Tech Events at IET Birmingham: Austin Court, Birmingham

A one-day conference on order-to-cash and credit operations, including the automation and decisioning tooling now standard in collections and risk teams. Held at IET Birmingham, Austin Court.

CIGRE UK's annual technical conference at IET Birmingham: Austin Court, 08:30 to 15:30 on 3 December, under the theme One Grid for a Resilient Net Zero Electricity Network. The proposition being tested is that the energy transition only works if tomorrow's grid is one integrated system rather than a set of separately optimised parts. The programme builds on the technical work presented at the CIGRE Paris Session 2026 and translates it into what it means for the GB power system, with engineers and researchers from across the sector presenting and decision-makers from the energy industry in the room. Paid ticket; the price is not published on the listing page. Why go: the international power-systems body bringing its global technical material to a GB audience in one day. Best for transmission and distribution engineers, grid planners and energy technology suppliers.

A full-day summit on the future of the workplace run by Magara Law at IET Birmingham: Austin Court. Speakers include the Lord Mayor Cllr Zaker Choudhry and Shehroze Junejo, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at UK Government Investments. £120 including VAT.

The DCA's annual data centre conference at IET Birmingham: Austin Court on Cambridge Street, 10:00 to 17:00. The agenda is the physical infrastructure behind the AI buildout: power availability and constraints, cooling, and what it takes to transform and operate facilities under the current load growth. It is aimed squarely at people who own or operate data centres rather than at a general tech audience, and the DCA pulls operators, suppliers and engineers from across the UK industry. Free to attend, and currently showing as sold out. Why go: power and cooling are now the binding constraint on UK AI capacity, and this is the room where the operators discuss it. Best for infrastructure engineers, facilities leads and anyone whose compute plans depend on somewhere to put it.

A full day on penetration testing from CREST, the accreditation body for the technical security industry, at IET Birmingham: Austin Court on Cambridge Street. CREST Focus Group chair Boglarka Ronto hosts. The format is practitioner tech talks plus structured networking, pitched at both people early in an offensive security career and experienced testers. AI runs through the whole programme as a theme: where it is proving genuinely useful to incident response, SOC and pen test teams, where the limits are, and what that means day to day. Tickets were around 17 pounds and sales have now closed. Why go: one of the very few days in the Midlands where offensive security practitioners compare notes in a room rather than on a forum. Best for pen testers, red teamers and security engineers who want the tooling conversation first-hand.

A practitioner day on incident response and security operations from CREST: technical talks on the tools, techniques and trends shaping IR and SOC work. Hosted by the chairs of CREST's focus groups, Benn Morris (incident response) and Martin Riley (SOC). The programme was still being confirmed at the time of writing, with 20 to 30 minute presentations and five-minute lightning talks invited from the community. Talks run from 09:00 to 16:00, followed by networking until 19:00, at IET Birmingham: Austin Court, 80 Cambridge Street. Tickets are £17 on Eventbrite; CREST members and CREST-qualified individuals can request a free code by email. Entry is for booked attendees only. Why go: a low-cost technical day for the people who actually answer the alerts, open to everyone from career-starters to senior responders. Best for SOC analysts, incident responders and security engineers in the Midlands.