Birmingham tech events this week: Erupt Disrupt 8.0 leads a stacked Tuesday (5–11 June)
Birmingham tech events 5–11 June 2026: Erupt Disrupt 8.0 at Mills & Reeve, Rubber Duck Brum 1.2, OTel Night and more — all free, plus insider intel.
Birmingham tech events this week: Erupt Disrupt 8.0 leads a stacked Tuesday (5–11 June)
Birmingham's calendar this week has a shape: nothing on the weekend, then a Tuesday so loaded you'll need to make a call. If you're looking for tech events in Birmingham between 5 and 11 June, here's the honest version — one genuinely hot ticket, a strong developer undercard, and a Thursday sleeper for the infrastructure crowd. Every single event below is free, which says something about how this city's networking scene runs: scrappy, open-door, no velvet rope.
The Big One: Erupt Disrupt 8.0
Erupt Disrupt 8.0 — Tuesday 9 June, 6:30pm, Mills & Reeve LLP, free — is the highest-rated event on our Birmingham board this week, and it's not close. This is the eighth edition of the business disruption series run with re:find, and it's earned its run: named speakers (this time from re:find and My Staff Shop), a law-firm venue that keeps the room senior, and a format that's more substance than schmooze. If you're a founder or operator who wants one evening this week with actual decision-makers in it, this is the evening. It's free, it's central, and editions seven editions deep don't usually stay under-attended — register early rather than late.
The week ahead, day by day
The weekend is clear — no listed events Friday through Sunday — so plan your week from Monday.
- Women in Tech Meet Up Birmingham 2026 — 10:15am, Millennium Point, free. A morning of community and careers at one of the city's flagship tech venues. Daytime format, so block the calendar now.
- Better Business Breakfast x Hannan Cox — 10am, X+Why Foundry, free. Small-room, connection-first breakfast for founders. Ease into the day before the evening crush.
- Erupt Disrupt 8.0 — 6:30pm, Mills & Reeve LLP, free. See above. The headliner.
- Rubber Duck Brum 1.2 — 7pm, The Jointworks, free. Second edition of the Jewellery Quarter's developer meetup: talks, demos, good engineering conversation. Clashes with Erupt Disrupt, so pick your lane — suits over schmoozing goes to Mills & Reeve, keyboards go to the JQ.
- Network One: Fintech Founders & Finance Innovators — 7pm, Albert's Schloss, free. Sector-focused and consistently the right room if you're building in financial services.
- fizzPOP — Our Friends Electric — 7:30pm, fizzPOP Makerspace, free. The makerspace's software-and-electronics social: part show-and-tell, part impromptu collaboration.
- OTel Night Birmingham — 6:30pm, Bluetel Solutions, free. OpenTelemetry talks and observability demos. More below.
Who should go where
Founders: Tuesday, twice. Better Business Breakfast in the morning if your network needs warm leads; Erupt Disrupt in the evening, no debate. Skip the temptation to spread thin across the week — this is a concentrate-your-energy week.
Builders: Rubber Duck Brum 1.2 is your Tuesday, and it deserves a good turnout in its second edition. If hardware is your thing, fizzPOP's Our Friends Electric on Wednesday is the most hands-on room in the city. Platform and SRE people: Thursday's OTel Night, obviously.
Investors: quiet week here — no pitch nights or demo days on the Birmingham board. Erupt Disrupt is the one room where the operator density justifies the evening.
Sales & marketing: Network One's fintech evening on Wednesday is the buyer-adjacent room this week, especially if you sell into financial services.
Last week, briefly
The run-up to this edition was unusually busy for early June. Tuesday's NatWest Business Hub double-header (the Morning Mixer plus the equity funding session) pulled the founder crowd; Wednesday, fizzPOP's open night was the hottest event on our board; and Thursday the AWS Community Summit made its Birmingham debut at The Bond — 25+ talks across two tracks, and the week's only paid ticket at £75. What it means for this week: the cloud-and-data crowd that surfaced for AWS is exactly who'll be at OTel Night on Thursday. Follow the thread.
Hidden gem: OTel Night
OTel Night Birmingham won't trend anywhere, and that's the point. An evening of OpenTelemetry talks and observability demos at Bluetel Solutions, aimed squarely at SREs, DevOps practitioners and platform teams — with food and drink laid on. Cloud Native Computing Birmingham runs it, the topic is having a moment, and rooms this specific are where the most useful conversations happen. We spotted it because it's the one event this week where everyone present will do the same job as you.
Worth knowing
- We're registered for Rubber Duck Brum 1.2 — confirmation landed in our inbox last week, registration is open and straightforward via Eventbrite. No waitlist drama as of writing.
- Travelling for dealflow? Future Worlds Demo Day 26 runs Tuesday 9 June at Ministry of Sound in London — our registration was approved in late May, so approvals are moving. If investor access matters more to you than local presence this week, that's the train worth catching.
Sign-off
That's the week: one big call on Tuesday, a sleeper on Thursday, and not a single ticket to buy. Browse the full Birmingham listings for everything beyond our picks — and if you're running something we've missed, submit it and we'll take a look.