#FuturePub London – AI & Tech for Good

Free food & drink! Six talks! Amazing venue!

#FuturePub is back in London for our third event of 2023 🙂 And this time it’s at the amazing Bounce Farringdon – a ping pong club and so much more!

We’re hosting this FuturePub to kick off some interesting conversations around AI and research – the good, the bad and the ugly – ahead of the UK Government’s AI Safety Summit taking place in Bletchley Park on 1st and 2nd November. That’s a pretty closed event, but luckily the AI Fringe, a programme of events that we are proud to be featuring in, is taking place across London and the UK all week, with a range of exciting events that everyone can get involved with.

Speaker announcement on Monday! If you’re interested in speaking at a future #FuturePub, please let us know by filling out this short proposal form.

What is FuturePub and how does it work?

We’ve hosted over a dozen #FuturePub events, since our first back in January 2014, and quickly became known as “a staple of the London science tech/publishing scene” (thanks Eva!).

The evenings are designed to be fun and informal – we aim to give opportunities to those working on new ideas and innovations a chance to present and get feedback on their ideas. And did we mention the free food and drink?

In case this is your first time, here’s how it works:

1. Five or six quick-fire talks cover a range of new and exciting developments in science & publishing tech.
2. These all fit into a one-hour slot (from around 7-8pm), to keep the evening fast-paced and fun! Arrive from 6pm for pre-talk food and drinks, and to play a few games of ping pong or shuffleboard!
3. The rest of the evening is then open for discussions and conversations over the remainder of the drinks and/or food! We get a great mixture of attendees from the research, tech, publishing and start-up communities, so there will be plenty of people to meet and chat with, especially around such an exciting topic.

Timings for the evening

Here’s the confirmed schedule for October 30th:

• 6pm – doors open, drinks available, opportunities to play ping pong or shuffleboard!
• 6:30pm – food served (a selection of bite-sized starters plus a lot of pizza!)
• 7pm – lightning talks start!
• 8pm – lightning talks end! Remaining food to be consumed
• 8.30pm – food cleared, drinks still available for the continuing conversations
• 10pm – that’s a wrap! Usually a group or two will head to a nearby pub! 🙂

Speakers & Talks

First speaker announcement now out — see below! We also have a couple more speakers to add, so watch out for a final speaker line up later this week 🙂

Don’t forget to register!

Tickets are limited, so please don’t forget to sign up!

See you on October 30th in Farringdon! 🙂