Tech Events at Newspeak House, London

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.

Campaign Lab's bi-weekly hack night at Newspeak House, for the community of progressive data scientists, researchers, technologists and organisers building election and campaigning tools. Bring your own side project or join one of the ongoing ones; snacks and drinks are provided and you can also dial in remotely. Newcomers interested in politics, technology and evidence-based campaigning are explicitly welcome — you just need a laptop.

notanother.pizza — the community for community organisers — returns to Newspeak House for a second day of talks and hacking on the tools meetup and online-community organisers actually need. Short talks to open, then working groups: self-hosting community tools (Bonfire), trialling Slack alternatives like Zulip, and untangling sponsor money and legal setup. Move between groups or start your own. Relevant if you run a meetup or online community, or build software for people who do. Free, approval required; doors 11:00, show and tell 15:30.

Campaign Lab's bi-weekly civic-tech hack night at Newspeak House — build open tools for progressive campaigning alongside data scientists, developers and organisers. Beginners welcome; snacks and drinks provided.

A full-day civic-tech hackathon at Newspeak House working with open UK council data — a hands-on room for data scientists, developers, designers and analysts to build practical tools that make local-government data more useful. One of the few substantive tech builds on the London calendar over the late-August lull.

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.

Campaign Lab's bi-weekly civic-tech hack night at Newspeak House — a hands-on evening for data scientists, developers and organisers building open tools for progressive campaigning. Bring a project or join an ongoing one; snacks and drinks provided.

Bi-weekly working session for data scientists, researchers and technologists building tools for progressive campaigning. Bring a laptop and your own project, or join one already running. Snacks and drinks provided; remote participation available.

with Jam Coombes (Organiser, House London)

A one-day data sprint on London's housing crisis, using the planning and housing data that already exists to build the most compelling evidenced story anyone can. Data scientists, urban planners and policy thinkers in one room at Newspeak House, working on real datasets rather than toy problems — outputs are policy briefs, dashboards and models. A £150 cash prize goes to the best analysis, voted by fellow hackers. The most substantive thing happening in London tech that weekend.

Terrace drinks for London's AT Protocol and Bluesky developer community — no agenda this edition, just the people building on the decentralised social stack. BYOB.

Bi-weekly working session for data scientists, researchers and technologists building tools for progressive campaigning. Bring a laptop and your own project, or join one already running. Snacks and drinks provided; remote participation available.

Campaign Lab's annual summer gathering on the Newspeak House terrace — the civic-tech and political-data community out of hack-night mode and into introductions. Open to anyone working at the intersection of technology, data and campaigning.

with Ian Ozsvald (Founder & Data Science Consultant, Mor Consulting / PyData London)

A full day of hands-on LLM security work led by Ian Ozsvald — PyData London co-founder and author of O'Reilly's High Performance Python. Expect prompt-injection challenges on Lakera's Gandalf platform, poking at abliterated models with guardrails removed, and a practical discussion of sandboxing and safe code practice. Free, small and tenth in the series; spaces are strictly limited.

Small-group conversation about AI, technology and how they reshape participation — structured around short imaginary scenarios with regular group reshuffles. A genuine alternative to the standard talk-then-drinks format, hosted at Newspeak House.

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.

Six Silberman hosts a Sunday-afternoon discussion on how institutional design and technology design shape one another — researcher-meets-practitioner format at Newspeak House.

Newspeak House book launch with Ed Maklouf for The Majority Myth — a fresh take on how technology shapes (and breaks) collective decision-making. Discussion-format, civic-tech crowd.

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.

A short-format technical primer with Harry Burdon on systems design for resource allocation — the algorithms and trade-offs behind matching markets, schedulers and energy/grid dispatch.