Tech Events in Birmingham

We organise friendly informal networking events for people in Tech to share ideas, learn from each other, and make new connections.

Who are the events for?
People working in tech who want to connect with others in the Birmingham tech community, including:

• Software engineers
• Product managers
• Data / AI professionals
• Startup founders & operators

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🍕 Action Required: get 20% off food & drinks 🍹

To attend, please become a member at OkGather for only £2.99 p/m (only takes 1 minute to join) and you will also get 20% off food & drinks at the gathering (show your OkGather profile at the bar). This small membership fee means we can keep running the gatherings, cover our costs and help more people meet new people! 🥳

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You’ll meet people who are:

• Working in software engineering, product, data, AI, or startups
• Building projects, products, or growing their careers in tech

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Why should you join?

• Learn from others working in tech
• Expand your network to help your career
• It could lead to collaborations or new opportunities
• It’s a lot of fun!

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✨ How it works
1. Get your ticket

2. Become a member at OkGather to attend:

https://okgather.com/theme/birmingham-tech-network-btn?src=btn&platform=eventbrite&placement=event_description_how_works

Arrive at the venue:

• Grab a drink, find the group, and settle in
• Ask the bar staff for the "Birmingham Tech Network" table booking
• Expect a friendly, welcoming group and a great atmosphere 👋

Have better conversations

• You’ll be surrounded by people interested in tech and building things
• Discussions are naturally more engaging and relevant 🤝

Build connections + opportunities

• Meet people you can stay in touch with
• Learn from others in the space
• Potentially collaborate on projects or opportunities ⚡

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📍 Location
We host events at relaxed venues in central Birmingham:

• Easy to get to locations
• Pubs or bars with a good atmosphere
• Spaces that are ideal for conversation 🍻

Spots are limited to keep the group high quality.

If you work in tech and want to meet others in your space, you’ll get a lot from this 👋

Welcome!
We organise friendly informal networking events for people in Tech to share ideas, learn from each other, and have genuinely useful conversations. There’s no PowerPoints or speeches to sit through - it’s all about great conversation and building connections.
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Who are the events for?
People working in tech who want to connect with others in the Birmingham tech community, including:

• Software engineers
• Product managers
• Data / AI professionals
• Startup founders & operators

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You’ll meet people who are:

• Working in software engineering, product, data, AI, or startups
• Building projects, products, or growing their careers in tech

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Why should you join?

• Learn from others working in tech
• Expand your network to help your career
• It could lead to collaborations or new opportunities
• It’s a lot of fun!

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✨ How it works
1. 🎟️ RSVP on Meetup
2. Join at OkGather:
https://okgather.com/theme/birmingham-tech-network-btn?src=btn&platform=meetup&placement=event_description_how_works

Secure your place and join a group of people working in and around tech.
Arrive at the venue

• Grab a drink, find the group, and settle in
• Ask the bar staff for the "Birmingham Tech Network" table booking
• Expect a friendly, welcoming group and a great atmosphere. The gatherings are generally self hosted with support from the venue.

These are relaxed gatherings rather than formally hosted events. There’s no designated host leading the evening (instead, venue staff will direct you), everyone is there to meet new people, and the format allows conversations to develop naturally without structured introductions or activities. This helps us to keep the membership much more affordable for you.

Have better conversations

• You’ll be surrounded by people interested in tech and building things
• Discussions are naturally more engaging and relevant 🤝

Build connections + opportunities

• Meet people you can stay in touch with
• Learn from others in the space
• Potentially collaborate on projects or opportunities ⚡

About Birmingham Tech Network (BTN)
We're building a community of awesome Software Engineers, PMs, Designers, Founders, VC investors, etc, in Birmingham to help with hiring, investment, finding clients & meeting people with similar interests!

📍 Location
We host events at relaxed venues in central Birmingham:

• Easy to get to locations
• Pubs or bars with a good atmosphere
• Spaces that are ideal for conversation 🍻

Spots are limited to keep the group high quality.

If you work in tech and want to meet others in your space, you’ll get a lot from this 👋
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🍕 How to get 20% off food & drinks 🍹
To attend, please become a member at OkGather (https://okgather.com/theme/birmingham-tech-network-btn?src=btn&platform=meetup&placement=event_description) for only £2.99 p/m (only takes 1 minute to join) and you will also get 20% off food & drinks at the gathering (show your OkGather profile at the bar). This small membership fee means we can keep running the gatherings, cover our costs and help more people meet new people! 🥳

.NET Conf 2026

Join us to view a session from .NET Conf 2026 the launch of .NET 11 and latest MAUI - we'll decide which session and whether live or recorded closer to the date when we have the full session details.

It will be about .NET / C# / MAUI.

Followed by a discussion about the changes that are happening.

Agenda:
18:30 Arrive, Network and Food.
18:45 Introductions and catch-up.
19:00 Session and discussions
20:30 Close and head off to pub (The Good Intent?) for some more talking.

The second Wednesday of every month is now a software and microelectronics social as well as our usual public open night - a great opportunity to muck about with like-minded hackers to discuss electronics projects, bounce ideas off each other for your latest coding challenge, or just to pop down and ask for some help getting started!

Everyone welcome - from beginners to advanced. Come talk to us about your home automation projects, bring your empty breadboard to be filled with ideas, or bring your stories of projects past. Ask for some help mastering a programming language - or find out you're the relative expert in the room, and offer others light instructionals* on the subject. Bring your Python, your JavaScript, your Go and your Rust - or regale us with C/C++ and 6502 Assembly. Your Robot Vacuum or your blinkenlights, your Raspberry Pi's, your Arduinos, your ESP32s..

fizzPOP has a well-stocked electronics room and some great spaces to crack out your laptop, so if you're not a member then this is a great time to pop down and check it out - and if you are a member, this is a great chance to get cracking with all the tools and equipment.

See you there!

*we have some very helpful members, and welcome people of all skill levels - but this is not an organised event, we cannot commit to formal teaching, and we probably won't build your project for you (yes, people have asked)! This is a themed social event; please calibrate your expectations accordingly, and look forward to a great night!

Are you a maker? Interested in taking a tour of the space? Come on visit the space see what facilities we have and if membership is right for you.

The Human API: An Evening of Debugging How Your Team Talks

Thursday 12 November | 6pm–9pm | AND Digital, Birmingham

You can build infrastructure, automate deployments and troubleshoot Kubernetes at 2am.
But how good are you at explaining an idea, handling an awkward conversation, speaking in front of a room or simply connecting with someone you’ve never met before?

On 12 November, Steve Wade is taking over DevOps Society Birmingham for the evening.

No panel. No conveyor belt of speakers. One keynote, one interactive talk and one hands-on workshop designed to get engineers away from their laptops and actually talking.

Want to get better at communicating, presenting and thinking on your feet? Register and join us.

Meet Steve Wade

Steve is the Founder of Platform Fix, a Kubernetes Ambassador for DevOps Society and someone who has spent the last 15 years working in production infrastructure.
He started working with Kubernetes back at v1.2. He's a former Flux maintainer and Istio contributor. He has trained more than 6,000 engineers on cloud-native tooling worldwide and has spoken at conferences including KubeCon and DevOps Pro Europe.
This will be Steve's 68th talk, but this one is going to be a little different.
Rather than spending three hours sitting down listening to slides, you'll be getting involved.

Why are we doing this?

Technical teams spend huge amounts of time improving tooling, infrastructure and processes. Communication often gets nowhere near the same attention. Yet it's involved in almost everything engineers do.
Explaining an architectural decision. Giving feedback. Running a stand-up. Challenging an idea. Presenting to leadership. Asking for a promotion. Speaking to someone you've never met at a meetup.
Being technically strong matters. Being able to communicate what you know can make that technical ability considerably more useful.
And no, you don't need to be a natural public speaker.

In fact, if the thought of getting on stage makes you uncomfortable, this evening was pretty much designed for you.

Ready to give it a go?

Register for the event and come along on 12 November.

What happens on the night

Act 1: AI, DevOps and Kubernetes: What's Next?
Steve kicks things off with a short 15-minute keynote looking at what's actually changing across Kubernetes, AI and platform engineering.
No hour-long predictions about how AI is going to replace everybody.
Just Steve's view after more than a decade working in the cloud-native ecosystem.

Act 2: The Human API
Then we get into the main talk.
Why can engineers communicate perfectly with computers in multiple languages but struggle to explain something to the person sitting next to them?
This won't just be Steve talking at you.
You'll meet people around you, try different ways of starting conversations and learn practical techniques you can use in meetings, stand-ups, interviews, presentations and everyday work.
You'll also learn a much better question than the usual:
"So... what do you do?"

Act 3: Owning the Stage

This is where things get interesting.
The final hour is a hands-on workshop on confidence and presenting.
In small groups, you'll answer unexpected questions out loud. You'll use a simple structure you can reuse at work.
We finish with PowerPoint Karaoke. A few volunteers present a deck they've never seen while the slides keep moving. Everyone else enjoys the chaos.
There are no grades, no judges and no expectation that you'll suddenly become a TED speaker.
It's simply an opportunity to practise something most engineers rarely get the chance to practise.

You'll leave with

You'll get practical communication techniques you can use at work, practice presenting in front of a small group, a better understanding of what's happening across AI and cloud-native engineering, and Steve's Communication Playbook to take away afterwards.
More importantly, you'll spend the evening with other people working across DevOps, cloud, SRE and platform engineering in Birmingham.

So even if PowerPoint Karaoke isn't your lifelong ambition, there will be plenty of people worth meeting.

Who should come?

This event is aimed at DevOps engineers, SREs, platform engineers, cloud engineers, developers, engineering leaders and anyone working in technology who wants to become better at communicating what they know.

Especially if you've ever:
Sent a Slack message that landed completely differently from how you intended.

Had a great technical idea but struggled to get people behind it.
Avoided presenting because you hate speaking in front of people.
Watched somebody less technical communicate their way into opportunities you wanted.

Or found writing Terraform considerably easier than asking for a pay rise.
You'll fit right in.

Event details
Thursday 12 November 2026
6pm–9pm
AND Digital
The Foundry
6 Brindley Place
Birmingham
B1 2JB

Come on your own, come with your team or send it to someone who'd enjoy it.

A quick note about emails

When you register, Steve will also email attendees before and after the event. You'll get the session materials, his Communication Playbook and a short follow-up series.
One email in that series mentions his consultancy, Platform Fix.
One click unsubscribes you from Steve's emails. Nothing from DevOps Society changes.

Huge thanks to AND Digital for hosting us, and providing the food & drinks!

Register now
This isn't an event where you're expected to sit quietly at the back for three hours. You'll meet people, get involved, learn something useful and probably end up doing something slightly outside your comfort zone.

Hit Register and join us in Birmingham.

Already coming? Share the event with someone from your team and bring them along too.

Join us for CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Month 2026 – Local Meetup Birmingham, an evening dedicated to sustainable cloud native engineering, Kubernetes efficiency, GreenOps, observability, and reducing infrastructure waste.
As cloud native platforms grow, so does the need to understand their environmental impact. From rightsizing workloads and improving resource utilisation to measuring energy consumption, engineers can play an important role in building more sustainable systems.
Expect practical talks, community discussions, lessons from real-world implementations, and plenty of opportunities to connect with the Birmingham and West Midlands cloud native community.
Whether you are already exploring sustainable infrastructure or just getting started, join us to discover how everyday engineering decisions can improve efficiency and support environmental sustainability.
What to Expect

• Practical cloud native sustainability talks and demonstrations
• Kubernetes resource optimisation, rightsizing, and autoscaling
• Energy monitoring and carbon estimation
• GreenOps and its connection to FinOps
• Efficient infrastructure and workload design
• Lessons learned from real-world environments
• Networking with local engineers and community members
• Food, drinks, and community conversations

Agenda
18:00 – Doors Open, Networking, Food & Drinks
Meet fellow attendees and enjoy informal conversations before the sessions begin.
18:30 – Welcome & Introductions
Introduction to Cloud Native Birmingham, Cloud Native Sustainability Month 2026, speakers, sponsors, and the evening agenda.
18:45 – Talk 1: TBC
Speaker and session details will be announced soon.
19:30 – Short Break
Networking and refreshments.
19:45 – Talk 2: TBC
Speaker and session details will be announced soon.
20:30 – Community Q&A and Open Discussion
An interactive discussion on sustainability challenges, engineering trade-offs, and practical steps teams can take to reduce waste while maintaining reliability and performance.
20:45 – Networking Continues
Continue conversations with speakers, sponsors, and community members.
21:00 – Close

🎤 Speakers
Speakers and session titles will be announced soon. Stay tuned for updates!

Who Should Attend
Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers, SREs, Cloud Engineers, Kubernetes Engineers, Developers, Architects, sustainability practitioners, students, beginners, and anyone interested in building more efficient cloud native systems.
Come and join us for an evening of learning, sharing, and networking with the Birmingham cloud native community.

Let’s explore how we can build a more sustainable cloud native future together.

Our next in-person meeting of the year will take place on Thursday 19th November 2026 from 18:30 at the Wesleyan Building. Parking is available close by at the B4 Car Park or it’s a short walk from any city centre train station.

Agenda

Presentation 1: Power Platform for Good - Melissa Hale
What: This talk gives the attendees insights into how someone like me, with a scientific non-technical background ended up as a developer for a consulting company and a volunteer for a charity – “Collaboration for Kids”. Expect to learn how I used Power Platform to transform this charity’s digital space in a meaningful way, and how you can collaborate with your local charities of NGOs with something you already know! I will show you how I created a useful intranet and some process automations, with a strong focus on promoting healthier choices for children and adults. All powered by Microsoft Technology – Business Applications and Modern Workplace.

Why: Non-profit organisations are facing increasing pressure to optimise their operations and invest most of their time in supporting the cause. By leveraging technology, this goal can be more easily achieved, addressing challenges in communication, manual workloads, and other areas. If you want to learn how to go above and beyond with your local charity by using Power Platform, this is the talk for you!

How: Expect engaging storytelling, live demos, practical cases of Power Automate and SharePoint working together, tips on how to work with diverse Stakeholders and much more!

Takeaways:
• Concrete - and cool - examples of applying Power Platform for non-profit organisations.
• Strategies for effective collaboration and user adoption.
• Inspiration to go back home, bring your tech skills to the table, and help your local charity.

Presentation 2: Architecture in the Age of AI - Neil Rowlands & Adrian Cole
Microsoft is embedding AI into every layer of Power Platform and Dynamics 365. If it can gather requirements, design solutions and write code, what is left for architects, developers and consultants?

In this session, user group leaders Adrian Cole and Neil Rowlands use lessons from past tech revolutions to show why writing software was never the hard part

As the agent-tooling landscape is reshaping how we build, who really owns the consequences? Our roles don’t disappear- they evolve. Because in the Age of AI, implementation becomes abundant and judgment becomes scarce

We strongly encourage you to arrive early to meet other user group members. We will be providing food and refreshments and you are welcome to stay afterwards for a chat!
We are always looking for people passionate about Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform to present at our events. If you would like to speak at any of our future events please register here.

One Product. Multiple Perspectives. Endless Possibilities.

Ever had a perfectly planned product roadmap turn upside down overnight? Welcome to product development!

Join ProductTank Birmingham for an exciting, interactive workshop where you'll step into the shoes of a product team, navigate competing priorities, challenge assumptions and make some tough decisions.
Expect unexpected twists, lively debates, a little chaos and plenty of collaboration!

🚀 What's in store?

• Real-world product challenges
• Stakeholder negotiations and tricky trade-offs
• Teamwork, creativity and quick thinking
• A chance to rethink how product decisions are made

No presentations. No boring lectures. Just

40 minutes of hands-on product chaos!
Whether you're a Product Manager, Designer, Developer or simply curious about building great products, there's a place for you at the table.
Think you can keep your roadmap on track? Let's find out! 😉

🎯 What you'll take away
Adjust a roadmap when new evidence or constraints land mid-plan Explain what gets built, what waits and why Build agreement when every stakeholder thinks their priority comes first Plan around the people, time and information you actually have Understand the pressures behind other roles' requests

🙋 Your workshop lead
Nohit Arora is a ProductTank Birmingham co-organiser with 12+ years across product, technology and business. Most recently he led a global portfolio of five digital products at Mars, bringing teams across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America onto one way of planning and shipping. The workshop is built around role-play and decisions you make together, drawn from situations product teams actually face.

👥 Agenda

• 6:30 PM - Arrival, Networking & Food
• 7:00 PM - Welcome
• 7:10 PM - Workshop begins
• 7:50 PM - Roadmap discussion
• 8:15 PM - Networking
• 9:00 PM - Event Ends

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

🤝 Thanks to our Sponsors
Stablezact – An entirely new payment infrastructure, built with blockchain technology, to simplify global crypto transactions, empowering modern businesses with crypto payments.

AND Digital – A digital delivery partner helping ambitious companies build world-class digital capabilities and close the digital skills gap.

x+why Foundry – A flexible workspace provider combining purpose-driven design with entrepreneurial energy to create impactful workspaces across the UK.

IntelStream UK – A Birmingham-based content and storytelling company, providing professional photography, videography and PR content for events.

Welcome to Tech Collective!
You may have noticed something different about us. Agile West Midlands has a new name, and it reflects how much our industry has changed. When we started, Agile was the big conversation. Today, iterative improvement is simply how good teams work. AI, data, leadership and emerging tech are now part of everyday working life, and that’s what Tech Collective is here to talk about, along with everything else that helps our community grow.

What better way to kick things off than with a debate?

Is AI changing iterative delivery for the better? Will traditional delivery roles become obsolete? Are the ways we work today still fit for the future?

This will be an exciting, interactive event where we challenge conventional thinking, spark healthy debate and explore how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping delivery operating models.
This isn’t your typical presentation. Expect:

• Thought-provoking debates on controversial statements
• Live voting, so you can see where the room really stands
• AI versus human expertise, put to the test
• Team challenges, including designing your own delivery team of the future

There will be an opportunity to challenge controversial statements, put AI to the test against human expertise and even design your own delivery team of the future.

Whether you're in Project Delivery, Product, Data & AI, Engineering or architecture, this is your chance to share perspectives, challenge assumptions and discover what the future of delivery could look like.

Join AWS User Group West Midlands on Wednesday 2 December 2026 for an evening of AWS talks, community discussion and networking.

A massive thank you to Accenture Birmingham for hosting us. Opening up their office to the local AWS community is what makes nights like this happen and we really appreciate the support!

What we’ll cover

• A full incident breakdown: what happened when a whole region’s infrastructure went down, and what came next
• Platform engineering and infrastructure as code with AWS CDK
• Practical approaches to cloud modernisation and cost optimisation
• Open discussion and Q&A

Agenda

• 17:30 to 18:15: Registration and networking
• 18:15 to 18:45: “When the Meteor Hit” with Dominic Cooper-Wootton, Engineering Manager at With Wise. A candid, full breakdown of a major AWS infrastructure outage in Bahrain and how his Engineering team recovered.
• 18:45 to 19:15: “AWS CDK, Teaching the CDK new languages" with Omar Qurashi, Principal Engineer at Capital One. A look into what the CDK is - how the internals work for Amazon supported non-Typescript languages and my journey so far on adding support for the Ruby programming language as well as other languages.
• 19:15 to 19:45: Break and networking
• 19:45 to 20:15: Third speaker, to be announced
• 20:15 to 20:30: Community discussion and Q&A
• 20:30 onwards: Social at a local pub

Whether you’re learning AWS, building applications or running production infrastructure, come along, share what you’re working on and meet other AWS users across the West Midlands.

First time attending? Everyone is welcome.

Join us for the final Golang Birmingham meetup of 2026!
We are bringing the Go community together for another evening of technical talks, practical insights, knowledge sharing and networking with fellow developers.
This time, we are delighted to welcome Godsend Joseph, alongside returning speaker Samuel Adetunji, who joined us for our previous meetup.
Whether you are new to Go, an experienced engineer or simply interested in backend development, there will be plenty to learn and discuss.

Speaker: Godsend Joseph

Picture an API key with one credit left and two requests arriving at the same moment. Both check the balance, both see one credit, and both go through. I ran into this building a multi-tenant SaaS in Go, and the obvious fix doesn’t work. In this talk I’ll reproduce the bug live, show why check-then-decrement fails, and walk through how I fixed it with a usage ledger and Postgres advisory locks. I’ll also cover why I picked locks over the alternatives, and how I store API keys so a database leak doesn’t hand anyone a working key.

Speaker: Samuel Adetunji

We are delighted to welcome Samuel Adetunji back to Golang Birmingham!
Samuel is an experienced software engineer and open-source contributor with expertise in Go development.
At our previous meetup, Samuel delivered an insightful session titled Building Performance-Critical Applications in Go: Writing Unsafe Go, Safely, exploring performance optimisation and the challenges of balancing efficiency, safety and maintainability when building high-performance software in Go.
We look forward to having him share more of his technical knowledge and experience with the community.
Samuel's talk title and full session details will be announced shortly.

Beyond the talks, this is an opportunity to connect with fellow Go developers, exchange ideas, share experiences and meet others in Birmingham's growing technology community.
Developers of all experience levels are welcome.

We look forward to seeing you there!
The Golang Birmingham Organising Team

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