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…
Birmingham Indies runs a relaxed monthly gathering for anyone in, adjacent to, or aspiring to the games industry — programmers, artists, designers, audio people and hobbyists. It meets in the Map Room upstairs at Cherry Red's, a short walk from New Street. Tickets exist only as a reminder; you can simply turn up. The group maintains an active Discord and Bluesky between sessions, and runs a clear code of conduct. Birmingham has a real games-development cluster and this is where it socialises.
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.