Free AI events in London

You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into London's AI scene. Every free AI event in the city, gathered in one place and verified daily: meetups, workshops, hackathons, and talks with no ticket price.

Meetups Workshops Hackathons Conferences Networking

Oct

Tue

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6:00 PM – 9:00 PM BST

Mindstone London October AI Meetup

Inspire St Jamesby Mindstone London

October edition of the monthly Clerkenwell meetup, with a technical LLM build talk, a practical session on being more productive with AI, and a forward-looking discussion, followed by pizza and networking.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Oct

Wed

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM BST

AWS AI in Practice #7

by AWS User Group UK

The seventh edition of the AWS User Group UK's London AI series. Talks from 18:15 and networking with food and drink from 20:00. Speakers are published four to six weeks ahead of the date.

MeetupFreeAdvancedDevelopers

Oct

Thu

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM BST

AI in the Wild #1: Proving AI Actually Works

by AI in the Wild London

Practical London evening for commercial and marketing teams on choosing AI projects, avoiding pilot failure and assessing the value, risks and operating needs of agentic systems.

MeetupFreeAll levelsBusinessGeneral

Oct

Wed

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM GMT

DSOLG October Event: Agentic AI Security

Autogen AI Londonby DevSecOps - London Gathering

Technical King’s Cross meetup on security failures in AI-agent task execution, using an intent-graph approach to address authority, consent, correction and delegation in autonomous systems.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

Oct

Fri

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM GMT

Ship and Chips: Open Tech and AI Demos

Encode Hubby Encode Club

The late-October edition of Encode Club's Friday lunchtime demo slot in Hoxton, the first after the clocks change. Three minutes per demo, lunch provided, free afternoon co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopers

Nov

Mon

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM GMT

Future Skills Hackathon: Thriving in the Age of GenAI

King's Building, Strand Campusby King's College London

King’s student hackathon on using AI responsibly at work, where interdisciplinary teams tackle business challenges with mentors from Warner Bros. Discovery and PlanPulse, then pitch ideas to industry judges.

HackathonFreeBeginnerStudentsGeneral

Nov

Tue

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM GMT

Croonian Medal and Lecture: Advances in Computational Protein Design

The Royal Societyby The Royal Society

Free Royal Society lecture where Nobel laureate David Baker covers designing entirely new proteins, including the deep learning methods used to generate functional proteins with new functions.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsResearchersStudentsGeneral

Nov

Thu

9:00 AM – 5:30 PM GMT

King's AI Summit: Agents of Science

London Institute for Healthcare Engineeringby King's College London

One-day King’s College London summit on the opportunities, limits and responsible deployment of AI agents for scientific research, from literature review and experimental design to analysis and laboratory workflows.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsResearchersDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Tue

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM GMT

Mindstone London November AI Meetup

Inspire St Jamesby Mindstone London

Monthly Clerkenwell AI meetup with practical LLM-building lessons, productivity demonstrations and a wider discussion of AI’s effect on work and society, followed by food and networking.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Dec

Tue

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM GMT

LMS Computer Science Colloquium: Theory and Practice of Machine Learning

De Morgan Houseby London Mathematical Society

London Mathematical Society research colloquium on machine learning for PhD students, postdocs and other attendees, featuring talks on neural simulation-based inference, Gaussian-process VAEs and reinforcement learning.

ConferenceFreeAdvancedResearchersStudentsDevelopers

Dec

Tue

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM GMT

Mindstone London December AI Meetup

Inspire St Jamesby Mindstone London

Monthly Clerkenwell AI meetup with practical LLM-building lessons, productivity demonstrations and discussion of AI’s effect on work and society, followed by food and networking.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral