Consulting Groups London

Solo Entrepreneurs, Freelancers, Consultants and Coaches Networking Event

**PLEASE MAKE SURE TO BOOK YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE TO ATTEND THE EVENT. YOU CAN RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE.** [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solo-entrepreneurs-freelancers-consultants-and-coaches-networking-event-tickets-1999848383349](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solo-entrepreneurs-freelancers-consultants-and-coaches-networking-event-tickets-1999848383349) Welcome to our exclusive Networking Event tailored specifically for Solo Entrepreneurs – a unique opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals who are navigating the thrilling yet challenging path of solo entrepreneurship. In this event, you'll find a supportive community where ideas are shared, collaborations are born, and experiences are exchanged. The event will be held in a sophisticated and vibrant venue, adorned with modern decor and equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to ensure your comfort and convenience throughout the day. Whether you're just starting out or have been on this journey for a while, our gathering is designed to provide you with valuable connections, insights, and resources. You'll have the chance to: * **Meet and Mingle:** Engage with fellow solo entrepreneurs from various industries. Share your stories, challenges, and triumphs in an environment that understands the solo journey. * **Learn from Experts:** Hear from experienced entrepreneurs and industry experts who will offer actionable advice on key topics like time management, scaling your business, and building a personal brand. * **Explore Collaboration Opportunities:** Discover potential collaborations and partnerships that can help expand your business, diversify your offerings, and reach new markets. * **Boost Your Business Visibility:** Showcase your business, products, or services and gain visibility among a community that’s eager to support fellow entrepreneurs. This networking event isn’t just about making connections; it’s about building a community of solo entrepreneurs who can grow and succeed together. Come, be a part of this empowering experience, and take your solo business to new heights! **Who Should Attend:** * **Solo Entrepreneurs** * **Freelancers** * **Startup Founders** * **Consultants** * **Small Business Owners** * **Creative Professionals** * **Digital Nomads** * **Aspiring Entrepreneurs** * **Side Hustlers** * **Business Coaches and Mentors:** This diverse group of attendees ensures a rich and varied networking event, full of potential for learning, collaboration, and business development. **Why Attend the Event:** **Expand Your Professional Network:** Meet and connect with other solo entrepreneurs who understand the unique challenges and rewards of running a business single-handedly. These connections can lead to future collaborations, partnerships, or even friendships. **Learn from Shared Experiences:** Hear firsthand accounts of successes and setbacks from peers who are on a similar journey. These stories can provide valuable insights, saving you time and helping you avoid common pitfalls. **Find Potential Collaborators:** Discover opportunities to collaborate on projects, share resources, or combine expertise with other solo entrepreneurs. This can lead to new business ventures or help you offer more comprehensive services to your clients. **Get Inspired:** Being a solo entrepreneur can sometimes feel isolating. Surrounding yourself with fellow entrepreneurs can reignite your passion and inspire new ideas for your business. **Access Valuable Resources:** Gain information about tools, platforms, and communities specifically beneficial for solo entrepreneurs. These resources can help streamline your operations, increase your productivity, and grow your business. Join us at our Networking Event for Solo Entrepreneurs and take a step towards expanding your horizons and growing your business. Let’s connect, collaborate, and grow together! **How our event works:** **You will also be able to join the dedicated Whatsapp group for the event and start networking before the actual event.** 7.00pm - When you arrive your name will be checked off the guest list, the host will direct everyone to the reserved area and explain how the event will work. 7.30pm – Networking starts, you will be introduced to each other in a nice relaxed environment in the semi private reserved area. 10 pm - Event ends, all guests are welcome to stay and enjoy chatting with each other. This event will be hosted till 9 pm; the key to making the most of speed friending is to follow up with your contacts over time to develop friendships. Dress code is either business or office attire or smart casual, no T-shirts, no trainers. If you have any questions email contact@thebusinessminds.co.uk Ticket for 1 person allows 1 person to enter the venue from 7pm Please Note: **Tickets need to be bought online and are not available at the door.**

Product London with Lebara.

Hello All, Hope you're all well and have been enjoying the sunshine! Product London returns on 16th September from 5.30pm, this time hosted by Lebara! **Address**: 5th Floor, Broadwalk House, 5 Appold St, London EC2A 2DA Three talks across the evening: **Talk 1**: **Chris Miles** (Group Head of Conversational Products at Lebara) with '**The AI Product Playbook**' **Synopsis**: Most AI products chase the technology first and the customer problem second. This talk offers five practical principles for building AI products people actually use, drawn from lived experience. **Talk 2**: **Lee Cross** (Growth Advisor - Lebara Travel eSIM ) with '**The Product Delivery Trap - Why product teams become delivery machines instead of growth engines - and how to escape**' **Synopsis**: Too often, product teams quietly become delivery machines and focus becomes shipping features, closing tickets, hitting sprint goals, while the business stops growing. It's the most expensive mistake in product, and the current rush to merge product into engineering is making it worse. This talk will make the case that product is, and always has been a commercial discipline, not a technical one. Its job is to find where the growth is, prove it, and drive a business toward it. Drawn from launching and scaling real businesses, it's a challenge to how most teams are being run - and a practical way out of the trap. **Talk 3**: **Nora Bereczkei** (Director & Tribe Lead, Platform Foundations at Gousto) with '**Platform Product Management: Same Craft, Different Users: Discovering, Building and Launching Internal Products and Platforms**' **Synopsis**: Platform product management uses the same craft as any other product role: real discovery, hard prioritisation calls, and a launch that earns its audience. The difference comes down to who that audience is, nothing more. There is no paying customer and no revenue signal, only internal teams deciding whether to trust what you built. Get the fundamentals right, and the leverage compounds, because every team downstream inherits the win without repeating any of the work themselves. This talk sets out a simple rule for that gap: ask the team directly, rather than guess what they need, and measure success by what the rest of the organisation can now do because the platform exists. Expect a practical walkthrough of discovery, build and launch for internal platforms, plus the handful of ways the job differs from building for an external customer. Pizza and Refreshments will be provided! Looking forward to see you there! Alex

Luxury Connector® | London Networking for HNWIs & Professionals

**Kindly note that this is a paid event and the average number of attendees for our events is 60-70 people. You can register on [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/luxury-connector-london-networking-for-hnwis-professionals-tickets-1996820775693?aff=meetup](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/luxury-connector-london-networking-for-hnwis-professionals-tickets-1996820775693?aff=meetup)** Join the Luxury Connector® in London—an exclusive networking event for HNWIs, finance experts, and luxury professionals. The Wealth & Luxury Connector® in London is an **exclusive business networking event** bringing together **HNWIs, finance experts, and luxury professionals**. Connect with **wealth managers, investors, and entrepreneurs** while exploring new opportunities in **finance** and **luxury** industries. **This event is tailored for:** * Wealth managers, wealth planners, and financial advisers * Professionals offering services to preserve and grow wealth (tax advisers, accountants, lawyers, property managers, investors, consultants) * Providers of ancillary services to wealth professionals * Those working with High-Net-Worth Individual (HNWI) clients * HNWIs seeking expert solutions and opportunities **What to Expect** Enjoy an evening of *informal networking* with professionals and potential clients in finance, investment, and wealth creation. A dedicated WhatsApp group will be created before the event so attendees can introduce themselves and their services in advance. **Event Highlights:** * Meet wealth planners, tax consultants, accountants, lawyers, property sourcers, and investors * Discover innovative wealth creation and preservation strategies * Build meaningful business relationships in a premium networking environment **Details & Booking** 📍 Location: Hay Hill Private Members Club,12 Hay Hill, London, W1J 8NR 👔 Dress Code: Smart formal or office attire 🎟 Limited to **50 guests** – early booking highly recommended as previous editions have sold out in advance. 💳 Advance tickets are cheaper than on-the-day tickets and are non-refundable, but can be reassigned. **Disclaimer:** Photos and videos may be taken for promotional purposes on our website and social media. Don’t miss your chance to connect with influential wealth professionals and HNWIs in London — **secure your spot at the Wealth Connector® today!**

Pricing and token economy of AI features – the product aspect

Most of the product managers are excited about integrating GenAI capabilities into their products. Very few, however, ask the hard question early enough: **What will this actually cost at scale - and will the economics still make sense?** Usually, that question only comes up once the feature starts getting real adoption at scale… and someone in the organization receives the bill. At our upcoming meetup in collaboration with Workato we’ll tackle this extremely important, highly relevant, and still under-discussed topic with must-see talks designed to save you both money and a lot of operational headaches: 1. **Token Economy: Building AI Products That Scale** by Jane Vandale, Senior solutions consultant @ Workato: As AI moves from feature to infrastructure, token economics becomes a product decision—not a FinOps afterthought. Every inference call has a real marginal cost, and poorly designed agentic systems can quickly become expensive, opaque, and difficult to govern. This talk explores where token costs actually leak and introduces a practical framework for deciding what truly requires an LLM and what should be handled through fast, deterministic execution. Using real production examples and five core techniques—routing, packaging, right-sizing, filtering, and pre-fetching—we’ll show how product and engineering teams can significantly reduce token usage while improving reliability, transparency, and scalability. The key question for every AI feature: **does this need inference, or does it simply need execution?** 2. **Ignorance Is Expensive You Have $100. Now What?** by Daniel Shani, Product Manager @ Sharegain We built an AI feature that worked, and still couldn't ship it — the unit economics said no. This talk is about what we did next: three product decisions that cut our cost per answer by 20x, from decomposing the product so the model only handles what earns it, to shrinking what the model needs to know, to replacing document search with a knowledge graph. I'll also share the simple test we run before any AI feature enters the roadmap, which works on a fixed budget that never grows. Expect opinions about pricing models you may not agree with. 3\. Third talk – details TBA If you’re building AI features, shipping GenAI products, or planning to scale AI in production, this meetup will give you practical frameworks, hard-earned lessons, and actionable strategies from teams already operating at scale. We’re looking forward to meeting you there. ProductX.biz Team **Please register via the Luma registration** **page [here](https://luma.com/r0wvfgob)**. [https://luma.com/r0wvfgob](https://luma.com/r0wvfgob) **\*The address will be shared after your registration is approved.**

London Tech Connector® | Technology, AI & Innovation Networking London

**Kindly note that this is a paid event and the average number of attendees for our events is 60-70 people. You can register on [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-tech-connector-technology-ai-innovation-networking-london-tickets-1998899040840?aff=meetup](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-tech-connector-technology-ai-innovation-networking-london-tickets-1998899040840?aff=meetup)** Connect with founders, tech professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators using technology to grow their businesses. ## **🚀 What Is London Tech Connector®?** London Tech Connector® is a professional networking event bringing together founders, entrepreneurs, technology professionals, innovators, investors, executives, and business leaders interested in the technologies shaping the future of business. Taking place on **22nd September** at **Home House Studio**, this event provides an opportunity to connect with ambitious people building companies, adopting emerging technologies, and exploring new ways to innovate and grow. Whether you're leading a business, launching a startup, investing in technology, exploring AI, or looking to understand how the latest innovations can help your organisation, London Tech Connector® offers a welcoming environment for meaningful conversations, fresh ideas, and valuable new connections. ## **🎯 Who Should Attend?** * Entrepreneurs & Business Owners * Startup Founders * Technology Professionals * AI, Product & Innovation Leaders * Investors & Venture Professionals * Executives & Decision Makers * Consultants & Digital Transformation Specialists ## **🤝 Why Attend?** * Meet founders, entrepreneurs, investors, and technology professionals * Discover how emerging technologies are transforming businesses * Explore collaboration, partnership, and investment opportunities * Exchange ideas, insights, and practical experiences * Expand your network within London's technology and innovation community ## **📍 Event Format** * Friendly and professional networking * Open conversations and introductions * Diverse mix of founders, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and technology professionals * Business-focused discussions around innovation, AI, and emerging technologies * Premium networking in the heart of Mayfair ## **📅 Event Details** **Date:** 22nd September **Time:** 5:00 PM **Venue:** Home House Studio **Bonus Networking:** Attendees are welcome to remain for the wider London Connector® networking event following the meetup. ## **✨ About London Connector®** London Tech Connector® is part of the London Connector® event series, bringing together founders, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, consultants, and professionals through premium networking experiences across a wide range of industries and communities. ## **📲 Exclusive WhatsApp Networking Group** All attendees receive access to a private WhatsApp group on the day of the event, making it easy to introduce yourself, connect with other attendees, and arrange meetings before the event begins. ## **📸 Event Disclaimer** Photos and videos may be taken during the event and used for marketing and promotional purposes.

Weka Exchange - AI/ML HPC Meetup

**The AI & HPC Professionals Meetup - WEKA Exchange London** Network, share knowledge, and explore AI & HPC technology with peers across London **Thursday 17 September , 5:30 - 7:30 PM BST** **[Poolhouse – The Dive Suite, 100 Liverpool St, London EC2M 2AT](https://maps.app.goo.gl/fZb9V2Kyc6AMVj3t5)** WEKA Exchange London is a meetup series for professionals interested in AI, storage, and modern data infrastructure. Each session offers a relaxed setting to: * Explore AI & HPC technology through short talks and demos (10 -15 minutes per topic) * Exchange insights and best practices with peers, partners, and the wider community * Build meaningful connections within the local tech ecosystem **Who Should Attend?** WEKA Exchange is open to everyone, including: * AI, storage, and infrastructure professionals * Engineers, solution architects, and IT practitioners * Customers, partners, and sales teams * Anyone curious about modern data platforms and high-performance workloads Whether you’re hands-on technical or simply keen to learn, you’re welcome to register. **Why Attend?** * Connect with like-minded professionals in London’s tech ecosystem * Gain practical insights into AI & HPC technology and real-world use cases * Share ideas and learn from peers, partners, and customers * Become part of a growing local community **Register Now** **Places are limited.**

International Trade Connector® | Global Business Networking London

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Taster workshop

A fun and hands on introduction to LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, ideal for those who have not experienced the method before. After being welcomed by our experienced facilitator Liam Isaac, you will explore building models as an individual and as a group. You will become practiced at several methods of communication and learn to hear and understand others, all using LEGO! Following the workshop we will send you a free pdf copy of the book "SeriousWork" - a hands on guide to using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® yourself (5\*\*\*\*\* reviewed book that sells for £25 on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Facilitate-Meetings-Workshops-Serious-Method/dp/0995664706) Ideal for those who are interested in participatory leadership, better communication and creativity. If you have attended a taster workshop before, you are welcome to attend but please note this introductory workshop will be a similar experience.

Coffee & natter - 5th View Cafe, Waterstones, Piccadilly

Data Storage & AI: Store Smarter, Scale Further

After a long break, Data Engineering London is back! Join us for our post-summer meetup: an evening of talks, lively discussion, and networking with one of London’s biggest data engineering communities. In this edition, we’ll explore the growing relationship between **Storage & AI**. We’ll look at how the rapidly changing AI landscape is influencing data storage, and how new approaches can enable better scalability, lower costs, and faster, more efficient access to data. The evening will feature two talks followed by a panel discussion, with plenty of time to meet other attendees, exchange ideas, and continue the conversation over food and drinks. This event is generously sponsored by **Altinity**, whose team will also be joining us on the night. Be sure to say hello and learn more about their work. *Schedule* **18:00–19:00** Networking, with food and drinks provided by Altinity **19:00–20:30** Talks and panel discussion **20:30–21:00** More networking *Venue* **London Art Bar** 300 High Holborn, London *Speakers and Talks* **Talk: There's a great future in storage: building analytic systems to hold data for AI** ([Robert Hodges](https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkeleybob2105/), CEO @ Altinity) Remember the famous movie line, "There's a great future in plastics?" Maybe not! You probably weren't born when The Graduate came out. We'll riff on the meme, because AI is making developers care \*a lot\* about storage in analytic databases: how it's arranged, who can access it, how much it costs, and how you can scale up performance. We cover the standard models: from hot data on SSDs to frozen data in lakehouses. You'll learn the practical trade-offs and get ideas how to apply each model to help AI apps run successfully. **Talk: AI Is Turning Storage Into Memory** ([Mischa van Kesteren](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mischavankesteren/), HPC/AI Solutions Architect @ HPE) Everyone talks about GPUs when discussing AI infrastructure. Far fewer talk about storage. Yet modern AI workloads are increasingly limited by data movement, metadata performance, and access to persistent state. From training pipelines to RAG systems and KV cache offloading, storage is moving into the critical path of AI execution. In this talk we'll explore why traditional parallel storage systems are showing their age, and how new architectures are blurring the line between memory and storage. Remaining talks TBC! Places are limited, so please register early to secure your spot. **RSVP policy:** Please keep your RSVP status up to date. This helps us offer available places to people on the waitlist. Attendees with three or more no-shows may be ineligible to attend future events.

Navigating the Designer-AI Dilemma

We're back after a ridiculously long pause. For reasons, somewhat directly and indirectly to do with the topic of this event. How we are adapting ourselves, or need to in this strange age of AI. *Tickets are refundable if you request at the end in line with [our policy](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1011q0yqUr8qN0SWZauZnf2hdHyJLE1kITWW9A0IH0U0/edit?usp=sharing).* **Session overview** Designers face a dilemma: AI is reshaping how decisions get made and work gets done, but the stories around its benefits are polarized. What is authentic vs synthetic? Extreme points of view don't help you day to day. They keep you wrapped up in debates about process while the actual work still needs to get done, and the question around quality and value stay in question. In this session, Jason and Vic explore what's real: which skills stay irreplaceable, when AI genuinely saves time vs. when it wastes it, and how to build capability that keeps you relevant without losing what makes you valuable. Jason and Vic will walk you through frameworks, data, and exercises, that help you examine where you need to adapt, what to keep, and how to make decisions grounded in reality, not hype. Expect debate, and practical lessons, not cheerleading. **[Jason Mesut, Resonant Futures](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmesut/)** Jason Mesut has been a local leader for IxDA alongside Boon Chew for IxDA London since 2011. He works as a strategic consultant, a creative coach and as a shaper of designer capability through his Shaping Design work. He has 30 years of design behind him, and is questioning what the next 3–30 years ahead might look like for him, his clients and his peers. **[Victoria Lee Kirk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriakirkstrategy?skipRedirect=true&miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAD__wABvtUfrJ9mn2hLf1EPZN9ssWJcNyw)** Vic is a tech strategist, writer, and a TEDx speaker focused on turning data into meaning and bias into belonging. She helps teams ask better questions about their customers, their process, and themselves. She led user research that piloted an AI assisted service to map global supply chains within the UK government after lockdown and helped turn the tool and its consulting service into a standing business function, demonstrating how good people and better questions, not just better tools, actually create value. She joins IxDA London to explore where human intuition still outperforms AI in the design process, and where it doesn't.

Enterprise AI Agents and Optimize LLM Context

**Important:** Register on the [event website](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026090810) OR [LUMA](https://luma.com/fbfg58he) is required for admission. One of them is fine, but not both :-). Welcome to the AI meetup in London, in collaboration with Google and Vespa AI. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agents, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers. **Agenda:** \* 6:00pm\~6:30pm: Checkin and Networking \* 6:30pm\~6:45pm: Welcome/community update \* 6:45pm\~8:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A \* 8:30pm\~9:30pm: Open discussion & Mixer **Tech Talk: ​Building and Deploying Enterprise AI Agents** **Speaker:** Aleksander Callebat\, Solutions Architect\, Databricks \| Abhinav Bhatia\, Partner engineer\, Google Cloud **Abstract:** Autonomous AI agents are transforming enterprise workflows, but moving from prototype to reliable, secure production requires robust data intelligence and scalable cloud infrastructure. In this session, we will showcase how to architect, build, and deploy enterprise-grade AI agents. We will walk through the end-to-end lifecycle of an autonomous agent—leveraging the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for unified data context and governance alongside Google Cloud infrastructure for high-performance orchestration and scale. Expect minimal slides and maximum live system demonstration, covering everything from tool routing and context retrieval to production deployment. **Tech Talk: ​Optimize LLM context with advanced ranking profiles and tensor operations** **Speaker:** Kristian Aune (Vespa) **Abstract:** The RAG Blueprint is an application template for designing RAG systems. Built on the same core architecture that powers Perplexity, it codifies best practices for building accurate and scalable retrieval pipelines using hybrid search, phased ranking, and real-time inference. Learn how to use any type of scoring for hybrid fusion with tensor mathematics! This talk should inspire practitioners to implement advanced AI applications with the full freedom of mathematics in ranking for high-precision context - with a live demo. **Speakers/Topics:** Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: [Submit Topics](https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA) **Sponsors:** We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in London and 500K+ worldwide.