Develop Brighton 2026: Conference Programme

⌖ Singapore · Singapore

Hosted by Aanya Mathur

Autonomous SG 2026 is a six-hour AI buildathon for 300+ builders in Singapore, taking place on Saturday, 31 October 2026. Supported by Anthropic, the event challenges participants to build and ship a production-grade AI prototype within six hours. Problem statements will only be revealed on the day, so teams should arrive ready to build rather than prepare a solution in advance. The top five teams will pitch their work live on stage. Who can take part? The buildathon is open to undergraduates, master’s and PhD students, researchers, engineers and working professionals. You can participate solo or in a team of up to four. One person should register for the whole team and request the corresponding number of tickets. Each participant receives: - $50 in Claude API credits - Lunch - Event swag - Access to a community of more than 300 builders Create a free Claude Console account before the event. Credits apply to the Console organisation and are not Claude.ai Pro or Max subscriptions. The event runs 9:00am–6:00pm GMT+8. The exact Singapore venue is shared after registration. Host approval is required, so requesting a place does not guarantee admission. Questions can be directed to Aanya Mathur on LinkedIn. Request to join Autonomous SG 2026

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⌖ Chiang Mai · Hideaway

Hosted by Chiang Mai Professionals, Expats, and Digital Nomads

Explore Gemini 4 Argon and agentic AI through live workflow stress tests, technical discussion and builder networking in Chiang Mai. Hosted by Chiang Mai Professionals, Expats, and Digital Nomads, this practical meetup takes place at Hideaway on Sunday, 8 November 2026, from 11:30am to 2:30pm ICT. The core interactive programme is described as two hours, with time dedicated to meeting the local community. Rather than another introductory prompting workshop, the session examines how frontier AI performs on substantial coding, business and research tasks. Host Steven Dr S. will share lessons from evaluating agentic computer systems and multilingual STEM and business reasoning with Turing, then compare Gemini 4 Argon with Claude, ChatGPT and other models. What to expect - A community mixer for engineers, founders, researchers, agency owners and remote professionals - A technical look at model evaluation, long-context workflows and calibrated uncertainty - Discussion of Argon’s claimed one-million-token context window, hallucination rate and API pricing - A live lab testing two or three audience-submitted workflows with Gemini 4 Argon and Google Antigravity - An open roundtable covering model trade-offs and priorities for a continuing Chiang Mai AI Builders community Bring a difficult coding, business or research problem if you would like it considered for the live stress test. The venue is Hideaway, 209/154 Moo 10, Muban FengFah Padeat, Mueng Chiang Mai. Register for this event

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⌖ New York

Hosted by AI Accelerator Institute

Generative AI Summit brings 500+ engineers and executives to New York on 3 June 2027 to build and scale production-ready AI systems. Designed for people actively building and shipping AI,not simply watching the market,the summit aims to replace months of trial and error with practical insight into what works in production. Organised by AI Accelerator Institute as part of AIAI New York, it focuses on the technical, operational and leadership challenges involved in bringing applied AI products to market. What to expect The programme centres on focused discussions rather than a vast expo hall or marketing-led presentations. Attendees can expect conversations spanning: - Foundational models, LLMs and autonomous systems delivering measurable performance at scale - Generative AI infrastructure, model operations and production tooling - Agent architectures, orchestration and real-world agentic applications - Inference, evaluation and continuous fine-tuning - Live architecture benchmarks and approaches to scaling - Enterprise AI strategy, information security and risk The event is built around learning from peers who are already confronting deployment and scaling challenges. Alongside the content, networking provides opportunities to meet potential partners, innovators and fellow practitioners working on industry-ready AI. Who should attend? This summit is particularly relevant to AI and machine-learning engineers, software engineers, technical architects, model operations and infrastructure teams, product builders, AI leaders and senior executives responsible for enterprise adoption. The material is geared towards practitioners and decision-makers with an active interest in building, deploying or scaling AI systems, rather than a general introductory audience. AIAI New York also brings together co-located summit content covering generative AI, agentic AI and executive AI leadership, with multi-track access promoted by the organiser. This creates a useful meeting point between hands-on builders and the leaders setting strategy, governance and risk priorities.… Register for this event

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⌖ Brighton · dabapps

Hosted by Silicon Brighton

Build your programming skills with one-to-one support at this free Codebar workshop in Brighton on 27 October 2026. Designed for beginner and intermediate learners, this in-person session offers a safe, supportive place to learn at your own pace. Rather than following a single class-wide lesson, you can work on your own course or coding project with guidance from a volunteer coach. Codebar aims to match each student with the right coach for one-to-one help, subject to availability, so you can focus on the problems and skills most relevant to you. What to expect The evening combines informal social time with focused, hands-on coding: - 6:30pm: Arrive, meet the group and share pizza - 7pm–9pm: Work on your course or project with coaching support - After 9pm: An optional pub visit for anyone who would like to continue the conversation This is a practical workshop rather than a programme of talks. Bring something you want to learn, practise or build, and use the coding session to make progress in a welcoming environment. The individual format gives newer programmers space to ask questions without having to keep pace with a large class, while intermediate learners can bring more specific challenges or projects. The event also welcomes volunteer coaches. If you have programming knowledge and experience to share, you can attend to support students, answer questions and help someone work through their course or project. It is an opportunity to contribute to Brighton’s coding community while developing your own mentoring skills. Venue and food The workshop runs from 6:30pm to 9pm on Tuesday 27 October 2026 at dabapps, Nile House, Nile Street, Brighton, BN1 1HW. Pizza is provided at the start of the evening, with vegetarian and vegan options. Attendees should add any other dietary requirements to their Codebar profile so the organisers can make sure there is something suitable in the selection. Places are free, but advance sign-up is required. Whether you are taking your first steps in programming, developing an existing project or offering your time as a coach, this workshop provides a friendly setting for learning through direct, practical support. Register for this free coding workshop

⌖ Brighton · Brighton Dome

UX Brighton 2026 is a one-day conference on emerging UX methods, taking place at Brighton Dome in Brighton on Friday 6 November 2026. The fundamentals remain familiar,understand what people need, design solutions, test them and build them,but the methods available to UX teams are rapidly multiplying. This conference is designed to help attendees separate genuinely useful developments from noise, understand which techniques translate effectively into UX practice and identify established approaches that new technology has finally made practical. What to expect The programme brings together practitioners working at the edges of UX research, design and product development. Rather than focusing on novelty for its own sake, the day will explore what is actually working across new research techniques, design tools, testing methods and ways of working. Confirmed speakers include: - Vivek Gopinath, Lead User Researcher at IBM, whose mixed-method practice spans qualitative and quantitative research, machine learning, heuristic analysis, eye tracking, behavioural studies, cognitive psychology and predictive UX. His work examines how AI-driven personalisation can anticipate user needs while maintaining a deep, empathetic understanding of behaviour. - Prama Ayalasomayajula, a research leader at HubSpot with experience in service design, small-business products, Zalando sellers and Meta Shops. Her work investigates why discovery breaks down, how scalable UX processes hold together and what service blueprints can reveal beyond standalone insights. - Chiara Scarabotti, UX Lead at Springer Nature, specialising in complex publishing flows and multi-persona journeys. She focuses on problem framing, information architecture and turning messy systems into transparent, actionable practices for cross-disciplinary teams. - Kathy Neuss, Head of Research at Mercator Digital, with more than 25 years of experience across government, corporate and agency settings. She combines qualitative depth with quantitative rigour and has influenced major HMRC services through research, behavioural groupings, mental models and journey mapping. - Max Borodin, Senior Product Manager at Simple, who explores behavioural design, gamification, conversational coaching and AI in products intended to support long-term behaviour change. He also experiments with using AI to accelerate… Register for this event

⌖ Brighton · The Walrus

Hosted by BRIGHTHINK

Explore the history of brain-machine technology with author Mike Jay at The Walrus in Brighton on 19 November 2026. From speculative fiction to Neuralink As humanity and technology become increasingly interwoven, WIREHEADS: An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain examines the most intimate frontier of all: attempts to connect machines directly with the human mind. Acclaimed Psychonauts author Mike Jay will trace the tangled history of the electronic devices, magnetic signals, implants and computer interfaces designed, or imagined, to enhance, control and rewire the brain. His account brings together mavericks and scientists, crackpots and artistic visionaries, showing how ideas once confined to speculative fiction have informed real experiments and contemporary technology. The talk will move across subjects including: - The brain technologies imagined by H. G. Wells and Philip K. Dick - Simulated realities represented in The Matrix - The CIA’s Cold War experiments and covert military operations - Psychedelic art, moral philosophy and cybernetic theory - Elon Musk’s Neuralink and the pursuit of neural enhancement - Questions of artificial bliss, behavioural control and connection to higher intelligence At its heart, the evening asks whether brain-machine interfaces might eventually direct our thoughts and behaviour, or whether technology is already doing so. It will also consider what these efforts to understand and modify the brain reveal about being human in a potentially post-human age. Talk format and audience Q&A Presented by BRIGHTHINK as part of its In Conversation series, this is a 90-minute, in-person event combining a live talk with an audience Q&A. It should appeal to anyone interested in AI, neuroscience, cybernetics, technology history, speculative fiction, psychedelia, philosophy or the social consequences of human-machine integration. Doors open at 7pm, the event begins at 7:30pm, and the audience Q&A is scheduled for 8:30pm. The venue is The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, Brighton and Hove, BN1 1AD. Attendees under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Refunds are available up to five days before the event. Get tickets for WIREHEADS