Tech Events at Campfield, Manchester

with James Seconde (Senior Developer Advocate, Vonage)

Software Crafters Manchester partners with Vonage for a session on the rise of the AI influencer in software engineering. James Seconde, Senior Developer Advocate at Vonage, looks at how AI influence has spread through the PHP and wider engineering community, the pitfalls, and what it takes to build genuine technical credibility. Pizza and networking, free to attend, open to all levels, at Campfield on Lower Byrom Street from 18:00.

A practical session on how modern scams actually work, built around the point that the old tells have stopped working. Attackers now use genuine login pages, real tooling and the target's own actions, so spotting a fake by looking for spelling mistakes or a dodgy URL no longer gets you very far. Driscop run it as a walk-through of real examples rather than a lecture, followed by a quick-fire challenge to test what people picked up, a guest speaker, and an hour of networking with drinks. Three hours at Campfield in the city centre, free to attend. Why go: it is pitched at everyone, not just security teams, which makes it a rare thing to send non-technical colleagues to without losing them. Best for operations, finance and founder-level staff who sign off payments.

Join us at the Manchester Black Business Conference for real talks, networking, and growth opportunities in person!

A two-hour morning meetup for B2B SaaS marketers and founders doing account-based marketing. Each month the group takes one specific ABM challenge and works through it in three parts: a short talk from a community member on how they tackled it in their own company, small-group table discussions kept deliberately small so everyone speaks, then open networking. No panels, no pitches, nobody selling a platform. Aimed at marketing managers, specialists and CMOs at companies that grow by winning specific, nameable accounts, and useful for anyone earlier in their marketing career who wants to understand how scaling companies actually operate. Hosted at Campfield, the tech and media campus in St John's.

Exchange hosts a fireside chat with Harry Panter, CEO of Housr, covering the founder journey from product-market fit through fundraising to scale. Part of Campfield's growing founder programme — small-room, high-signal, and deliberately unvarnished.