AI & ML
Manchester Digital and The Curve host a sharp online panel on AI adoption. Short, candid format for anyone navigating AI strategy: what does value creation actually look like, what blocks progress, and how do you make sensible AI investment decisions? Free to join.
Tue 16 Jun · 12:00pm · Online — The Curve (Manchester Digital)
Online — The Curve (Manchester Digital) · hosted by Manchester Digital
Manchester Digital and The Curve host a sharp online panel on AI adoption. Short, candid format for anyone navigating AI strategy: what does value creation actually look like, what blocks progress, and how do you make sensible AI investment decisions? Free to join.
SaaS
Cloud Native + Kubernetes Manchester returns to Booking.com's Goods Yard offices for the June meetup. Talks, food, drinks and an unusually high concentration of platform, SRE and infra engineers from the Northern cloud-native scene. The CNCF Manchester chapter is one of the more technically serious meetups in the city — worth the trip for platform engineers, infrastructure leads, and anyone navigating Kubernetes-shaped problems at work.
Wed 17 Jun · 6:00pm · Booking.com Manchester — The Goods Yard Building
Booking.com Manchester — The Goods Yard Building · hosted by Cloud Native + Kubernetes Manchester (CNCF)
Cloud Native + Kubernetes Manchester returns to Booking.com's Goods Yard offices for the June meetup. Talks, food, drinks and an unusually high concentration of platform, SRE and infra engineers from the Northern cloud-native scene. The CNCF Manchester chapter is one of the more technically serious meetups in the city — worth the trip for platform engineers, infrastructure leads, and anyone navigating Kubernetes-shaped problems at work.
Founders · Investors · AI & ML · Fintech
pro-manchester's flagship annual tech conference returns to SISTER. A full day of keynotes and panels on AI, fintech and the future of business — and the rare Manchester moment where founders, scale-ups, corporates and investors meet in the same room.
Thu 18 Jun · 8:00am · SISTER — Renold Building
pro-manchester's flagship annual tech conference returns to SISTER. A full day of keynotes and panels on AI, fintech and the future of business — and the rare Manchester moment where founders, scale-ups, corporates and investors meet in the same room.
Social
Venture Café swaps its usual pure-tech format for a cross-disciplinary evening on cities, design and social policy — in partnership with University of Salford and Amps. Different lens, same reliably mixed room of founders, researchers and creative-tech people.
Thu 18 Jun · 5:00pm · SISTER — Renold Building
SISTER — Renold Building · hosted by Venture Café Manchester
Venture Café swaps its usual pure-tech format for a cross-disciplinary evening on cities, design and social policy — in partnership with University of Salford and Amps. Different lens, same reliably mixed room of founders, researchers and creative-tech people.
AI & ML
Practitioner lightning talks on what AI adoption actually looks like inside real engineering teams. Hosted at Matillion — one of Manchester's standout tech scale-up stories — with senior engineers and CTOs from Flipdish, Credit Technologies and Codurance.
Thu 18 Jun · 5:00pm · Matillion — Two New Bailey
Matillion — Two New Bailey · hosted by Codurance (in partnership with Matillion)
Practitioner lightning talks on what AI adoption actually looks like inside real engineering teams. Hosted at Matillion — one of Manchester's standout tech scale-up stories — with senior engineers and CTOs from Flipdish, Credit Technologies and Codurance.
SaaS
The North West Ruby User Group's regular third-Thursday meetup. A long-running community for Ruby and Rails developers across the North — speakers, casual technical talks, then onwards to the pub. Useful if you're working in Ruby or curious about the language; reliably attended by senior engineers from across the region.
Thu 18 Jun · 5:30pm · NWRUG — venue TBC (check site)
NWRUG — venue TBC (check site) · hosted by NWRUG (North West Ruby User Group)
The North West Ruby User Group's regular third-Thursday meetup. A long-running community for Ruby and Rails developers across the North — speakers, casual technical talks, then onwards to the pub. Useful if you're working in Ruby or curious about the language; reliably attended by senior engineers from across the region.
Marketing
The fourth edition of TechSEO North brings the technical SEO community back together at WPP's Manchester campus. Four practitioner talks: Lidia Infante (Head of SEO, SurveyMonkey) on Taylor Swift's SEO; Simone De Palma (TUI) on SEO forecasting in the age of AI; Dave Smart (Tame the Bots) on rendering; Alex Lovesey (EssenceMediacom) on AI content for an automotive client. Free with limited spaces — strong room for in-house, agency and freelance SEOs, plus engineers working at the SEO/eng boundary.
Thu 18 Jun · 5:45pm · WPP Campus Manchester
WPP Campus Manchester · hosted by TechSEO North
The fourth edition of TechSEO North brings the technical SEO community back together at WPP's Manchester campus. Four practitioner talks: Lidia Infante (Head of SEO, SurveyMonkey) on Taylor Swift's SEO; Simone De Palma (TUI) on SEO forecasting in the age of AI; Dave Smart (Tame the Bots) on rendering; Alex Lovesey (EssenceMediacom) on AI content for an automotive client. Free with limited spaces — strong room for in-house, agency and freelance SEOs, plus engineers working at the SEO/eng boundary.