Tech Events by Women in Tech Birmingham

with Steph Chamberlain (Senior Transformation Director, Stable Teams)

An interactive workshop on working through organisational change, with AI adoption as the live example. Women In Tech Birmingham hosts Steph Chamberlain, a senior transformation director and creator of the Stable Teams framework, who has spent 20-plus years running operating-model, Agile and AI-adoption programmes for dunnhumby, the BBC, Jaguar Land Rover, the Home Office and RELX. She tells the story from inside real transformations, then runs a hands-on session on the skills you already have, with time for questions and meeting people. Open to all experience levels, no preparation needed. Tuesday 24 November, 18:00 to 20:00. Free, food and drinks provided. In person in Birmingham; the group hasn't published the exact venue yet, so check the Meetup page before you go. Why go: a practitioner who has run AI rollouts at big UK brands, in a small, friendly room. Best for women in tech roles living through a reorg or an AI rollout, and anyone leading one.

with Asia Sharif (Software Engineer, NatWest Group) · Julia Gray (Full Stack Software Engineer, Griffiths Waite)

The strongest speaker line-up on the Birmingham calendar this month. Asia Sharif, a software engineer at NatWest Group, tells the story of going from teaching herself to code in lockdown to a multi-award-winning career in data and cloud in fintech — she has mentored over a hundred women into engineering roles and takes the TEDx stage in Manchester this September. Julia Gray, full-stack engineer at Griffiths Waite, follows with a lightning talk on why human connection wins in an AI-driven world, drawn from building custom AI products for large enterprise by day. Talks, food and drinks, and a genuinely warm room. Spaces are limited and the RSVP list is already deep.

with Garima Khakurel (AI/ML Practitioner, ) · Ana Clara Wada (Product, ) · Julia Gray (Data, )

Women in Tech Birmingham returns with a Lightning Talks evening featuring short, punchy talks from practitioners working at the sharp end of the industry. Confirmed speakers include Garima Khakurel (AI/ML), Ana Clara Wada (product), and Julia Gray (data) — a high-signal room with genuine diversity of perspective and a proven community behind it.