Each week the college hosts a community dinner called Ration Club. It's open to anyone who'd like to find out more about the college and its work. To find out more or if you'd like to attend, please register.

How to ensure people get to the end of your 1200 word essay

​This session will be facilitated by Georgia Iacovou

​Are you thinking about writing a newsletter, but are worried that your writing is flat, dry, and unexciting? Join this workshop to learn some basic principles about writing engaging, authoritative think pieces, to tell compelling stories, and write well as an individual — not someone representing a publication or wider organisation.

​What we will cover:

• You are an expert in your field, apparently. Time to actually write like one! Learn to show off about your unique expertise without being obnoxious and unbearable
• How to weave in personal and professional stories to build authority, illustrate your point, and generally be more engaging in your writing
• Practical tips on form: when to use passive/active voice; how to ensure your argument is clear; advice on tone, length, and pacing

​NOTE: this is a workshop for individual writers — you will not learn how to be a journalist or how to market your Substack. You will learn to write well. 

​There will be an exercise because this is SCHOOL. Please bring a laptop.

​​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​What does decision theory tell us about how a group can approach the task of allocating a fixed set of funds across a fixed set of options?

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left. 

Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​Early enthusiasm for the “government as a platform” metaphor centred around the idea of identifying common needs and building publicly owned digital infrastructure to meet them.

​Rooting out unmet needs is a service designer’s bread and butter. Much of service design is about spotting patterns. Is this booking process much like that booking process? Is one onboarding journey very similar to another onboarding journey? Can we streamline, simplify and re-use existing flows?

​We’ll look at the progress that has been made in realising platform opportunities in the public sector, and think about where there is more work to be done.

​Reading:

• Government as a Platform chapter of Open Government 
• Platform Revolution
• Platform Playbook and/or Platformland
• Platformland
• Digital Identity in the UK
• Design Patterns Catalogue
• Government as a Platform: the next phase of digital transformation

​Campaign Lab and Labour Coast & Country are thrilled to present an exclusive learning session with Matt Hildreth, founder of Rural Organizing, sharing critical insights for campaigners working in rural communities and small towns.

​Drawing from years of hands-on experience, Matt will share proven strategies for winning in rural America. At the core of his approach is a crucial insight: while Tip O’Neill famously said “All politics is local,” rural politics is fundamentally personal. This session will explore:

• Communications approaches that resonate in small towns
• Effective distributed campaign techniques for rural communities
• The fundamental role of authentic relationships in small town organising
• Methods for identifying and activating small town networks

As well as board chair of Rural Organizing, Matt is Director of New Initiatives at America’s Voice. Matt began his career working in television before jumping into national political communications over a decade ago. He grew up on a small farm in Eastern South Dakota and is a graduate of Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota where he studied Philosophy and Communications. He holds an Executive Education Certificate from Harvard University’s Leadership, Organizing and Action program, and a Master’s Degree in Strategic Communication from the University of Iowa.

​Join fellow campaigners for this valuable opportunity to learn from one of America’s leading experts in effective small town and rural campaigning.

​You can join this event online at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83178851498?pwd=jvioaPRWzCh7ahlAQkEDF0gwihGSWo.1

Welcome to the inaugural session for the AI Safety London group!

The goal of this sessions is to get to start presenting some talks about AI safety, and get to know each other.

Talks will cover AI safety, alignment, cybersecurity, policymaking, and how AI is being used at scale, in ways that is important for the knowledge of practitioners of all these disciplines. Our group wants to be a bridge between all these professionals, engineers, researchers and students that are pushing forward AI so we can do it in a safe way. The group is open to discuss about our objectives, which will be presented this day, but discussion should continue online.

19:00: Greeting and brief introduction

19:15: AI Alignment: Practical Evaluations and Strategies, by Kabir Kumar

Kabir Kumar will explain the process of running AI alignment evaluations, and provide insights into how current AI models perform on these critical safety benchmarks. He will also share his insight in in researching AI safety related topics like Mechanistic Interpretability, Post-training and other evaluations, as well as his vision on the incoming challenges we face for the future of safe AI.

Kabir Kumar runs AI-Plans. Has lead research teams for Mechanistic Interpretability, Post-training and Evals of LLMs. Has hosted hackathons with 150+ participants, which included rocket scientists, GPU engineers and AI PhDs.

20:00: Cybersecurity as the Catalyst for Real-World AI Safety, by Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin will talk about the intersection of AI safety and cybersecurity, bridging the gap between high-level theoretical concepts and actionable, industry-standard practices. While AI safety research explores ideas sometimes aimed at mitigating existential threats, these concepts often struggle to gain the traction needed to convince key stakeholders. In contrast, cybersecurity is a mature discipline, governed by established regulations, rigorous standards, and real-world audits. He will show how cybersecurity professionals, with their deep understanding of technology misuse and historical case studies of cyber attacks, are uniquely positioned to translate AI safety research into practical safeguards.

Andrew Martin has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is at his happiest profiling and securing every tier of a cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise and government. He is author of “Hacking Kubernetes” at O’Reilly, and CEO at Control Plane.

20:45: Conclusion

21:00: Close

After the event, for those willing to hang out and socialize, we will go to a close by place to have some drinks. If you can’t make it to the main event, you are welcome to join us for the drinks. Stay tuned for updated information also here!

Welcome to the 14th edition of our London FoC meetup!

​​This is a chance for folks who are part of the Future of Coding community (futureofcoding.org) to present their work in progress and talk shop over a few drinks. If you’re new to the space you can learn more on the FoC website, or by listening to the podcast.

We’re meeting at Newspeak House in Shoreditch. There will be beer, non-alcoholic drinks, and pizza provided. Kindly sponsored by Jazz Tools.

​​We’ll have community members give a mix of longer talks , demos, and lightning talks. If you would like to do one of these, fill in this form!

​Demos/talks can be anything from showing off your side project, to philosophical musings on naming conventions, to a speed tour though a piece of computing history that we can all learn from.

Afterward the talks we’ll have ample time to have a few drinks, eat pizza, ask speakers questions, and hangout. If you are working on something and want feedback, bring your laptop! You can either demo in an open slot, or show people during hangout time.

Rough schedule
18:00 Arrive, get drinks, hang out
18:30 First round of speakers
19:30 Pizza & drinks break
20:00 Second round of speakers
20:30 More drinks, ask speakers questions, hang out
21:30 Wrap up, migrate to a nearby pub

Please read and abide by our community Code of Conduct if you plan on attending: https://github.com/futureofcoding/code-of-conduct

Class Wargames will be hosting a collective playing of Arty’s Clone Wars Game rules. These rules are inspired by the World War 2 rules in Donald Featherstone’s War Games: battles and manoeuvres with model soldiers.

“Lucas isn’t exactly doing anything unprecedented — the Empire is basically a bunch of space Nazis, and Lucas parallels the Empire’s rise in the prequels with the Nazi Party’s rise in Germany. But for as stilted and affectless as the films can be, they’re tapped into something raw and real about how often seemingly stable societies collapse into fascism, into revolution, into political upheaval.

I probably don’t have to connect too many dots between what’s happened in the US in the wake of 9/11, the economic collapse of 2008, and the presidential election of 2016 before you can see that, yeah, the Star Wars prequels eerily illustrate how tyranny can rise when good men do nothing, because “do nothing” too often means “ignore the people suffering right under your nose, because it implicates you in some way.” I’d stop short of calling the films some sort of communist or socialist manifesto, but Lucas, an old lefty, surely wouldn’t mind a Marxist reading of them.

In 1999, at the tail end of the American Century, that sort of scenario felt like a far-off horror, a reminder of a past we had thankfully escaped. Twenty years later … well, whatever might bring balance to our world feels very far, far away indeed.”

– Emily St. James, The Star Wars prequels are bad — and insightful about American politics.

Class Wargames
puts on participatory performances of Guy Debord’s The Game of War and other subversive politico-military games;
investigates gaming as a metaphor for social relations under repressive neoliberalism;
celebrates the craft skills of gamers as artistic expression;
creates a social space where lefties can meet & play with each other;
re-enacts the proletarian struggles of the past in ludic form;
trains the militants of the cybernetic communist revolution to come.

​For more information about Class Wargames, see our website or join our Facebook Group to join the discussion.

A one-day beginners’ workshop in both the practical skills for, and a philosophy of, computer based / interactive art using P5 and OpenProcessing.

It is aimed at those who have at least some programming experience already. Students will be expected to be familiar with the concept of programming languages, variables, if statements, loops and arrays, objects and libraries. ​Please come with your laptop and your headphones!

The workshop is designed and delivered by ​Phil Jones, an electronic musician, programmer, digital artist and music software developer who works with soundtracks for contemporary dance and exhibition openings, and writes software in a number of contexts. ​He has an MA in Computational Studio Art from Goldsmiths. For many years he lived in Brasilia, where he taught computer science in the university, was a member of the Brasília Laptop Orchestra and Nômade Lab. He founded and runs Dionysian Industrial Complex, and the Musichacking meetup in Brasilia’s hacker / makerspace. ​More recently he has started Gilbert Lister Research, a “micro-research lab” into melody and music software. He produces his own music under a number of identities, including Mentufacturer, Ovnilounge and River of Electrons. He also runs a YouTube channel of code and music: Synaesmedia.

This workshop is presented by Shoshin College, an independent experimental school in London, England. Read more about our philosophy on our website and our Substack.

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House. It is open to the public, however spaces are limited.

​A workshop for people with little or no experience with code, which aims to get you asking the right questions of AI tools so you can bootstrap anything from a simple site to a more complex web app.

​The workshop will be led by Jethro Reeve, a Newspeak House Fellow of the 2023-24 cohort. He started using AI to code in October 2023, and now freelances as a software developer, having built a variety of small tools and worked alongside experienced developers on large codebases.

​If you’d like to hire Jethro to run a session like this for your company, get in touch via [email protected]

​Workshop Overview

​In this workshop, you’ll get a practical introduction to what I’ve found to be the most useful AI coding tools.

​You’ll have scaffolding from me to help you avoid some inevitable blind alleys the models will send you on, but the point of this session is that you can handle the warts to build your first prototypes and get started on your coding journey.

​First, we’ll build and host your own website so you can understand the basic workflow and limitations of the tools.

​Then, once you’ve got the hang of it we’ll use what you know to kickstart your own project.

​We’ll also break into smaller groups to answer shared questions, like:

• How far can you really get with AI?
• What do experienced coders think?
• How can I avoid expensive mistakes?

​Before the Workshop

​To prep for this session, you’ll need:

• A personal laptop, or access to the below on your work laptop
• Access to lovable.dev OR v0.dev
• Installed on your machine cursor.com OR trae.ai
• A free account on BOTH vercel.com AND github.com

A monthly London-based meetup for members of the rationalist diaspora. The diaspora includes, but is not limited to, LessWrong, Astral Codex Ten, rationalist tumblrsphere, and parts of the Effective Altruism movement.

You don’t have to identify as a rationalist to attend: basically, if you think we seem like interesting people you’d like to hang out with, welcome! You are invited. You do not need to think you are clever enough, or interesting enough, or similar enough to the rest of us, to attend. You are invited.

Our reading list for this time is:

• There is way too much serendipity
• American Strong Gods

We’ll start to discuss these around 3. If you have articles you want to suggest for future readings, you can do that at https://redd.it/v3646u.

Algorithmic Art is about maths and code making art.

Our community is a diverse friendly place to share ideas, be inspired by each other, show what we’re working on, support each other with coding, and discuss what our art means to us.

We hope to inspire artists to learn to code, technologists to explore art, and first time coders to get started in fun way that stimulates the senses.

We’ve covered themes as diverse as robotics, natural language processing, ray tracing, computer generated music, hardware accelerated graphics, fractals, and art as therapy.

We run tutorials, talks, and fun art hackathons. Our events are written up at https://algorithmicartmeetup.blogspot.co.uk

18:00 - Arrive and social

18:30 - Introductions (Ben Gilburt)

18:40 - Algorithmic Photography (Alex May)

Alex will discuss “Algorithmic Photography”, his hand-crafted software technique and ongoing project that aesthetically reveals the complex patterns of movement of everyday scenes. He will also introduce his brand new AI based work “ESSENCE” that explores the artistic and existential challenges of how computers currently see us and the world.

Alex May is an internationally recognised artist known for his innovative exploration of the intersection between art, science, and technology, focussing on creating multi layered works that resonate with the human experience in a digital world.

18:55 - ReFrame (Ben Gilburt)

To anyone who played Pictionary over Christmas with family and friends, the difficulty in drawing what is described to us, or describing what we see is clear. Ben will be presenting the project ‘ReFrame’. A project which takes famous film scenes, and sees how accurately AI can describe them, and then draw what it describes, to re-create the film scene through a strange pipeline of AI-enabled broken-telephone.

Ben Gilburt is an artist of precisely zero renown, but plenty of ideas which occasionally get completed with varying levels of success. Professionally, Ben is Data Ethics Lead at The Cabinet Office, and an Oxford Internet Institute Graduate with research interests in language model bias and privacy.

19:10 - AI & Creativity (Lorenzo Belenguer)

Belenguer discusses his attempt to create an original video animation using Python and an LLM, highlighting the model’s limitations with unprecedented ideas. He proposed integrating random reasoning as a tool to mimic chance, fostering more innovative and artistic outcomes.

Lorenzo Belenguer is a Queer, non-binary artist exploring themes of Queer visibility, power structures, and non-organic reasoning in the intersection of art and AI. With exhibitions at the British Museum and the Venice Biennale, he challenges traditional narratives through innovative, concept-driven works.

19:25 onwards - Drinks and social (location TBC)

What is Cognitive Security

​Cognitive Security or CogSec is an emerging interdisciplinary field studying mental self-defense against mind manipulation, social engineering and persuasion techniques.

​In some sense cognitive security can be thought of as the opposite of mind manipulation. Mind manipulation seeks to bypass a person’s critical thinking and influence a person’s behaviour or beliefs via psychological vulnerabilities. Cognitive Security aims to protect our mental autonomy in forming beliefs and making decisions as well as understand ways in which human minds are vulnerable in order to build resilience against various forms of manipulation and persuasion. 

​Cognitive Security as a field is certainly concerned with “conventional” bad actors such as charismatic individuals, private corporations, public organisations and governments manipulating cognition — be it intentionally or unintentionally. But the overall scope is more broad: it also aims to protect individual minds against hostile memes (self-replicating units of cultural information), hostile egregores (distributed thought entities), emergent social media dynamics and hypothetical future threats like superpersuasive AI.

​There is also US-based group focused on CogSec, you can read their definition on their website.

​Meetup Structure

​The meetup will start with an in-person 45-min talk on “Secular Demonology” by Connor Leahy — the CEO of Conjecture and ex-Head of EleutherAI who also writes the blog “Expedition to the Far Lands”. Some of the relevant writing from his blog:

• “Mysticism 101, or: In defence of Natural Language DSLs”
• “Cartesian Demonology, Part 1: Introduction (Magick)”

​Unconference

​​The talk will be followed by unconference, a participant-driven conference with write-in schedule on the wall. Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a topic can claim a time and a space. We had several unconferences in the last few months at Newspeak House, so might’ve been to one already — this one will have a similar format.

​​That said, you can also simply come and hang out with people — unconference is there to give some structure and help like-minded people find each other.

​Schedule

​7:00 PM Doors open
7:30 PM Connor Leahy’s talk “Secular Demonology”
8:30 PM Break: discussion and socialising. Proposing unconference topics.
9:00 PM Unconference until late

​Potential Discussion Topics

​You are very much welcome to propose your own discussion topics not listed here. These topics are provided for reference.

• What counts as manipulation? How is it different from normal attempts to influence minds? How can we best defend against it? Why defend against it at all?
• Group Dynamics & Cognitive Security. How group psychology affects individual thinking? Collective defense against manipulation
• Psychedelics. Nowadays they are often used as therapeutic tools that help people overcome emotional challenges and gain mental flexibility, but in the past CIA was attempting to use them for mind control (Project MKUltra). What do psychedelics say about human mind’s ability to process information? How psychedelics help or hurt personal epistemology?
• Future Challenges. Potential impacts of advanced AI on human cognition. Preparing for increased sophistication in persuasion technology.
• Memes & Thought Patterns. Identifying and analyzing harmful thought patterns. How ideas spread and self-replicate.
• Social media’s impact on cognitive autonomy. Information overload & building healthy information consumption habits
• Your personal stories of getting manipulated and resisting manipulation. What did you learn about it?

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​Building something may be the tricky part, but for it to survive in the wild, you’ll often have to show impact: measure exactly what it’s doing, and communicate that impact in a way that unlocks buy-in and investment.

​In this session of the Public Sector Innovation module, we’ll discuss what good evaluation looks like, specifically focused on public institutions, community efforts, and civic-tech ecosystem.

​Case Studies and Reading

• Applying Behavioural Insights to Organ Donation
• Participatory budgeting in Brazil
• Crowdsourced crisis mapping with Ushahidi
• Predictive Policing in Italy

Talks from artists and researchers presenting AI technologies and their creative applications.

​18:30 Arrival

​19:00 Terence Broad, UAL Creative Computing Institute: ‘Expanding the Generative Space’

​Generative AI offers powerful tools for the generation of many kinds of creative outputs, but the way they achieve this is by imitating and deriving their value from the collective labour of many creative professionals. This talk will give an overview of Terence’s PhD research which seeks to go beyond this paradigm. In this research several techniques were developed to allow generative AI to actively diverge from data. By using a hacking approach, this talk will show how it is both possible to both better understand the inner workings of these models and to expand the generative space of them beyond the imitation of existing creative works

​Terence Broad is an artist and researcher working in London. He is a Senior Lecturer at the UAL Creative Computing Institute and has recently completed a PhD at Goldsmiths in generative AI. His art and research have been presented internationally: at conferences and journals such as SIGGRAPH, Leonardo, NeurIPS, and ICCC; and museums such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Ars Electronica, The Barbican and The Whitechapel Gallery. In 2019 He won the Grand Prize in the ICCV Computer Vision Art Gallery and has regularly served on the Jury for SIGGRAPH. His work is in the city of Geneva’s contemporary art collection.

​19:25 Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Meta Reality Labs Research: ‘Generative 3D: Are we there yet?’

​Thu Nguyen-Phuoc is a Research Scientist at Reality Lab Research, Meta in London, UK. Her research interests include machine learning, 3D vision and computer graphics. In particular, she works on neural rendering and inverse rendering. Thu did her PhD at the Centre for Digital Entertainment, University of Bath and research internships at Adobe Research, Meta Reality Lab Research and DeepMind. Thu holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Bath and a Master’s in Computational Design and Digital Fabrication from the University of Stuttgart. 

​19:50 Yuqian Sun, AI Research Artist: ‘Chatbot as Artistic Practice’

​I have been developing chatbots (now known as “AI agents”) since 2018, well before the widespread attention on language models. This talk shares my artworks to inspire new perspectives on how we prompt, direct, and shape AI conversations. I will explore how these agents perform fictional personas and even generate novel forms of language expression previously unseen before.

​Yuqian (Uchan) Sun, also known as CheeseTalk, is an AI research artist based in London. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Art. Focusing on the power of language, Yuqian aims to create ‘alive’ narrative experiences that extend beyond video games and into our daily lives through conversational AI agents. She explores linguistic interactions through chatbots, games and interactive installations. Yuqian’s interdisciplinary arts and research have been featured in galleries and tech conferences including SIGGRAPH, CVPR, NeurIPS, Gamescom, AMaze and New York Times Square. She won the Reddot Design Award and Lumen Prize in 2024. She is also a 2025 GDC speaker.

​20:15 Networking

21:00 Close

This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​Shad Gibran will be available to discuss everything about designing and building digital products.

​A meetup dedicated to the practice of Knowledge Management (personal and collective), tools for note-taking, and other ways to use software to organise large volumes of information for knowledge work for yourself and small teams.

​If you use any note-taking system (Google Keep, Apple Notes, AnyType, Evernote, etc.) or Knowledge Management System (Logseq, Obsidian, Tana, Notion, RoamResearch , etc.) and want to share your experience or see how power users of these tools organize their information come and join us.

​We will have couple of short talks and then an open mic and projector to show your setup / tool to everyone in 3 minutes or less (limited slots).

Join us for a evening of comedy, lightning talks, networking and plenty of snacks to close off a week of brilliant codebar Festival talks! We’ll have a handful of amateur and veteran comedians taking to the stage for an evening where tech meets talent.

We’re creating a space where everyone can belong, at a time when diversity and inclusion has become increasingly deprioritised by tech companies. Every ticket sold supports codebar’s mission to empower underrepresented groups to succeed in tech.

Our lightning talk lineup includes:

• Kourosh Simpkins on The Implications of Watching (Deepfaked) Politicians Play Minecraft,
• Keegan Rimmington on Box Packing is Hard,
• Hugh Evans on Meetup is Terrible Now: Strategies for Beating Platform Enshittification for Community Organisers,
• Willow Smith on an unannounced talk (but it’s apparently the best talk ever given).

The event’s (very tentative!) schedule is

• 1800 — arrive and network
• 1830 — comedy sets
• 1900 — brief break
• 1915 — lightning talks
• 2000 — more networking!

If you’d like to join our comedy or lightning talk lineup and raise money for a phenomenal charity, reach out to us at [email protected]!

This event is emceed by Melissa Tranfield and Leo Riviera.

This event is sponsored by Voxa and Living Spec.

The biggest celebration of craft, research, art, and tech in the UK. A showcase of passion projects from our community. Demos, workshops, music, food, and more…

​[ensemble] is a crossover event between Socratica nodes: [craft] from London, [orchard] from Oxford, [scale down] from Cambridge, [meadow] from Warwick, [source] from Liverpool. Not to be missed. Open to those who have not attended a session, or are from other cities of course!

​​If you are interested in demoing, get in touch with a host or mention what your project is in registration.

Come along to the third integral altruism meetup. The theme of this meetup will be: ​🎨 cultural evolution as cause X? 🎨

​The reading for this meeting is the second renaissance whitepaper. It’s a bit long, but easy to read. If you don’t have time to read it all, skip chapters 6-9.

​Doors open from 4pm. Structured discussion starts at 5, please arrive before then! At around 7 there’ll be time for hanging out & potluck.

​If you’d like to stick around for the potluck, please bring some food to contribute (doesn’t have to be fancy - just grabbing something from Tesco is fine too!). If possible please keep it vegan 🙏

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left. 

Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​In this session we will discuss results from the previous session, including challenges of interacting with others’ systems and benefits of networked knowledge discovery.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left. 

Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House.

In person attendance is limited to faculty and fellowship candidates, but the presentation will be livestreamed; to watch, reserve a remote ticket and a link will be sent to you on the day.

​The 2024 fellowship candidates have spent the spring term considering how best to allocate a fictional budget across a diverse selection of political technology projects chosen from the Civic Tech Field Guide.

​In this session they will reveal their decision, share their process, and answer questions from the audience.