Invite-Only · London · July 22, 2026 · Recap
The LondonAI Happy Hour
Hosted by
Smith’s Bar & Grill, Paddington·Wednesday, July 22, 2026
On July 22, we brought together 50+ founders, CEOs, and technology leaders in Paddington for the inaugural London AI Happy Hour. No slides, no pitches, just great conversation about the future of AI for customer engagement. Here’s how it went.
- Guests in the room
- 50+Guests in the room
- Co-hosts
- 3Co-hosts
- Unforgettable night in Paddington
- 1Unforgettable night in Paddington
- Next stop: Mexico City
- 🇲🇽Next stop: Mexico City
The Night
Cocktails. Chats. Connections.
We expected a dozen guests. More than 50 showed up. Here is what a room full of the people building this stuff actually looks like.
Photography from The London AI Happy Hour, Smith’s Bar & Grill, Paddington, July 2026.
Why we hosted
No stage. No agenda.
The best ideas in this industry rarely come from a stage. They come from candid conversations between people building the future in parallel. That was the whole idea behind the London AI Happy Hour: a private, no-agenda room for industry leaders, partners, and friends to connect while our teams were together in London.
We expected a dozen guests. More than 50 showed up. The conversations ran long, the connections were real, and it confirmed what we believed: this needs to be a series.
From the conversationsRead what came out of the room: getting AI for customer engagement from pilot to productionRead the post
The Venue
Smith’s Bar & Grill, Paddington
Set above the Grand Union Canal on Sheldon Square in Paddington Central, Smith’s Bar & Grill is a modern British restaurant and bar in London’s Little Venice, moments from Paddington Station, and one of the best-positioned spots in West London for exactly this kind of evening.
It delivered exactly what we hoped for: elevated cocktails, canal-side atmosphere, and a room built for good conversation.
Smith’s Bar & Grill
25 Sheldon Square, Paddington Central
London W2 6EY
Your Hosts
ConversionIQ.ai is a leader in omnichannel comment response and conversational AI. It’s the platform behind autonomous AI agents that engage customer conversations across social, chat, and SMS the moment they happen. Trusted by brands in travel, hospitality, and beyond, ConversionIQ.ai is redefining how businesses turn everyday conversations into lasting customer relationships.
SystemsX analyses 100% of your calls, emails and chats. Scoring every agent, understanding every customer, acting on every commitment. Within minutes. A connected AI ecosystem trusted by customer-facing teams across travel, financial services, and beyond, SystemsX gives businesses complete customer intelligence from every interaction.
INSART is a fintech engineering studio and innovation lab that helps founders build and scale what’s next in financial technology. From AI and cloud-native product development to connecting founders with the right investors, INSART accelerates the companies redefining finance, and the go-to-market strategies that bring them to the world.
Three teams, one belief: the future is built by the people creating it, in rooms like this one.
Cocktails · Chats · Connections
“The kind of room where the conversations are as good as the cocktails.”
This was just the beginning.
The AI Happy Hour series continues in Mexico City this September. Same format, same kind of room, new city. Want an invite to the next one?