Manchester — Week of 23 Mar 2026

Bi-monthly collaborative Rust coding night at Hackspace Manchester. Bring ongoing projects, beginner questions, or just curiosity. Food and drinks included. 17 of 24 spots filled.

Laravel Manchester's second meetup with two talks: Matilde Enevoldsen (Socket) on building a ChatGPT interface clone with PrismPHP and Laravel, and James Seconde (Vonage) on application monitoring with Laravel Nightwatch. Food and drinks by Tact. 84 of 90 spots filled.

Silicon Mingle Manchester's monthly tech networking evening — no speakers, no presentations, no pressure. Just tech founders, professionals and investors in a relaxed setting. One of Manchester's most consistent monthly networking events for the tech ecosystem.

Senior leaders from AstraZeneca, Softwire and beyond cut through AI hype to share what real implementation looks like. Limited spaces — a rare chance to be in the room with practitioners actually doing this at scale.

Manchester Digital's annual ecommerce conference — a full-day gathering of the North's best digital commerce operators, covering platform strategy, growth, AI in retail, and what's actually moving the needle in 2026. Manchester Digital is the region's leading tech trade body; their events draw serious operators and decision-makers.

Sold out and waitlisted — Manchester's hottest AI and data community event returns to Matillion HQ in Salford. 100 attending, 6 on the waitlist. If you missed tickets, join the waitlist now.

Two sharp talks at Spinningfields: Alan Harman-Box explores what it means when AI agents can build Power BI reports and write DAX (and who owns the output), followed by Bob Pearman of Forge Holiday Group on implementing medallion architecture and Data Vault 2.0 in Microsoft Fabric. Drinks and pizza included.

PyData Manchester at Circle Square with two sharp talks: why inconsistent data semantics undermine AI systems, and mapping the PyData community itself with Folium. One of Manchester's most consistently high-quality data meetups.