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Networking for founders, creators, freelancers + rebels ⚡

**Free monthly meetups for Rebels of all kinds, to connect, learn and share.** **Topic:** 6 Codes for Becoming a Better Leader & connecting to your purpose. **Guest**: [Dr Stephanie Minchin](https://www.instagram.com/theyogapsychologist/) is a Clinical Psychologist, Yoga Therapist and Yoga Teacher whose work explores the relationship between mind, body, identity and how we live and lead. Learn how knowing yourself better can help you make stronger business decisions, lead with more confidence and build a business around what actually matters to you. **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?** Claim your free day pass & £100 off your membership (email BedfordRow@JuntosOffices.com). **Looking for an event space?** Gain 20% off your booking (Speak to a member of the team) **Want more from Dffrnt?** [Learn more](http://dffrnt.so/) or [join here](http://dffrnt.so/join).

Indian Professionals in Royal Wharf Coffee and Careers Meet

Indian Professionals in Royal Wharf Coffee and Careers Meet Connect with like-minded Indian professionals in Royal Wharf over coffee and career talks and make new contacts and professional network. Why Join? • Meet like-minded professionals • Build real community connections • Hear career experiences & insights • Grow your network in a relaxed setting • Bring your laptops along to connect and work 📅 Friday, 4th September 2026 🕔 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM 📍 Location: With Milk, Thames Barrier Park, E16 2HP London

Women on the RISE - Networking Evening

Join us to network and grab a drink or a meal. We will have a space dedicated for our group. Looking forward to seeing you! This months topic is Top AI hacks for productivity

Rise Mentorship Programme - mentor invitation

**Invitation to Mentorship Role – Rise Mentorship Programme** If you're interested in becoming a mentor for the next cohort of the RISE London Tech Ladies Mentorship Programme, we'd love to hear from you! Please complete the [mentor application form](https://forms.gle/9yZHBrTzxBBJGJdB6) As a mentor, you'll have the opportunity to share your experience, support aspiring women in tech, and help shape the next generation of leaders.Anyone if Rise is running a six-month mentoring programme designed to empower women leaders by pairing experienced senior-executive women with promising junior- or mid-career women in a one-to-one mentoring relationship. The aim is to develop leadership skills (such as strategic thinking, decision-making and people skills), expand professional networks, boost confidence and improve retention of women into higher roles. [https://rise-londontechladies.com/mentorship-program/](https://rise-londontechladies.com/mentorship-program/) **Your role as mentor:** As a mentor, you would be expected to: · Bring your senior leadership experience (minimum 15 years of full-time work, and at least 5 years in a managerial position) and your commitment to support the next generation of women leaders. · Engage in at least six private one-to-one mentoring sessions (approximately one hour each, either in person or virtually) over the six-month period, with the mentee you are matched with. · Be open to learning and two-way feedback—mentoring isn’t only about giving but also deepening one’s own leadership awareness and inclusive-leadership mindset.

Dead Product Society | After Work Drinks

**Dead Product Society \| After Work Drinks** Come along, bring a friend/colleague or two and join us for a relaxed evening of informal product and tech chats over a few drinks and doughnuts. We aim to connect everyone without awkwardness or LinkedIn spiel, and value good conversation over boring presentations. **Who is welcome?** Product Managers, CEOs, UX/UI Designers, Developers, Scrum Masters etc. We welcome anyone who works in, with or wants to break into product. *Note: We intentionally keep our After Work Drinks on the smaller side to allow for more in-depth conversations.* **The Bike Shed** We'll be hanging out in the lounge area (behind the area with all the tables, next to the store). \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Dead Product Society** Dead Product Society is a collective of like-minded professionals sharing real-talk and joining forces to navigate the twists and turns of the product world. Our down-to-earth community is for anyone who works in, with or wants to break into product teams regardless of their background or experience. **Our Sponsors** Shout out to our generous sponsors at Waggel Pet Insurance; Lifetime pet insurance, simplified. With their support we are able to host these events for you and create a space for those important, honest conversations.

Insurance, Healthcare & HealthTech Networking London | Shaping the Future

Join insurance professionals, healthcare leaders, founders, innovators, technology companies, consultants, and business owners for an evening of networking and conversations focused on the future of healthcare and insurance. As artificial intelligence, automation, digital transformation, and changing customer expectations continue to reshape both industries, collaboration has never been more important. Whether you work in healthcare, insurance, health technology, medical services, digital transformation, outsourcing, or professional services, this event provides an opportunity to connect with industry peers, exchange ideas, and explore future opportunities. ## Discussion Topics • The future of healthcare and insurance • Artificial intelligence and automation • Digital transformation across healthcare and insurance • Improving operational efficiency • Customer and patient experience • Innovation, partnerships, and collaboration • Data, compliance, and emerging technologies • Outsourcing and operational excellence ## Who You'll Meet • Insurance brokers • Insurance agencies • Underwriters • Claims professionals • Healthcare providers • Medical practice owners • HealthTech founders • InsurTech founders • Consultants • Technology providers • Investors • Business owners and entrepreneurs ## What to Expect • High quality networking with professionals across healthcare and insurance. • Meaningful conversations around industry trends and innovation. • Opportunities to build partnerships, referrals, and business relationships. • A relaxed networking environment with optional introductions. • Hosts available to facilitate introductions throughout the evening. ## How the Evening Flows **6:30 pm** Arrival **7:00 pm** Industry introductions **7:20 pm** Open networking and discussion **9:00 pm** Event concludes ## Venue A premium venue in Central London, conveniently located near major transport links. ## Dress Code Business casual or smart. ## Important Information • Open to professionals aged 18 and above. • Please register early as attendance is limited. • Whether you're an experienced industry leader or building the next innovative solution, you'll be joining a community committed to learning, collaboration, and shaping the future of healthcare and insurance together. We look forward to welcoming you to Businesses London. **Connect. Collaborate. Grow.**

Kirill Boiarkin: Soft Skills in the age of AI

For our early September meetup we are pleased to welcome to the LSCC community, Senior Software Developer and Agile Coach Kirill Boiarkin who will share his ideas and talk to us about: **Soft Skills in the age of AI** Soft Skills aren't a very popular subject in the IT universe, and with the rise of AI they are being neglected even more. They are often overlooked during computer science education - thus being an important lesson that many of us never had. But the focus on mastering tools without developing the skills to use those tools effectively within a team often leads to missed opportunities for career growth, project failures, and avoidable mistakes. This talk highlights why Soft Skills are needed for IT-professionals, especially now, when AI gets more and more powerful. It explores what limitations does the AI have in the context of Soft Skills, and offers plenty of practical tips for Soft Skills to improve your day-to-day teamwork. The talk goes beyond generic suggestions - in the relaxed and entertaining manner Kirill will present interesting perspectives based not only on his own experience, but also on many books, articles, conference talks and observations that he had over two decades of dealing with software and people. Everybody, from junior to senior developer, devops, QA, PO, manager will find some useful and possibly even eye-opening ideas in this talk. Agenda: 6:00-6:30pm - arrival, drinks, pizza and networking 6:30-6:45pm - introduction to the evening by Aman Panesar, LSCC Leader 6:45-7:30pm - talk by Kirill Boarkin 7:30-8pm - Wrap up, further discussions and networking **About Kirill:** Kirill Boiarkin is a Senior Software Developer, Agile Coach at Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany. Kirill holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and has 18 years of development experience across 6 different companies, working on outsource and in-house projects, startups and legacy systems, backend, frontend, desktop, and mobile apps. He has seen how teams are built and evolve, projects succeed and fail, team members and management make right and wrong decisions with the corresponding outcomes. Along the way, he took many notes on what worked and what didn't, and now it's time to share them. [LinkedIn ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirill-boiarkin-a9b44549/) \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- This is a great chance to get new perspectives, discuss ideas with your peers and make new connections! All levels welcome - no need to bring your laptop as this is a non hands-on session. **Food and Drinks** Pizza and drinks will be provided upon arrival sponsored by [Codurance](https://www.codurance.com/), the global software consultancy, with vegetarian and vegan options available.

Coffee & natter - 5th View Cafe, Waterstones, Piccadilly

Self-DiscoveryShareDiscuss - Gay/Bi/Queer Men's Workshop Peer Support, room 503

**The theme for this our next meeting is:** Growing up gay in a straight man's world. (our relationships to heterosexual men) Welcome to our friendly and supportive Community. Where do we meet and really connect with other gay men in London? We do in Covent Garden. We are at the City Lit College in Room 113 (First floor) **Our discussion themes would always be advertised in advance.** We advertise the topic we’ll be discussing before each meeting, so that you know exactly what to expect before signing up for each particular meeting. Please see the list on our MeetUp profile for potential universal themes relevant to gay/bisexual men, to be covered in our sessions. Ideas are always welcome! *We offer workshops unlike most other gay/bisexual men's therapeutic discussion groups.* **A Speaker** We will at times provide a Speaker for our meetings kickstarting interesting and stimulating discussions. The Speaker can be an expert in their field such as for example an author, a therapist or a philosopher but we are welcoming any of our members to be a Speaker or a demonstrator of exercises such as massage, pilates or yoga. Or perhaps you would want to talk about your profession, if you feel it has relevance to our group. You would just have to contact Dan first for a discussion and planning. **Frequency of meetings / fee** In 2026 we’ll only have one meeting per month in person at the City Lit College in Covent Garden and one meeting online. If there is a demand for more in person meetings we’ll consider having more. We are happy to confirm that our entry prices won’t be raised and that in person meetings remain at £10. Online meetings will be FREE in January and February after which it will be £5 to attend. **Walks / museum visits** We will continue offering our occasional walking trips and also now include gay/bisexual themed history walks and visits to Museums. WHAT WE ARE: We are a group of supportive and insightful great men and we are looking forward to including you - this is what we do: CONNECTING - It is a place where you will be able to connect with other gay and bi-sexual men and where you can exchange your life experiences with them and your everyday feelings, no matter what those feelings may be - and also a place where you will be able to just be with others who live similar lives to you. EXPLORING SAFELY WITH SUPPORT - It is a place where you will experience support and growth and where you can feel safe enough to explore and reflect your feelings and life stories. Sharing is at the heart of the group but you share however much you are comfortable with - you're in charge. CREATIVE STATE REGISTERED THERAPY - It is a therapeutic discussion group which at times offers workshops and borrows elements from Creative Arts Psychotherapies. The group is based on the Creative Arts Psychotherapy/Dramatherapy and counselling work I provided ongoing for the charity Positive East in London. WHO IS IT FOR: This group is for men over 18 years old who either identifies as gay or bi-sexual or men who has sex with men - or feel emotionally connected to other men. SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY: We offer a social opportunity in the local pub after the meetings. New members are always welcome as as well as our much appreciated familiar faces! Address: City Lit, 1-10 Keeley St, London WC2B 4BA Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM The social part: There is certainly an opportunity for social drinks after each meeting. Cost: £10.00 **PayPal:** **[https://www.paypal.me/wellnesssupport](https://www.paypal.me/wellnesssupport)** **Credit card:** \*\*card payment with SQUARE online: ​ \*\* **[https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLG8ZV8FJJDYS/checkout/DK4VVAQGAV3LIM2K5V4JIX2Y](https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLG8ZV8FJJDYS/checkout/DK4VVAQGAV3LIM2K5V4JIX2Y)** WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU WHETHER YOU ARE A BRAND NEW TO THE GROUP OR A FAMILIAR FACE :) YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MADE TO FEEL WELCOME. Ask to join our WhatsApp group, after the workshop, if you liked and enjoyed your experience with us, for regular updates and social interactions. All the best, Dan

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