Birmingham tech events this week: healthcare AI goes under the microscope, and The Lost & Found triple-books (12–18 June)

Here's a stat to open with: nine tech events in Birmingham this week, eight of them free, and four of them on a single Wednesday night — three of those behind one front door. The 12–18 June stretch of Birmingham's tech events calendar takes the weekend off (nothing listed Friday to Sunday), then runs Tuesday to Thursday like it's making up for lost time. Two daytime events this week are the kind that don't come around twice; plan annual leave accordingly.

The Big One: Workshop on Trustworthy Healthcare AI

Workshop on Trustworthy Healthcare AI — Tuesday 16 June, 10:30am, Conference Aston, free — is the flagship, and a genuinely rare one. Aston University is hosting a full-day exploration of what it takes to make AI trustworthy in healthcare — a subject where "move fast and break things" is not an option and the people who get it right will define the sector. There is nothing else like it on the Birmingham calendar this month: not a mixer, not a panel-and-pizza evening, but a focused working day at the intersection of AI, regulation and medicine. If you're building in health tech, researching ML safety, or selling into the NHS supply chain, this is your day. It's free, which for a full-day academic-industry workshop is almost suspicious. Register before word gets around.

The week ahead: two tracks

This week splits cleanly into a daytime track and an evening track. Pick per your calendar tolerance.

Workshop on Trustworthy Healthcare AI — Tue 16 June, 10:30am, Conference Aston, free. See above.
NatWest Accelerator Doors Open Day — Tue 16 June, 10:30am, NatWest Accelerator Birmingham, free. A 90-minute guided look inside the St Philip's Place hub, including time with founders currently on the programme. Clashes with the Aston workshop — if you're early-stage and accelerator-curious, this is the better-fitting 90 minutes; if you're deep in AI, go to Aston.
Global Brunch — Connections and Culture 2026 — Thu 18 June, 10:30am, The Birmingham Conference & Events Centre, free. The Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce annual brunch, with four named speakers and a distinctly international room. The most globally-connected free morning you'll get in Birmingham this quarter.

Birmingham Tech Network (BTN) — Evening Drinks — Tue 16 June, 7:30pm, Slug & Lettuce Brindley Place, free. The reliable monthly: no pitches, no agenda, just the city's tech crowd. See Worth knowing for a perk.
Launch Pad: Networking for Birmingham Businesses — Wed 17 June, 6pm, Library of Birmingham, free. Guest speakers and an interactive format in one of the city's best buildings.
The Lost & Found triple bill — Wed 17 June, 7pm. Three events, one venue; full breakdown below.
fizzPOP Makerspace — Public Open Night — Wed 17 June, 8pm, fizzPOP Makerspace, free. 3D printers, laser cutters, electronics bench, and the most welcoming room in Birmingham tech. Bring a project or just nose around.

Venue corner: The Lost & Found

Wednesday 17 June, 7pm, one Birmingham venue hosts three separate networking events:

Network One: AI & Machine Learning Networking — £30, the week's only paid ticket and our featured pick of the three: AI founders, ML engineers and investors in a deliberately tighter room.
Network One: Small Business Owners & Entrepreneurs — free, open format.
The Birmingham Network: Startup Founders, Tech Entrepreneurs, Investors — free, the broadest church of the three.

Practical notes: The Lost & Found sits on Bennetts Hill, two minutes from New Street station, and it's a bar with food — you can eat there rather than before. Triple-booking one venue means the after-spill mixes all three crowds; arguably the best networking on Wednesday happens at the bar between rooms.

Who should go where

Founders: Healthcare AI workshop Tuesday if you're in or near health tech; otherwise the accelerator open day, then The Birmingham Network on Wednesday. Investors: your week is Wednesday at The Lost & Found — the £30 Network One AI room is where the technical founders will be. Builders: fizzPOP Wednesday night, no contest; it's the only place this week you'll touch actual hardware. Sales & marketing: Thursday's Global Brunch — a Chambers of Commerce room full of internationally-minded businesses beats another generic mixer, and this week the calendar agrees with you.

Last week, briefly

Tuesday 9 June was the night that delivered: Erupt Disrupt 8.0 packed out Mills & Reeve, and Rubber Duck Brum 1.2 ran the same evening at The Jointworks — the reminder emails were flying right up to the day. Thursday's OTel Night rounded out a strong developer week. What it means for this week: Birmingham just proved it can fill two strong rooms on one night, which bodes well for Wednesday's three-room experiment at The Lost & Found.

Worth knowing

BTN drinks come with a discount — the Birmingham Tech Network community channel flagged 20% off food and drinks at the next event for their Discord members. Join the Discord before Tuesday and the evening literally pays for itself.
In London for the day? Friday 12 June is Agent Craft, the one-day London Tech Week event replacing AI for the Rest of Us's usual June meetup — organisers messaged members directly, and it's the strongest agents-focused day within train distance this week.

Sign-off

Nine events, one hard clash, one venue doing the work of three. Everything else on the board is at anopenroom.com/birmingham — and if your event isn't, submit it and fix that.