What's happening: Week of 27 July 2026
An informal, no-pitch networking evening for Birmingham's AI and machine learning community, hosted by Network One at The Cocktail Club on Temple Street. Whether you're an AI founder, ML engineer,…
Asia Sharif (NatWest Group) · Julia Gray (Griffiths Waite)
The strongest speaker line-up on the Birmingham calendar this month. Asia Sharif, a software engineer at NatWest Group, tells the story of going from teaching herself to code in lockdown…
with Asia Sharif (Software Engineer, NatWest Group) · Julia Gray (Full Stack Software Engineer, Griffiths Waite)
The strongest speaker line-up on the Birmingham calendar this month. Asia Sharif, a software engineer at NatWest Group, tells the story of going from teaching herself to code in lockdown to a multi-award-winning career in data and cloud in fintech — she has mentored over a hundred women into engineering roles and takes the TEDx stage in Manchester this September. Julia Gray, full-stack engineer at Griffiths Waite, follows with a lightning talk on why human connection wins in an AI-driven world, drawn from building custom AI products for large enterprise by day. Talks, food and drinks, and a genuinely warm room. Spaces are limited and the RSVP list is already deep.
An informal, no-pitch networking evening for Birmingham's AI and machine learning community, hosted by Network One at The Cocktail Club on Temple Street. Whether you're an AI founder, ML engineer, data scientist, product person, investor or simply curious about where the technology is heading, this is a relaxed space to meet others working on and exploring AI across the city. Expect a friendly mix of technical and non-technical attendees, a complimentary welcome drink, and genuine conversation rather than sales patter. Doors from 6pm.
The weekly Friday after-work fixture for Birmingham's tech crowd, held upstairs at The Wellington on Bennetts Hill. Developers, data scientists, security people, product managers, students and career-changers all show up — the crowd skews practitioner rather than founder, and it is one of the better places in the city to hear about roles before they are advertised. £3 online only, no tickets on the door. Ask staff for Tech Social if you can't find the group.
Network One's fintech edition is the sharpest of its vertical evenings for a Birmingham audience — a city with real payments, insurance and banking-tech depth. The room mixes fintech founders…
The weekly Friday after-work fixture for Birmingham's tech crowd, held upstairs at The Wellington on Bennetts Hill. Developers, data scientists, security people, product managers, students and career-changers all show up — the crowd skews practitioner rather than founder, and it is one of the better places in the city to hear about roles before they are advertised. £3 online only, no tickets on the door. Ask staff for Tech Social if you can't find the group.
Birmingham Tech Social's weekly Friday afterwork mixer at The Wellington is a relaxed way for the city's tech community to meet over drinks. It draws a genuinely technical crowd —…
Birmingham Tech Social's weekly Friday afterwork mixer at The Wellington is a relaxed way for the city's tech community to meet over drinks. It draws a genuinely technical crowd — software developers and engineers, data scientists and analysts, cybersecurity professionals, product managers, tech founders, graduates and career-changers — with no talks or agenda, just conversation, job leads, skill-sharing and peer mentorship. Tickets are online only at £3 (nothing on the door). A dependable, low-key fixture for anyone in tech, AI, data or IT in Birmingham.