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An evening for London's healthtech community — startups, founders, healthcare professionals, investors, engineers and regulatory experts building at the intersection of technology and healthcare. Hosted at the Refinery on Southwark Street, the format mixes relaxed networking with optional one-minute elevator pitches so early-stage teams can surface their ideas and find collaborators, hires and backers.

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.

A full-day gathering of the UK Dynamics 365 & Power Platform User Group, bringing together Microsoft business-applications professionals — consultants, developers, functional leads and admins — for community-led sessions, real-world implementation stories and networking. Free to attend and a strong fixture for anyone working across Dynamics 365, Power Platform and the wider Microsoft low-code ecosystem.

A Networx London evening bringing together founders, angels, VCs and startup operators for curated, no-small-talk networking at Sycamore in Covent Garden. Part of one of London's fastest-growing weekly communities (200+ regulars), it's an easy, high-intent room for making funding and partnership connections over the summer lull.

The UK's largest monthly climate-tech gathering returns to The Conduit, bringing together VCs, angels, startup founders, corporates and academics for an evening of high-signal networking. The format: plant-based bites and ice-breakers from 6pm, three climate-tech leaders each delivering a punchy 7-minute talk from 7pm, then open drinks and connection-making until 9pm. A reliably strong room for anyone building or backing climate technology.

A central-London evening mixer for startup founders, tech entrepreneurs, finance and B2B professionals and investors, hosted at Sycamore bar in Covent Garden. Capped at around 30 attendees for quality conversations, it runs as informal networking over drinks (complimentary non-alcoholic welcome drink included) — a low-key way to expand your professional circle and explore partnerships or investment.

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.

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.

Relaxed after-work networking at The Anthologist for founders, AI and ML engineers, data scientists and investors working on generative AI, agents and intelligent automation. A reliable option on a quiet August Monday.

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.

The best-shaped room in a very quiet August week: a deliberately small evening built around an hour of live founder pitches on AI and emerging tech, with audience Q&A, book-ended by curated networking. Run by Astra Tech Hub, who have put on 180-plus events across 19 cities from San Francisco to Singapore and work with investors across those markets to surface relevant founders. Worth it whether you are pitching, investing, or just want a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the usual summer mixer.

Informal mid-week networking at Keepers Bar in the Novotel London Tower Bridge, bringing together tech entrepreneurs, startup founders, B2B professionals and investors. The organiser has run 130 events for 5,600-plus attendees; a non-alcoholic welcome drink is included.

with William Wong (Founder & Game Designer, Into Storymode)

A hands-on workshop at SPACE4 for storytellers, co-op and community people who want a gentle route into AI-assisted coding: you design a short browser game and build it by prompting, no prior code required. Capped at twelve people.

The weekly Friday after-work drinks for London's tech workers at The Clarence on Whitehall — developers, data scientists, security people, PMs and career-changers. Three pounds, online booking only, no tickets on the door.

The London Clojurians' long-running hands-on coding dojo, hosted at uSwitch near Tower Bridge. Attendees pair up and work through practical Clojure exercises together — newcomers learn the language from scratch while experienced developers help out and swap ideas. A friendly, no-pressure evening and one of the best ways to plug into London's functional-programming community. Bring a laptop with a working Clojure environment.

A relaxed City-of-London networking evening pairing early- and growth-stage tech founders with the service providers who help them scale, spanning marketing, legal, finance and software development. Founders get a one-minute elevator pitch to the room, followed by open networking in a reserved area at The Anthologist. A dependable, recurring room for building the practical partnerships behind a growing startup.