Tech Events in Manchester

A relaxed networking event in Manchester for healthtech founders, clinicians, and innovators using technology to shape the fh.

Network One is bringing together the people driving innovation in healthtech — from startup founders and medtech engineers to clinicians, researchers, and developers building the future of healthcare.

This Manchester edition is designed for anyone creating, funding, or exploring technology that improves health, wellbeing, or clinical outcomes — whether you're launching a digital health platform, working with wearable tech, or building AI tools for diagnostics.

Join us for relaxed, high-value networking in one of Manchester’s best venues — no pitches, no panels, just authentic connections with people building real solutions in health and care.

• Healthtech and medtech startup founders
• Developers, engineers & data scientists in health
• Clinicians and healthcare professionals innovating through tech
• Investors and VCs exploring health-focused startup
• Creators of wellness, mental health, or fitness apps
• Students and researchers in health, medicine, or biotech
• Anyone curious about the intersection of healthcare and technology

• Meet others building or backing healthtech solutions
• Exchange ideas, collaborate, and get feedback
• Connect with Manchester’s growing health innovation scene
• A no-pressure environment with meaningful conversations
• Be part of a wider UK network of tech-driven entrepreneurs

Smart-casual or whatever makes you feel your best.

We cap attendance to keep the vibe friendly and focused. Reserve your place today and hit "Follow" Network One to get updates on future events in your city.

📸 Photos may be taken — let us know at the door if you’d rather not be featured.

🪪 Strictly 18+ — please bring valid ID.

Refunds available up to 3 days before the event. No-shows or late cancellations are non-refundable.

If you're building, funding, or exploring fintech, this is where your next connection starts.

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Join us for Laravel Manchester #5 on Wednesday, 12th August 2026! 🎉

We'll be hosting regular meetups for developers, enthusiasts, and anyone interested in Laravel, with talks from Laravel lovers across the UK.

In this meetup, we'll be hearing from:

Speakers and talks 🌟
1. Automated Refactoring in Laravel
- Greg Mayes, Principal Engineer at Exumpay
Refactoring is often seen as a low-priority, time-intensive chore. Delegating refactors to an LLM is an option, but the PHP ecosystem offers some incredible tools that can automatically refactor your Laravel codebase with more confidence. Greg will showcase these tools and explain how you can get up and running with them

2. Mutation testing with PHP
- Craig Duncan-Courcey, Software Consultant at Estrato Cloud
So you've got bugs in production. You've written unit tests, you've implemented static analysis...but you've still got bugs in production. What next? It's time to test your tests! It's turtles all the way down with mutation testing for PHP 🐢

Agenda 🌟
17:45 - Arrival
18:30 - Welcome and talk #1
19:00 - Break
19:15 - Talk #2
19:45 - Drinks
20:30 - Event close

Your host
- Chris Grice, Head of Engineering at Street Group

Location
Street Group HQ
11-13 Spear Street
Manchester
M1 1JU

See you there!

PS, big thanks to our sponsors, Tact, who'll be sorting food & drink for us (legends) and Street Group for providing the venue. Go give them a like on LinkedIn!

PLEASE NOTE, YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT ON EVENTBRITE HERE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-data-community-summer-social-2026-tickets-1994309512437

HER+Data MCR is a community working to connect, inspire, support and empower the NW UK’s Women in Data. Our goal is to bring together women who work in data or who would like to work in data - to support one another, share experiences and talk data - big or small! Whether you’re a student just embarking on a career or a seasoned data professional, this group is for you. We want to connect and inspire amazing data women with diverse expertise and experience.

For our August 2026 event, our friends at Open Data MCR, PyData MCR and Queer in Tech will join us to host a Manchester Data [and Tech] Community Summer Social to bring everyone together again and hear more about each of these groups and their activities. So please register to come along to connect and network with others in the Manchester data/tech community - everyone is welcome!

The venue, food and drinks are very generously provided by Kraken. The event will take place at their Manchester office: 3rd Floor, No.2 Circle Square, 1 Symphony Park, Manchester, M1 7FS.

For more information and to RSVP, please visit the event page on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-data-community-summer-social-2026-tickets-1994309512437

As AI tooling evolves at an incredible pace, one question keeps coming up: how do we build systems that last when the capabilities of the models themselves are changing every few months?

This month, we're joined by two speakers exploring different sides of that question. One looks at the reality of building sophisticated AI engineering workflows in a world where today's innovation can become tomorrow's built-in feature. The other looks further ahead, asking how AI agents will fundamentally change the identity layer of the web.

Whether you're building developer tools, AI-powered products, or thinking about the future of agentic systems, these talks will challenge some assumptions and provide practical insights into where AI engineering is heading.

Building on Borrowed Ground: What I Learned Letting Anthropic Absorb My Work
Dylan Lake - Engineer, Crown Gas & Power

As foundation models become more capable, many of the workflows engineers painstakingly build eventually become native features of the models themselves. Rather than seeing this as wasted effort, Dylan shares why the real value lies in the knowledge gained along the way.

Drawing from his experience building multi-agent systems modelled on real workplace structures, Dylan explores the evolution of agent orchestration, what happens when platform capabilities catch up, and how to decide when custom engineering still provides value.

You'll learn:

• When to build custom AI workflows versus relying on model capabilities
• Lessons from designing multi-agent orchestration systems
• How AI tooling has evolved over the last year
• Where frontier models still provide unique advantages
• A practical framework for choosing the right tool for the job

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Beyond the Pilot: Claude for the Other 90% - Dmitrijs Jurins, Technology Director at Crown Gas & Power

Everyone has an AI pilot — few turn it into a company-wide operating model. Crown Gas & Power's Technology Director shares how a mid-sized UK energy supplier rolled Claude out to non-engineers: the tiered adoption model, the governance that kept the board comfortable, and the ROI that made it stick.

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The Intent Graph: Rebuilding Web Identity for the Agentic Internet
Daramola Benjamin - Founder, Levered

For years, web applications have been built around behavioural data—clicks, sessions, cookies and analytics. But what happens when AI agents become the primary users of our applications?

Daramola introduces the concept of the Intent Graph, exploring how identity, authentication and authorisation may evolve in a world where autonomous agents research, negotiate and complete tasks on behalf of users.

Rather than focusing on marketing or analytics, this session takes a software engineering perspective on what AI-native products might require from the next generation of web architecture.

You'll learn:

• Why behavioural tracking breaks down in agent-mediated workflows
• How user identity differs from agent identity and task identity
• The role of OAuth-style permissions and scoped delegation for AI agents
• How event schemas may evolve in AI-native applications
• What developers should consider when building products for an agentic web

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Who Should Attend

Software engineers, architects, platform engineers, engineering managers and technical leaders interested in AI-native software development, agentic systems, developer tooling and the future architecture of AI-powered applications.

Why It's Worth Attending

Practically AI is about sharing real engineering experiences rather than product pitches. This month's talks combine lessons learned from building production AI systems today with thoughtful discussion about where AI platforms and web architecture are heading next. Whether you're building with LLMs already or planning your next AI-native product, you'll leave with practical ideas, fresh perspectives and plenty to discuss over pizza afterwards.

Agenda

18:30 – Doors, pizza & mingling
18:50 – Introductions + AI spotlight
19:00 – Building on Borrowed Ground: What I Learned Letting Anthropic Absorb My Work - Dylan Lake
19:15 – Q&A
19.20 - Beyond the Pilot: Claude for the Other 90% - Dmitrijs Jurins
19:35 – Q&A
19:40 – The Intent Graph: Rebuilding Web Identity for the Agentic Internet - Daramola Benjamin
20:15 – Q&A
20:30 – Open social & refreshments
21:00 – Close

Tech leadership conference in Manchester, United Kingdom

Law firms don’t lack tech. They lack trusted spaces to understand it. LegaltechLive® is where real conversations and decisions happen.

Most legal tech events talk at you.
LegaltechLive® Open Mic gives you the mic.

This is where law firm leaders, IT directors, COOs, COLPs, innovation teams and trusted legal technology experts come together to talk openly about the challenges firms are actually trying to solve.

The room creates the conversation.

Expect:

✔ Real challenges
✔ Practical insight
✔ Live technology demonstrations
✔ Honest, peer-level conversation
✔ Introductions to people who can help

Every Open Mic is shaped by the room, but conversations typically include:

• AI adoption and readiness
• Legal technology and integration
• Data and knowledge management
• Operations and process improvement
• Compliance, risk and cybersecurity
• Client experience
• What's actually working inside law firms

Hear what law firms are really thinking.
Real priorities, challenges and experiences.

Discover expertise that can help.
Meet people with practical experience of solving the challenges being discussed.

Build relationships that continue beyond the evening.
Because sometimes the most valuable conversation is the one you weren't expecting to have.

People often tell us:

"It doesn't feel like networking."

"You've built something different."

"People genuinely want to help."

That's intentional.

It's about bringing the right people and the right expertise together around the challenges law firms are trying to solve.

Relationships come before sales.

People first. Real talk. Real relationships. Real solutions.

LegaltechLive® — Where law firms discover trusted expertise.

Agile conference in Manchester, United Kingdom