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codebar's fortnightly free coding workshop for underrepresented groups in tech — online format with a lightning talk, hands-on paired coding, and mentorship from experienced developers. Open to beginners and those building confidence in Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and more.

with Dr Fiona Marshall (President of Biomedical Research, Novartis)

Imperial College London's annual health innovation summit connects researchers, founders, investors, and industry leaders for a full day of keynotes, demos and networking. Headlined by Dr Fiona Marshall (President of Biomedical Research, Novartis), with speakers from Danaher, Argenx, and Apollo Therapeutics. A genuinely high-signal room for anyone building at the intersection of life sciences, biotech, and digital health.

Mid-SXSW London week pitch competition in the private-members'-club setting of Home House Studio. London tech founders pitch to angels and VCs across an evening of structured competition and networking. The W1 location and curated room give this a different feel from the East End SXSW core.

with Samuel Colvin (Founder, Pydantic Inc.) · Rachel-Lee Nabors (Developer Educator & Open Source Lead, Independent)

Three days of data science, machine learning, and open-source tools at the international PyData conference. Keynotes from Samuel Colvin (founder of Pydantic, backed by Sequoia) and Rachel-Lee Nabors (former W3C and React team), with 44 speakers across tutorials, talks, and lightning sessions. The go-to annual gathering for data engineers, ML practitioners, and Python developers in London.

Friday-night Indian Professionals in London startup pitch + networking — a strong UK-India diaspora room, well-timed to the end of SXSW London week. A variety pick for the founder/operator crowd looking for sector- and community-specific networking alongside the SXSW programming.

with Aravind Srinivas (Co-Founder & CEO, Perplexity AI) · Alex Kendall (Founder & CEO, Wayve) · Darren Hardman (Corporate VP & CEO UK & Ireland, Microsoft)

Europe's largest annual tech festival returns to Olympia London (8–10 June) with a fringe programme running across the city until 12 June. The 2026 edition features the new Founders Stage with 50+ unicorn founders — including Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Alex Kendall (Wayve) and Anne Boden (Starling Bank) — plus the AI Arena, Deep Tech Stage, and Innovation Stage. Standard passes from £95; fringe events are largely free.

A 30-minute, no-fluff LTW Fringe talk from full-stack developer Ahmed Anifowose on building a Claude-powered code snippet manager — what worked, what didn't, and the practical lessons for anyone shipping AI-integrated developer tools in 2026. Honest builder energy at the start of LTW.

Tech Nation's OnetoWin finalist reception brings together the UK's most promising early-stage startups with top investors, industry leaders and ecosystem champions at Soho House White City. Drinks, canapés and curated networking with the startups vying for one of the UK's most coveted early-stage tech honours. Official LTW 2026 fringe event.

LTW Fringe session on circular IT, digital inclusion and ESG-aligned tech reuse — hosted by The Tech-Takeback Foundation at SEC Newgate's Farringdon offices. Libby Peake (Senior Fellow, Green Alliance) speaks on how corporate IT flows, secure reuse and community delivery can hit measurable social and net-zero outcomes.

Opening-night LTW Fringe networking reception hosted by InvestHK and the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office. Useful for any UK tech company exploring expansion into Hong Kong or APAC. Register by 3 June by emailing Invitation_InvestHK@hketolondon.gov.hk with name, title and company.

Future Worlds Demo Day is the annual showcase where ambitious founders pitch deep tech startups born from world-class university research — live on stage at Ministry of Sound. Expect standout pitches, an interactive expo of emerging spinouts, and an after-party with investors, founders and sector experts. If you back companies before anyone else does, this is the room. Official LTW 2026 fringe event.

An exceptional LTW Fringe session at Chatham House where policymakers, business leaders and academics interrogate how AI adoption is reshaping labour markets and national competitiveness. The room is heavyweight: Baroness Minouche Shafik (Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Prime Minister), Stephanie Flanders (Head of Economics, Bloomberg), Blake Lawit (LinkedIn) and Olivia O'Sullivan (Chatham House) lead the discussion, grounded in LinkedIn Economic Graph data. This is where AI policy meets enterprise reality.

A rare format flip: VCs pitch their propositions to founders, not the other way around. rev™'s London Tech Week Special at Level39 brings together pre-seed to Series B founders across FinTech, Cyber, Data & AI, GreenTech, and Life Sciences, with a preceding warp session for accelerators pitching to early-stage founders. Official London Tech Week fringe event.

with Lucia Rodriguez-Lacasa (Healthtech Investor, Albion VC) · Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot (Founding General Partner, THENA Capital) · Valerie Evans (Principal, Five Seasons Ventures) + 1 more

Rare Founders and Nexus Connected bring together women's health founders, investors and operators for a pitch competition, open mic stage and networking evening at The Ministry. Five pre-selected finalists compete before a panel of investors from Albion VC, THENA Capital and Five Seasons Ventures, followed by rapid-fire open mic pitching where any fundraising founder can take the stage. Official LTW 2026 fringe event.

Monthly networking drinks at the Gherkin's Sterling Bar for tech startups, VCs, developers, and AI professionals — timed for London Tech Week when the city's ecosystem is buzzing. Over a decade of proven London startup networking in one of the most iconic rooms in the City.

Startup Valley's monthly demo and pitch night where startups get 5 minutes to present live to investors, angels, and founders, with VC feedback and Q&A. Sectors span AI, SaaS, web3, and climate tech. Investors attend free.

A King's College London showcase running during LTW, with researchers from the Department of Informatics and the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI CDT) demonstrating practical applications across LLMs, robotics, cybersecurity, digital healthcare and education. The afternoon mixes speaker sessions with live demo and poster floors, closing on an STAI CDT panel — a quality venue for industry teams scouting collaborators or emerging AI talent.

The AI Summit London's 10th anniversary edition brings 4,500+ enterprise AI leaders, technologists, and investors to Tobacco Dock for two days across 10 stages and 14 content tracks. Speakers from NVIDIA, AWS, AstraZeneca, JPMorgan Chase, M&S, and the UK Government cover AI deployment, governance, infrastructure, and transformation. The Start-up & Investor Village connects early-stage AI companies with investors. Flagship AI event of London Tech Week.

An LTW Fringe forum at the British Library's Knowledge Centre, gathering cultural leaders, technology pioneers and contemporary thinkers around the questions where archive meets digital and ancient wisdom meets emerging intelligence. Themed around ARTIFACT Futures' forthcoming journal 'The Future is Behind Us'. Long-form (14:00–22:00) curated assembly for the strategic-tech crowd.

Tech in Ghana returns for its 17th edition during London Tech Week, convening founders, investors, corporates, DFIs and policymakers from Ghana, the UK and across Africa. The day covers fintech, AI, digital infrastructure, education, creative industries, health and mobility — moving the African tech conversation from awareness to scale. A strong day-long format at a serious legal venue for anyone investing or operating across the UK-Africa corridor.

AbilityNet's free LTW Fringe webinar unveils the 2026 Tech4Good Awards finalists — projects using technology to drive accessibility, digital inclusion, sustainability and social impact. A useful lunchtime hour for anyone whose work touches assistive tech, inclusive product design, or impact-focused innovation. Hosted by Mark Walker (AbilityNet) and Leigh Smyth (Impact Match).

LTW Fringe roundtable hosted by Global SportsTech Advocates and Penningtons MC. Sport executives, technology founders, performance directors and investors examine athlete biometric data ethics, simulation as a bridge between virtual and real-world sport, and athletes-as-investors vetting sportstech. Strong specialist room.

An intimate closing reception during London Tech Week for women in tech to process the week's inspiration and build connections beyond the main conference circuit. An official LTW fringe event — one of the few dedicated to community and relationship-building rather than content.

An LTW Fringe summit covering the asymmetric impact of AI, building a global business in a digital age, and Women & FinTech. Hosted at iFAST Global Bank in Canary Wharf, with Inayat Kashif (CEO, iFAST Global Bank) and Sophia co-founders Nicole Denholder and Christine Yu among the speakers. Open to founders, technologists, investors and allies — closing networking drinks until 9pm.

A free one-day unconference during London Tech Week fringe, designed to make AI genuinely understandable for everyone — not just technical specialists. Attendee-led sessions emphasise real-world impact, clarity, and practical application. A refreshing counterpoint to the flagship conference circuit.

An invitation-stage gathering for 120 product leaders — Directors, VPs, CPOs, CEOs and Founders — held in the Barbican Conservatory the day before the main #mtpcon conference. Six hours of curated talks and small-group discussion on product strategy, leadership and scaling, followed by an evening afterparty in the same room. The strongest senior-product networking room in London this year.

The London Market's senior gathering on how insurers, brokers and MGAs are deploying data, advanced analytics and AI to transform operating models and customer outcomes. Co-located with Data Jam, the day brings together two insurtech communities under one roof — a high-signal room for technologists and operators inside Lloyd's market firms.

Three days of free programming at ExCeL bringing together mission-critical and business-critical end-users with the manufacturers and operators powering modern public-safety, defence and industrial communications. Hosted by the UK Home Office Emergency Services Network team, with 250+ exhibitors (Motorola Solutions, Ericsson, Nokia, Comarch) and 5,000+ attendees from 80+ countries. Strong for anyone working in private 5G, mission-critical networks, IoT or defence tech.

Europe's flagship product conference — 1,200+ product managers, product leaders and designers at the Barbican for keynotes, panels and workshops. Past stages have hosted speakers from Slack, Silicon Valley Product Group, the Financial Times, Walmart, Booking.com and YouTube. The product event of the year for anyone working on tech products in the UK or Europe.

Casual evening networking reception in the wine cellars of Davy's St James for the London private equity and adjacent tech-investment community. A recurring fixture that consistently draws PE, growth-equity and tech-fund operators — useful for founders raising at growth stage and for service providers selling into investment firms.

Billed as London's biggest practical AI meetup — three sessions covering a technical talk on building AI-native products with real-world learnings, a step-by-step demo on using AI to speed up day-to-day work, and a wider talk on the impact of AI on work and society. A strong room for product, engineering and operator-side AI builders.

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.

Europe's flagship legal-transformation conference — 5,500+ attendees, 400+ speakers across 100+ sessions exploring AI adoption inside law firms and corporate legal teams, governance, and the changing shape of the legal profession. The two days at the InterContinental O2 are the calendar fixture for legaltech founders, GCs and the wider legal-AI community.