Tech Events in Birmingham

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.

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! 🥳

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 👋

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!

.NET, IoT and Hedgehogs!

Using C# / .NET Technologies and IoT to curate and automate video footage of garden hedgehogs.

An experimental journey through device access, cloud storage, serverless functions, and a public website.

With an insight into problem-solving changes necessary to bring the code cross-platform to run on Linux on a Raspberry Pi.

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

We’re thrilled to announce an upcoming in-person West Midlands HashiCorp User Group meetup focused on Platform Engineering with HashiCorp Tools.
Join us for an engaging evening as we explore how modern platform teams use HashiCorp tools to build secure, scalable, automated, and self-service infrastructure platforms.
This meetup will focus on how tools such as Terraform, Vault, HCP Terraform, Boundary, Consul, and Packer can help teams move from manual infrastructure operations to reliable platform engineering practices.
💡 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭:
✨ Talks and insights from cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and security professionals
⚙️ Practical discussions on Infrastructure as Code, automation, and reusable infrastructure patterns
🔐 Real-world perspectives on secrets management, secure access, and governance using HashiCorp tools
🚀 Conversations around internal developer platforms, golden paths, and self-service infrastructure
🛠️ Practical use cases with Terraform, Vault, HCP Terraform, Boundary, Consul, and Packer
💬 Open discussions on platform engineering challenges, best practices, and emerging trends
🤝 Networking with professionals, learners, and community members across the West Midlands

👥 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝:
• Platform Engineers
• DevOps Professionals
• Cloud Engineers
• Security Engineers
• Infrastructure Engineers
• Developers
• Architects
• SREs
• Open Source Contributors
• Students and Learners

Whether you’re interested in building internal developer platforms, improving infrastructure automation, securing cloud environments, or learning how HashiCorp tools support modern platform engineering, this meetup is a great opportunity to connect, learn, and collaborate with the growing tech community.

Speaker will be announced

Join us for an evening of knowledge sharing, practical insights, and community networking around Platform Engineering with HashiCorp Tools.