What's Second Wednesday? Second Wednesday is a gathering of people from (or wanting to get into) the web and related creative industries. Originally founded nearly fourteen years ago for business directors to blow off steam, it's grown into an event open to anyone in the industry and provided the networking platform for several up and comers in the Nottingham scene. The event is free for everyone and anyone is welcome to come along. We encourage you to come with an open mind, and talk to as many …

Close your laptop lid and come down to the newest monthly Midlands' meetup: Derby Internet & IT Pros. Head into the city and hook up with like minded members of Derby's thriving tech community. Share your latest tech finds, discuss your newest projects, make invaluable contacts or just fuel a heated debate about the iPhone 7. Everyone's welcome, regardless of your background or experience: web designers; developers; systems engineers; networking pros; digital creatives; marketers or entrepreneur …

We’re a group of designers, developers and creatives based in and around East Cheshire. We meet regularly to share experiences and bring together like minds. Our goal is to retain digital work within the county and provide a platform to do business.

A chance to meet programmers from Nottingham and the surrounding areas to socialise and talk about all things techie. Anyone with an interest in coding is welcome, regardless of experience, background or language preferences. We're a very informal group, there's no structure or agenda, so please come and say hello!

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to fil …

Agile Peterborough aims to build a thriving community of technology advocates to enable local business growth, support local schools, share knowledge and learn from each other. Through talks, events, workshops and volunteering we hope to learn and share knowledge, to promote best practice and breed new talent. Peterborough has a wealth of both technology and engineering companies. Agile Peterborough is open to all technology and engineering enthusiasts to meet, discuss and share knowledge.

Tech Wednesday is a monthly tech meetup for the Birmingham area. Do you want to meet with like-minded individuals in the digital tech industry? Looking to collaborate with the cream of Birmingham's burgeoning tech community? Like coffee? Like talking tech? Then Tech Wednesday should be right up your street. Each month we also have 'Show 'n Tells': a couple of tech startups/people with side projects from the region will be demoing their stuff to the group for feedback and discussion. If you want …

...a new social/learning group for people in/around the West Midlands who are interested in everything Ruby and/or Rails! People of all abilities welcome, no fees, rules or requirements, just get in touch and join the next meeting! More the merrier. We're keen to pool together and connect the existing Ruby users of the area, and provide help/advice to inquisitive programmers from other languages/frameworks/backgrounds.

We are a group of committed Scrum professionals looking to share best practice and encourage the adoption of Scrum in the West Midlands area. We welcome all those who are interested in Scrum to attend our meetings, to share and learn. Heart Of England - Scrum User Group - Workshop with James Scrimshire from Nigel Steane on Vimeo.

A space for girlgeeks in Birmingham and the West Midlands to come together, share experiences and encourage each other to become visible in their area of work be it IT, Media or Science. Men are welcome to our meetups are guest of a girlgeek.

Having events and discussions around; New Technologies for businesses, Cloud Computing, Businesses journey to the Cloud, Collaboration within Businesses and a new way of working. Join to discuss the above areas and more, meet and network with people with similar interests, hear from industry expects and learn more about cloud computing. Share thoughts and vision. All within a great atmosphere and a few drinks and snacks.

About At each event a company presents real business scenarios that they'd like to get you involved in thinking about. You can share ideas, ask questions and in the process you'll get to build contacts and learn more about business. Who is this group for? Whether you are experienced in business, a student or just someone interested in learning about new things you are very welcome to attend and get involved in discussions. A wide range of perspectives helps get debate going. Other Information: …

The West Midlands Drupal User Group exists to hold monthly meetups for anyone interested in Drupal who is in or around the West Midlands. Meetings are currently held in Coventry, Bromsgrove and Lichfield, rotating between the different venues.

What is the 'Internet of Things' and how do West Midlands small businesses work with it? Our informal 'Show and Tell' Meetup will feature short talks from those innovating with IoT applicable technologies. The aim is to build a community of likeminded organisations willing to collaborate, explore and innovate with IoT products, services and applications. Come and meet, discuss, explore and be inspired. Hosted in the International Institute for Product and Service Innovation (IIPSI) at the Uni …

This is the first of what hopefully will be a regular meetup for people interested in or involved in software testing. This session is a general 'find out who's out there'. We'll test the idea of a testing club, talk about what we may want to cover in future sessions, and work out what happens next. Come and meet other software testers, developers, user experience professionals and others involved in the area.

The new entrepreneurship era is all about customers and their problems Lean Startup is a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning thought fast Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops. We're a group of entrepreneurs taking lean startup and customer development techniques to practice in our startups. We're ready to talk implementation and share data from our experiments. We welcome new people see what Lean Startups is all about. * The Lean Startup is a trademark and …

We're looking to setup a new meetup in Birmingham aimed at people like us; We're a group of startup techies based in Birmingham, applying the latest tools & techniques to interesting problems; these include the latest web frameworks, No-Sql databases, functional programming toolsets, cloud infrastructure and anything else new and shiny. We're looking for more people like us to share knowledge with and are setting this up to cover a broad range of hacker type topics. Whisk are sponsoring the even …

Lincoln Javascript Thing is a fun and informal event [inspired by Leeds Ruby Thing] for anyone interested in Javascript (or programming in general..). You don't have to be an expert in Javascript - we're just a friendly bunch who enjoy a beer and geeky chat. In fact, it'll probably end up being another excuse for a pint :) The intention is for this to become a monthly thing... As people get to know each other, we might learn from each other... etc