Tech Events at Alpha Tower, Birmingham

with Daniella Mullins (Head of Search, Tribera)

A practical introduction to Generative Engine Optimisation: how to get your business recommended by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, without a developer or an agency. Led by Daniella Mullins, Head of Search at content agency Tribera, at Tribera's offices on the 23rd floor of Alpha Tower. Run by The 51% Club, a community for women building businesses. Free for 51% Club members, £15 for non-members, approval required.

CyberQ Group and Drop Table run a roundtable at Alpha Tower on Suffolk Street Queensway on identity as the real attack surface, 10:00 to 12:00. The premise is in the title: attackers overwhelmingly use legitimate login paths rather than breaking in. The session covers how authorised access gets exploited, where access control actually fails in practice, and how to build resilience in from the start rather than bolting it on. Stijn de Voogd, Chris Woods and Joel Hughes lead it, and the roundtable format keeps it candid rather than presentational. Free, in person, two hours. Why go: credential and session abuse is where most UK breaches now start, and a roundtable gets you other people's incident experience rather than a vendor's slide deck. Best for security engineers, IT leads and CTOs.

An afternoon bringing Birmingham's tech communities together with the cyber security profession: presentations, insight-sharing and community organising across the two worlds, run by Women in Tech Birmingham. Note the venue: it has moved to the 22nd floor of Alpha Tower, Suffolk Street Queensway, B1 1TT, not Millennium Point. Volunteers sign guests in at reception from 13:15 for lift access, so arrive a little early. Refreshments before the 13:30 start, pizza at the end, and the room needs to be clear shortly after 16:00. Free, but oversubscribed. Seating is first come, first served, with a small overflow area in the kitchen, so come early if you want a seat, and tell the organiser beforehand if you need one for accessibility reasons. There is a waiting list, so release your place if you can no longer go. Why go: a practical bridge between the city's community organisers and its security practitioners, in a room already over capacity. Best for anyone running a tech community or curious about a move into cyber.