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July✨Social Networking: Designers x Engineers
Wed, Jul 29, 5:30 PMAnother London Tech Social is happening this month✨ Come hang out with designers and engineers, swap ideas, and make some new friends. No pressure to be a tech expert, just come curious 🙌Save the date 📅 Looking forward to seeing you there!

July 27 - London AI, ML, and Computer Vision Meetup
Mon, Jul 27, 4:30 PMJoin our in-person meetup to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision. **[Register to reserve your seat!](https://voxel51.com/events/london-ai-ml-and-computer-vision-meetup-july-27-2026)** **Date, Time and Location** Jul 27, 2026 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM BST Imperial College London, Skempton Building (LT201), South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ **UniLight: Unified Multi-Modal Lighting Representation** Lighting has a strong influence on visual appearance, yet understanding and representing lighting in images remains notoriously difficult. UniLight introduces a joint latent space to unify previously incompatible lighting representation - environment maps, images, irradiance and text descriptions. Modality-specific encoders are trained contrastively to align their representations, with an auxiliary spherical-harmonics prediction task reinforcing directional understanding. Our joint lighting embedding enables applications such as retrieval, example-based light control during image generation, and environment map generation from various modalities. *About the Speaker* [Zitian Zhang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ztzhang76) \- is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Université Laval\, and a research scientist intern in Adobe Research London\. He focuses on image understanding\, generation\, and lighting representations through foundation models\. **LoST: Level of Semantics Tokenization for 3D Shapes** Tokenization is fundamental to generative modeling and especially important for autoregressive 3D generation. However, current 3D shape tokenizers rely on geometric level-of-detail hierarchies that are token-inefficient and poorly aligned with semantic structure. We propose Level-of-Semantics Tokenization (LoST), which orders tokens by semantic salience so early tokens produce complete, plausible shapes and later tokens refine detailed geometry and semantics. LoST is trained with Relational Inter-Distance Alignment (RIDA), a semantic alignment loss that matches relationships in 3D shape latent space to those in DINO feature space. Experiments show that LoST achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction and efficient high-quality AR 3D generation while using only 0.1%–10% of the tokens required by prior methods. *About the Speaker* [Niladri Dutt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niladridutt) \- is an ELLIS PhD student at University College London \(UCL\)\, sponsored by Adobe Research\. He is advised by Prof Niloy Mitra \(UCL\) and Duygu Ceylan \(Adobe\)\. **Material selection in 2D and beyond - methods, tricks and applications** In this talk, we'll explore reasoning about images from a material-centric perspective, namely through the lens of material understanding. Materials distinguish themselves by their response to light, which is governed and modelled through physical properties like roughness or gloss - however, understanding such properties is a non-trivial task for current algorithms and models. We'll see how we can select materials similar to a given query material, significantly improve selection fidelity and eventually even venture beyond 2D, to enable selection in the 3D domain. *About the Speaker* [Michael Fischer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-fischer-32b43b1a4/) \- is a research scientist at Adobe research London\. He obtained his PhD from University College London \(UCL\)\, advised by Niloy Mitra and Tobias Ritschel\. Michael has authored several top\-tier publications \(CVPR\, ICCV\, SIGGRAPH\, \.\.\.\) and is a recipient of both the Meta PhD scholarship and the Rabin Ezra scholarship as well as the Eurographics PhD Thesis award 2026\. **Lessons from the Trenches of Agentic Engineering** A candid lessons-learned from running an agentic engineering consultancy with clients ranging from federal governments to early-stage AI startups. I'll cover what's held up under real production pressure, what I tried and abandoned, and the approaches that are quietly dead but still being sold. Expect specifics, opinions, and a few uncomfortable conclusions. *About the Speaker* [John Adeojo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-adeojo/) \- runs Brainqub3 an agentic engineering consultancy serving clients from federal governments to early\-stage AI startups\, and recently served briefly as CTO of a pre\-seed AI startup\. He previously led the data science function at RBS International and held senior IC roles at HSBC\, NatWest Group\, and Shawbrook Bank\. **Building Real-World Computer Vision Systems** This talk will explore practical workflows for building, evaluating, and improving modern computer vision systems. We’ll dive into real-world approaches to dataset curation, model analysis, multimodal AI workflows, and production-ready vision pipelines using open-source technologies. The session is designed for engineers, researchers, and AI practitioners looking to better understand how teams are developing and scaling computer vision applications today. Expect practical demos, technical insights, and discussions around the evolving AI tooling ecosystem. *About the Speaker* [Harpreet Sahota](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpreetsahota204/) \- is a hacker\-in\-residence and machine learning engineer with a passion for deep learning and generative AI\. He’s got a deep interest in RAG\, Agents\, and Multimodal AI\.

In-person meetup: Accelerating PM Workflows and Elevating Customer Value with AI
Wed, Jul 22, 5:00 PM**Please note this is an offline event with limited space. RSVP only if you will be able to attend in person. If you want to watch the live streaming, please RSVP to our [Online Event](https://www.meetup.com/producttank-london/events/315625891/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link&utm_version=v2&member_id=449315265)**. **Also, this event will not include catered food.** **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** **Inside & Out: Accelerating PM Workflows and Elevating Customer Value with AI** The true power of AI lies where team velocity meets user experience, but getting there isn't always smooth sailing. This July, ProductTank London explores how product leaders supercharge internal workflows and elevate customer value with AI. Moving past the hype, our speakers, spanning **startups to scale-ups,** will share how they embed AI across the **entire SDLC**, from discovery and wireframing to delivery and rapid iteration, and **keeping product roadmaps aligned**. You’ll hear first-hand accounts of the hurdles, risks, and hard-won lessons our panel faced to reach that "happy path" output. Join us to walk away with practical, real-world frameworks to navigate the AI landscape **successfully** and build smarter. **Our speakers:** [Desmond Leo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/desmond-leo/) \- Product Leader @ Empathy Research [Charlie Wildish](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-wildish/) \- Staff Product Manager @ Checkout\.com [Gareth Behn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gareth-behn-5b3425111/) \- AI Product Lead @ TTC Tech As always we will close our meet-up with a candid discussion and Q&A. This event is sponsored by Checkout.com **Location:** Wenlock Works, Shepherdess Walk, London, N1 7BQ, United Kingdom **Timings:** 6:00 - Doors open 6:00 - 7:00 - Networking 7:00 - 8:00 - Talks 8:00 - 8:20 - Networking and drinks/ nibbles 8:20 - 8:40 - Speaker Q&A 8:40 - 9:00 - Networking Please note that the event will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel and images will be taken throughout the evening. To keep up-to-date with our upcoming talks, follow our [LinkedIn page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/producttanklondon) and our [YouTube channel.](https://www.youtube.com/c/MindtheProductTV) \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- By attending this event, you agree to give permission for any photos taken during the event to be used for promotional purposes, give permission for your name and surname to be used for registration purposes, and agree to be contacted by email by ProductTank.

EGYPT, EUSTON & THE COPTIC EXPRESS
Sat, Jul 25, 11:00 AM(pictured: Greater London House\*) On this walk we’re going to: · explore the rare\*\* Egyptian Revival, which used Obelisks, the Scarab, Lotus, and Sphinx, the ‘pylon’ wall and cavetto cornice, richly coloured and decorated, · review the progress of the HS2 tunnels and terminus at Euston, and study the much-criticised 1960’s National Rail station, · see actual Egyptian columns, with palm-leaf capitals, inscribed with hieroglyphs, AND the trilingual ‘document’ which first made it possible, in 1802, to translate Egyptian, · go to the 2nd-ever Pizza Express in Coptic Street: over white wine and snacks, I will point out the interior features of the Dairy Supply Company (forerunner of Express Dairies) whose former purpose-built premises—still largely unaltered--the restaurant now occupies, PLUS outline the history and buildings of the Egyptian Coptic Christian Church\*\* in England. We’ll meet\*\*\* at Mornington Crescent Station, designed in his ‘oxblood terracotta’ style by Leslie Green, for the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway in 1907, and see the refurbished and renamed Carreras’ 1928 cigarette factory\*, largest example of the Egyptian Revival in the UK. (A year from now, 16m below this point, the 7 km long HS2 tunnels from Old Oak Common, started in January, and funded by the taxpayer, are expected to emerge) To Britons, the Pharoahs’ Egypt was unknown, out of reach, and beyond understanding. It was Napoleon’s invasion, and his defeat by Nelson, in 1798, that sparked off a wave of sensational interest in its motifs, and their application to all areas of design, especially in France and Britain. ‘Egyptomania’ was infectious, and Egyptian Revival architecture was seen as fresh, different and modern. Architects and designers, previously strait-jacketed within the Greek- and Roman-Revival styles, delighted in the sudden availability of new shapes and forms, plentiful colour and surface decoration. The massive pylon architrave and giant cavetto cornice lent themselves to powerful compositions for Synagogues, mausoleums and prisons, in Europe, America and Australia. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the first performance, in Cairo, in 1871, of Verdi’s Aida, set in the palaces, temples, halls and dungeons of Ancient Egypt, and the erection, in 1878, on the Victoria Embankment, of the 1500 BC red granite obelisk called Cleopatra’s Needle, found in a sandbank near Alexandria, kept interest alive. Discoveries of tombs and mummies continued throughout the 1800’s until Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankamen’s tomb in 1922 led to a another wave of buildings which blended Egyptian motifs with Art Deco. Most recently, the storehouse of Egyptian motifs was plundered by Post-Modernist architects, notably ‘Naked Gardener’ Ian Pollard in 1988, at the Warwick Road Homebase, described by Oliver Wainwright as ‘a camp Egyptian fantasy with friezes of Gods wielding power-tools’. The Egyptian features were over-painted white by its owners soon after opening, and it was closed and demolished in 2014. In an ironic echo, among the HS2 preparatory work, over the past 10 years, was clearance of the St James’ Gardens graveyard, containing about 60,000 souls, and respectful removal of their remains. In fact, HS2 have cleared an 11-platform wide swathe of city, including mature trees and 2 big office blocks, erased Cardington Street, truncated Drummond and Coburg Streets, and restricted Hampstead Road. But while they were busy with that preparatory work, the scale of the project halved, from 530 km length to 230 km, from 11 destinations to 1, from 18 trains per hour to 9, and from a target train speed of 250 mph to 200 mph. However, unintended and temporary, a charming maze of car-free passageways has been created on the west side of the station: we will use one to access the station. But key piece of the HS2 connectivity diagram, the new Euston station complex, including a combined Euston Square and Euston tube station, and a pedestrian subway under the Euston Road, will not be complete until ‘2033…or 2043’. Public funding has been ruled out, and a recently-promised planning application for an over-site development will not be lodged for until a year from now. Ambitions for the station have been dramatically reduced, from aiming for a world-class, 300m longtitudinal concourse above 11 platforms, covered by a dramatic ‘tee-pee’ roof by RIBA Gold Medal and Stirling Prize winners Grimshaw Architects, to 10, and now to only 6, fitted into the west side of the National Rail station. Abandoned designs cost £250m. It was just before the election of 2010 that the Brown government announced their intention to build a high-speed railway between London, the Midlands, the North of England, and Scotland, having made sure the Conservatives would support it. It was claimed it would have the capacity equivalent of 2 full-size motorways, at half the cost. Now, official policy, stated by Heidi Alexander, Minister of Transport, is that HS2 *will* be completed, but at the lowest possible cost, even if this extends the programme. For example, it was recently suggested that Avanti West Coast’s current 150mph Pendolino trains will use the now-surplus capacity on the HS2 tracks and in its stations. Therefore, with new interest, we will review the existing station, designed by British Rail, in a more confident age, which soldiers on, with minimal ‘wow factor’ and amid relentless criticism, valiantly coping with the highest UK mainline station footfall (that is, excluding tube and overground traffic). It uses a rational, modernist design, and durable materials: polished black granite, white mosaic and dark grey engineering brick, and a low, utilitarian trainshed, appropriate for a fully-electrified railway, which doesn’t need headspace for diesel exhaust, and so allowed a parcels depot to cover the entire north half above the platforms, to get parcels to trains without circulation conflicts. Crossing Euston Road, we are expected for a very fast group visit to The Petrie Flinders Institute of Archeology at UCL. We will follow their ’10 objects route’ giving human interest context: Pharaohs’ spells, mummy portraits (of the deceased’s face), pottery, a bead-net dress and a faience ‘ankh’, the symbol for life. Then, using the less-busy Montagu Place entrance, we will go through the Sculpture Gallery of the British Museum\*\*\* to see 4 actual, real, Ancient Egyptian columns, decorated and incised, dating from the 1st millennium BC, AND the actual, real, 200 BC Rosetta Stone, found by Napoleon’s army, and since 1802 the most-visited thing, in the 2nd most-visited place in the UK! We exit by the South Portico, and the walk will end at the ‘Pizza Express’ in Coptic Street, 400m from Tottenham Court Road Station. This is a shorter walk, only 2.5 km, out of deference to the heat, but full of interest! Hope you can come! Andy \*converted to offices, refurbished and renamed ‘Greater London House’. \*\* Egyptian Revival and Coptic Church examples in London are few and far between, but we’ll see as much as possible and I will show numerous pictures and diagrams during the introduction and later discussion. \*\*\*the route will be shaded if it is sunny, and there will be access to cooled interiors. Bring sun-block or a parasol and as little else as possible. Your bag may be searched as we enter the British Museum. PS feel free to call me on 07722 547310 if you are planning to attend but get delayed.
DAYTIME DYKES | Wes Anderson | Design Museum
Mon, Jul 13, 10:15 AM
AI Signals #33: LNNs, TFMs, and Building Beyond GenAI
Tue, Jul 21, 5:00 PM***[We're leaving Meetup! Going forward, tickets on Meetup will be limited. We encourage you to register via our Luma calendar instead, where the full number of tickets will be available.](https://aisignals.org.uk/events)*** **Agenda** 06:00pm - Doors open 06:30pm - Welcome 06:35pm - [Sohini Mallick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohini-mallick-373932140/), [RudraX](https://www.rudrax.co.uk/) "Worm in the Room: The Day 19 Neurons Drove a Car" 07:00pm - Break 07:15pm - [Nicolas Makaroff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-makaroff), [Neuralk AI](https://www.neuralk.ai/) "From Gradient Boosting to Tabular Foundation Models: What Changed, What Didn't" 07:45pm - Lightning Talks: * [Emmanuel Okedele](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-okedele-7654a01b0/), [Coefficient ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/coefficientsystems)"Let's advance AI but let's also keep humanity safe while at it" * TBA **Please note you will be unable to enter the venue before 6.00pm.** RSVPs will close 24 hours before the event, you may be unable to register after this time but you can still watch online. If you can't join us in person you can watch remotely via [our YouTube channel](https://youtube.com/@ai-signals-community). **Our hosts may require that we provide a list of all attendees, please ensure that you register with a name that matches your government issued ID or bank card: if you do not we cannot guarantee you entry to the building.** Please RSVP for the event well in advance if you plan to attend in person and unRSVP if you can no longer attend as limited spaces are available. Sohini Mallick is Managing Director of RudraX Technologies (London) and CTO of its global arm — an applied-AI company building systems for high-stakes, resource-constrained environments across defence and preventive healthcare. An engineer-turned-founder, she shipped critical systems at Target before an Oxford MBA, then founded RudraX to put serious engineering behind other founders' ideas. Her current focus is adaptive AI — models that keep learning after deployment, built for the real-world settings where conventional approaches struggle. She was named in CIO Views' "10 Most Innovative Tech Leaders Making a Difference" (2025).
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