LDW26 Events

We believe that everyone should have a seat at the table when it comes to data.

We invite you to join us at London Data Week 2026! Browse the programme below.

LDW26 Events

events

Date
Event type
Location
Organiser
AIGC Filmmaking Hackathon
  • July 4, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
  • Imperial College London
  • Bionic Awards, EAST2046, TapNow
  • Hackathon, Workshop
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Internet Infrastructure Walk
  • July 5, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  • Tower Subway Tunnel North
  • Anne Lee Steele
  • Walk
AI helped you train your machine learning model, but can you vouch for it?
  • July 6, 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
  • City Hall
  • Data for London, Probabl
  • Hackathon
Breathing Space: Mapping London’s Air Quality Together
  • July 6, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • City Hall
  • University of East London
  • Workshop
Green Jobs Data Lab
  • July 6, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • City Hall
  • GetZero
  • Workshop
Better Services, Better Lives
  • July 6, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • City Hall
  • Department for Science Innovation and Technology
  • Workshop
Real or Fake? Understanding Deepfakes and Their Harms
  • July 6, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
  • City Hall
  • Deep Truth Project
  • Workshop
Can We Trust Intelligent Digital Twins?
  • July 6, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
  • Online
  • University of Hertfordshire
  • Workshop
Whose Future is AI?
  • July 6, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
  • Online
  • Equiano Institute
  • Workshop
The future of London runs on data
  • July 6, 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm
  • City Hall
  • Data for London, Mayor of London
  • Kickoff, Launch, Talk or presentation
Humanising Data for Healthier, Fairer Futures
  • July 7, 9:00 am – 11:00 am
  • One Triton Square
  • Central Saint Martins, Stby, University of the Arts London
  • Panel, Workshop
Data for Future Integrated Mobility
  • July 7, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • Online, Queen Mary University of London
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Workshop
Biotic Immersion
  • July 7, 10:00 am – 11:45 am
  • Camley Street Nature Park
  • Royal College of Art
  • Walkshop
From numbers to buy-in: How to turn your data into decisions
  • July 7, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • One Triton Square
  • Flourish
  • Workshop
Powering London: Data, AI & Climate
  • July 7, 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
  • St Pancras & Somers Town Living Centre
  • The Cosmos People’s Org
  • Activity, Game, Workshop
Mapping Yorùbá-led religious spaces in Peckham
  • July 7, 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
  • Copeland Park
  • SOAS University of London
  • Activity, Walkshop
How Healthy Is Your Employer Brand?
  • July 7, 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
  • Online
  • LHH
  • Workshop
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Data Careers in Life Sciences
  • July 7, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
  • One Triton Square
  • Knowledge Quarter
  • Careers Event
Mapping festival
  • July 7, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • University College London
  • British Red Cross, Missing Maps, UCL
  • Mapping Festival, Workshop
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KQ Social: Data in the City
  • July 7, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • One Triton Square
  • Knowledge Quarter, UCL Grand Challenges
  • Social
Origin: Co-Designing together a certification framework for human creativity in GenAI
  • July 7, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • One Triton Square
  • CVAN London, Knowledge Quarter, UCL Co-Design Lab
  • Workshop
A detailed digital collage inspired by the aesthetic of medieval manuscript illustrations, depicts a vibrant scene of construction workers building a structure. The traditional elements, such as figures in traditional Persian gowns, wooden ladders, ropes, and woven sacks, are interwoven with modern technological motifs like circuit boards, QR codes, and cloud icons. Bright, glowing, golden networks of interconnected nodes and symbols of digital technology overlay the scene, blending the past and present. On the left, Arabic calligraphy is imprinted onto the paper. The composition uses contrasting textures and colours to juxtapose and interweave the themes and eras.
Crafting Participatory Tech Futures
  • July 8, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
  • King’s College London
  • Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network, We and AI
  • A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI, Workshop
Can We Start Again? Computational Arts Festival
  • July 8, 10:00 am – July 12, 9:00 pm
  • 55 Kennington Oval
  • Phreaking Collective
  • Arts Festival, Exhibition, Panel, Performance, Show, Workshop
Breaking Down AI: Technologies, Myths, Realities
  • July 8, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • King’s College London
  • Reclaiming Futures
  • Panel
The future and culture of AI companionship
  • July 8, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
  • London School of Economics
  • EAST2046
  • Panel
Home Sweet Housing Data
  • July 8, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • Online
  • DG Cities
  • Demonstration
The undying sun hangs in the sky, as people gather around signal towers, working through their digital devices.
Data, Power, and Possibility: Mapping Pathways Beyond AI Inevitability
  • July 8, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • King’s College London
  • Carolina Ossa, We and AI
  • A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI, Workshop
Embracing the Future of AI in Healthcare 2026
  • July 8, 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Imperial College London
  • AI for Healthcare Centre, Imperial College London
  • Workshop
A collage made of 13 different images arranged in a rectangular formation in the style of pop art. The images include vintage photographs of old signs, part of a vintage poster, a vintage space image, historic black and white photos of a male labourer carrying a sack and of a human eye, comic book-style words 'Wow!', 'Bam!' and 'Boom!' as well as a comic book-style woman's face and images of digital tech, including a computer, a smart phone and computer chips.
Developing Critical AI Literacies: Towards more equitable futures
  • July 8, 12:15 pm – 2:15 pm
  • King’s College London
  • We and AI
  • A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI, Workshop
Care and Accountability in Data Practice: Learning from Queer and Community-Led Approaches
  • July 8, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
  • Online
  • LGBT+ Consortium
  • Panel
Crafting Glyphs of London Rivers Health Data
  • July 8, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • King’s College London
  • King’s College London
  • Workshop
Data as the narrator: Transforming London numbers into video stories with AI
  • July 8, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • London School of Economics
  • Bionic Awards, Colorintech, Sparkes Creative
  • Workshop
Two ceramic-like hands grip and pull on delicate threads that emerge from a "woven circuit board." The contrast between the rigid, heavy material of the hands and the soft, fragile threads creates a visual paradox, symbolising the insertion of human touch into the mechanised world. The image evokes a sense of personified anonymity, questioning whose histories and labours are being revealed or concealed when the threads of technology are pulled.
Co-developing a responsible AI framework: a working session for civil society organisations
  • July 8, 2:10 pm – 3:25 pm
  • King’s College London
  • Tecer Digital, We and AI
  • A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI, Workshop
A brain diagram shows ChatGPT has replaced core functions of the brain, while a young girl in the bottom right covers her eyes in horror. Degraded imagery of screwdrivers and the words “Control of the Brain” frame the collage.
Zine Against the Machine
  • July 8, 2:15 pm – 3:25 pm
  • King’s College London
  • We and AI
  • A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI, Workshop
A collage made of 13 different images arranged in a rectangular formation in the style of pop art. The images include vintage photographs of old signs, part of a vintage poster, a vintage space image, historic black and white photos of a male labourer carrying a sack and of a human eye, comic book-style words 'Wow!', 'Bam!' and 'Boom!' as well as a comic book-style woman's face and images of digital tech, including a computer, a smart phone and computer chips.
Launch of the AI Resist List: Community forum for Possible Futures
  • July 8, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
  • King’s College London
  • AI Resist List, We and AI
  • A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI, Launch
AI Tools for Everyone
  • July 8, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
  • London School of Economics
  • Tesseract Academy
  • Demonstration, Workshop
Whose AI Is It Anyway? Data, Sovereignty, and the Geopolitics of Intelligence
  • July 8, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
  • King’s College London
  • King’s Institute for AI, LSE Data Science Institute
  • Workshop
[LDW Global Contributor] The Data We Usually Ignore
  • July 9, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
  • Online
  • Nontokozo Mpofu
  • Activity
‘Speed Data-ing’: A Mini Unconference for the Third Sector
  • July 9, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • The Bersey Warehouse
  • DataKind UK
  • Breakfast, Unconference
Community Energy Data Dilemmas
  • July 9, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
  • Space4
  • Outlandish
  • Game, Workshop
There are no others: write-in answers to ‘Any other ethnicity’ from the 2021 Census
  • July 9, 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
  • The Bersey Warehouse
  • Ana Antonello
  • Art, Workshop
London Tree Appreciation Walk
  • July 9, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
  • Finsbury Park
  • Intercultural Roots
  • Walk
Nature & Networks: Collaborative drawing workshop
  • July 9, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
  • The Bersey Warehouse
  • Muskeen Liddar
  • Art, Workshop
‘Trust Me, It’s Data’: The next chapter of data storytelling
  • July 9, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
  • The Bersey Warehouse
  • Flourish
  • Lightning Talk, Panel
Mental Health in the Age of AI
  • July 9, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
  • Mind
  • Mind
  • Launch, Panel, Roundtable
The Data Pitch Lab: How to Turn Your Love for Data into a Show
  • July 10, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
  • City St George’s University of London
  • InfoStudios, Sparkes Creative
  • Pitch Lab, Workshop
Election bias and ballot mapping
  • July 10, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
  • City St George’s University of London
  • City St George’s
  • Talk or presentation
How can we trust AI in the workplace?
  • July 10, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • techUK
  • First EthicalAI, HIGOE
  • Class or training, Demonstration, Talk or presentation, Workshop
Fooled by beautiful data – bias and data visualization
  • July 10, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
  • City St George’s University of London
  • City St George’s
  • Talk or presentation
Fold, Encode, Reflect: A Hands-on Data Portrait Zine for Londoners
  • July 10, 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
  • City St George’s University of London
  • Sparkes Creative
  • Workshop
Maximising value from your data: Bridging the gap between innovation and impactful results
  • July 12, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  • Online
  • Florence Jumpp
  • Class or training, Workshop