Manchester Digital and The Curve host a sharp online panel on AI adoption. Short, candid format for anyone navigating AI strategy: what does value creation actually look like, what blocks progress, and how do you make sensible AI investment decisions? Free to join.
Cloud Native + Kubernetes Manchester returns to Booking.com's Goods Yard offices for the June meetup. Talks, food, drinks and an unusually high concentration of platform, SRE and infra engineers from the Northern cloud-native scene. The CNCF Manchester chapter is one of the more technically serious meetups in the city — worth the trip for platform engineers, infrastructure leads, and anyone navigating Kubernetes-shaped problems at work.
pro-manchester's flagship annual tech conference is back at SISTER for 2026. A full day of keynotes, panels and live demonstrations across AI, ethics, fintech, automation and the future of business collaboration — pitched at founders, scale-up leaders and corporate innovation teams. Trailblazing Tech is one of the few annual moments where Manchester's tech ecosystem meets its corporate, professional services and investor neighbours in the same room. Includes awards and structured networking. £85+VAT for non-members; member discounts apply.
Venture Café's weekly Thursday Gathering at SISTER. This week's theme: Liveable Cities — Critiquing the Urban Renaissance, in partnership with the University of Salford and Amps. Architecture, planning, social policy and the design of the places we inhabit. Wider lens than the usual pure-tech evenings, but the room remains a cross-cut of founders, researchers and creative-tech people. Free, open, no need to be a member.
Codurance partners with Matillion — one of Manchester's standout tech scale-up stories — for an evening of lightning talks on AI-powered software delivery. Short, sharp practitioner sessions from senior engineers and CTOs (Andy Norton, VP Engineering at Flipdish; Mike Skaife, CTO at Credit Technologies; principals from Codurance and Matillion) on what AI adoption actually looks like inside real engineering teams. The good, the bad and the ugly. Hosted at Matillion's New Bailey offices.
The North West Ruby User Group's regular third-Thursday meetup. A long-running community for Ruby and Rails developers across the North — speakers, casual technical talks, then onwards to the pub. Useful if you're working in Ruby or curious about the language; reliably attended by senior engineers from across the region.
The fourth edition of TechSEO North brings the technical SEO community back together at WPP's Manchester campus. Four practitioner talks: Lidia Infante (Head of SEO, SurveyMonkey) on Taylor Swift's SEO; Simone De Palma (TUI) on SEO forecasting in the age of AI; Dave Smart (Tame the Bots) on rendering; Alex Lovesey (EssenceMediacom) on AI content for an automotive client. Free with limited spaces — strong room for in-house, agency and freelance SEOs, plus engineers working at the SEO/eng boundary.