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Hackney Wick Badminton Group

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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

Mastering cloud security, one lab at a time!!

Digital Marketing & Business Growth Networking for Startups & Professionals

**Welcome to Networx London!** Are you a **founder, entrepreneur, marketer or professional** working across **marketing, digital marketing, advertising or innovation**? Join us for a relaxed business networking evening connecting **founders, entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, digital marketers, agencies, startups and business leaders**. Whether you're looking to **grow your network, exchange ideas, build partnerships or discover new opportunities**, this evening is designed to bring together ambitious people from across London's business and marketing community. 📍 **Venue: The Sycamore, Holborn** A modern, relaxed venue in central London, just steps from Holborn station. Perfect for after-work networking, drinks, and great conversations. 📅 **Event Schedule** **18:30 – 19:00** \| Welcome & Warm intro **19:00 – 19:30** \| Open Networking **19:30 – 21:30** \| Informal Networking \(no pitches\, no pressure\) 💡 **Why Attend?** Connect with founders, marketers, sales professionals, agencies, and business leaders. Exchange ideas, build valuable partnerships, and discover new opportunities in **B2B marketing, branding, sales, and business growth**. **👥 Who Should Attend:** Perfect for marketers, sales professionals, agencies, founders, entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, freelancers, and anyone looking to grow their business and expand their professional network. **Limited spots!** Register today and hit **Follow** for updates on future weekly events. 🎟 **Tickets & Entry**: To avoid the venue getting overcrowded and ensure everyone enjoys an amazing night, we've introduced a small ticket price to keep things running smoothly. 📸 **Event Photography** Please note that photos and videos may be taken for promotional purposes. **WhatsApp** 👉[https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKQQgmjMtmMAARYkcvMwDG?s=cl&p=a&mlu=4&ilr=4](https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKQQgmjMtmMAARYkcvMwDG?s=cl&p=a&mlu=4&ilr=4)

100M Audience Collab: Scale Fast & Build a 7-Figure Creator Business

London the tin cafeMeetup for Creators & Influencers Posting every day and praying the algorithm picks you up is an exhausting way to build an audience. If you want serious traction, you need two things: massive distribution and a business model that goes way beyond cheap brand deals. We have an established global audience of **over 100 million**, and we’re using this evening to find creators we can actually collaborate with and put in front of those millions of eyes. No vague motivational speeches—just straight talk on what gets views right now, how to turn those views into real wealth, and direct access to high-reach partnerships. **What We’re Covering** * **Aggressive Growth Tactics:** What actually drives viral retention and rapid follower acquisition today—no outdated advice. * **The 7-Figure Blueprint:** Stop chasing £50 affiliate links. We’ll break down how elite creators structure high-ticket offers, digital assets, and equity deals to build genuine wealth. * **Live Creator Selection:** We are scouting talent in the room. Pitch your niche and content style—we'll be selecting creators on the night for direct collaborations across our 100M+ network. * **Real Collaborations:** Pair up with other driven London creators, editors, and producers who are serious about executing, not just talking about it. **Who Needs to Be in the Room** * YouTubers, short-form creators, and podcasters hungry to jump to the next level. * Creators sitting on great content who just need a massive distribution boost. * Digital entrepreneurs building media brands that generate real cash flow. Show up with your best concepts, your handles ready, and let's get down to business. Spots are limited so we can review pitches properly—grab your place early.

Black Arrows Badminton Club @ UEL Sports Dock

\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* From the **August sessions**, we will unfortunately need to increase the session fee to **GBP 15** due to the rising cost of the shuttle service. We believe this is still a competitive price and hope for your understanding. \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* Come and join a friendly but competitive bunch of players each and every Tuesday at UEL Sports Dock. If love playing Badminton for fun or competitively then pay us a visit. Cost of session £15 (Payment must be made before the session starts. The details of bank transfer to be advised by email, once you RSVP.) Feather shuttles are used. • There is a large car-park at UEL (FREE 5.30pm onward). • Nearest DLR stations are Gallions Reach and Cyprus, then a 5 minutes walk to UEL Sports Dock. • Session are more suited for Intermediate to Club standard players, although we cater for all standards of play. Simple "If"Rules: • If you want to attend, you must RSVP • If you want to bring a friend you MUST RSVP for them • If you do not RSVP, you will be turned away If you RSVP and DO NOT attend you will be fined £20, unless you remove your RSVP at least 24hrs before the session start time. Please respect the session limit, they are for your own good as over crowding means less games for you! The organisers decision on all matters is final. Important Note: Your are responsible for your own well-being. Black Arrows Badminton Club or the management at UEL are not responsible for any injuries or loss of items.

Scale Smarter with Dotsquares - Zoho Premium Partner | London Networking.

Dotsquares is hosting an exclusive partner-led business event, bringing together business owners, operation leaders and digital transformation decision makers to discover how Zoho's integrated business applications and AI-powered capabilities can help organisations scale smarter, streamline operations, enhance customer experiences and accelerate sustainable business growth. Below is what you can expect at the event * Live product demonstrations, customer success stories, expert discussions, Q&A sessions, and networking. * Learn about Zoho CRM, automation, finance, customer service, analytics, AI, and custom app development. * The sessions will focus on improving efficiency, encouraging innovation, and building future-ready businesses. * Introducing new organisations to the Zoho ecosystem and help existing customers make better use of Zoho's capabilities. * Strengthen the local Zoho partner community through knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Open House London: a free ClickHouse user conference

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:** **September 30 — Free Training Workshops + Main Conference** Full-day hands-on sessions in the morning covering real-time analytics, observability with ClickStack, and building agentic systems with ClickHouse. Leave with skills you can apply immediately. **Afternoon — Keynotes, Deep Dives & Networking** Technical deep dives on observability, transactions, agentic AI, and all things databases — demoed and explained by the people who built it. Plus product announcements, thought leadership sessions, and a networking happy hour to close out the day. **Schedule:** 8:30 AM — Walk-in 9:00 AM — Hands-on training workshop (optional) 12:00 PM — Lunch break 1:30 PM — Keynote 2:00 PM — Technical deep dives 5:00 PM — Networking happy hour Speakers include Alexey Milovidov (CTO, ClickHouse), and Clemens Rawert (Co-Founder, Langfuse), Ryadh Dahime (Director of AI, ClickHouse). This is your best chance to go deep on ClickHouse, meet the people building it, and connect with the European community in person. All registrations are governed by our[ Privacy Policy](https://clickhouse.com/legal/privacy-policy).

Grow Beyond the UK — A Monx x Revolut Seminar

**Grow Beyond the UK — A Monx x Revolut Seminar** ​Monx, in partnership with Revolut and with the support of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK, is hosting "Grow Beyond the UK," a seminar on international expansion, tax efficiency, and AI and crypto trends in finance. **Speakers:** * **Stefano Passarello** (Monx) — Co-founder and CVO of Monx, a global corporate services firm. * ​**Matteo Turi** (The High Valuation Code) — Chartered accountant (FCCA) and CFO with over 30 years of finance experience, creator of the High Valuation Triangle framework and author of "Fail. Pivot. Scale." * ​**Erez Golan** (Playroll) — Co-founder and Managing Director of Playroll, a global platform for hiring and managing teams across 170+ countries. * ​**Edwin Schaafsma** (Edwin & Julia Growth Accelerators) — Entrepreneur, investor, and business coach focused on business growth. ​📅 Wednesday, 16 September 2026, 9:30 AM BST — breakfast included ​📍 Revolut HQ, Canary Wharf, London ​🌐 Available online for those outside London (email sharon@monx.team) **Register here:** [https://luma.com/ias63fab](https://luma.com/ias63fab)

Cloud Platform Engineering London: Building for the unexpected and Teams Culture

Hello and welcome to Cloud Platform Engineering London! This meetup brings together platform engineers, cloud architects, SREs, engineering managers, and practitioners working on the systems, culture, and tooling behind modern engineering organisations. A huge thank you to Experis for hosting and sponsoring this event. **Speakers and sessions:** **Refactoring Team Culture** Brittany Woods, Head of Systems Infrastructure, Man Group Improving the culture and experience of DevOps teams is not about adding more tools or piling on new processes. It is about creating the conditions where people can thrive. When engineers feel empowered, supported, and trusted, they deliver not just code but lasting impact for the business. Too often, though, teams get bogged down by friction: unclear ownership, unnecessary bureaucracy, or a lack of shared purpose. In this session, Brittany will explore practical approaches and best practices for building healthier, more effective DevOps cultures. Drawing on real-world experience leading platform, governance, and engineering teams, she will share strategies for fostering autonomy without chaos, encouraging collaboration without micromanagement, and aligning technical teams with business outcomes. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas they can start applying immediately, from creating internal communities that inspire innovation, to building platforms teams actually want to use, to rethinking leadership habits that may be unintentionally holding people back. Brittany Woods is the Head of Systems Infrastructure at Man Group, based in London. With a career spanning technical and leadership roles across the financial and e-commerce sectors, she has been a passionate advocate for DevOps both within the organisations she has served and the broader tech community. Brittany has led initiatives to enhance developer experience, establish and scale platform engineering functions, and foster innovation, with a strong emphasis on improving organisational culture. Her thought leadership was recognised in the book 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, where she contributed an article on breaking down silos in modern tech teams. **Building for the Unexpected: Concurrency and Self-Healing in a Go-Based HLS Orchestrator** Stefan Cornea, Software Engineer, Signapse.ai Video streaming is a constant battle against network entropy. In a live broadcasting environment, packets get delayed, networks jitter, and sources temporarily disconnect. If your infrastructure is not built to expect this chaos, the end user's video player crashes. In this session, Stefan will dive into the architecture of modern video delivery through a custom-built, low-latency HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) orchestrator. The talk will demystify the mechanics behind .m3u8 manifests and .ts payloads, and explore why Go's concurrency model, specifically goroutines and sync.RWMutex, is the right tool for handling simultaneous read and write locks across hundreds of streams. Attendees will learn how to architect a strict sliding window memory buffer and implement advanced self-healing contiguity logic, including how the orchestrator detects missing sequence numbers, ghosts out-of-order segments to protect the client, and repairs the stream once delayed data arrives. The session closes with a live chaos demo, using a custom Next.js dashboard to visualise backend ingestion, sequence ghosting, and stream recovery in real time. Stefan Cornea is a results-driven Full Stack Software Engineer at Signapse.ai, where he focuses on building scalable solutions and optimising complex developer workflows. With deep expertise across Golang, Node.js, and cloud platforms including AWS and GCP, he combines technical precision with a leadership-first mindset as a Google Developer Groups (GDG) Organiser. Committed to clean, maintainable code and community growth, Stefan actively drives innovation through mentorship and technical workshops. **Agenda:** 18:00 / Arrival, refreshments and networking 18:30 / Welcome and introduction 18:35 / Refactoring Team Culture, Brittany Woods 19:00 / Break and networking 19:20 / Building for the Unexpected, Stefan Cornea 20:00 / Networking 20:45 / Close **Venue:** Experis, 4th Floor, Building 7, Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4YE **About the community:** Cloud Platform Engineering London is part of the Community Stack ecosystem, bringing together technical practitioners, leaders, partners, and organisations across cloud, platform engineering, data, AI, and open technology. We are always keen to hear from speakers, hosts, sponsors, and community partners. If you would like to speak, sponsor, or host a future event, please reach out to [Ethan Sumner](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethansumner404/) via LinkedIn. You can also find more here: [Speaker Guide](https://www.communitystack.io/speaking-guide) [Sponsorship](https://www.communitystack.io/sponsorship) [Venue Partner](https://www.communitystack.io/ecosystem/venue-partners) This event follows the Community Stack [Code of Conduct](https://www.communitystack.io/code-of-conduct) and [Privacy Policy](https://www.communitystack.io/privacy-policy), ensuring a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming environment for all attendees.

London Shopify Partner Meetup - Ecom Expo Special

\*\*London Shopify Meetup \*\* Join fellow Shopify founders, ecommerce operators, and partners for an evening of great conversations, practical insights, and meaningful connections in the heart of London. We'll be debriefing the highlights from Ecom Expo, sharing key takeaways, and continuing the conversations over drinks. Bring along the new friends and connections you've made during the day—everyone is welcome. The venue is just 15 minutes from London Ecom Expo via the Elizabeth line, making it the perfect place to keep the momentum going after the event. Agenda: 5.30PM - Registration 6.00PM **LuLu** \- AI visibility of e\-commerce shops: an audit of 100 brands across different industries 6.20PM **Ankur Modi** \- Validate brand claims and stay ahead of competitor threats 6.40PM - Networking 7.00PM - Pub - TBC Come to learn, connect, and leave with new ideas (and new contacts) you can actually use. **Spots are limited — RSVP now and be part of London’s growing Shopify community.**

Tide HQ - Business Networking Event in London for SMEs & Local Business Owners

Looking for quality **business networking in London for SMEs and local business owners**? Join an exclusive evening at **Tide HQ**, organised by **Getshop Today,** **GMax Card**, **3Edit** and **Tide** \- three products built by founders\, for founders\. Hosted inside **Tide’s headquarters in London.** **WHY ATTEND:** * Premium digital business card (£65 value) included with paid tickets - claim it on the night. * Real connections - business partners, co-founders, customers & more * Practical tools & insights to run your business smarter Connect with SMEs and local business owners, **founders and decision-makers in the small and medium business area.** **FOUNDER PITCH CHALLENGE 2026** This networking evening forms part of the lead-up to the **[Founder Pitch Challenge 2026](https://tide-gmax.3edit.net/)**, taking place on **14 October at Tide HQ**. If you're building a startup and considering pitching, this is an excellent opportunity to meet fellow founders, ask questions, and learn more about the competition before applications close. On 14 October, **10 shortlisted founders** will pitch live to an expert judging panel of investors and experienced business leaders, competing for a share of the **£5,000 prize fund**. T&Cs Apply. Interested in pitching? Applications must be submitted separately via the official **Founder Pitch Challenge** application page. Registering for this networking event **does not** enter you into the competition. **[Apply to Founder Pitch Challenge Here](https://tide-gmax.3edit.net/)** **WHO'LL BE ATTENDING** * SME owners and decision-makers * Small business, local business, and growing company owners * Founders, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and bootstrapped business owners * Independent freelance professionals building and scaling their businesses * Business owners looking to grow their network, partnerships, and customer base **ABOUT THIS STARTUP AND BUSINESS NETWORKING EVENT** In the **startup and business world**, success rarely happens in isolation. The right connections unlock **co-founders, early customers,** and relationships that accelerate **growth**. But most networking events don't deliver that. After hundreds of iterations, we've built a **format that actually works:** * Well-tested icebreakers (optional, but they work) to break the initial awkwardness * "Quick intros" round - 30-60 seconds each so everyone knows who's who in the room * Short talks from [GMax Card](http://www.gmaxcard.com/) on strategic networking and Tide on founder-friendly business tools * On-the-spot [Tide](https://www.tide.co/partners-business-account/?ref=GMAXF2F) consultations - bring your banking and ops questions, get real answers * Drinks and refreshments for real conversations to develop naturally **Testimonials:** Check out [video testimonials from founders who've attended previous events.](https://vimeo.com/1162995661) **VENUE** **[Tide](https://www.tide.co/partners-business-account/?ref=GMAXF2F) HQ London** Tide's modern headquarters provides an open, professional environment designed for founders and operators and built for collaboration. Part of our regular series. **ORGANISERS** * **[Getshop Today](http://www.getshop.today/)**[ - UK based eCommerce platform ](http://www.getshop.today/)to build your own independent online store in minutes. * **[3Edit — The Stable, Affordable Alternative to AI Coding Leaders](www.3edit.com)** * **[GMax Card](http://www.gmaxcard.com/)**[ - Free digital business cards](http://www.gmaxcard.com/), with Premium NFC smart cards and team networking tools. * **Hosted at [Tide](https://www.tide.co/partners-business-account/?ref=GMAXF2F)**[ - The digital-first business banking solution ](https://www.tide.co/partners-business-account/?ref=GMAXF2F)built to support entrepreneurs and SMEs. **DRESS CODE** Business or smart casual recommended. **IMPORTANT DETAILS** * **Photography & Video:** Content may be captured by [Cine Eye Audiovisual Production Studio](www.cineeye.co.uk) for promotional use. By attending, **you agree to sign a media release form**. If you prefer not to appear in photos or video, please reconsider if attending is the best choice. * ID Requirements: Attendance for 18+ only. Proof of ID may be requested at reception. * Refund Policy: Refunds available up to 1 day before the event if any. Meetup fees are non-refundable (if any). * Attendance is at your own risk. Organisers are not liable for any loss, injury, or damage. **Limited spaces - early registration is recommended.**