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 …

Interested in Web Development, Web Design, associated technologies and live or work near Worcester? We'd love to get together, share ideas and learn from each other. We meet on the third Thursday of every month: tech talks are done at The Hive, social meets at The Old Rectifying House. You can find us on IRC at #wooweb on Freenode. Follow us on Twitter at @WooWebUK

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 …

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.

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 …

HydraHack is a meetup for developers in Birmingham, who enjoy meeting likeminded people. Want to meetup with like minded web geeks and developers? HydraHack is a chance to meetup with other developers: share ideas, techniques and code. If you've not come along before you'll find a bunch of friendly, passionate and chatty developers who love what they do and have lots of interesting stuff to share. You don't have to bring a project, just come along, grab a drink and join us for a chat. Some event …

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 …

Meet a new network of local entrepreneurs to share tips and problem solving techniques, get advice on your ideas, brain storm with other entrepreneurs. Find useful contacts, sources of funding and grants. www.entrepreneursbirmingham.com You can also follow us on twitter @B_Entrepreneurs We meet monthly for an informal chat over a coffee or a beer. There is no set format to our meetups just turn up and introduce yourself to the other members. If you are looking for specific help or support then f …

We're setting up a fun, informal poker tournament for techies and startup/entrepreneur types. The tournament will be no-limit texas holdem, £10 in (no fees) and there will be no re-buys. The intention is to make this a monthly event. Whisk will be hosting the event and will provide a few beers and some pizza (as well as tables, chairs, heat & light.... and cards/chips) Please only apply if you're a techie, entrepreneur or involved with startups...

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: …

A Chance for all interested in Digital, Media, Tech and The Creative Industries to network, talk and generally get together in an informal environment.

Cheltenham Geek Nights is a place for Software Developers, Designers and general techies to get together, learn and have fun. We'll be having regular speakers on a broad range of themes as well as activities and discussion. We aim to build a strong technological community for people in and around Cheltenham. Hashtag #cheltgeeknights on Twitter.

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 …

This is a group for all who are interested in Javascript and Web Development Technologies

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 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.

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.

A new tech startup community in Leicester for existing and aspiring tech startup entrepreneurs. Aimed at geeks, techies, scientists, coders, entrepreneurs and innovators who are serious about turning great tech ideas into money via startups, spin-offs and joint ventures. Suppliers of directly relevant business services who are willing to help build the community rather than hard-sell are welcome too. Organiser: Ben Ravilious, ben@ultimateweb.co.uk, 07703460866