Overview
About this event
Code with Claude London is Anthropic's London developer event for builders working with Claude, Claude Code, the Claude Platform, AI agents, and production-ready AI workflows.
The event brings together developers, engineers, technical leaders, founders, and AI builders for hands-on workshops, live demos, technical sessions, and office hours. The London edition highlights three main tracks: Research, Claude Platform, and Claude Code.
Code with Claude 2026 also includes San Francisco and Tokyo, with in-person sessions and virtual access.
What usually happens at Code with Claude London?
Code with Claude London usually includes a product keynote, technical sessions, hands-on workshops, demos, office hours, and an evening reception.
The London event is useful for teams that want to understand how Claude is moving from simple AI assistance into real engineering workflows. Sessions cover areas such as Claude Code at scale, production-grade agents, model capability, Claude Platform use cases, prompting, managed agents, and AI-native engineering practices.
For businesses, the event offers a closer look at how Anthropic is shaping AI-assisted coding, agentic workflows, developer tools, and enterprise AI adoption.
When did Code with Claude London 2026 happen?
Code with Claude London 2026 happened on May 19, 2026, in London, with Code with Claude: Extended London held on May 20, 2026.
The main event focused on Claude Code, Claude Platform, Research, managed agents, developer workflows, and how companies are using Claude in real engineering environments. Extended London focused more on independent developers and early-stage founders, with founder stories, builder deep-dives, and practical workshops.
Code with Claude London 2026: Latest Updates
- Code with Claude London 2026 focused on one major theme: moving Claude from a coding assistant into a practical platform for agentic software development, managed agents, enterprise workflows, and AI-native engineering.
- Anthropic used the London event to show how developers and companies are using Claude across codebases, product workflows, agent infrastructure, and large-scale engineering operations.
Main updates from Code with Claude London 2026
- Claude Code is moving toward async engineering
- Anthropic showed how Claude Code can run multiple sessions, manage work in the background, fix CI issues, respond to code review comments, and create PRs through routines. Boris Cherny described this shift as moving from "I prompt Claude Code" to "Claude prompts Claude Code," meaning developers can create routines that trigger work automatically.
Claude Code got new developer surfaces
- Anthropic highlighted Claude Code Desktop, a full-screen graphical interface for managing local and cloud sessions, plus an agents view in the CLI for developers who prefer the terminal. These interfaces help developers see which agents are running, blocked, waiting for input, or finished.
Routines bring automation into Claude Code
- Routines let developers trigger Claude Code work through schedules, webhooks, or API calls. This allows tasks such as issue triage, pull request review, CI fixes, recurring checks, and scheduled code work to run without manually starting each session.
Auto mode reduces unnecessary interruptions
- Auto mode allows Claude to continue working when an action is safe, instead of stopping for permission every time. The system checks whether an action is destructive or looks like prompt injection before deciding whether Claude can proceed.
Memory helps Claude learn project context
- Anthropic introduced Auto Memory for Claude Code. It lets Claude capture useful project context, coding style, architectural choices, and debugging notes in local memory files. These memory files stay on the user's machine and help future sessions start with better context.
Claude Managed Agents gained enterprise controls
- Anthropic announced updates to Claude Managed Agents, including self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. Self-hosted sandboxes let teams run Claude's work inside their own infrastructure, while MCP tunnels let agents securely access private MCP servers without exposing them publicly.
Managed Agents added stronger agent primitives
- Anthropic also discussed multi-agent orchestration, outcomes, memory, and dreaming. These features help developers build agents that can delegate work, improve across sessions, work toward success criteria, and operate with more production-level visibility.
Enterprise adoption was a major focus
- The London event highlighted how companies are using Claude in real engineering environments. Spotify said more than 99% of its engineers use AI coding tools every week, 94% report higher productivity, and PR frequency increased by 76%. Spotify also said it has merged 2.5 million automated maintenance PRs through its fleet management system.
Real customer use cases showed Claude at scale
- Anthropic and guests highlighted examples from Spotify, monday.com, Doctolib, Delivery Hero, Lovable, and Legora. These examples covered repo migration, healthcare workflows, enterprise agents, vibe coding, self-healing platforms, legal agents, and AI-native product development.
Code with Claude: Extended London
- Code with Claude: Extended London: Extended London happened on May 20, 2026. Anthropic added this second event for independent developers and early-stage founders after high demand for the main London event.
- Extended London focused on founder stories, builder deep-dives, practical demos, managed agents, memory, evals, multi-agent systems, and live agent challenges. Unlike the main Code with Claude London event, Extended London was not livestreamed, but Anthropic said sessions would be recorded and made publicly available after the event.
Why Code with Claude London matters for developers and teams
- Code with Claude London matters because it showed how Claude is moving from single-session coding help into a broader developer and agent platform.
- For developers, the event highlighted Claude Code updates such as routines, auto mode, work trees, memory, agents view, remote control, and improved desktop workflows.
- For engineering leaders, the event showed how Claude can support repo migrations, PR review, CI fixes, security checks, and engineering productivity at company scale.
- For platform teams, Claude Managed Agents, self-hosted sandboxes, MCP tunnels, outcomes, memory, and multi-agent orchestration showed how teams can build production-grade agents with better control.
- For founders and product teams, Extended London showed how Claude can help builders move from idea to working product through demos, founder stories, workshops, and practical agent workflows.
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Venue
London
Easy transit access; cafés and hotels nearby. Detailed wayfinding ships with your registration confirmation.
- Address
- —
- Ticket
- Free
- Capacity
- Open seating
Program
Tracks
Color-coded so you know what room to be in. Talks rotate across all tracks; pick what fits your team.
Track
Research
What today's models can do and where they are headed.
Track
Claude Platform
How teams build production-grade agents on the Claude Platform.
Track
Claude Code
How teams run Claude Code at scale, long-horizon tasks, multi-repo work, parallel agents, and related infrastructure.
Speakers
Engineers shipping the work, not theorizing about it
Every speaker is hands-on with a system in production. No theory tracks, no vendor pitches.
Schedule
Agenda
Times shown in Europe/London. Subject to small changes; the published recording reflects what actually shipped.
Day
Day 1, Tue, May 19 (BST)
9 sessions
- MorningBreak
Check-in & breakfast
- KeynoteKeynote
Opening keynote
- SessionTalkResearch
Research sessions: what today's models can do and where they are headed
- SessionTalkClaude Platform
Claude Platform sessions: building production-grade agents
- WorkshopWorkshopClaude Code
Claude Code workshops: running Claude Code at scale
- All dayDemos
Demos & office hours: drop in between sessions; sign up in advance for office hours
- MiddayBreak
Lunch
- AfternoonWorkshop
Afternoon workshops and talks
- EveningSocial
Evening reception
Day
Day 2, Wed, May 20 (Extended London)
3 sessions
- Founder stageTalk
Founder stories: early product bets, prototype-to-revenue lessons, and judgement calls
- Builder stageDemos
Builder stage: working demos, real code, and practical building techniques
- WorkshopsWorkshop
Workshops: managed agents, memory, evals, multi-agent systems, and live agent challenges
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