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AI hackathons & confs in London
There are 9 upcoming AI hackathons, 19 AI conferences and 86 AI meetups in London. The next hackathon is Health x AI Hackathon on Friday 18 September 2026 at Google HQ London, 116 High Holborn WC1V 6RD. Frequent organizers: Encode Club, Lychee, Dust.
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18 Sep Health x AI Hackathon Google HQ London, 116 High Holborn WC1V 6RD · Adeline Arts and Science One-day hackathon for clinicians, founders, researchers and engineers, powered by Google MedGemma with partners including Bupa, AlbionVC, HSBC Innovation Banking. Register 18 Sep → 20 Sep · 15h00 London AI×Bio Hack WilbeLABS Three days for scientists and builders working at the intersection of AI and life sciences. Co-hosted by NVIDIA x OpenAI x WilbeLABS. 18–20 September 2026WilbeLABS, White City, London About Incredible work happens when domain expertise meets frontier technology. Advances in coding agents are enabling scientists who have never coded to orchestrate complex workflows. Register 18 Sep · 16h30 Adeline Sprint Sessions: Health x AI After Hours Adeline Events Join Adeline Arts and Science and the healthtech ecosystem at Google HQ in London for an evening of innovation and networking as our hackathon teams showcase AI-powered solutions to Europe's biggest healthcare challenges. Register 19 Sep RSI: Self-Improving AI Hack Aptura AI Aptura’s Self-Improving AI Hack Can you improve AI better than AI can? 12 hours. 35 hackers. An AI running the improvement loop on its own. Build a system that helps an AI get better at a task, then see whether your team can outperform the same process running without human help. Here’s how it works: a curator writes a skill — a set of instructions for a learner model. Register 19 Sep · 09h30 {Tech: Europe} Agentic AI Hack {Tech: Europe} Talking about AI is easy, getting something to actually work by sundown is the interesting part. That's the idea behind this season, run together with Google DeepMind teams form in the morning, build through the day, demo in the evening. Prizes and credits on the line, food all day, and maybe your next startup mvp? Register 3 Oct EAT_HACK - the world's first AI & eating hackathon Really Good Culture 50 seats. £1,000+ in prizes. And we're hiring. 30 seats taken from 100+ applicants. 20 seats remaining. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. The brief: build AI for retail using behavioural data. Alongside you will be The Shelf. 25 of the most innovative and exciting challenger brands which all 50 builders can eat, drink and vote on. Register 3 Oct → 4 Oct London AI x Science Hackathon Londres · Iterate October 3–4, 2026 · LondonOver 48 hours, teams will push frontier AI at the hardest open problems in science: autonomous science, novel materials discovery, decoding complex biological systems and more!You'll building on real tools and real data from the partners of this hackathon, then pitching live in front of judges, VCs, and leading researchers.Timed to open Deep Tech Week London, the event lands you in the room… Register 10 Oct → 11 Oct · 09h30 AI Jam London 106 Bunhill Row Join AI Jam London for a fun, hands-on two days diving into the coolest design hackathon with AI mixed in! Register 15 Oct · 18h00 App After Dark: Mobile App Hackathon London AI Hub · AI Builders AI Builders Club, London AI Hub, and Bilt.me are hosting a mobile apps hackathon! Come with an idea, a problem worth solving, or join a team when you arrive. You’ll have one evening to turn it into something real, using AI to build a mobile app from scratch. You do not need to be a developer. You need a laptop, a willingness to try things quickly, and a tolerance for shipping something a little rough. Register 21 Sep → 24 Sep · 10h00 10th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence -ICAAI 1 America Square Get ready to dive into the latest AI breakthroughs and connect with fellow tech enthusiasts at this awesome in-person event! Register 22 Sep · 17h30 AI Salon London - Humans, AI-mplified 10 Lower Thames St Humans, AI-mplified AI is changing everything. But the question that matters most isn't about the technology. It's about us. Amplified, Register 22 Sep · 18h00 The state of harness engineering Arize AI Models are getting better fast. But when an agent fails in production, the model often isn’t the problem these days. Instead, problems increasingly start and stop with the agent harness. The failure might be in the context it received, the tool it called, the path it took through a workflow, the state it carried forward, or the recovery logic that kicked in when something went wrong. Register 23 Sep · 08h30 London | Claude Founder House: Builder Cohort London, UK · Anthropic Full-day Anthropic AI event for UK founders building AI companies (morning) and builders (afternoon), speakers include Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger and product leaders on Claude updates. Register 23 Sep · 18h30 AI Pilled [Operator] #02 AI Pilled AI Pilled [Operator] is a different kind of demo day where we don't care about what you're building, but how you're building it and running it day to day. We are inviting the most advanced users of AI to showcase how they are deploying AI as not just thought partners, but as a co-worker, or even a system of operation that runs the entire organisation. If you'd like to demo, please indicate in the registration form. Register 28 Sep AI in Learning: A sense-making day Wallacespace Holborn The AI conversation we actually need. One day, fifty people, a morning of expert input, an afternoon of conversations with purpose. Register 30 Sep The real-time database for AI Conference - ClickHouse CodeNode · ClickHouse Events This is a big one. 🎉 ClickHouse is hosting Open House London 2026 — a free database and AI conference in the UK — and we want our meetup community there. 📍 CodeNode, 10 South Place London, EC2M 7EB📅 September 30, 2026 🎟️ Free — registration required What's happening: Free Training Workshops + Main Conference Half-day hands-on sessions in the morning covering real-time analytics, observability with ClickStack, and… Register 6 Oct · 08h30 The Future of AI in Financial Services: an FStech Conference 2026 Hilton London Tower Bridge, More London Place, Tooley Street, London, UK We’re bringing together leading experts in the field for an impactful conference exploring the future of AI in financial services. Register 13 Oct · 09h30 Interrupt London, The Agent Conference by LangChain Outernet London Register 20 Oct → 21 Oct · 08h30 AI LIVE: The London Summit Olympia Showcasing the Next Era of Technology & Human Purpose Register 27 Oct · 18h00 The London AI Conference 2026 London - Venue to be confirmed gathers 300 Business, Innovation, Product, and Tech Leaders from London and across the UK. Register 4 Nov → 5 Nov FT Future of AI Summit 2026 Convene 22 Bishopsgate, London · FT Live Two-day Financial Times AI summit with 900+ attendees, 80+ speakers, topics include sovereign AI, agentic systems, governance, embodied AI, and AI workforce transformation. Register 14 Nov → 15 Nov · 10h00 AI Filmmaker Summit - London UK Docklands campus Europe's first dedicated AI Filmmaker Summit. Two days of talks, screenings and networking in London. Nov 14-15, 2026. Register 19 Nov · 08h15 AI in Business Conference • Nov 2026 • Exploring Enterprise AI Venue Announced Soon Where Enterprise AI Moves from Experimentation to Business Impact Register 19 Nov · 09h15 BSI Trust in AI Conference 2026 The Royal Institution A one-day conference to support you to better understand the complex and powerful world of AI. Register
FAQ When is the next AI hackathon in London? The next AI hackathon in London is Health x AI Hackathon, on Friday 18 September 2026, at Google HQ London, 116 High Holborn WC1V 6RD. 9 AI hackathons are currently listed.
Which AI conferences are coming up in London? 19 AI conferences are listed in London, starting with 10th International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence -ICAAI, AI Salon London - Humans, AI-mplified, The state of harness engineering.
Are AI hackathons in London free? 7 of the 9 upcoming AI hackathons in London are marked free to attend. Each event links to its official registration page.
How do I find teammates for an AI hackathon? Join the AI Hack Club: sign in with GitHub on aihackclub.com/club, chat in your city's room, and meet other builders going to the same events.
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