AI_SOC · 2026–27
Imperial
AI Society
The student-led platform connecting AI talent, research, building and industry. We teach the foundations, fund student research, run the hackathons where that work gets built, and put the strongest members in front of the companies hiring them.
This app is the pitch. We didn’t get a stall at the fair this year, so we built the fair a companion instead - search that understands what you mean, a map that knows where everything is, and a plan that walks you past your societies in order. If it helped, this is what we do all year. Come build the next one.
Four arms, one cohort
Research
Funded student research on real questions, selected at our research hackathons.
Learn
Foundations to applied AI, Mondays 18:00. No background needed - train a model by December.
Build
Hackathons where the work gets built: two flagships, two research qualifiers a year.
Talent
The strongest builders in front of the companies hiring them, at the June Showcase.
Your first month
- 29–30 SepWelcome FairYou are here. This app is our stall.
- Mon from 5 OctFoundations course, 18:00Weekly. An hour of theory, an hour of building.
- 8 OctFreshers socialMeet the cohort you will build with all year.
- Thu eveningsIndustry talks and workshops, 18:00Engineers and researchers, with food.
- 24–25 OctResearch hackathonThe strongest teams carry their project into funded term-long research.
- 7–8 NovImperial HackathonOur own in-person flagship, run and judged by us.
The numbers
Past partners across our events and programmes include Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS, Microsoft and Hugging Face.
Join us
Membership is free, and the whole programme above comes with it.
Join for freeOpens the Union shop - you’ll need to sign in with your Imperial account.