Tech Events by Newspeak House

Newspeak House's fellows' dinner, the one ticketed event in the autumn series. Long-table format, resident communities in attendance, and a late finish.

The opening dinner of Newspeak House's autumn term at the Bethnal Green Road hall. Civic technologists, researchers, journalists and policy people over a long table — the single best introduction to a community that mostly does not list on Eventbrite.

Newspeak House opens its faculty dinner to applicants ahead of the autumn term. The house is London's political-technology college and the highest-yield single venue on this site's calendar; the dinners are how most people first get through the door.

London has a housing crisis and the data to understand it already exists. house london! is a one-day data sprint at Newspeak House bringing together data scientists, urban planners and policy thinkers to take the capital's planning and housing data and build the most compelling, well-evidenced story they can with it. No toy problems: real datasets, real inquiry, and outputs — policy briefs, dashboards, models — intended to actually shape how London gets built. Cash prizes for the best projects, voted by fellow hackers.

Part game-design book club, part hands-on workshop: play a featured indie game, dissect its systems, then build paper prototypes inspired by it. A relaxed evening for anyone curious about game design and creative technology.

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.

An evening panel at Newspeak House exploring gaps in climate data and how technology, open data and policy can close them. Typical Newspeak format: practitioners in the room, low-key atmosphere, high-quality conversation.

Monthly gathering for builders and thinkers at Newspeak House — share prototypes, get feedback, and meet people building things at the intersection of technology, society and civic life.

Saturday hack day for community organisers and engineers building open-source tooling for communities — member directories, RSVP systems, Discord/Slack bridges, event infra. Bring a project or join one. Food provided. A rare focused day on the unsexy plumbing that actually holds communities together.

Working session on governance frameworks for voice data — what consent, retention and access control look like for voice-AI products that are now shipping at scale. Hosted at Newspeak House.

Newspeak House's Prototype Club — a recurring evening for people building civic-tech, hardware and weird software in public, hosted by Fatima Sarah Khalid. Bring something half-built and get pushed.

Long-running Newspeak House supper club — civic-tech, policy and engineering crowd, structured discussion over a low-key dinner. Application required.

Documentary screening at Newspeak House on the Felicity Ace shipping disaster — a salient case study on EV battery fire risk, maritime supply chain, and the engineering politics of large-scale failure.

Launch event for 'Are You a Software Update?' — a short book on how the metaphors we use for software (patches, updates, rollbacks) leak into how we think about selves, institutions and politics. Conversation with the author, drinks after. Draws the crossover Newspeak House crowd of engineers, writers and policy people.

The London meetup for newsroom technologists — journalists, engineers, and product people building tools for journalism. Hosted at Newspeak House by Edward Saperia.