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Mid-SXSW London week pitch competition in the private-members'-club setting of Home House Studio. London tech founders pitch to angels and VCs across an evening of structured competition and networking. The W1 location and curated room give this a different feel from the East End SXSW core.

Friday-night Indian Professionals in London startup pitch + networking — a strong UK-India diaspora room, well-timed to the end of SXSW London week. A variety pick for the founder/operator crowd looking for sector- and community-specific networking alongside the SXSW programming.

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.

Tech Nation's OnetoWin finalist reception brings together the UK's most promising early-stage startups with top investors, industry leaders and ecosystem champions at Soho House White City. Drinks, canapés and curated networking with the startups vying for one of the UK's most coveted early-stage tech honours. Official LTW 2026 fringe event.

Opening-night LTW Fringe networking reception hosted by InvestHK and the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office. Useful for any UK tech company exploring expansion into Hong Kong or APAC. Register by 3 June by emailing Invitation_InvestHK@hketolondon.gov.hk with name, title and company.

Future Worlds Demo Day is the annual showcase where ambitious founders pitch deep tech startups born from world-class university research — live on stage at Ministry of Sound. Expect standout pitches, an interactive expo of emerging spinouts, and an after-party with investors, founders and sector experts. If you back companies before anyone else does, this is the room. Official LTW 2026 fringe event.

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.

with Lucia Rodriguez-Lacasa (Healthtech Investor, Albion VC) · Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot (Founding General Partner, THENA Capital) · Valerie Evans (Principal, Five Seasons Ventures) + 1 more

Rare Founders and Nexus Connected bring together women's health founders, investors and operators for a pitch competition, open mic stage and networking evening at The Ministry. Five pre-selected finalists compete before a panel of investors from Albion VC, THENA Capital and Five Seasons Ventures, followed by rapid-fire open mic pitching where any fundraising founder can take the stage. Official LTW 2026 fringe event.

Monthly networking drinks at the Gherkin's Sterling Bar for tech startups, VCs, developers, and AI professionals — timed for London Tech Week when the city's ecosystem is buzzing. Over a decade of proven London startup networking in one of the most iconic rooms in the City.

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.

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.

Tech in Ghana returns for its 17th edition during London Tech Week, convening founders, investors, corporates, DFIs and policymakers from Ghana, the UK and across Africa. The day covers fintech, AI, digital infrastructure, education, creative industries, health and mobility — moving the African tech conversation from awareness to scale. A strong day-long format at a serious legal venue for anyone investing or operating across the UK-Africa corridor.

An intimate closing reception during London Tech Week for women in tech to process the week's inspiration and build connections beyond the main conference circuit. An official LTW fringe event — one of the few dedicated to community and relationship-building rather than content.

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.

An invitation-stage gathering for 120 product leaders — Directors, VPs, CPOs, CEOs and Founders — held in the Barbican Conservatory the day before the main #mtpcon conference. Six hours of curated talks and small-group discussion on product strategy, leadership and scaling, followed by an evening afterparty in the same room. The strongest senior-product networking room in London this year.

Europe's flagship product conference — 1,200+ product managers, product leaders and designers at the Barbican for keynotes, panels and workshops. Past stages have hosted speakers from Slack, Silicon Valley Product Group, the Financial Times, Walmart, Booking.com and YouTube. The product event of the year for anyone working on tech products in the UK or Europe.

Newspeak House book club on Eric Ries' new book Incorruptible — the Lean Startup author's argument for a new corporate form designed to keep mission-driven companies honest as they scale. Hosted in Newspeak House's Classroom, a long-standing East-London salon for technologists, founders and people working at the politics-technology intersection.