What's happening: Week of 1 June 2026
Manchester Digital's intimate morning session cuts through the AI hype to show what's actually happening inside real organisations. Expect honest case studies, practical frameworks and a room full of CTOs,…
Venture Café Manchester's weekly Thursday Gathering at Sister's Renold Building. Free to all, each session mixes structured content with open networking across founders, investors, researchers and creative tech people. June…
Codurance's webinar pushes past the '10x engineer' meme into measurable engineering ROI. The team — known for craft-led delivery and AI-augmented engineering practice — unpack what actually moves the dial in 2026: developer productivity that survives audit, AI tooling that compounds, and team designs that scale without collapse. Useful for engineering managers, CTOs, and senior ICs.
Manchester Digital's Tech Leader Talks brings together senior digital leaders for a sharp lunchtime session at Circle Square. This edition tackles leadership in complex platform environments: how senior technology leaders…
Greater Manchester's biggest free day for founders and entrepreneurs returns to the New Century venue. 500+ attendees, workshops, expert sessions and a marketplace — a rare Saturday event that's easy…
Venture Café Manchester's weekly Thursday Gathering at Sister's Renold Building. One of Manchester's most consistent open networking events — free, themed, and reliably well-attended. June 11 topic TBC — check…
Manchester Digital's Tech Leader Talks brings together senior digital leaders for a sharp lunchtime session at Circle Square. This edition tackles leadership in complex platform environments: how senior technology leaders navigate ambiguity, align distributed teams, and balance competing demands of speed, resilience and long-term platform investment. Free for MD members; £30 non-members.
pro-manchester's flagship annual tech conference is back at SISTER for 2026. A full day of keynotes, panels and live demonstrations across AI, ethics, fintech, automation and the future of business…
Codurance partners with Matillion — one of Manchester's standout tech scale-up stories — for an evening of lightning talks on AI-powered software delivery. Short, sharp practitioner sessions from senior engineers…
Venture Café's weekly Thursday Gathering at SISTER. This week's theme: Liveable Cities — Critiquing the Urban Renaissance, in partnership with the University of Salford and Amps. Architecture, planning, social policy…
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.
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.