Growth Hacking London

Networking for founders, creators, freelancers + rebels ⚡

**Free monthly meetups for Rebels of all kinds, to connect, learn and share.** **Topic:** Beyond SEO: How to Rank on ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini **Guest**: Our guests this month are Sal Mohammed (Lang Sync) and Charlie Clark (Minty Digital)—two leading specialists in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). In this panel discussion, you will learn how AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini choose who to recommend, how to adapt your search strategy for the post-Google era, and the practical steps to ensure your business gets cited and recommended first. **Format:** 6:30 pm - Doors Open & Networking 7:00 pm - Fireside + Q&A 8:00 pm - Networking **About:** Founder-led networking events from founders, creators and successful business owners. There will be a fire side chat with opportunities to network before and after. No formal agenda, or dress-code (please wear *something* though). *** Est. 2013, meetups active globally 🌍 🚀 This event is free thanks to our members (join here: dffrnt.so/join), our partners (dffrnt.so/partners), our hosts [Rachael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwelford/), [Vinay](linkedin.com/in/vinay-sharma-96432b9b/?skipRedirect=true), [Ken](linkedin.com/in/helloekow) and our generous hosting venue [Juntos](https://www.juntosoffices.com/). \-\-\-\- **Looking for a new co-working space?** A free day of coworking, plus 20% off all future paid meeting room and coworking bookings. Ask us how when you attend! **Offer Conditions** Only available for attendees of Rebel Meetups. **Want more from Dffrnt?** [Learn more](http://dffrnt.so/) or [join here](http://dffrnt.so/join).

Hackney Wick Badminton Group

Intermediate badminton players come join for an evening of badminton, followed with some optional socialising at Hackney Wick’s local bars.

Untapped Markets: Building Businesses Where Others Aren’t Looking

Date: Tuesday 10th November, 6:15-9 PM UK Time Location: [1 Warwick by Maslow’s](https://share.google/MnxwD6w1PqaJ512K6) [Sign up for this event here! ](https://founders500.com/session/startup-session-19-untapped-markets-building-businesses-where-others-arent-looking/)Please note that clicking attend on Meetup will not give you the correct QR code to enter this event. Please sign up for your Universe ticket using the link. ## **Could your next business idea be hiding in a problem you deal with every day?** An awkward process. Information you can never find. Something everyone in your industry accepts as “just how things work”. For someone thinking about starting a business, those frustrations could be a starting point. But how do you recognise an opportunity worth pursuing, persuade people to pay for your solution and get started before you have everything figured out? With AI opening up new possibilities, what could those opportunities look like in 2026? Our guest, **Jacques Goudchaux, Chief Strategy Officer at Signal Ocean**, has spent more than three decades doing exactly that. While working as a shipbroker, Jacques saw a problem: people making major commercial decisions were relying on scattered information and printed references that quickly went out of date. He believed a more complete, accessible picture of the market was something customers would pay for. His chairman was sceptical, but agreed to back the idea. With the support of BRS, Jacques launched **ALPHALINER in 2000**, starting with spreadsheets, simple web pages and a conviction that other people shared his frustration. There was no elaborate business plan or dedicated sales team. He found early customers while still doing his day job, demonstrating the product during his existing broking trips. As the business developed, he increased the subscription price several times over. Customers kept subscribing. **What could the equivalent opportunity look like in 2026?** For Jacques, it began with spreadsheets and simple web pages. Today, could AI offer a new starting point for solving the problems people in your industry still put up with? We’ll explore where similar opportunities might exist now, why knowing your market matters and how to distinguish a useful business idea from excitement about the technology. Jacques later became CEO of AXSMarine, growing the business internationally before it joined forces with Signal Ocean in 2026. His story brings some refreshingly direct views on what it takes to build a business, how much you can realistically plan and when you need to get on with making things happen. **What will we explore?** Join host **David Loughlan** and Jacques as we discuss: * **Finding an idea worth pursuing:** How can your everyday experience help you spot a problem that others have learnt to live with? * **Starting before everything is perfect:** What do you need in place to begin, and what can you work out along the way? * **Winning your first customers:** How do you turn a useful idea into something people will actually pay for? * **Having the confidence to charge more:** How do you recognise the value of your product and know when your pricing needs to change? * **Backing yourself while staying open to being wrong:** How do you balance conviction with listening, learning and changing direction? * **Spotting opportunities in the age of AI:** Where could AI help you solve an overlooked industry problem, and how do you judge whether there’s a business behind the idea? Expect an honest conversation grounded in real decisions, early doubts and lessons you can apply to building a business today. Whether you have an idea scribbled in a notebook, a side project you’re wondering how to grow or a business already under way, you’ll find plenty to think about and discuss with people asking similar questions. There will be time to ask questions, exchange ideas and meet other founders and founders-to-be. If you’re coming on your own or still figuring out where to start, you’re very welcome. **No shipping knowledge required. Bring your curiosity and that idea you keep coming back to.** **Free to attend. Spaces are limited.** [Sign up for this event here! ](https://founders500.com/session/startup-session-19-untapped-markets-building-businesses-where-others-arent-looking/)Please note that clicking attend on Meetup will not give you the correct QR code to enter this event. Please sign up for your Universe ticket using the link.

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.

Marketing, Sales & Business Growth Networking | Founders & Professionals

**Welcome to Socialite Connections – Marketing\, Sales & Business Growth Networking \| Founders & Professionals** **Meetup rsvp and Meetup qr code is not a valid ticket, please buy a ticket in advance to attend this event:** **Connect with London's marketing, sales and business community** at a networking event bringing together entrepreneurs, business owners, founders, sales professionals and marketing specialists looking to grow their businesses and build valuable commercial relationships. Whether you're looking to attract new clients, generate leads, develop strategic partnerships or explore new approaches to business growth, this is an opportunity to meet like-minded professionals, exchange ideas and discover new opportunities. **The Coach House** \- Ideally located sandwiched between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus\, The Comedy Piccadilly serving up a range of classic food and drinks\. Head on over ever Friday and Saturday\, as they host the Piccadilly Comedy Club\, a brilliant evening full of laughs\. **Event Schedule** **18:00 – 21:00 \| Welcome & Warm Intro:** Your name will be checked off the guest list, you will be given a name badge, and you will be introduced to each other. **19:30 – 20:00 \| One Min Pitch:** All attendees will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves to everyone in the room. **20:00 \- 21:00 \| Informal Networking:** It will be a free form event where guests can mingle amongst each other in a relaxed environment, when the one-minute pitch is finished. **Why Attend?** **Build valuable business relationships.** Meet ambitious founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, marketing specialists and sales professionals focused on growth and commercial success. **Generate new leads and clients.** Connect with potential customers, referral partners and businesses looking for marketing, sales and growth solutions. **Discover new growth opportunities.** Exchange ideas on customer acquisition, brand development, lead generation, sales strategies and business development. **Share knowledge and expertise.** Learn from professionals working across digital marketing, advertising, business development, sales strategy and customer engagement. **Turn connections into opportunities.** Move beyond online conversations and meet relevant professionals face-to-face in a relaxed, welcoming business networking environment. **Who Should Attend?** **Marketing & Digital Professionals.** Marketing managers, digital marketers, social media specialists, SEO consultants, advertising professionals and brand strategists. **Sales & Business Development.** Sales directors, account managers, business development managers, lead generation specialists and commercial consultants. **Founders & Entrepreneurs.** Startup founders, entrepreneurs and business owners looking to attract customers, increase revenue and scale their businesses. **Consultants & Service Providers.** Independent consultants, agencies, coaches and professionals offering marketing, sales and business growth services. **Business Leaders & Decision-Makers.** Managing directors, CEOs, senior executives and professionals responsible for driving business performance, revenue and expansion. **Photos/videos** may be taken for promotional purposes. You will be added to our whatsapp group on the day of the event.

Hackney Wick Social Club launch drinks 🍻

🍻 Hackney Wick Social Club — First Meetup! Let’s meet some local people! This will be a relaxed drink and a chance to meet other people from Hackney Wick and the surrounding area. No agenda, no networking, and no need to know anyone beforehand — just grab a drink, have a chat, and see who turns up. I’m keeping the first one very simple — I’ll book a local pub (TBC), and that’s about as much organising as I’ll be doing. 😂 I’ll be there with a drink, so all you need to do is say hello! Coming alone? Absolutely fine — that’s kind of the point. We can also chat about what everyone would like to do with the group in future — walks, dinners, creative activities, coffee, more drinks, or something completely different. No pressure, no expectations — just a drink, some friendly faces, and hopefully a few new friends. 🍻❤️ 💸 One slightly painful detail… I’m really sorry to ask for £2 to RSVP to this event! Meetup charges me £45 a month to run the group, so the £2 is simply to help cover that cost. I’m not trying to make any money from this — I’m just trying not to be £45 out of pocket every month while I figure out whether this little experiment actually works. 😂 Thanks, I massively appreciate it! ❤️

Product London with Google Cloud.

Hello Product People! Hope you're all well! Very, VERY excited to announce our next instalment of Product London, this time hosted by Google Cloud!! Three highly-exciting talks across the evening: **Talk 1**: **Kimoon Kim** (Customer Engineer, AI/ML Startups at Google Cloud) with 'Mastering Product Strategy: A Live Demo of Gemini Enterprise' **Synopsis**: Mastering Product Strategy: A Live Demo of Gemini Enterprise explains how to shift your product strategy from managing scattered, individual tools to building a unified, agent-driven platform. Instead of getting stuck in repetitive manual tasks across different applications, you can use this platform to bring your data and workflows together in one place. Learn how to: 1. Cut down time wasted on data integration, so your team can focus on shipping products faster. 2. Build and test new consumer experiences with confidence, backed by secure, enterprise-grade governance. 3. Transform your team's day-to-day work, helping them move from managing administrative tasks to focusing on creative, high-value problem solving. **Bio**: Kimoon Kim is a Startup Architect Lead at Google Cloud and a two-time startup founder/CTO. With 15+ years of experience across AI/ML and cloud-native systems, he helps founders turn early-stage AI prototypes into resilient, scalable production products. **Talk 2**: **Frankie Woodhead** (CPTO at Thrive) with ‘Building an AI Native learning & enablement platform for 10m+ users in 70+ countries’ **Synopsis**: Frankie will share how Thrive has grown & built a best in class product to millions of users in so many different business verticals. Thrive enables customers such as Google, Frasers Group, Aston Martin F1, Nandos, Emirates & Volvo Cars with enablement for their future workforce. **Bio**: Frankie has 20 years in senior product & engineering leadership roles covering Financial Services, FinTech & LearnTech and he'll be drawing on all of this across the evening. **Talk 3**: **Evie Brockwell** (Podcast Host, Product Leadership Coach & Product Operations & Experimentation at New Look) with 'From Stressed to Strategic: tangible shifts to be an effective Product leader' **Synopsis**: Let's be honest: leading a product team was never just about the roadmap. It's about staying clear when your calendar is chaos, backing your own judgement under pressure, and giving your team inspiring direction to go off, even when it's chaos around you This talk isn't about frameworks. It's about the inner work that makes you genuinely effective: the confidence, presence and clarity that let you thrive as you lead teams and inspire everyone around you. **Bio**: Evie leads Product and Experimentation at New Look, bringing five years of experience as an independent product coach to her work. She’s partnered with over 100 product professionals and teams to uncover what truly drives success, and how to create meaningful, sustainable change that lasts. Address: 1-13 St Giles High St, London WC2H 8AG Looking forward to seeing you there, don't miss this one!! Alex

E-Commerce over Breakfast #13 London [register via Luma]

A curated meetup for e-commerce operators to share learnings, strategies, and ideas. Free for e-commerce operators (approval required). Apply via Luma: [https://luma.com/boo193jz](https://luma.com/boo193jz) Exact location will be shared after approval.

🚀 AI-Powered Instagram Marketing with n8n

## Build an Automated Social Media Workflow with AI — No Coding Required Are you struggling to stay consistent on social media? Curious about how businesses are using AI to create content, automate workflows, and grow faster? In this practical 90-minute workshop, we’ll show you how to combine AI tools with automation platforms like [n8n](https://n8n.io?utm_source=chatgpt.com) to build a smart Instagram marketing workflow. This is not a theory-heavy marketing talk. You’ll see a real end-to-end AI workflow in action. Perfect for: * Small business owners * Freelancers * Content creators * Beginners curious about AI * Developers & marketers * Anyone interested in automation and modern digital marketing 🕓 **Schedule:** * 18:15 - Networking * 18:30 - Program starts * 19:30 - Q&A - networking * 20:00 - End \-\-\-\-\- zero2hero Address: Unit 15 Castle Square, 40 Elephant Rd, London SE17 1EU WhatsApp: +447470914266

The Abundance Exchange: Networking for Entrepreneurs and Founders in London

Meetup #19 - The Agentic Web Explained

Shaping our future with AI. Creating opportunity through AI fluency, connection and community. No jargon. No hype. No confusing terminology. **Join us for our next in-person meetup in London on Tuesday 27th October.** The theme of this meetup is **"Building awesome agents"** and we're thrilled to have Tara Ojo Agyemang from Google joining us to explain the Agentic Web and the role of WebMCP. Tara is followed by Nick Ferrel who is hands on building Agentic solutions are Focused. Nick isn't going to show us a magical "hello world" of building agents, instead he's going to talk about the final 10%, the important overlooked work that takes a great demo and makes it a production ready product. **Where and When?** * Tuesday, October 27th * Doors open at 18:00 * Talks start at 19:00 * AutogenAI, 123 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9LG **Talk 1: Building For The Agentic Web With WebMCP** AI agents are starting to use the web on our behalf, booking tickets, filling in forms and comparing products. Today most of them do it the hard way, by reading screenshots and guessing at the DOM. It works until a button moves or a layout changes, and it leaves site owners with no say in how agents interact with their product. WebMCP proposes a different approach. In this talk we'll look at what WebMCP is and how it differs from what's available today. **About Tara:** Tara Ojo Agyemang is a Developer Relations Engineer on the Google Chrome team, based in London. After ten years as a software engineer, she now helps developers adopt new web platform capabilities in an increasingly agentic world. **Talk 2: The Last "10%" - Converting your agentic system from a demo to reliable, profitable production app** ​We will talk through the most common gaps we've seen in production agentic systems and the most impact full ways to cover those gaps. We will dig a bit deeper into evals and observability and ask the audience for some of their pain points and interests. Lastly I will show examples of what everyone should look at for the near future to improve accuracy and reduce costs. **About Nick:** ​Nick Ferrell is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Focused. Helping companies and engineers build systems that matter. Nick is focussed on agentic solutions that are production-ready, scalable, and built to last. Turning ambitious ideas into software that works in the real world. **Thanks!** We'd like to thank our sponsors [Focused.io](http://focused.io/) for supporting the community and making this event happen. We'd also like to thank our amazing hosts Autogen. **Code of Conduct** This event has a code of conduct that you can [review here.](https://aifortherestofus.live/code-of-conduct) By joining the community and registering for this event you agree to abide by our code of conduct. **Providing Your Name and Email** To register for this event you'll be asked to provide your email address. After the event you will be automatically subscribed to the newsletters from *AI for the rest of us* and Focused. You can unsubscribe at any time (But why would you? They are really very good!)

Practice Public Speaking | Data Science Speakers Club | IN PERSON

The Data Science Speakers Club is a Toastmasters International club that helps current and next-generation data scientists improve their public speaking skills. **Join us to contribute to the meeting and practice speaking in a supportive environment.** **This is an Online Meeting! Use Teams to join or come in person.** You can visit the event as a guest. Or you may decide to join our club. Joining the Data Science Speakers Club means joining a supportive environment to build your confidence in public speaking and to practice speaking in front of an audience. You will also gain the opportunity to receive feedback on your speeches in a friendly environment, including what you have done well and guidance on the areas you can improve upon. We also run a mentorship program where an experienced mentor supports you on your public speaking journey. Meeting Theme: **TBC** Tentative Schedule: 18:00 - Pre-meeting socialising 18:30 - Meeting starts 18:40 - Guest introduction 18:45 - Table Topic 19:15 - Break 19:30 - Prepared Speeches (3 prepared speeches with evaluation) 20:15 - Wrap up, awards, announcements 20:30 - End of Meeting We will have impromptu speech preparation in groups called Table Topics, where guests can participate. We meet on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Mondays of each month. Each meeting is a mixture of prepared speeches by our members, speaking roles, and impromptu speaking challenges by members and guests. Our meetings are free to attend, and you only have to speak if you want to. Scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, innovators, mathematical and logical thinkers who want to focus on communication and leadership development are always welcome to attend our meetings to increase their self-confidence, become better speakers, and become better leaders. FACEBOOK: [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61592132953120](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61592132953120) LINKEDIN: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-speakers-club](https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-speakers-club)