Tech Events by Granola

with Jeffrey Veen (Design partner, True Ventures)

Granola hosts a conversation with Jeffrey Veen, the designer, entrepreneur and investor behind Adaptive Path, Measure Map and Typekit. Veen co-founded Adaptive Path, later acquired by Capital One, designed Google Analytics after Google bought Measure Map, and led Creative Cloud design at Adobe after the Typekit sale. He's now a design partner at True Ventures and runs the Design Futures Assembly, which brings design leaders together on working with AI. 6pm to 8:30pm, free. The address is shared on registration. Why go: three decades of product design lessons from someone who built three products that were each acquired. Best for designers, product people and founders designing with AI.

An evening hackathon at Granola HQ for go-to-market and marketing leaders, run with Google DeepMind. No technical background needed: the format is to bring your own Granola context, connect it through Granola's MCP, and build something with Gemini over a single evening. The group is curated rather than open, so expect a small room of heads of growth, marketing and revenue operations rather than engineers. Two and a half hours, 18:00 to 20:30, with the exact address shared on registration. Why go: most AI-for-GTM events are a panel and a product demo. This one puts your own meeting notes behind a model and asks what you would automate, with people from Google DeepMind on hand. Best for GTM and marketing leaders who want to try agents on their own data before committing a team to it.

with Eben Upton (Co-founder and CEO, Raspberry Pi)

Eben Upton in conversation about building Raspberry Pi from a Cambridge idea for getting more young people into computing into a listed technology company that has shipped tens of millions of boards. The thread is the early decisions — studying and teaching computer science at Cambridge, engineering at Broadcom, then designing a programmable computer cheap enough to be bought on a whim — and what he has learned from making something that shaped how a generation learned to build. Hosted by Granola at their Old Street office. Doors 17:30, talk starts at 18:00 and the doors close then. Free, approval-gated, drinks and snacks provided, and the organisers expect it to be heavily oversubscribed. Why go: founder conversations this candid with someone who actually built hardware at scale are rare in London. Best for hardware and deeptech founders, and anyone who learned to code on a Pi.

Design Engineering Night #10 — hosted by Granola in London.

A one-day build session for people who want to make something physical rather than another web app. Bring a project or join one: soldering irons, microcontrollers and a room full of people who know what a pull-up resistor is.