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.
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…
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 and product teams with developers building payments and blockchain tooling, finance professionals moving into tech, and early-stage investors. No pitches and no panels by design: three hours at Albert's Schloss with a non-alcoholic welcome drink and capped attendance. In a first week of August with almost nothing else on, this is the one to book.