Applying AI Events in Birmingham

Join us at our TECH MIXER AND SOCIAL for afterwork drinks, networking with tech / IT workers in and connect with others in tech

Whether you're a seasoned tech veteran or just starting out, let's create the ideal afterwork place to meet and chill with other workers in tech - find that new job, expand your network, share ideas, and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in the industry. Let's inspire, innovate, and shape the future of technology in Birmingham!

Tech, AI, Data, IT, and more ~

Event Details

💰 Cost: £3 (Online only, no tickets at door)

🍺🥃 Afterwork drinks and social

📍 The Wellington (Inside, or ask for Tech Social) - 37 Bennetts Hill

🕕 6:00pm onwards every Friday

Or RSVP on the website for our Discord / WhatsApp communities, and to see who else is going and what their backgrounds/seniority/interests are:

🔗 Link to Website

If you cannot find us, ask staff about Social Meetup, or find a table, snap a photo and ask in the WhatsApp community above.

Who Should Attend?

Perfect for Birmingham tech professionals including:

• Software Developers & Engineers (Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, React, Node.js)
• Data Scientists & Analysts (Machine Learning, AI, Data Visualization, SQL)
• Cybersecurity Professionals (InfoSec, Ethical Hacking, Cloud Security)
• Product Managers & Tech Entrepreneurs
• Students & Tech Graduates looking to break into tech
• Career Changers entering tech industry
• Remote Workers & Digital Nomads in Birmingham
• Startup Employees & Entrepreneurs
• Digital Marketing & Product Professionals
• Senior Engineers looking to mentor and network

What You'll Experience

• 🤝 Network with Birmingham tech community
• 💼 Job opportunities and referrals from peers
• 🚀 Career acceleration through peer networking
• 🎯 Skill sharing and tech discussions
• 🧠 Knowledge sharing on latest tech trends
• 🎉 Social activities and games
• 🧠 Learn from peers about real-world challenges
• 🚀 Collaborate on projects and ideas
• 🎯 Mentorship connections (both ways!)
• 🍻 Fun, casual atmosphere - no matter your seniority level

Event Guidelines

• Support the venue by purchasing drinks/food (no outside items allowed)
• Maintain appropriate behavior and respect for all attendees
• Bring physical ID if required by venue (call ahead to confirm)
• Disclaimer: We are not affiliated with the venue, we just use the space. So don't call the venue asking about our events.

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Due to the high temperatures forecast for 25 June 2026, the Flutter Birmingham event originally scheduled for that date has been postponed.

Please note that the date currently shown on the event page is a placeholder while we finalise arrangements. The confirmed date will be announced in the next few days.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and hope you will still be able to join us on the new date. Please take care, stay hydrated, and look after yourselves during the hot weather.

Join us for our next Flutter Birmingham event on 25 June, featuring two exciting talks from Manu Kenchappa Junjanna and Damilare Bakare.
This session will explore the future of mobile development from two important angles: how user interfaces may become more adaptive through GenUI, and how mobile apps can become faster, smarter, and more private through on-device AI.

Talk 1

Talk Title: From Fixed Screens to Intent-Driven Interfaces: UI -> GenUI

Talk Description:
UI/UX designers spend a lot of time understanding users and creating better, more thoughtful interfaces. But there will always be some users whose needs a static UI may not fully cater to, and that’s where GenUI comes into the picture.
Join this talk at Flutter Birmingham to explore how GenUI could shape the future of UI. We’ll discuss how we are slowly moving from fixed screens to intent-driven interfaces, and how Flutter’s reactive approach can help make this possible.

Speaker Bio:
Manu Kenchappa Junjanna is a Flutter Developer at BrightHR, where he works on the BrightSafe and BrightConsult apps used by over 100,000 clients. His experience spans Flutter, Android, clean architecture, mobile performance, CI/CD automation, and native-to-Flutter integration.

He has also contributed to AI-powered and agriculture-focused mobile products, including Pezego, a Flutter application supporting maize farmers in Ghana, and has worked on mobile SDKs used across banking applications at scale. Manu is especially interested in building thoughtful mobile experiences that combine strong engineering foundations with practical user value.

Talk 2

Speaker: Damilare Bakare

Talk Title: Edge AI on Mobile: Building Faster, Smarter, and More Private AI Apps

Talk Description:
AI features are becoming a major part of modern mobile experiences, but sending everything to the cloud is not always the best option. In this talk, Damilare will explore how mobile apps can run AI features directly on-device, improving speed, privacy, and user experience.
The session will cover practical lessons from building AI-powered mobile experiences, including what works well, common challenges, and why edge AI is becoming increasingly important for mobile developers.

Speaker Bio:
Damilare Bakare is a Senior Software Engineer with an MSc in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Hull. He works at MosaiQ Labs, building scalable web and mobile products used in real-world workflows. His work focuses on engineering fundamentals that make products dependable, clean system design, performance, reliability, and a thoughtful developer experience. He’s especially interested in practical AI: turning emerging capabilities into useful, user-friendly experiences that are safe, measurable, and maintainable. He enjoys sharing what he learns through talks and community knowledge-sharing, helping other engineers move from prototypes to production with confidence.

Discovery vs Delivery in Product: Rewired by AI

Lean Coffee is back, driven by popular demand. Bring your product problems, solutions and voice to the table, to discuss a topic facing us all today in Product teams.

The Context
Getting the time and the buy-in to do product Discovery was hard enough before AI-accelerated Delivery. AI-assisted development tools have fundamentally altered the equilibrium and democratised the opportunity space like never before - but how can we balance speed with risk-mitigation? This shift does not just impact product managers / owners; it changes the daily operational reality for developers shipping code at unprecedented speeds, UX and UI designers scaling qualitative user research, project managers re-aligning delivery timelines, startup founders optimising lean capital and more.

The specific differentiator of this session is bringing back our beloved Lean Coffee format; its cross-functional focus, leveraging a democratic style to bring our entire local technology community together to solve this shared tension.

How it Works
There is no single expert on a stage tonight. Instead of sitting through slides, we start the evening with a blank wall where you pitch the exact discovery and delivery challenges you want the room to discuss. The room votes on their favourites, and we dive into timed, democratic rounds of peer-to-peer discussion.
Bring your raw operational realities, your current friction points, or simply an open mind about how other local Product teams are adapting. The agenda is entirely yours to set.
This session is explicitly designed for the entire Product team so please do consider bringing your team for this after-work session.

Key Takeaways:

• Cross-Functional Insights: Pragmatic, peer-tested approaches to maintaining discovery rigour without blocking an accelerated delivery pipeline.
• Operational Benchmarking: Direct insight into how other technology organisations in the West Midlands are structuring their teams and handling increased technical throughput.
• High-Density Ecosystem Networking: An opportunity to sit with professional peers across multiple disciplines to discuss localised resource constraints, cross-functional friction points, and lasting connections.

👥 Agenda

• 18:30: Arrival, structured networking, pizza, and drinks.
• 19:00: Welcome, Lean Coffee board setup, and topic pitching.
• 19:05: The discussions begin with timed rounds of cross-functional peer-to-peer conversations.
• 20:00: Facilitated Q&A and session wrap-up.
• 20:15: Unstructured peer networking resumes.
• 20:30: Event close.

🍕 Food & Drinks
Thanks to our sponsor, AND Digital, we’ll have pizza and drinks available, and we'll be ready to connect!

🤝 Thanks to our Sponsors
· AND Digital – A digital delivery partner helping ambitious companies build world-class digital capabilities and close the digital skills gap
· IntelStream UK – A Birmingham-based content and storytelling company, providing professional photography, videography and PR content for events.

Bring your toughest multi-disciplinary pipeline challenges, bring your unique role perspective, and help shape the dialogue that elevates our local tech community.

Hosted by Max Laverty and Nohit Arora, Mahdi Barkhordari, Janice Feighery, Matt Vercauteren.