London Information Retrieval & AI Meetup November 2026

The London Information Retrieval & AI Meetup returns to the BCS London Headquarters on Monday 23 November, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. This is the 28th edition of the series, which is run by Sease Ltd and sits at the intersection of information retrieval and artificial intelligence.

The first talk is 'Fake Science' and Information Overload in Academia, given by Ingo Frommholz, Professor of Applied Data Science at Modul University Vienna. The evening follows the usual format: two technical talks from leading voices in IR and AI, each followed by a Q&A, and a networking session over a pizza buffet to close. The crowd tends to be a mix of researchers and data scientists working in IR, NLP and machine learning, alongside software engineers building search engines, recommender systems and AI-driven applications. The organisers also keep an open call for new speakers to share their research, projects or industry experience.

This particular edition is part of London Search Week, a week of search and AI events across the city, and is hosted by Alessandro Benedetti, Director at Sease. It's a hybrid event, so you can join in person at the BCS London Headquarters on the ground floor of 25 Copthall Avenue, EC2R 7BP, or stream it online via Zoom. Doors open at 6:00 pm for the room and 6:15 pm for the virtual audience, and it's free to attend.