Open Tech Calendar

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

Monthly CTF - HackTheBox/TryHackMe/Other

This event will be a single talk on Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions: Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases with Guy Royse

⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam University, room TBA.

🗺️ Hallam University Map: [www.shu.ac.uk
📌 Google Maps: [maps.app.goo.gl
🚗 Parking: The APCOA car park on Eyre Street is a five-minute walk from City Campus. You can park there for just £5. Just scan your blue chip at Owen Building Level 5, Charles Street, or Cantor to claim the discount.
Agenda:

🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
🗣 Introduction (18:30)
👉 Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions: Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases (18:35ish)
🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)
👉 Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions: Finding Your Meme Twin...

Work on sewing, quilting, knitting, and crochet projects.

Share skills and tips in a creative, friendly, and supportive environment.

Free to Hackspace members, £3 for non-members.

Code Club - Open to the Public

🚀Every business reaches a crossroads—do you scale up, sell, or take a different path entirely?

​​Our next event at The Digital Forge will tackle real-world strategies for business growth, investment, and transition. Whether you’re a founder, CEO, or investor, this event will give you insights from those who’ve been there before—the ones who’ve successfully scaled, sold, IPO’d, merged, franchised, or found other smart ways to grow.

​​🔎 What’s on the agenda?

​​✅ Scale It – Raising investment, expanding your market, or taking the next big leap

​​✅ Sell It – What makes a company valuable, who’s buying, and how to get the best deal

​​✅ Something Smarter? – MBOs, acquisitions, franchising, licensing, joint ventures, or keeping it in the family—exploring the often-overlooked paths to success

​​✅ Lessons from Founders Who’ve Done It – What worked, what didn’t, and what they wish they’d known

​​If you’re thinking about what’s next for your business, this is the one event yo...

Find out about user interaction in Hybrid & Physical spaces and look at the balance between practicality and creativity.

Welcome back to NUX Sheffield! This event will be hosted by Sheffield Hallam University and food will be provided by NUX on Thursday 8th May. Once you enter the Charles Street building head for the lifts and floor #4 and look for NUX volunteers.

We're thrilled to welcome two excellent speakers: Jonny Briggs, Creative Director at Field and Sophie Hague, UX/UI Designer at Reach Studios

This event is a great opportunity to meet like-minded professionals and share ideas. Whether you're just beginning your journey into UX or have spent several years in the field, everyone is welcome to join and share their experiences.

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

Sheffield AI are running a FREE AI based hackathon in May 2025. Entries are open to anybody in the region who wants to get hands on and build something with AI.

You can join the hackathon as a team, or as an individual. There will be an opportunity at the start of the Hackathon to hear all the project proposals and join the team you are most excited about!

A hackathon team will have 2 days to build something on top of the Sheffield City Council Open Data. There are no rules for what you can build. The data is free and open to all, so let your imagination run wild and build whatever you like!

There will be prizes for

The project that has the most potential to benefit our region
The most innovative use of AI
The project that aligns most with the Sheffield City Goals
The most functional submission
Plus more! (to be announced)

An exciting opportunity to dive into the dynamic fields of Mathematics and Data Analytics! Exploring how we use mathematical theory and/or cutting-edge data analysis techniques to solve real-world problems through student projects and speakers from the industry. Exploring new ideas and meet our student community engaging and thriving in dealing with challenging real-world problems.

No tickets are needed to attend this event.

These are the time slots for visitors from outside the SHU to attend. The visitors can show up for any of these without any prior booking.

Work on sewing, quilting, knitting, and crochet projects.

Share skills and tips in a creative, friendly, and supportive environment.

Free to Hackspace members, £3 for non-members.

Code Club - Open to the Public

This event is a fantastic opportunity for knowledge exchange and interaction between academia, students and industry, aiming to create an interactive environment for building fruitful partnerships. Final year cyber security undergraduate students at Sheffield Hallam University will be showcasing their final year projects as poster presentations and having open discussions about their work with participants. We have some fantastic guest speakers and panel discussion lined up for participants!

No tickets are needed to attend this event.

These are the time slots for visitors from outside the SHU to attend. The visitors can show up for any of these without any prior booking.

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

Get ready for Game Over 2025 – Sheffield Hallam’s ultimate showcase of creativity and student innovation in all areas of Games Development. An exciting display of collaborative games projects from students in all levels of study within our games@Hallam range of courses. Experience interactive demos and discussions from a wide array of talented students. Whether you're a gamer, developer, or just curious, come experience the next generation of game-makers in action.

No tickets are needed to attend this event.

These are the time slots for visitors from outside the SHU to attend. The visitors can show up for any of these without any prior booking.

This summer, we are thrilled to celebrate the remarkable progress and potential of our MSc Artificial Intelligence students through the AI Festival that goes beyond academia, fostering connections between AI enthusiasts, students, researchers, educators, and industry collaborators. Cutting-edge AI technologies that our students are developing will be showcased through their innovative projects, coupled with our Robot Hackathon, where students will compete and push the boundaries of robotic intelligence.

No tickets are needed to attend this event.

These are the time slots for visitors from outside the SHU to attend. The visitors can show up for any of these without any prior booking.

Work on sewing, quilting, knitting, and crochet projects.

Share skills and tips in a creative, friendly, and supportive environment.

Free to Hackspace members, £3 for non-members.

Code Club - Open to the Public

This event will be a single talk on Navigating Container Hosting on Azure with John Kilmister

❗❗ 🌐 This is an online event, we'll be hosting the event on Zoom, the link for the meeting is below, however, we'll only announce the password just before the event.

🔗 TBA
🔑 TBA

📅 Agenda

👋 Welcome
🗑️ Housekeeping
👩‍🏫 Navigating Container Hosting on Azure
🍻 Virtual Bar
👩‍🏫 Navigating Container Hosting on Azure
Containers continue to grow in popularity however when it comes to hosting in production it can be daunting. In this high level talk, we look at the many options for hosting containers in Azure showing although it can be complex it does not have to be. We will cover containers in app service plans, Azure container apps through to AKS.

We’re delighted to announce the return of this special Senior Leaders Dinner on 22nd May at The Sheffield College’s Silver Plate restaurant.

Not only will our three course meal be prepared and served by talented catering and hospitality students at the College, we will be joined for dinner by T-Level students in digital subjects, who want to meet face to face with the city’s tech leaders.

This is a fantastic opportunity to meet and inspire your future workforce, to share your stories and experience and to guide and support students to fantastic careers in Sheffield's tech ecosystem.

If you were lucky enough to get a ticket for last year you will know what a fantastic evening we had. The students were outstanding, the conversations rich and productive and the meal delicious. Attendees commented on how good it felt to give back and how inspired they were meeting the next tech generation.

This Senior Leaders Dinner is all about raising aspirations, giving young people directio...

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

Work on sewing, quilting, knitting, and crochet projects.

Share skills and tips in a creative, friendly, and supportive environment.

Free to Hackspace members, £3 for non-members.

Code Club - Open to the Public

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

Details
This event will be a single talk on MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic with Tony Edwards
⚠️ This will be an in-person event, the venue is Sheffield Hallam University, room TBA.

🗺️ Hallam University Map: [www.shu.ac.uk
📌 Google Maps: [maps.app.goo.gl
🚗 Parking: The APCOA car park on Eyre Street is a five-minute walk from City Campus. You can park there for just £5. Just scan your blue chip at Owen Building Level 5, Charles Street, or Cantor to claim the discount.
Agenda:

🍕 Pizza/Drinks (18:15 - 18:30)
🗣 Introduction (18:30)
👉 MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic with Tony Edwards (18:35ish)
🍻 Social @ Pub (after the talk)
👉 MIDI Controllers, Bird Data, and MAUI Magic
Can you use a MIDI controller to host TV game show games with the help of an event audience? Does bird...

Informal get-together upstairs or outside at HowSt on Howard Street next to Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building, to chat over coffee and breakfast from 9am. Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

A welcoming one-track, one-day conference returns. For developers and designers who work on the web.

Join us in the centre of Sheffield for a line-up of 8 great speakers and stick around for the after party at the National Videogame Museum.

MSc Cyber Security and Advanced Computer Networks students have the opportunity to present their dissertation projects, along with inspirational talks from prominent figures within the cyber security and Networks industry. This event is a unique opportunity to explore the latest research and innovations in the field of cyber security and computer networks, directly from the next generation of experts. The event will commence with some inspiring keynote speaker.

No tickets are needed to attend this event.

These are the time slots for visitors from outside the SHU to attend. The visitors can show up for any of these without any prior booking.