London — Week of 4 May 2026

Documentary screening at Newspeak House on the Felicity Ace shipping disaster — a salient case study on EV battery fire risk, maritime supply chain, and the engineering politics of large-scale failure.

Campaign Lab's weekly Monday hack night — volunteer engineers, designers, researchers and data people building open-source tools for progressive UK political campaigns. Hybrid (in-person at Newspeak House, livestreamed). Projects range from voter-contact tooling to constituency data pipelines. One of the longest-running civic-tech regular slots in the city.

500+ banking executives and fintech leaders at the Canary Riverside Plaza for two days on AI-powered banking and digital transformation.

Annual summit for venture capital investors and founders at The Tower Hotel, covering deal flow, investment trends, and ecosystem building.

Demo day for the Sudan Digital Archive — a volunteer-run effort preserving documents, testimony and media from the ongoing conflict. Walkthroughs of the ingestion pipeline, the search/redaction tooling and current calls for technical contributors. For engineers, archivists and researchers interested in civic-tech and conflict documentation.

Evening networking at The Anthologist in the City for AI/ML startup founders, investors, and tech professionals.

Three thousand senior marketing professionals gather at Excel London for the Digital Marketing World Forum's flagship global event. 200+ speakers across 10 tracks from AI automation to creator economy and digital transformation.

The UK's must-attend developer conference — 100+ sessions across Java, Architecture, Data & AI, and Bleeding Edge at the Business Design Centre. Sponsored by Red Hat, JetBrains, Google Cloud, and AWS.

Encode AI's second demo night brings together the strongest AI startups in London for live product demos — a high-signal room of builders, investors and operators.

An evening with Barry O'Reilly (author, Unlearn) and Martin Eriksson (co-founder, Mind the Product) on leadership and strategy in the AI era. Two of the most influential voices in product and tech in one room.

Second Renaissance brings together a thoughtful crowd at the AI / philosophy / longtermism intersection — this edition focuses on how LLMs change the practice of wisdom-as-skill, with a structured discussion format.

Long-running Newspeak House supper club — civic-tech, policy and engineering crowd, structured discussion over a low-key dinner. Application required.

Growth Breakfast Series with Christina Cacioppo, CEO of Vanta — a closed-door session on what it takes to build (and scale) one of the most-watched compliance platforms of the decade.

Monthly fintech networking breakfast at Bonds Mayfair, Piccadilly. A consistent format for fintech founders, investors, and professionals to connect over early morning coffee.

MongoDB CEO, Sequoia's Luciana Lixandru, and 20VC's Harry Stebbings at Old Billingsgate — one of the strongest speaker rooms of the week for AI and database builders.

Practical investment readiness workshop at Bayes Business School (City, University of London). Covers what investors look for, pitch structure, and fundraising preparation — free entry.

Master The Vibe explores how to design agentic AI into the software development lifecycle — not just as a coding assist layer but as an active participant in the flow. The session tackles the real structural and human challenges: how to build coherent delivery processes when your agents have latency, context limits, and unpredictable behaviour. A practitioner-focused evening for engineers and product people who are actually shipping agentic systems. Note: London Bridge Hive is not an accessible venue.

Principal Dev run a technical meetup on context graphs and long-horizon memory for LLM agents — retrieval architectures, graph-of-thought, episodic vs semantic memory for production agents, and how teams are actually storing and compressing agent state. Talks plus open discussion. Strong signal-to-noise for engineers building agentic systems.

A short-format technical primer with Harry Burdon on systems design for resource allocation — the algorithms and trade-offs behind matching markets, schedulers and energy/grid dispatch.

Evening networking for sustainability and climate tech founders, investors, and professionals at Mint Leaf in the City. Part of a recurring series covering green tech and smart solutions.