28 Apr 2026
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date & time
08/06/2026
10/06/2026
Description
London Tech Week is one of Europe’s major technology gatherings. The event positions London as a showcase for startups, capital, public programmes and tech companies, with an agenda shaped by artificial intelligence, funding and digital competitiveness.
How to attend
Click here to registerOlympia
Londres
How it went
London Tech Week 2026 took place from 8 to 10 June at Olympia London. With more than 30,000 attendees, including 5,500 startups and 1,500 investors, it is one of the benchmark events in the European technology ecosystem. This year’s edition extended its reach beyond the main venue, with activities taking place across the city until 12 June. The event is organised by Informa and has institutional backing from London & Partners.
The programme was structured around several specialised stages: AI Arena, Deep Tech Stage, Ignition Stage, Founders Stage and Startup World, among others. Artificial intelligence (AI) was a cross-cutting theme throughout the agenda, with sessions on applied AI, autonomous agents, infrastructure and debate around its real impact on the economy. Confirmed speakers for this edition included Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Alex Kendall (Wayve), Mati Staniszewski (ElevenLabs) and Alison Kay (AWS UK and Ireland). The event also included Tech Nation OneToWin, a pitch programme for early-stage startups with an investor panel, as well as specific sessions on the role of public and private capital in Europe’s technological competitiveness.
We took part in London Tech Week to gain a closer understanding of how the investor and entrepreneurial ecosystem is evolving in London. The city continues to work actively on its positioning as a European hub for innovation and technology, and the event made it possible to observe how it connects capital, startups, public programmes and international talent.
Precisely because of that combination of actors, London Tech Week was interesting beyond the contents of the formal programme. The conversation around AI was not limited to enthusiasm about its growth; it also opened up more demanding questions about real value creation, the concentration of investment in certain companies and the risk that some narratives may move faster than the business models that support them. From GCO Ventures, those conversations connect with a reflection we are already working on internally: how to better industrialise our developments and use AI to optimise, scale and gain efficiency through applications that are genuinely useful for the business.
We were also struck by the intensity of many founders in the London ecosystem, strongly focused on building, selling, enduring and moving their companies forward. That entrepreneurial culture is a competitive advantage for any ecosystem. In Spain, there is more and more talent and ambition, and continuing to reinforce that mindset can help generate greater diversity in products, services, and technologies.
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