Birmingham Tech Week

Compliance to Resilience

CyberQ Group are part of Birmingham Tech Week this year. Come to Alpha Tower for five sessions on everything from Zero Trust to the front door problem, plus open access fringe events and the Cyber Social.

See the programme Alpha Works, Alpha Tower, Birmingham

19 to 22 October 2026

Fringe Events

Five sessions during Birmingham Tech Week. Registration is required, so book your place on Eventbrite.

Venue: Alpha Works / Alpha Tower, B1 1TT
Mon 19 Oct 1pm to 3pm
Co-hosted with Microsoft

From Principle to Practice: Executing Zero Trust

Hosted with Microsoft: how to turn Zero Trust from a set of principles into something you actually run day to day.

Alpha Works, Floor 22, Alpha Tower, Birmingham B1 1TT

Mon 19 Oct 3pm to 5pm
Co-hosted with Target Integration

Digital Factory, Real Risk. Where Digital Transformation meets Cyber

Digital transformation brings new risks with it. This session looks at what the digital factory really means for your security, and what good practice looks like.

Alpha Works, Floor 22, Alpha Tower, Birmingham B1 1TT

Wed 21 Oct 10.30am to 12pm
Co-hosted with Rocketgx

Technical Debt: Where is Mine & How Can I Address It

A session with Rocketgx on finding the technical debt in your estate and doing something about it. Useful for developers, engineers and tech leads.

Alpha Works, Floor 22, Alpha Tower, Birmingham B1 1TT

Thu 22 Oct 10am to 12pm
Co-hosted with DropTable

They Don’t Hack In, They Log In: The Front Door Problem

Most attackers don’t break in, they log in. Stijn de Voogd, Chris Woods and Joel Hughes on fixing the front door.

Alpha Tower, Birmingham B1 1TT

Thu 22 Oct 2pm to 2.30pm
Co-hosted with Maor Compliance

Four Pillars for Meaningful, Conformant Information Security Management

A short session on the four pillars that make information security management meaningful and conformant, rather than a box-ticking exercise.

CyberQ Group, Birmingham B1 1TT

Open Access & Social

No tickets needed. Just turn up, meet people and join the conversation.

Fringe Partner Events

We’re part of the wider programme this year alongside Cyber Chain Alliance, Midlands Cyber and others. No ticket needed, just turn up.

No ticket needed, just turn up

The Cyber Social

Join us after the CyberVerse for drinks, networking and a chat with Birmingham’s cyber community.

Everyone welcome

Making your business cyber resilient

CyberQ Group are award-winning cyber security specialists. We work with executive teams around the world to move security from a reactive, technology-led exercise to something embedded in the business.

We’re headquartered in Birmingham, and Tech Week is our chance to share what we’ve learned defending organisations around the world with the region’s tech community.

Learn more at cyberqgroup.com

“Threat actors don’t respect country boundaries.”

Chris Woods

Chief Executive Officer, CyberQ Group

Compliance to Resilience. Cyber security specialists headquartered in Birmingham, working with organisations around the world.

Venue

Alpha Works, Alpha Tower

Suffolk Street Queensway

Birmingham B1 1TT

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