ACCU London: How Engineering Skills Actually Improve in 2026 - by Meri Williams

For 38+ years, ACCU) has been a trusted backbone of the software engineering community. In its early years, the community focused on C++, and it evolved to a language agnostic space where engineers help and support each other. The London community is back on, with a series of intimate audience driven meetings, here on Meetup and on Luma (https://luma.com/tpxd3p4u) For our first event in a few years, we are treated to a gorgeous location and we invite you to experience our 2 innovative formats: ## 1/ Speed AMAs 10-minute private quick swap 1:1 chats with senior experts, like musical chairs! Ask any question you want privately. No more pressure to find the right time to ask in a group, and no more concerns that someone will hear something you don't want. Experts ready to answer: Meri Williams (do they even need an introduction?). Ex-CTO at Monzo and Pleo, co-chair of LDX. They open the evening with a talk on how engineering skills actually develop in 2026, then a few SpeedAMAs. Paul Grenyer, published author of “So You Think You Can Lead a Team?”. He has 40+ years writing software and leads an engineering team at Haven. He also co-founded Norfolk Developers and chaired nor(DEV):con for seven years. Ask him about leading a team, building companies and building communities.