Birmingham — Week of 7 Sep 2026

Birmingham Tech Network's informal evening at the Slug & Lettuce in Brindley Place. There are no slides and no speeches — the entire format is conversation between people who work in tech, spanning developers, product managers, designers and UX. BTN has been running these consistently enough to have a genuine regular crowd, which is what makes a no-programme event work. Free, and places are capped.

The second Wednesday of every month at fizzPOP is a software and microelectronics social layered on top of the usual public open night — a chance to tinker alongside like-minded hackers, talk through electronics projects and bounce ideas off people who will actually engage with the details. Free and open to non-members. Useful for embedded and hardware-adjacent developers who rarely get a dedicated room in Birmingham.

.NET Aspire has had a great deal of attention in the .NET world without it always being obvious what the thing actually is or where it fits. Freddie Dugdale gives a practical tour from local development through to real systems, at Bluetel Solutions next to Snow Hill Station. Aimed at working .NET developers who have read the announcements and want to see it running against something realistic. Free, hosted by the Birmingham .NET & MAUI User Group.

A recurring themed networking evening from Network One.

Another edition of the Network One recurring networking series.

A CIBSE TM39 technical session on building metering, hosted at WSP.

A CPD session on data centre power and cooling design at Saint Pauls House.