The 10 best women-in-tech events in London, 2026

London's women-in-tech scene has been around long enough now that it's past the founding-energy phase and into the proper-infrastructure phase. The communities below are the ones that have stayed consistant, run real events month-on-month, and built crowds that turn up.

If you're new to London or new to tech, the order below is roughly the order I'd try them in.

Code First Girls community nights

The biggest. Code First Girls trains thousands of women a year for free (sponsor-funded), and the community nights are where the alumni network, current students, and tech-curious women all turn up. Mostly devs, lots of career switchers, the energy is genuinely warm.

Locations rotate — Anthropic, Monzo, Deliveroo, Bloomberg have all hosted. Free, monthly.

Ada's List

The members' network. Application-based, women in tech (broad definition — engineering, product, design, founders, investors). The dinners and the annual summit are the headline events. Smaller, more senior, very useful for the second-job-onwards crowd.

Women in AI London

The AI chapter. Founded as part of the global Women in AI org, the London chapter has had a strong 2025 — talks at the Anthropic London office, Google DeepMind, Stability and Mistral over the past year. If AI is your patch, this is the one.

WeAreTechWomen Conference

The big annual conference. Held in autumn each year, central London, properly large. Career development is the through-line — CV clinics, salary-negotiation workshops, the keynotes are usually senior women from the FTSE 100 tech estate. Sponsors fly out big stalls. £150-£300 a ticket depending on package.

Lesbians Who Tech London

The London chapter of the global LGBTQ+ women-in-tech org. Smaller and sharper than Code First Girls — more mid-career, more startup. The quarterly mixer is the good one. They run a London leg of the Pride Summit each summer too.

Tech London Advocates Women in Tech

TLA is the London tech industry body and the women-in-tech working group is its most active subgroup. Policy-leaning — diversity in funding, hiring data, government engagement. The panels are usually good and the audience is more senior than most of the others on this list.

PyLadies London

For Python devs. Workshops, talks, study groups. Very welcoming to total beginners — half the audience on a typical night is people learning Python rather than working in it. The Saturday workshops are the standout, and run in partnership with various employers across the year.

Women Who Code London

The London chapter of the global org. Their language-track meetups (Python, JavaScript, data, mobile) are the useful slice. The general all-hands events have thinned out a bit since 2024, but the language tracks are alive.

Tech Talent Charter events

The diversity-data org. They run quarterly panels and roundtables — more research-leaning, the audience is people who work in hiring, DEI, or HR for tech orgs. Useful if you're trying to fix the pipeline rather than just attend the events.

Stemettes

Aimed at 11-25 year-olds, but I'm putting it here for the volunteering route. If you're a senior woman in tech looking for a useful place to put a few hours a month, the Stemettes mentoring programme is the best-run one in London.

What's missing from this list

A few good things didn't make the cut. Geek Girl Meetup London has gone quiet since 2024. Lean In London — variable. The annual women-in-fintech ball is more corporate-networking than tech-meetup and didn't fit the brief.

How to actually find these

The trick with women-in-tech events is that they're scattered across Eventbrite, Luma, Meetup, and individual community Slack channels. We track them all on Rifio — search "women in tech" or use the free tech meetups page and filter from there.

Two practical notes: the autumn (September-November) and spring (March-May) are the busy seasons, summer goes quiet. And if you're new in town, the Code First Girls community night is the right first stop — biggest crowd, lowest barrier, easiest to arrive solo and leave with three new contacts.