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with Samuel Colvin (Founder, Pydantic Inc.) · Rachel-Lee Nabors (Developer Educator & Open Source Lead, Independent)

Three days of data science, machine learning, and open-source tools at the international PyData conference. Keynotes from Samuel Colvin (founder of Pydantic, backed by Sequoia) and Rachel-Lee Nabors (former W3C and React team), with 44 speakers across tutorials, talks, and lightning sessions. The go-to annual gathering for data engineers, ML practitioners, and Python developers in London.

with Aravind Srinivas (Co-Founder & CEO, Perplexity AI) · Alex Kendall (Founder & CEO, Wayve) · Darren Hardman (Corporate VP & CEO UK & Ireland, Microsoft)

Europe's largest annual tech festival returns to Olympia London (8–10 June) with a fringe programme running across the city until 12 June. The 2026 edition features the new Founders Stage with 50+ unicorn founders — including Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Alex Kendall (Wayve) and Anne Boden (Starling Bank) — plus the AI Arena, Deep Tech Stage, and Innovation Stage. Standard passes from £95; fringe events are largely free.

A 30-minute, no-fluff LTW Fringe talk from full-stack developer Ahmed Anifowose on building a Claude-powered code snippet manager — what worked, what didn't, and the practical lessons for anyone shipping AI-integrated developer tools in 2026. Honest builder energy at the start of LTW.

An exceptional LTW Fringe session at Chatham House where policymakers, business leaders and academics interrogate how AI adoption is reshaping labour markets and national competitiveness. The room is heavyweight: Baroness Minouche Shafik (Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Prime Minister), Stephanie Flanders (Head of Economics, Bloomberg), Blake Lawit (LinkedIn) and Olivia O'Sullivan (Chatham House) lead the discussion, grounded in LinkedIn Economic Graph data. This is where AI policy meets enterprise reality.

A rare format flip: VCs pitch their propositions to founders, not the other way around. rev™'s London Tech Week Special at Level39 brings together pre-seed to Series B founders across FinTech, Cyber, Data & AI, GreenTech, and Life Sciences, with a preceding warp session for accelerators pitching to early-stage founders. Official London Tech Week fringe event.

Startup Valley's monthly demo and pitch night where startups get 5 minutes to present live to investors, angels, and founders, with VC feedback and Q&A. Sectors span AI, SaaS, web3, and climate tech. Investors attend free.

A King's College London showcase running during LTW, with researchers from the Department of Informatics and the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI CDT) demonstrating practical applications across LLMs, robotics, cybersecurity, digital healthcare and education. The afternoon mixes speaker sessions with live demo and poster floors, closing on an STAI CDT panel — a quality venue for industry teams scouting collaborators or emerging AI talent.

The AI Summit London's 10th anniversary edition brings 4,500+ enterprise AI leaders, technologists, and investors to Tobacco Dock for two days across 10 stages and 14 content tracks. Speakers from NVIDIA, AWS, AstraZeneca, JPMorgan Chase, M&S, and the UK Government cover AI deployment, governance, infrastructure, and transformation. The Start-up & Investor Village connects early-stage AI companies with investors. Flagship AI event of London Tech Week.

An LTW Fringe forum at the British Library's Knowledge Centre, gathering cultural leaders, technology pioneers and contemporary thinkers around the questions where archive meets digital and ancient wisdom meets emerging intelligence. Themed around ARTIFACT Futures' forthcoming journal 'The Future is Behind Us'. Long-form (14:00–22:00) curated assembly for the strategic-tech crowd.

LTW Fringe roundtable hosted by Global SportsTech Advocates and Penningtons MC. Sport executives, technology founders, performance directors and investors examine athlete biometric data ethics, simulation as a bridge between virtual and real-world sport, and athletes-as-investors vetting sportstech. Strong specialist room.

An LTW Fringe summit covering the asymmetric impact of AI, building a global business in a digital age, and Women & FinTech. Hosted at iFAST Global Bank in Canary Wharf, with Inayat Kashif (CEO, iFAST Global Bank) and Sophia co-founders Nicole Denholder and Christine Yu among the speakers. Open to founders, technologists, investors and allies — closing networking drinks until 9pm.

A free one-day unconference during London Tech Week fringe, designed to make AI genuinely understandable for everyone — not just technical specialists. Attendee-led sessions emphasise real-world impact, clarity, and practical application. A refreshing counterpoint to the flagship conference circuit.

The London Market's senior gathering on how insurers, brokers and MGAs are deploying data, advanced analytics and AI to transform operating models and customer outcomes. Co-located with Data Jam, the day brings together two insurtech communities under one roof — a high-signal room for technologists and operators inside Lloyd's market firms.

Billed as London's biggest practical AI meetup — three sessions covering a technical talk on building AI-native products with real-world learnings, a step-by-step demo on using AI to speed up day-to-day work, and a wider talk on the impact of AI on work and society. A strong room for product, engineering and operator-side AI builders.

Europe's flagship legal-transformation conference — 5,500+ attendees, 400+ speakers across 100+ sessions exploring AI adoption inside law firms and corporate legal teams, governance, and the changing shape of the legal profession. The two days at the InterContinental O2 are the calendar fixture for legaltech founders, GCs and the wider legal-AI community.