Tech Events in Cambridge

You'll need to read the paper in advance. Please also bring along your own copies of the paper to refer to in the session.

When: Wednesday 23th September 2026, 6 pm – 8 pm.

Where: The Castle Inn, 36 Castle Street, Cambridge, UK. (Most
likely we'll be at one of the large tables upstairs.)

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
https://metr.org/hugging-face-incident-report-aug-2026.pdf
Publication date: August 26, 2026

Two METR staff members (Hjalmar Wijk and Ajeya Cotra) and a Redwood Research staff member contracting with METR (Ryan Greenblatt) worked on premises at OpenAI over a total of six days to attempt to form an independent understanding of model behavior observed during the recent incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned “message board.”

Workshop at the offices of the wonderful Raspberry Pi Foundation's, on Hills Road in central Cambridge. Students will be paired up with coaches who'll work with them on whatever it is they want to learn about - be that getting to grips with basics, going through a programming language tutorial, looking at a personal project, or whatever.

Make sure you are signed up and RSVP on the codebar website.
➡️ Sign up
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Note that RSVP on meetup.com is optional: if you RSVP on the codebar website, you don't need to do that on meetup.com too.

Timetable:

• 18:30-19:00 snacks and chat
• 19:00-21:00 workshop

Please make sure you are signed up and RSVP on the codebar website.

Inside large enterprises, some of the most important product work enables those that build for external customers. This talk gives an insight into the role of enabling products; differentiating treatment of customers and stakeholders, triggering the use of a "mandate" and what happens when your competing products are built... by your colleagues.

Drawing on more than 10 years working within Lloyds Banking Group across marketing, technology and product, the session aims to give a different perspective on product leadership, how it can be applied in a complex environment and why it matters even more as AI changes how colleagues work.

About our presenter:
Tom Kelk is a product leader whose career spans marketing and technology, most recently as Senior Product Owner for Productivity Intelligence at Lloyds Banking Group.

In this role, Tom led teams building data and insight products for engineers and executives to improve engineering experience and productivity across the 30k+ community driving technology change.

He's now moving into a new enabling product role at AstraZeneca, continuing to explore what platform thinking looks like when the customer is the colleague next to you.

This is a monthly event to come and hang out with fellow 'Makespacers', swap ideas, and chat about new equipment, improvements, and the future of the Space. It’s relaxed, friendly, and a great way to stay connected to the community.

Key details

***Who: *Inducted members
*** When: ***6:00pm start
*** Where: Makespace!

RSVP, please
If you’re coming, RSVP—it really helps us plan the food order.

What to expect

*Meet members new and old

• Show off your latest project (or find someone to help you finish it)
  *Open discussion on hot topics around tools, upgrades, and what’s next for Makespace

Food, drink & traditions
We’ll provide pizza, snacks and drinks. Extra contributions are always welcome (fast track to instant popularity).
And in true Makespace fashion: new members are welcome to bring cake as an honoured tradition! 🍰🍰🍰

Newer to Makespace?
These nights are one of the best ways to meet new people, learn what’s happening, and get involved! We highly recommend them.

See you at 6 pm!

Note - We alternate Wednesday/Thursday each month. Because Meetup can’t handle that pattern, we’ll publish each date individually.

*** We're also at https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-VHPDNE8Q51fw1bO ***

Silicon Drinkabout Cambridge is an inclusive community for the tech network of Cambridge. We get together on the last Friday of every month to relax and catch up with friends. There's no agenda, no restrictions, and no pressure. We discuss tech, but other topics too. It's just a casual way to unwind with the other people who work alongside you here in Cambridge.

Everyone is welcome. We meet in pubs, but we're not all drinkers and new people are very welcome. We'd love to see you there.

The CPSG Saturday morning Code & Brunch is back in real life.

Whether you are a complete novice or a programming master there is always more to learn. With Code & Brunch you can read that great programming book, work on that revolutionary project, or learn that cool new language with good food, a drink and fellow programmers to talk through ideas.

Just bring a book or a laptop.

If you're stuck for ideas, a couple of our favourite books are
- SICP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs
- Nand2Tetris: https://www.nand2tetris.org

Looking forward to your Makespace membership induction.

See the Space Tour: Hope you completed the mandatory 'See the Space' tour already at Makespace in person and received the ‘code’ to sign up for the induction. If you do not remember the code, please state when you did the tour and who offered it. We will try to confirm.

There are a few steps you can take to make the most of the induction.
1) Make your payment on the morning of your induction. Click here to set up the monthly payments:
https://makespace.recurly.com/subscribe/makespace-membership-full
Memberships are an initial 3 month minimum.
2) Have 2 forms of ID ready to bring with you. One from each of these lists:

Government issued photo IDs : Current, valid full passport,photo-card driving licence, Armed Forces ID Card, Residence permit showing your full name and current address.

Address verification: Household utility bill,Bank, building society or credit card statement, Local authority tax bill, HM Revenue & Customs tax document. Screen shots are fine for the proof of address.

3) Start filling in your membership form by visiting here:
https://web.makespace.org/induction-form/ and clicking on the link to the induction form.
The form will ask for your name/address and to read the membership agreements. Please, complete that form until you reach a point where it tells you to stop and wait for the inductor.
You will require a Google account to complete the induction form at your induction.
4) Arrive before the induction start time at Makespace. At the door, you will be asked if you have completed the above steps.
You will reopen the induction form you started at home. When you log in with the same information all your data will be there.
The inductor will check your ID. Then there will be:

1. A short talk about how Makespace works (you can preview the presentation here)
2. An introduction to the equipment and training system. (have a look: https://equipment.makespace.org)
3. A safety tour of the workshops.

We will ask you to subscribe to the cammakespace Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/cammakespace) for announcements and discussions.

Lastly you will be given your membership number so you can access training.

Our aim is to have all the administration finished within the 2 hours at which time you can join the other members in the workshops or start the online portion of your equipment training.

PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE LATE. We will not admit after the stated meeting start time!
We look forward to seeing you at Makespace.

Monthly networking event for Climate Tech doers and enablers in Cambridge.

Come ready to connect, learn, and hopefully spark innovation.

The Climate Tech Club is co-organised by Cambridge Cleantech, Carbon 13 and Barclays Eagle Labs.

The delegates list will be viewed by the 3 organisations.

About us:

hhttps://labs.uk.barclays/locations/cambridge

ttps://cambridgecleantech.org.uk/

https://carbonthirteen.com/

Looking forward to your Makespace membership induction.

See the Space Tour: Hope you completed the mandatory 'See the Space' tour already at Makespace in person and received the ‘code’ to sign up for the induction. If you do not remember the code, please state when you did the tour and who offered it. We will try to confirm.

There are a few steps you can take to make the most of the induction.
1) Make your payment on the morning of your induction. Click here to set up the monthly payments:
https://makespace.recurly.com/subscribe/makespace-membership-full
Memberships are an initial 3 month minimum.
2) Have 2 forms of ID ready to bring with you. One from each of these lists:

Government issued photo IDs : Current, valid full passport,photo-card driving licence, Armed Forces ID Card, Residence permit showing your full name and current address.

Address verification: Household utility bill,Bank, building society or credit card statement, Local authority tax bill, HM Revenue & Customs tax document. Screen shots are fine for the proof of address.

3) Start filling in your membership form by visiting here:
https://web.makespace.org/induction-form/ and clicking on the link to the induction form.
The form will ask for your name/address and to read the membership agreements. Please, complete that form until you reach a point where it tells you to stop and wait for the inductor.
You will require a Google account to complete the induction form at your induction.
4) Arrive before the induction start time at Makespace. At the door, you will be asked if you have completed the above steps.
You will reopen the induction form you started at home. When you log in with the same information all your data will be there.
The inductor will check your ID. Then there will be:

1. A short talk about how Makespace works (you can preview the presentation here)
2. An introduction to the equipment and training system. (have a look: https://equipment.makespace.org)
3. A safety tour of the workshops.

We will ask you to subscribe to the cammakespace Google Group (https://groups.google.com/g/cammakespace) for announcements and discussions.

Lastly you will be given your membership number so you can access training.

Our aim is to have all the administration finished within the 2 hours at which time you can join the other members in the workshops or start the online portion of your equipment training.

PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE LATE. We will not admit after the stated meeting start time!
We look forward to seeing you at Makespace.

For our October meetup we are hosting a fun Coding Dojo where you'll practice your Test Driven Development software engineering skills - a key skill for Software Crafters that care about producing quality code, whether with AI - or not!

Join us for an evening of coding, food and drinks. Come and code along, share ideas, discuss best practices with Test Driven Development and learn from our expert Crafters and your peers in the Software Crafters Cambridge community.

What’s the format?
After a short intro, we’ll get into groups/pairs or work solo, whatever people feel most comfortable with, and start building.
You choose how you want to work and what language you want to code in.

This session is about collaborating with others, becoming a better developer and building your network, in a fun, relaxed environment.
We'll be sharing ideas, discussing best practices and using this as an opportunity to learn from our fellow coders.

What about AI tooling?
We encourage the use of AI tooling! We will briefly walk through how such tooling can act as multiplier, not to shortcut the discipline of TDD.

Don't have AI tooling?
No problem. TDD is a discipline that stands on its own, with or without AI. But if it's something you'd like to try, we can pair you with somebody who has the tools set up.

All levels of experience very welcome, if you want to brush up on your Test Driven Development skills or are a complete novice, do come along. All welcome! All you need to do is bring a laptop if you’d like to code along - please have your preferred language and editor setup.

Food and Drinks
Pizza and drinks will be provided upon arrival sponsored by Codurance, with vegetarian and vegan options available.

Venue Host
Our venue host is The Bradfield Centre, managed by Mantle Space. A huge thank you as always to the team for sponsoring the space.

Want to bring a friend? Great! Just ask them to RSVP so we know they are coming.

Hello all,

This is a training session for the HPC laser. You are required to have scored 100% on the online trial to participate in this session.

The session is limited to 5 participants

BR,
Mat