The one-day London edition of Civo's cloud and AI conference at Convene Bishopsgate. The 2026 edition drew 800 tech leaders for a day on AI, cloud sovereignty and data infrastructure.
Civo Navigate London is a one-day cloud and AI conference organised by Civo, a cloud infrastructure provider. The 2026 edition was themed around sovereignty and AI, examining data sovereignty, cloud sovereignty and the infrastructure choices organisations face when deploying AI at scale. The 2027 edition takes place on 27 September 2027 at Convene's 155 Bishopsgate venue in the City of London, a 40,000 sq ft, two-floor conference facility.
The 2026 sovereign and AI theme ran through keynotes, panels and workshop sessions. The programme for the 2027 edition had not been published as of 26 October 2026. Topics include AI infrastructure choices, data sovereignty regulation and practice, cloud provider lock-in and its implications, and the intersection of AI deployment with national and enterprise data governance requirements.
Workshops are offered alongside the main programme for practitioners who want hands-on sessions beyond the keynote format.
Speakers at the 2026 edition included Julia Lopez MP, Kelsey Hightower (formerly at Google and a prominent voice in cloud-native infrastructure), Lord Drayson (Locai Labs), Mark Boost (CEO of Civo), Lindley Lentati and Shubhangi Goyal. Speakers for the 2027 edition had not been announced as of 26 October 2026.
Civo is a UK-based cloud provider focused on Kubernetes and developer infrastructure. Navigate is its annual conference series, running events in North America and Europe. The London edition draws primarily on the European cloud and infrastructure community.
The 2026 audience of 800 included infrastructure engineers, cloud architects, CTOs, platform leads and technology policy stakeholders. The sovereignty theme in 2026 broadened the attendee mix to include people engaged with AI regulation and data governance, including public sector representation indicated by the inclusion of a sitting MP.
Data sovereignty refers to the principle that data is subject to the laws and governance structures of the country where it is processed or stored. Cloud sovereignty extends this to infrastructure choices: which cloud providers are used, where compute runs and what contractual guarantees exist. The 2026 theme placed these questions in the context of AI workloads, which create new data processing dependencies.
Kelsey Hightower is a widely recognised figure in the cloud-native and Kubernetes community, known for his work at Google and his public writing and speaking on infrastructure. His presence at the 2026 edition signalled the technical seriousness of the event beyond a policy discussion.
Ticket prices for the 2027 edition had not been published as of 26 October 2026. For the 2026 edition, Super Early Bird and Early Bird tiers sold out, General Admission was £300 and Late Bird was £600. Check navigateconference.com for current availability.
Civo Navigate London is a sovereignty-focused cloud and AI conference that uses the Convene venue at 155 Bishopsgate to bring together tech leaders on AI and data sovereignty; the 2026 edition drew 800. That framing was timely: EU AI Act compliance, UK data governance frameworks and the geopolitical sensitivity of cloud infrastructure have pushed sovereignty from a niche concern to a mainstream engineering and policy question. The 2026 mix of practitioners (Hightower, Boost), policy figures (Lopez MP) and AI infrastructure founders (Lord Drayson) made it a rare venue where technical and regulatory conversations shared the same stage.
Ticket prices for the 2027 edition had not been published as of 26 October 2026. The 2026 edition tiers at navigateconference.com were:
Prices are per person; VAT treatment should be confirmed at checkout.
Liverpool Street station (Elizabeth line, Central line, Hammersmith and City line, Circle line, and National Rail) is directly adjacent. Bishopsgate is one of the City's main arterial routes. The venue is accessible from most London stations without changing transport.
Convene venues typically include catering as part of their conference packages. Check the Navigate website for what is included in the ticket.
No streaming option had been announced for the 2027 edition as of 26 October 2026. Check navigateconference.com for updates.
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