London Hardware Meetup: Hardware Happy Hour after Hardware Pioneers MAX 2026
Join London Hardware Meetup for an informal happy hour after day one of Hardware Pioneers MAX 2026. Hardware founders, engineers, designers, product people, investors, operators, and curious builders all welcome.
About The Event
London Hardware Meetup is back for a relaxed happy hour after Hardware Pioneers MAX 2026.
After a full day at ExCeL, we’ll be gathering nearby at Waterfront Kitchen & Bar for drinks, conversations, and a proper chance to meet the people building physical products, connected devices, electronics, robotics, consumer tech, industrial systems, and all the strange, difficult, brilliant things that make hardware worth doing.
Hardware Meetups happen in cities around the world, bringing together hardware professionals from different backgrounds, skill sets, and stages of experience to network, collaborate, and learn from each other.
Bring your prototypes (not too big!), demos, products, sketches, weird parts, unfinished ideas, or whatever you’re working on.
Or come for a drink and say hello.
Important Venue Note
This is a meetup at a public bar.
Waterfront Kitchen & Bar is not an official private event venue for us, and space will be first come, first served. We’ll be at the bar to welcome people as they arrive.
Look out for Michael or Sera when you get there.
What To Expect
5:00pm
Arrive, grab a drink, meet the group
5:00 to 6:00pm
Mix, mingle, meet other hardware people
6:00pm onwards
More informal networking, conversations, intros, demos if people bring things along
No stage. No formal talks. No pressure.
This one is about getting the hardware community together after the conference and making it easy for people to meet.
Hosts
Michael Raven
Founder & Managing Director, Blazon Agency, London
Sera Evcimen
Founder, Principal, Pratik Development, Boston
Thank you to our partners
Blazon Agency - The Product Launch Agency™, a leading strategic partner for global product launches, based in London & New York.
They specialise in transforming ambitious visions into market realities through their unique Build, Launch, Grow (BLG) model that integrates design, advertising, and PR to ensure products launch and scale with power. Blazon's expertise spans crowdfunding, advertising, digital marketing, and e-commerce, and they have driven over $250 million in sales and $50 million raised through platforms like Kickstarter.
The Builder Circle by Pratik podcast, designed for anyone building hardware products and businesses.
informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in hardware. With expertise in a diverse range of industries from consumer electronics to climate tech, informal members work with clients at every stage to design, manufacture, and scale top-quality physical products. Whether you're looking for a single contractor, a full-time employee, or an entire team of professionals to work on everything from product development to go-to-market strategy, the informal collective has the perfect collection of people for the job. Learn more.
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