2016 – 2026
For ten years, Muslamic Makers built the community, events and programmes that Muslims in tech needed and didn't have. It started with 50 people in a room in London. It grew into the ecosystem you see today, thousands of members, six chapters, and the organisations now carrying the work forward.
In 2026, after a decade of community building, we retired Muslamic Makers. Not because the mission failed, but because it worked. What once felt like a gap is now a thriving landscape of Muslim tech communities, conferences and founders. Alhamdulillah.
This website is the record. Everything here, the events, the programmes, the scholarships, the people, happened because volunteers gave their evenings and weekends to build something for their community. If you're starting a community of your own, we hope this archive shows you what's possible and how we did it.
Read the founder note for the full story of why we said goodbye.
Monthly meetups, hackathons, lightning talks, career panels and founder fireside chats. Over 100 free events across London, the North and beyond.
See the impact
The Digital Careers Kickstarter, Pathway to Product, Diving into Data Science, the Fellowship and /Cubit, our startup school. Hundreds of people moved into tech careers through them.
Explore the programmes
With Makers, the Aziz Foundation, National Zakat Foundation and Love Circular, we funded more than £50,000 of bootcamp places for Muslims breaking into software and design.
Read about the scholarships
What started in London spread to Manchester, West Yorkshire, Boston and Toronto, each chapter run by local volunteers who shaped it around their own city.
Meet the chapters
Our last act: a delegation of 15 tech professionals travelled to Bangladesh with Charity Right to teach digital skills to orphan girls. The final chapter of our direct programming.
The final chapter
Member spotlights, startup case studies, learning resources and our year-in-review posts, kept exactly as we published them.
Read the storiesOur work was covered by the BBC, Forbes, Computer Weekly, Religion News Service, Sifted and Hyphen.
For the visionaries, the builders and the believers. A rapidly growing global conference born out of the Muslamic Makers community, which sold out the Royal Institution in its first year.
muslimtechfest.com
Formerly Levelupo, relaunched in partnership with Ihsan. It carries our giving-back ethos forward through mentoring, and stays under the not-for-profit entity.
mymuslimmentor.com
Founded by Muslamic Makers co-founder Arfah Farooq, helping individuals and minority-led organisations understand, adopt and implement AI.
aicompasslabs.comTo every volunteer, attendee, speaker, mentor and supporter who helped build this community: this archive is yours.
Alhamdulillah for every chapter.