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with Clifford Agius (Freelance .NET Developer, Microsoft MVP (Developer Technologies & IoT), CA-Software Ltd)

AIoT Hub Manchester (formerly IoT North) presents Clifford Agius on 'Moti-Me' — an IoT-powered therapeutic device paired with a mobile app that turns structured physiotherapy into engaging, child-friendly activities. Clifford walks through the .NET MAUI architecture, Bluetooth communication with the device controller, how activities are tracked and fed back to clinicians and families, and the GitHub Actions build-and-deploy pipeline for Android and iOS. A three-time Microsoft MVP (Developer Technologies & IoT) and airline pilot by day, Clifford is a regular international speaker. A practical session for .NET developers, IoT builders and anyone interested in healthtech. Runs online via livestream.

Manchester's Swift, iOS and Mac developer group runs a Shipaton build night with RevenueCat — bring an app idea and ship something by the end of the evening.

with Darragh O'Connor (Speaker, )

A lot of what people are building with AI comes down to conversations — chat, voice, messaging. Hosted by Twilio, this Builder Community Meetup brings Manchester's developers, tech leads and founders together to dig into what conversational and agentic AI means in practice. Expect tech talks from Darragh O'Connor and the local builder community, plus a session from the Twilio team on conversational AI, followed by food, drinks and plenty of time to network and see what others are building. Friendly crowd, all welcome — whether you're building with AI or just keen to see where it's heading.

An informal evening from the Manchester Blockchain Alliance — no talks, just the city's Web3 and crypto community in one room. Consistently one of the better-attended socials in the north.

The Northern Azure community meets at Morson Edge for talks on running Azure workloads properly — architecture, cost and the operational detail that rarely makes the keynote.

One of Manchester's largest AI meet-ups, hosted at ANS Group. Practitioner talks on what teams in the city are actually shipping with AI, followed by open networking.

Manchester Tech Network's regular open evening for developers, product managers, designers and UX people. No agenda beyond meeting people who do what you do.

An all-day in-person Dynamics 365 and Power Platform User Group at Microsoft UA92 on Talbot Road — a full conference-scale programme covering Dynamics 365, Power Platform, CRM and ERP, rather than the usual single-evening meetup. Registration from 08:45. Free, and a rare full-day technical event in Manchester for the Microsoft business-applications community, which is heavily represented among the region's consultancies and enterprise IT teams.

A full day of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform sessions at Microsoft UA92, run by the UK user group. The largest single gathering of Power Platform practitioners in the north.

The Manchester and North West Umbraco community on the gap between AI adoption slides and what teams have genuinely put into their workflow.

mcr.engineering returns for September at Matillion's offices, a venue the community keeps going back to. One of the largest engineering communities in the North West, it draws senior software engineers, architects and engineering leaders from across Greater Manchester. Free, with talks followed by extended networking — and given the size of the group, one of the better rooms in the city for hiring conversations or finding people who have already solved the problem you are on.

An evening of talks, networking and community-building hosted at Spektrix's Manchester office on Deansgate. Queer in Tech runs a consistently well-organised programme that pairs genuine technical and career content with a room that is easier to walk into than most. Open to allies as well. Free, with limited places. Manchester's tech community is one of the more active in the UK outside London, and this is among its steadier recurring meetups.

Manchester's inclusive tech meet-up, this edition hosted by Spektrix. Short talks and a deliberately welcoming room — one of the strongest turnouts on the city's meetup calendar.

HER+Data MCR turns nine, hosted at Auto Trader. Talks from women working in data across Manchester, plus the birthday celebration the community has earned.

A hands-on tabletop cyber incident exercise run for the Manchester security community. Genuinely participatory rather than a talk.

Cory Doctorow in Manchester on platform decay, interoperability and how technology markets got captured — the argument in full, from the person who named enshittification.

A relaxed weekend coffee meet-up for Manchester people working with AI — practitioners, the curious, and anyone wanting a conversation without a pitch deck.

A free day at the Salford Innovation Forum on AI in the workplace — skills, adoption and the regional programmes supporting it.

The Manchester Statistical Society — founded 1833 — hosts Mike Irving on running AI models locally rather than in someone else's cloud, and what that changes for cost and privacy.

Architecting Manchester on agentic systems from an architecture standpoint — where agents genuinely fit, where they fail, and how to design around their failure modes.

The finale of the North of England FinTech Innovation Challenge in Spinningfields — finalist pitches and the judging, with the region's fintech investors in the room.

A legal technology forum in Spinningfields for law firms and the vendors building for them — document automation, AI review and practice management.

The Product Journey, hosted at Softwire, on building consumer fintech products — regulation as a design constraint, and what users actually adopt.

Ministry of Testing Manchester on the human side of quality engineering — team structure, career paths and the craft that automation does not replace.

Manchester's Cloud Native and Kubernetes community at the Bonded Warehouse, with talks on production platform engineering.

Applied AI for software engineers, hosted at Matillion. Two speakers on production AI engineering rather than prototypes — one of the strongest technical AI nights in the city.