birmingham

with Freddie Dugdale (Speaker, Birmingham .NET & MAUI User Group)

.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.

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.

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

The launch of GRIIT Connect at Aston, linking Midlands industry with university research groups — aimed at people looking for genuine collaboration routes.

The in-person kick-off for the Bincom hackathon on Edgbaston Park Road, with team formation and the brief.

The Birmingham chapter of the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform user group, hosted at Wesleyan, with a full afternoon of practitioner sessions.

An unconference format for Midlands sustainability and climate tech — agenda set on the day by the people in the room.

ProductTank Birmingham at x+why Foundry, applying product thinking to your own career — one of the better-attended product nights in the Midlands.

A hands-on DevOps Society workshop hosted at Lloyds Banking Group in Birmingham. Practical rather than presentational, with a strong regular turnout.

At Aston's John Cadbury House, on applying language models to forensic linguistics and safeguarding — an unusually specific and substantive AI session.