Tech Events at Clockwise Linley House, Manchester

The last-Thursday founders coffee and coworking morning at Clockwise Linley House. Founders only, host approval required, and the GBP 17.50 ticket includes a coworking day pass. No speeches, presentations or pitches by design.

The first Manchester edition of The Next Play Network's Matchday series, an evening social for people working across sport, business and technology. The format mixes conversations about career journeys under the strand The Next Play: Unfiltered, football-inspired games, music and open networking. The audience is described as professionals, students, creatives and entrepreneurs. Dress code is smart casual, spaces are limited, and the organisers film and photograph the evening - attendees who would rather not appear can say so on arrival. No speakers or hosts are named. Technology is one theme among several rather than the subject of the evening.

A monthly founders' coffee morning at Clockwise on Dickinson Street, run on the last Thursday. The format is deliberately bare: no speeches, no presentations, no selling. You turn up, get a coffee, and the hosts introduce you to someone rather than leaving you to work the room. The ticket is 17.50 pounds and includes a coworking day pass, so most people stay and work afterwards. Attendance is founders only and subject to host approval, which keeps the recruiters and agencies out. Why go: Manchester has plenty of evening networking and very little in the morning that is actually restricted to founders. The day pass makes it worth blocking out rather than dropping into for an hour. Best for early-stage founders who want conversation without a programme.

Aware Digital teams up with European payments platform Mollie to bring Manchester's ecommerce community together for an evening of conversations, fresh ideas and new connections. Whether you're writing code, running an ecommerce business, designing digital experiences, or simply curious about what's happening in the industry, expect a mix of technical and non-technical topics across platforms like Adobe Commerce, Magento, Hyvä and Shopify — plus plenty of time to meet like-minded people over drinks and bites at Clockwise Linley House.