What's happening: Week of 1 June 2026
Dr Fiona Marshall (Novartis)
Imperial College London's annual health innovation summit connects researchers, founders, investors, and industry leaders for a full day of keynotes, demos and networking. Headlined by Dr Fiona Marshall (President of…
Samuel Colvin (Pydantic Inc.) · Rachel-Lee Nabors (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…
SXSW brings its iconic festival to Shoreditch for six days of tech, film, music and culture. The 2026 conference covers 15 tracks including AI & The New Human Experience, Frontier…
codebar's fortnightly free coding workshop for underrepresented groups in tech — online format with a lightning talk, hands-on paired coding, and mentorship from experienced developers. Open to beginners and those building confidence in Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and more.
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.
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…
Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity AI) · Alex Kendall (Wayve) +1 more
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…
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…
LTW Fringe session on circular IT, digital inclusion and ESG-aligned tech reuse — hosted by The Tech-Takeback Foundation at SEC Newgate's Farringdon offices. Libby Peake (Senior Fellow, Green Alliance) speaks on how corporate IT flows, secure reuse and community delivery can hit measurable social and net-zero outcomes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AbilityNet's free LTW Fringe webinar unveils the 2026 Tech4Good Awards finalists — projects using technology to drive accessibility, digital inclusion, sustainability and social impact. A useful lunchtime hour for anyone whose work touches assistive tech, inclusive product design, or impact-focused innovation. Hosted by Mark Walker (AbilityNet) and Leigh Smyth (Impact Match).
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…
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…
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…
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.
Three days of free programming at ExCeL bringing together mission-critical and business-critical end-users with the manufacturers and operators powering modern public-safety, defence and industrial communications. Hosted by the UK Home Office Emergency Services Network team, with 250+ exhibitors (Motorola Solutions, Ericsson, Nokia, Comarch) and 5,000+ attendees from 80+ countries. Strong for anyone working in private 5G, mission-critical networks, IoT or defence tech.
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.
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.