Tech Events by Geovation

Geovation's session on turning weather and predictive data into a commercial edge. It covers the main forecasting approaches (numerical weather prediction, ensembles, AI-based models) and the observation sources behind them: satellite, radar, drone and ground sensors. A practitioner panel then covers how they use them. Speakers: Will Lang (Chief Meteorologist, Met Office), Dr Julie Villinger (Head of Meteorology, Meteomatics), Gerald van der Grijn (Senior Product Manager, Spire), Oliver Lee (Managing Director, MetSwift) and Rachael Elliott (Director, Disaster Recovery Institute International). Geovation Hub, 65 Goswell Road, EC1V 7EN. The Eventbrite page lists a 4:30pm start and a two-hour session. Why go: a useful room for builders of climate-risk, insurance and logistics products, with a Met Office forecaster and three data vendors on one panel. Skip it if you want a pure founder crowd.

Explore how AI can accelerate customer discovery, market research, and go-to-market planning for startup founders.

Geovation session on how founders can turn ideas into products quickly, test assumptions early and build with confidence. Free.

A deliberately small speed-networking hour for geotech and proptech founders, hosted by Geovation at its Goswell Road hub, with an Ordnance Survey data Q&A attached. The format is structured rather than a free-for-all: short rotating conversations between founders working on location data, mapping and property technology, then open questions to the OS team about what data is available and how to use it. One hour, 15:00 to 16:00, free, places capped. Why go: the OS Q&A is the real draw — getting a straight answer about licensing and coverage from the people who hold the data usually takes weeks of email. Best for early-stage founders whose product depends on UK location data.

A short Geovation Hub workshop on using AI to make LinkedIn a consistent visibility channel rather than something you remember occasionally. Runs straight after the procurement session on the same afternoon. Why go: founder visibility does real commercial work at seed stage and most technical founders treat it as a chore, so an hour of mechanics beats another post about posting. Best for early-stage founders doing their own marketing - and worth pairing with the government-procurement session earlier the same day if you are selling to the public sector.

A Geovation Hub session on how government procurement actually works - the point being that government is one of the largest customers in the world and most startups misread how its buying decisions get made. Why go: public-sector sales fails for procedural reasons far more often than product ones, and Geovation (backed by Ordnance Survey and HM Land Registry) has unusually direct sight of how the process runs. An hour here is worth more than a year of guessing at frameworks. Best for founders selling, or planning to sell, into the public sector.

Demo day for Cohort 22 of Geovation's accelerator: eight startups building on location and property data present their businesses, progress and plans. The cohort spans two tracks, location intelligence supported by Ordnance Survey and proptech delivered with HM Land Registry. Presenting: Atlas AI, Climingo, Emissiv, Leamur, Just Farm, TreeStock, Your Power and Visi Properties. 15:30 welcome and networking, 16:00 opening remarks, 16:15 to 17:15 presentations, then Q&A with the founders, food and drinks until 19:00. Free, ticketed through Eventbrite. Geovation Hub, Sutton Yard, 4th floor, 65 Goswell Road. Why go: a concentrated look at what is being built on UK geospatial and land data, with the founders on hand afterwards. Best for proptech and climate investors, and anyone hiring or partnering in geospatial.