London Community Week 2026 Day 1: Workshop + AI Hackathon
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London Community Week 2026
Day 1: Workshops + AI Hackathon
Day 1 of London Community Week 2026 is built for community professionals who want practical learning, sharper thinking, and hands-on experimentation.
We are opening the week with a featured workshop from Richard Millington, followed by the Lovable AI Hackathon: Community Tools Edition led by Francisco Opazo.
This is not a passive conference day.
It is a working day.
A day for people who want to build stronger community skills, learn from proven frameworks, and then explore what the future of community tooling can look like when AI and community strategy meet in the same room.
Lunch is included.
What to expect
Session 1
The Advanced Community Skills Workshop: Persuasion, Influence, and Motivation
with Richard Millington, Founder of FeverBee
Everyone undervalues community skills.
Even people who are excellent at them.
Too often, community work gets reduced to vague language or dismissed as “just talking to people on the internet”.
But these skills are not light or secondary.
They are often the difference between a community that grows, participates, and creates value, and one that struggles to gain momentum.
In this workshop, Richard Millington will explore three advanced community skills that matter deeply to every community professional:
persuasion
influence
motivation
You will learn how to engage members more persuasively, how to better influence your community, and how to recruit and activate top members to help move your goals forward.
This workshop includes:
the theory and principles of community persuasion
data-backed techniques for increasing engagement from community members
motivational triggers and how to use them to increase participation
techniques to influence community behaviour in noticeable ways
live demonstrations of how to engage members to perform desired behaviours
Session summary
This session is for community professionals who want to move beyond instinct and strengthen the psychological and behavioural side of their work. It is designed to help you understand what drives action in communities and how to apply that understanding in a practical way.
Session 2
Lovable AI Hackathon: Community Tools Edition
with Francisco Opazo
In the afternoon, Day 1 shifts from strategy into creation.
The Lovable AI Hackathon: Community Tools Edition is a practical hackathon for community builders, marketers, operators, and curious non-technical creators who want to explore how AI can help build tools, workflows, and experiences for communities.
This is a chance to think beyond discussion and move into experimentation.
Participants will have time to explore ideas, build lightweight prototypes, work with others in the room, and present what they create.
We are especially interested in ideas that support community programmes, member experiences, event engagement, onboarding, networking, advocacy, moderation, content experiences, or other tools that help communities work better.
You do not need to be an engineer to take part.
This session is designed to be accessible, collaborative, and practical.
There will also be time for project presentations, and 3 projects will be selected as winners.
Prizes include:
Lovable credits
swag
an iPad for the #1 project
Session summary
This hackathon is for people who want to get hands-on with what community product thinking can look like in an AI-native world. It is equal parts experimentation, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.
Full day agenda
9:30 AM
Opening doors
10:00 AM
Workshop begins
The Advanced Community Skills Workshop: Persuasion, Influence, and Motivation
with Richard Millington
12:30 PM
Lunch break
Lunch is covered
1:30 PM
Hackathon begins
Lovable AI Hackathon: Community Tools Edition
with Francisco Opazo
4:30 PM
Presentation time
5:15 PM
Winners announcement
5:30 PM
Wrap-up and goodbyes
Speaker bios
Richard Millington
Author & Founder, FeverBee
Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee.
FeverBee uses proven social science to develop successful online and offline communities for organisations around the world. Over the past 13 years, Richard has helped to develop over 310 successful communities, including those for Apple, Facebook, Google, The World Bank, SAP, Oracle, Amazon, Autodesk, Lego, The United Nations, Novartis, and many more.
FeverBee helps organisations use powerful psychology to build valuable communities. These communities are designed to foster greater loyalty, resolve customer problems, generate ideas, drive search traffic, and develop the best possible member experience.
Richard is the author of Buzzing Communities, The Indispensable Community, and Build Your Community (Pearson, 2021). Buzzing Communities has been widely cited as introducing best practice into developing successful online communities. Richard has delivered keynote talks in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Switzerland, Romania, Lithuania, and several others.
Francisco Opazo
Lovable Ambassador & Founder, Led by Community
Francisco Opazo is a community strategist and marketing leader with over 14 years of experience helping fast-growing startups grow through community-led strategies, demand generation, and strategic partnerships.
He is the Founder of Led by Community C.I.C., a UK-registered Community Interest Company that supports community professionals around the world through education, peer connection, and career development, with a thriving private network, cohort-based courses, and a year-round event series.
Francisco is the driving force behind Community Week, a global celebration of the community profession, featuring conferences in London, Toronto, Lisbon, and New York. These events bring together thousands of professionals each year to share ideas, strengthen their practice, and shape the future of community building.
His career includes leadership roles at high-growth platforms such as Circle.so, BuddyBoss, and Bettermode, where he helped scale revenue and engagement through community-first growth strategies. His work has contributed to over $10M in ARR across multiple SaaS brands.
Francisco also leads initiatives like Speaker Dream, an AI-powered platform for speaker and agenda management, and regularly hosts mentorship programmes, AMAs, and workshops for community professionals worldwide.
Based in London, Francisco is deeply committed to building people-first ecosystems where community leaders can connect, grow, and thrive.
Closing note
If you want Day 1 to be practical, collaborative, and genuinely useful, this is the day to join.
You will leave with stronger thinking, fresh ideas, and a clearer sense of where community practice and AI-enabled creation are heading next.