The UK's most extensive and steadfastest security event
Anticipate London presents up-to-date information on the newest products, emerging trends and best practices in the safety and security industry, and access control. You will see established and emerging companies in the industry present their best products and services. The international trade fair has been a linchpin right from the start in 1988 and today combines several influential events: Facilities Show, IFSEC, FIREX International and Safety & Health Expo (SHExpo).
What trade visitors come to see at the exhibition grounds is the incredible variety of products – CCTV, security systems, video surveillance systems, alarm systems, internet security systems, security locks, biometrics, and fire protection systems. But Anticipate London is more than just a marketplace. It’s a place of know-how as seen through the expert education seminars and case-studies that place all these new technologies in their context.
Anticipate London 2025
The 2025 edition of Anticipate London will occur between 25.11.2025 and 27.11.2025. The trade fair will take place as a live exhibition. ExCeL London will serve as the hosting location of Anticipate London 2025.
Accommodation
Trade Fair Trips Ltd presents you with tailored hotel services for Anticipate London that make it possible to be in a hotel in London that’s to your liking and make savings. It has taken us years to plan business trips, but we’ve streamlined the research process to a single day. You tell us what you need, and we present to you the top hotel prices during Anticipate London in a comprehensive list.
Your comfort is a high priority for us, so in addition to searching for hotels near ExCeL London, we make sure you’ve good access to public transport. Accommodation for trips is only one side – we are here to place reservations for meeting facilities in your name and can even completely install your exhibition booth for Anticipate London.
On foot:
20 minutes when travelling from London City Airport
Not advisable when travelling from London Central Station
By car:
7 minutes when travelling from London City Airport
41 minutes when travelling from London Central Station
By public transport:
9 minutes when travelling from London City Airport
51 minutes when travelling from London Central Station
Hotels near ANTICIPATE LONDON
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London City Airport Hotel | 1.9 | London | from € 276.00 EUR | Book Now | |
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Holiday Inn Express London - ExCel | 0.8 | London | from € 614.00 EUR | Book Now | |
| The Stratford Hotel London | 7 | London | from € 274.00 EUR | Book Now | ||
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YOTEL London Shoreditch | 8.7 | London | from € 351.00 EUR | Book Now | |
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Comfort Inn Edgware Road W2 | 15.6 | London | on request | Request | |
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President Hotel | 11.7 | London | on request | Request | |
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ibis Styles London Southwark - near Borough Market | 9.6 | London | on request | Request | |
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Grange Fitzrovia Hotel | 13 | London | on request | Request | |
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The Clarendon Hotel | 8.7 | London | on request | Request | |
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DoubleTree by Hilton London Kingston Upon Thames | 29.15 | London | on request | Request |
Anticipate London is an annual event of great importance that is held in London, UK around late spring, and early summer–the months of May and June have been known to be when the event happens. Editions last for three days in total and are the effort of official organiser UBM Live.
The modern ExCeL London is quite naturally the host venue and entrance is given only to trade visitors. The working hours are from 10:00 am until 17:00 pm, but those are subject to change once the official program is finalised. The easiest way to reach ExCeL London is to drive, but if you do not have a car, there are other ways. London is the city of trains, so you have the metro, the DLR and the overground train system to choose from.
IFSC is a highly localised event that sees over 500 exhibitors, who cater to the needs of 27,000 trade visitors and counting. This might not seem like a lot, but you have to take into account the quality of the audience. Roughly 70% of all visitors are attending IFSC to source new products–that is great news for all exhibitors. What makes this number all the juicier is knowing that together they command the buying power of over £23 billion. That’s more than enough reason to make the trip to London.
As to the matter of who attends, there are four major groups of visitors–installers, distributors, integrators and end-users. Within these four major groups, you have a variety of posts and positions like general managers, CEOs, heads of departments, premier engineers and strategy directors!
Anticipate London 2022
Anticipate London 2022 was held once more at ExCeL London and was one of five events that took place at the same time. The others were FIREX International, the Safety & Health Expo, the Facilities Show, and Intelligent Building Europe. The event occurred between May 17th and May 19th, 2022 and heralded the restart of the global security industry. Over 20,000 trade visitors, 60 lecturers, and 600 exhibitors from 43 countries attended the edition.
Anticipate London 2023
The 2023 editions of Anticipate London and Safety & Health Expo took place between 16.05.2023 and 18.05.2023 in ExCeL London. The events were hosted in a live trade show format and were attended by over 23,000 visitors, more than 60 speakers and over 600 exhibitors.
Anticipate London 2024
Anticipate London's 2024 edition took place as a live trade fair between 02.12.2024 and 04.12.2024 in ExCeL London. The event featured a notable number of participants from 110 countries. These included more than 200 speakers, over 290 exhibitors and more than 8,000 asset management managers and building owners. In addition, 31% of the attending were C-Suite business executives and directors and 40% were commercial property solution buyers.
What Are People Saying?
“It was our first time exhibiting in the UK and Europe, as we wanted to expand our markets. There was a good quality of visitors and foot traffic — we would definitely exhibit again,” – Business Development Manager, Telaeris, Inc.;
“The entire team held meetings with international visitors which were hugely successful, through these meetings we opened up new avenues as well as meeting existing clients,” – Group Sales Manager, Hand Media;
“This is our best year at Anticipate London so far. We better managed our meeting schedule by sending personal invitations and using the meetings service,” – Technical Sales Support Engineer, Castel.
