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Code with Claude — London 2026

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date Tue, May 19, 2026
hours 07:30 – 19:30 BST
venue London, UK
format In‑person + livestream
cost Free
source claude.com/code-with-claude/london
livestream register
May 20 extended event

Day timeline

07:30 – 09:00Check‑in & breakfast
09:00 – 10:00Opening keynote
10:00 – 10:30Morning break
10:30 – 12:30Morning sessions
12:30 – 14:00Lunch (+ workshop)
13:30 – 17:35Afternoon sessions
17:00 – 19:30Evening reception

Schedule (3 stages in parallel)

Time
Main stage
Breakout stage
Workshop
09:00
10:30
11:15
12:00
13:50
14:35
15:20
16:05
16:50

Main stage · 9 sessions

At Spotify the bottleneck has moved from writing code to orchestrating it — 96% of engineers use AI and PR frequency is up 60%. Covers Honk, a background coding agent built on the Agent SDK, integrated with the Fleetshift migration platform and the Backstage software catalog.

Argues that "the same standardization that makes teams effective makes agents effective too," and explores structured guardrails as accelerators rather than limits.

Claude's Managed Agents platform now handles infrastructure, state management, and permissioning automatically — the layer that used to require significant development effort. Covers the fundamentals of building and deploying a production‑grade agent at scale, plus industry perspectives on the future of agentic infrastructure.

13:50 – 14:20 Claude Platform

Software built on Lovable currently serves 600M+ monthly sessions. Walks through three systems they built:

  • A fleet‑learning layer that catches coding mistakes
  • An eval loop that gates every model release
  • Mechanisms for continuous improvement of the Lovable platform itself

Theme: the distinction between rapidly prototyping with AI versus maintaining production systems at consumer scale.

Three European companies, three distinct integrations:

  • Delivery Hero built an autonomous agent that now merges 100+ PRs a day.
  • Doctolib governs Claude Code across its entire healthcare engineering org.
  • monday.com ships Claude inside the product to users who've never written code.

Discusses implementations, challenges, and strategies for keeping pace as Claude evolves.

Breakout stage · 8 sessions

Base44's path from one engineer to hypergrowth (including acquisition by Wix). How Claude Code helped with three challenges: "ramping new engineers, compressing the experiment‑and‑validate cycle, and keeping the lights on as the surface area grew."

Plus an elegant simplicity principle that kept the architecture deliberately uncomplicated as the team scaled.

What changes when agentic coding becomes standard practice across teams, not just an individual tool. "The tool isn't the hard part — your processes are." Anthropic's own operational shifts: bottlenecks in code review, ownership, recruiting, and process innovations developed to keep shipping velocity high while scaling AI‑native development.

15:20 – 15:50 Claude Code

Man Group has trading signals in production that were "researched, backtested, and proposed by AI." Made possible in a regulated investment environment by two mechanisms: a governed skills framework and a core data layer that let Claude learn decades of quantitative trading methodology.

Scaled across ~750 developers and quants with 100+ skills. Focuses on the governance model that earned compliance approval for AI on critical workflows.

Workshops · 7 sessions