TUV SUD on adopting AI and building the assurance needed to use it responsibly, run in partnership with the Centre of Excellence for Enterprise AI at Aston University. Registration and coffee from 09:00, sessions through to 16:00 at IET London: Savoy Place. The morning opens with Strategic Landscapes and AI Growth, with Chris Whyborn, Alexeis Garcia Perez and Paloma Laye, followed by a longer block on responsible AI and cyber resilience. Richard Skalt and Iain Bowes also speak. Refunds are available up to seven days before. Why go: assurance and conformity testing is where most AI deployment plans quietly fail, and TUV SUD certifies this work rather than just talking about it. Best for people who have to sign off AI systems in regulated or safety-critical settings.

Learn how building strong connections, embracing culture, and smart data use can boost your event turnout effortlessly.

Our conference brings together the LPS research community to explore how today’s values can guide response to to tomorrow's challenges.

Mind the Product brings its AI Builder Hackathon back to London for a full day of building, alongside PendomoniumX at The Mermaid on Puddle Dock. A smaller room than the first London edition, so tickets are described as super limited. Teams build through the day; the top teams take a prize package worth over £3,000 in AI tool subscriptions, and members of the winning team get tickets to next year's #mtpcon London. Speakers to be announced. Food and drinks are provided. Free but ticketed and capacity-capped, so register ahead rather than turning up, and bring a laptop — the organiser states one is required to take part. Registration is separate from PendomoniumX itself, and hackathon registrants are offered half-price entry to PendomoniumX on 5 November. Programme 11:00 to 17:00 per the registration page. Why go: a full day of hands-on building with London's product community, with a prize worth having and the conference crowd next door. Best for product managers and builders who want to leave with something working rather than notes.

Join our on-campus Open Day to see what life is like at the RCA and meet staff and students.

A unique conference exploring the the latest on auto-immune twists, complications, and how conditions connect via similar mechanisms.

An afternoon ecommerce and DTC growth conference at 83 Rivington Street, pitched as the non-corporate east London alternative. Doors and lunch from 12:30, programme from 13:30, running to 19:00. Speakers include Anthony Barone (Studio Hawk), Shivali Bennion and Cassi Idun (Shaded) and Stokely Howard (Trendy Grandad), with sessions on making raw content travel further and on growth tactics for retail and DTC brands. No refunds. Why go: the line-up is operators who run the channels rather than consultants describing them, and the room is small enough that follow-up conversations actually happen. Best for ecommerce founders and growth leads at DTC brands past their first traction.

Monthly London EduNetwork: A spot for Educators, EdTech Startups, Trainers, and Scholars to Exchange Ideas & Shape The Future of Learning.

Brought to you by TownSq Kingston and presented by Hannah Khoo, Head of Operations at the Cyber Resilience Centre for London.

Afternoon gathering for people running and working in digital agencies, hosted by Agency Folk at Impact Hub Euston. Peer sessions on agency operations, pricing and new business.

Join us for a practical lessons from the 2026 submission cycle to strengthen regulatory data quality, reporting and assurance.

What's next from Microsoft, from the latest agentic AI innovations to the technologies set to reshape how we work.

An exciting chemistry lecture for secondary students from Chemistry Professor Stefan A. F. Bon.

Recent research in the history and theory of anthropology brought to light more data about the role of women in the history of our disciplin.

A small roundtable for early-stage founders on getting the money side of the company in shape: financial modelling and planning, building financial literacy as you scale, getting data-room ready, and walking into investor conversations prepared. Hosted by Antler in the UK with Wise Business and Novabook at Wise's Shoreditch office. Arrival is at 16:00, the roundtable opens at 16:30 with founders a few steps ahead sharing what they got right and wrong, and networking with light bites and drinks starts at 17:30. It ends at 19:00. No named speakers; everyone sits as equals around the table. Free, but you request to join and the hosts approve. Why go: a peer-led room beats a panel when you want to compare how other founders set up their models and data rooms before a raise. Best for pre-seed and seed founders without a finance hire yet.

Not sure whether self-employment, freelancing, or starting a business is for you? This workshop will hep you find out

Annual Ecommerce Club Industry Networking Party

The fourth Process London, run by Right Aligned and sponsored by The 3Key, on the working processes freelancers, founders and in-house teams actually use rather than the finished case-study version. At Signature Brew Haggerston, doors 18:00, talks from 18:30, finishing around 21:30. Speaking are Cillian Carroll, senior designer in Koto's London studio, Jim Sutherland, founder of Studio Sutherland, and Maddie Hutchison, a freelance strategy director. Talks cover career routes and how specific client projects were run. Early-bird and general admission tickets, limited numbers, 18+. Why go: design talks usually show the output; this series makes people explain the middle bit, which is the part that transfers. Best for designers and studio owners deciding how to structure their own work.

The monthly Cloud Native London meetup, at Just Eat's Fleet Place House office. Pizza and drinks from 18:00, welcome at 18:30, wrapping up at 20:30. Three slots on the bill: speakers from Magentic and Teleport, both still to be confirmed, and Surya Pandian from TrueLayer. Topics are not yet published. The evening is livestreamed on YouTube, so the room is the in-person half of a wider audience. Organised by Cheryl (@oicheryl), who also handles the speaking and sponsorship list. RSVPs close at 10:00 on the day, and ground-floor security will not let you up unless your name is on the list. Why go: 1,898 reviews at 4.5 is a reliable signal, and this is one of the few London rooms where the people in it run Kubernetes and platform infrastructure in production. Best for platform and SRE engineers.

with Imogen Levy (Chief Digital Officer, RSPCA) · Lingjing Yin (Head of Product, Royal Borough of Greenwich Council) · Pete Kowalczyk (Conversational AI practitioner, Government Digital Service (current engagement))

The first session in a new series marking ten years of Projects by If: when generative AI can responsibly improve public services, and when a human has to stay in the loop. Imogen Levy, Chief Digital Officer at the RSPCA and previously Head of Product for NHS England's First Contact: Intelligent Navigation programme, talks through AI-powered triage and self-referral. Lingjing Yin, Head of Product at the Royal Borough of Greenwich, covers product transformation and service design in local government. Pete Kowalczyk, added to the bill a week out, is working with the Government Digital Service on the future of AI in government. Doors from 6pm for a prompt 6.30pm start to the talks, then food and drinks at Newspeak House. Free. Registration shows the event as full, with a waitlist open. Why go: triage is the sharpest version of the public-sector AI question, and all three speakers have shipped it rather than theorised about it. Best for people building services in government, health or the third sector.

SUSE, Kasm Technologies and Frontier host a dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen on Great Cumberland Place, built around secure cloud transformation, containerisation and virtual desktops. It is vendor hospitality rather than a talks programme. Three suppliers, a sit-down dinner at a Marble Arch restaurant, 18:00 to 21:00, no ticket price, seats limited and allocated on registration. SUSE's own event page carries no speaker list and no agenda - the slots on it are still placeholder text - so the dinner itself is the only confirmed content. It reached An Open Room through a Cloud Native London announcement from the group's organiser, Cheryl Hung, inviting members along.

Business networking event in central london. Connect w/ tech entrepreneurs, startup founders, finance professionals, B2B pros and investors.

Panel and mixer in Shoreditch where agency leaders talk through what they have actually put into production with AI, aimed at women working in agencies.

Hands-on evening hackathon from The Friendly Data Meetup London. Teams of 2-4 build an evaluation harness for a customer-support bot: write test questions, build pass/fail checks and an AI judge, improve the bot, then demo a before/after scorecard in 3 minutes. Doors 17:30, start 18:00. Bring a charged laptop with Docker, uv and an LLM option. Hosted by QuantSpark. Registration is subject to host approval.

ACCU London restarting after a few years off, with a deliberately interactive format at The Marquis Cornwallis in Bloomsbury. Arrivals from 18:30 in The Drawing Room, finishing at 21:30. Meri Williams, ex-CTO at Monzo and Pleo and co-chair of LDX, keynotes at 19:25 on their research into how engineering skills actually improve now, with advice for juniors and seniors. Then Speed AMAs: ten-minute private one-to-one slots with Meri, Paul Grenyer (engineering lead at Haven, author of So You Think You Can Lead a Team?), Quasar Chunawala (quantitative developer at CME Group) and Paul Ardeleanu (principal architect at Vonage). Hosted by Oana May. Registrations close 2 November and spaces are limited. Why go: the Speed AMA format gets you a private answer to your actual question from someone who has done the job, which almost no meetup offers. Best for engineers and engineering leads weighing a next step.

Whether you're building a startup, freelancing, starting a charity, or just doing something ambitious, this group is for you.

Build your first AWS data pipeline and AI-powered automation workflow. Learn SQL basics, clean data, and turn it into automated insights.

Join Us in Mayfair for a Morning of Networking with Venture Capital Firms, Investors and Service Providers.

Free 5 November 2026 Royal Navy digital transformation: RAdm Rachel Singleton Rear Admiral Rachel Singleton, Director of Navy Digital, with brief techUK members on how the Royal Navy is embracing new technologies. Market briefing London and online

Discover your future in data centres! Meet industry professionals, explore career pathways, unlock opportunities in digital infrastructure

Explore the latest Purple Mash updates, hands-on activities and practical ideas to take back to school.

Transform Your Workforce: Innovation, AI, and Support in Health & Social Care.

Discover practical companion cropping techniques, latest research and farmer experience to improve oilseed rape resilience.

Final session in the Government Commercial Agency Cyber Security 4 series, covering framework terms and conditions.

GCA Cyber Security 4: supplier engagement event 3 – terms and conditions Hosted by techUK.

Join our Maison Margiela Replica masterclass, exploring fragrance layering and finding your perfect signature scent.

FREE careers event for students & recent graduates to network with fantastic graduate employers!

with Lee Razo (Speaker, Neo4j)

A hands-on afternoon building a knowledge graph and then wiring it to a model, at Neo4j's London office with Google. Eight labs on your own laptop: deploy Neo4j on Google Cloud, move data in, explore it, build a graph with Knowledge Graph Builder, then put a Neo4j agent behind Gemini Enterprise and a custom LangChain agent. Lee Razo of Neo4j runs it. Check-in and snacks 13:30, workshop from 14:00, break at 15:00, final labs 16:30, networking from 17:00. Free, in person at Union House, SE1 0LH, capped at 50 and described by the organiser as limited to qualified builders, so register early. Bring a laptop whose browser can reach the Google Cloud Console and port 7474. Why go: most graph-and-LLM talks stop at the architecture diagram; here you leave with a deployed graph and an agent querying it. Best for data and AI engineers who would rather type than listen.

Making skills reform work for tech As part of Get the Nation Learning Week, techUK is hosting a panel discussion exploring how we make skills reforms work for tech. Webinar Online

A MentorHours39 one-to-one mentoring session at Level39 with Kristina Mydlar. Open to Level39 members only; booking is through the Level39 events page.

An off-the-record evening with Vercel and Google DeepMind on building with AI agents in production. Vercel leadership covers the latest product announcements from Vercel Ship SF, and Google DeepMind leadership walks through its newest Gemini announcements. The centrepiece is a founder panel, Building agents that ship, with London and European startups. No individual speakers are named on the page. Doors 17:30, finishing at 20:00, with networking throughout. The audience is a curated room of startup founders, CTOs and VPs of Engineering or AI. Free, approval required, and the exact address is only shared once you're accepted, somewhere in London. Why go: a rare chance to hear both teams' roadmaps and compare notes with other people shipping agents. Best for founders and engineering leads building agentic products who can get approved.

Find out the real reasons investors are saying no and how to turn your startup into a funding magnet.

Conf42 Platform Engineering 2026 is coming! – FREE Online Tech Event Dive into the future of platform engineering with a global community of engineers, developers, SREs, DevOps professionals, and cloud-native practitioners.

Royal Holloway's Age of AI series takes on the classroom. The panel looks at where AI genuinely helps learners and educators, and where it collides with academic integrity, intellectual property and the habit of critical thinking a degree is supposed to build. It is deliberately cross-faculty: Dr Antara Datta (Politics, International Relations and Philosophy), Professor Adam Ganz (Music, Drama and Media Arts / CoSTAR), Professor Lucy Gill-Simmen (Royal Holloway Business School) and Dr Fauzia Idrees (Computing, Security and Mathematics), chaired by Dr Maryam Mehrnezhad. Seventy-five minutes, 18:00 to 19:15, at Stewart House on Russell Square. Free to attend. Why go: the academic-integrity argument is being settled in rooms like this rather than at product launches, and a panel spanning computing, media and business gets further than an edtech pitch would. Best for edtech founders, university staff and anyone shipping AI into assessment.

Ben Whitelaw, who writes Everything in Moderation, and Georgia Iacovou, who writes Horrific/Terrific, take their Marked as Urgent evening to the question of the UK's kid-focused social media ban: what the legislation actually does, how it compares with the Australian version it follows, and what platforms, regulators and parents do next. 18:30 to 22:00 in Newspeak Hall at Newspeak House, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG. Free. The November edition is already full — registration now joins a waiting list, and the hosts release places as they come back, so sign up rather than turning up on the night. Why go: online-safety policy is usually argued about by people who have not read the statute, and these two do it for a living and are funny about it. Best for anyone building, moderating or regulating a consumer platform that UK teenagers use.

Join us to network and grab a drink or a meal. We will have a space dedicated for our group. Looking forward to seeing you! This months topic is Top AI hacks for productivity.

Occupational exposure to hazardous medicinal products: the evidence, legislation and the change required to protect healthcare workers.

A full day at BCS on Copthall Avenue treating human health, animal health and the shared environment as one system rather than three separate problems. The morning runs on AI for health: medical diagnosis after large language models, AI in mental healthcare, and a session explaining where AI regulation now stands. Before lunch there is a hands-on tutorial on building low-code AI agents for health, farming and food. The afternoon turns to quantum technologies for health and food, opening with an introduction to quantum computing for people who have not met it. 09:30 to 17:00, in person at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Tickets through Eventbrite; the listing does not name speakers. Why go: the one-health framing plus the quantum half makes this broader than the usual clinical-AI day, and the low-code agent tutorial is the rare conference session you leave having built something. Best for health and life-sciences technologists, and for regulatory people who need the technical picture.

A two-hour founder panel at Patch Twickenham, convened by coach Kate Rainford-Foakes after last year's edition sold out. Four founders talk through what the first steps actually cost them: Harriet Hastings of Biscuiteers, Steph Douglas of Don't Buy Her Flowers, Nadia Simonds of Lune & Wild, and Sally Lovett of Stretching the City, which grew out of a yoga side business into a workplace wellbeing consultancy. They cover pricing and getting to a viable business, when to hire or ask for help, trade-offs and boundaries, and changing direction when a business stops fitting your life. Format is a 45-minute panel and quick-fire Q&A, then small-group discussion, then coffee. 10:00 to 12:00. Step-free access from Arragon Road; children welcome. Why go: four people who have actually built the thing, talking about money and mistakes rather than vision. Best for anyone at or before the first-hire stage, and for founders taking the consumer-brand route rather than the venture one.

Join us for a practical AI workshop led by Urban MBA. Learn how artificial intelligence can support everyday life, work and creativity.

Join us in person to explore how AI and folklore converge in the 21st century and what happens when they meet!

You're invited to a birthday party Come celebrate three years of growing together.

Connect with other women working across the tech industry in London to talk careers, build real connections, and share opportunities.

Join us for a fun and laid-back in-person lino printing workshop.

Come join us for a full day of fun and creativity at our Furniture Painting Workshop!

We support people in learning how to handle conflict, resist violence and build better relationships.

Saturday-morning session of short demos and lightning talks from women building with AI, in the basement space at Dillons on Gower Street.

A one-day data sprint on London housing, organised by Jam Coombes at Newspeak House. The premise is that the planning and housing data needed to understand the crisis already exists, and the work is turning it into an argument someone can act on. Teams of data scientists, urban planners and policy people take real London planning and housing datasets and build the most well-evidenced story they can — policy briefs, dashboards or models, not toy problems. Runs 10:00 to 19:30 on the First Floor, with cash prizes voted on by the other hackers. Why go: a hackathon with a real dataset and a real question beats a sponsored one with neither, and the judging-by-peers format keeps it honest. Best for data scientists, analysts and planners who want a day on something that matters.

A day for young performers to attend seminars, workshops, chat to exhibitors and watch our stage to give them guidance, and support.

Shirt Pattern-Making Development: drafted from your own measurements?

This event is open to anyone who works in or is interested in the tech industry, whether you are a developer, designer, engineer, entrepreneur, student, or hobbyist. You can meet new people, share your experiences, learn from others, and find potential collaborators or mentors.

Vietnam International Awards' annual non-profit conference, putting healthcare leaders, clinicians, researchers and investors in one room on UK-Vietnam collaboration in cancer care, AI and health innovation. Dr Linh Nguyen, Associate Professor in Biomaterials at UCL, hosts and leads the programme. Speakers include Prof. Michelle Hermiston, Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Chief Scientific Officer at IHS; Assoc. Prof. Pham Cam Phuong, Director of the Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Center at Bach Mai Hospital; Dr Yasmin Karsan, health tech founder and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur; Biswajit Podder of Bupa; and Sandy Boxall, CEO of Contract Finder Pro. Doors 11:15, welcome at 12:00, close 15:00, in the Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre on UCL's Gower Street campus. Free. Why go: a short, specific session where NHS-side clinicians and Vietnamese oncology leaders are in the same place, which is not a combination London puts on often. Best for health tech founders and investors looking at Southeast Asia.

Join our on-campus Open Day to see what life is like at the RCA and meet staff and students.

The afternoon half of The Techie Brunch Club's monthly South London community day, picking up at The Steam Engine in Lambeth after the morning brunch. Three hours, free to attend, with drinks and burgers at your own cost. No talks and no programme. It is a pub table for people who work in or around tech: developers, designers, engineers, founders, students. Arik Fletcher and Hylton Stewart host. The group runs at 4.9 from 52 reviews and the November session had seven people signed up a fortnight out, so expect a dozen or so rather than a crowd. Attendance counts towards CPD points. Why go: one of the few regular tech rooms south of the river, and small enough that you talk to everyone in it. Best if you are new to London tech, or work remotely and want a low-effort Saturday.

Your chance to create your own home and self-care Christmas gifts using Neal's Yard Remedies essential oils at this fun Leatherhead event!

with Slava Baranovskiy (Founder; Entrepreneur in Residence, Brunel Business School, Eligent Club)

A four-hour in-person session from Eligent Club combining a workshop, a panel discussion, networking and a startup pitch slot. It works through building a tech startup from concept to international markets: where to find and validate an idea, finding and testing a co-founder, MVP development and product-market fit, generating revenue from day one, bootstrapping versus raising, marketing and sales, common failure patterns from real case studies, and when to expand abroad. Slava Baranovskiy, founder of Eligent Club and entrepreneur in residence at Brunel Business School, runs it. Free, 16:00 to 20:00 at Westminster Business School on Marylebone Road. The event is filmed. The organiser moved this edition from 24 October to 7 November and extended the finish from 18:00 to 20:00. Why go: the pitch slot and the four-hour length make it a working afternoon rather than a talk, which suits people at the idea stage who want their thinking challenged out loud. One speaker covers the whole arc, so expect breadth rather than depth.

Introductory in-person session on starting a career in cyber security, run by aYceLogic as the entry point to its paid training programme. Venue confirmed on registration.

Join us in person to explore how education can gear up kids for a bright future with AI.

As AI reshapes the world around us, are we preparing the next generation to thrive in education, wealth, health, and human connection?

Dive into a steamy night of books and love vibes with Romance Afterdark and Love Honey, our digital event sponsor for a day of spice!

Parastoo Hashemi explores the chemistry of our brains, and asks if we might be able to create a simple chemical test to diagnose problems.

A day of research, innovation, workshops, presentations and networking, bringing together the future of plastic surgery.

Attio and Point Nine open Attio's London HQ for a drop-in build day aimed at technical founders, engineers and early-stage operators. There's no formal programme: you bring what you're working on, an AI agent, an internal automation or a product idea stuck at 80%, and spend the afternoon making real progress on it. Hosts include Laura Weritz, Flo Seemann and Ellie Spicer, with a few technical mentors from the Attio team on hand for feedback. Expect uninterrupted work time, informal chat about AI tooling and what's actually working, and coffee and pizza. It's an open, drop-in Sunday, so come for an hour or stay the afternoon. Free to attend. Registration is approval-gated and the exact venue is shared with attendees once you register. Why go: one of the few London rooms where Point Nine and Attio put working builders in the same place with no agenda. Best for technical founders and engineers who would rather ship than network.

Join us at Corgi Cafe for a FREE day of networking, refreshments and great conversations with people across tech, sales and startups!