South West Founders is a monthly meet-up for people based in the South-West who have been, are, or want to be tech start-up founders. We aim to connect local entrepreneurs with co-founders and other like-minded people as well as tech investors to create an informal support network. We welcome entrepreneurs and tech investors with open arms, but discourage freelancers, consultants, lawyers and other service providers unless they have a genuine interest in founding or mentoring start-up businesses …

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 …

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 …

We are a bunch of friendly Ruby developers, meeting once a month for some beers and talks.

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

A place where web developers can meet, chat and share experience with fellow professionals.  We hold regular hack nights to introduce members to new technologies and methodologies. Developers, designers, entrepreneurs and the curious all welcome.

Is there a better way to start the week than having a very good breaky with your peers. This is what we are aiming for at Bristol #freelancebreakfast, meeting monthly in the city center, sharing a cup of coffee, a full English, and talking about our way of work! [Pic from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelfreund/4579008200/]

The omnipotent big data group that is all things to do with dealing with, managing, handling and delivering big data, in the mild mild South West. Topics include MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Node.js, scaling, engineering data, open-source, linkeddata, and beer. Discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/south-west-big-data.

Bristol Web Folk is an informal gathering of web developers, designers, and anyone else interested in what makes the web tick. Front-end and back-end, professional and amateur, coders and designers - anyone with an interest in talking about the latest developments in web technology. The group is open to anyone - the more the merrier. (Meetup is free for group members, so don't let that put you off.) This group is not for networking and recruitment - if that's all you're interested in then please …

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 …

PHP User Group, meets 2nd Wednesday of every month in Bristol, UK. We typically have a one or two speakers each month. Topics cover PHP or related technologies. In the past we've had talks on Doctrine 2, Zend Framework optimisation, redis, BDD with Behat, unit testing database code with DBUnit, experiences with Amazon Web Services, etc. Anyone is welcome to give a talk and a projector is available. Aside from the talks, we discuss PHP and exchange development war stories. Usually over a beer. Jo …

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.

Bringing together passionate people across Wales who are interested in how social media and technology can help engage arts with audiences.

Group of people interested in CouchDB and the associated ecosystem (e.g. rich html5 applications, MVC & asynchronous javascript, big data, data visualisation). More information can be found on http://bristol.couchdb.org/

We thought a general IT event where techies from the Chippenham area can get together to chat and swap war stories and tips would be a good idea. Open to all who are interested, our experience is mostly around R, Java, Python, .NET, SAS etc

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.

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

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.

Let's create some innovative applications and web toys. No limits, just cool stuff.

A group for web & mobile designers and developers. Whether you're new to the industry or a seasoned veteran. I want to bring together like-minded people to talk about all the exciting and ever-changing aspects of our industry including UX, usability, front-end design, back-end development, tools, apps, etc. The format is initially going to be quite informal, but at a later stage I'll be introducing a BarCamp style concept to the group. It's going to be very exciting and I look forward to meeting …

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: …

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

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...

It's the Malvern web/tech pub meetup group reborn! It's a meetup for web, mobile, tech people in or around Malvern, UK. We'll be mixing meetups in a pub with more formal presentation-based evenings at http://wyche.in/

About us A meet-up for UX and UX-curious people, on the first Tuesday of every month. We usually meet in a pub for a chat, networking and general conversation. We'll often have a short slide presentation/talk and time for questions etc. We're a group for open discussion of all usability issues, including software to web design to mobile apps. Why not come along, and discuss or give a slide presentation on your own projects or usability interests. Anyone can give a presentation, post and view Usa …

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 …

Regular meet-ups, coffees, presentations and talks to bring together those working or interested in all things web/mobile.