About us
The BBC invites you to join us for engaging tech-related talks located across London, Manchester, Glasgow & Newcastle. We'll cover a broad range of topics, from frontend and backend, to product, design and data science.
We are excited about sharing how the BBC use technology to deliver content and services to audiences and hearing from brilliant people around the industry to hear about their experiences.
If you would like to be a speaker at one of our meetups, please fill in the speaker application form.
You can also find more information on the BBC website.
Upcoming events
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UKTV x BBC Tech Meetup - Connected TV Development October 2026
10 Hammersmith Grove, 10 Hammersmith Grove, London W6 7AP, UK, London, GBJoin us at UKTV's offices in London on Thursday 22nd October, from 5:30pm for an evening of talks on developing applications for smart TVs, set-top boxes, streamers, and games consoles.
Doors will open at 5:30pm and the talks will kick off at 6pm.
Big thank you to UKTV for volunteering to host this event. RSVP is open!
Please note this event will not be streamed, only sign up if you will attend in person.
Please bring ID with you for entry into UKTV's offices, and make sure your Meetup profile includes your full name, otherwise you may be refused entry.
You can find out more about our meetups, including our Code of Conduct, on the BBC website - https://www.bbc.co.uk/techmeetup/code-of-conduct. We have a culture of respect and kindness, and a zero-tolerance policy for Code of Conduct breaches. Please raise breaches with the Meetup facilitators, or UKTV staff can raise breaches via the Call It Out process - https://uktv.workvivo.com/hashed/DOQjYBbAXB.
Agenda:
5:30pm - Arrival
6:00pm - Talks BeginArun Krishnamoorthy, BBC - The final bastion: Live TV in the attention economy
Jonathan Ingram, UKTV - Adblocker Detection
Kostakis Bouzoukas, Amazon - Vibe Coding the Big Screen: Supercharging TV App Development with Amazon ADBT
Gary Carpeter, UKTV - Dive into U
Ed Morrish, BBC - If you wish to make an Apple TV app from scratch, you must first invent the universe
7:25pm - Post-talk networking
8:00pm - Venue closes54 attendees
BBC North East Tech Hub Meet Up #18
BBC Newcastle, Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB🎒🪪 Please be aware bag and/or ID checks may be in operation by our Security team at the entrance.
Background
The BBC has been broadcasting from Newcastle for over 100 years. Now it's also the base of our North East Technology Hub and home to teams from the BBC's Product Group, responsible for developing world-beating services like iPlayer, Sounds, Sport and Bitesize.
The event is informal, and the doors will open at 17:30, starting 18:00 running through to 20:00.
🔒 This month is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we've themed this meetup event on all things Cybersecurity!
If you're interested in learning more, our friends over at CyberNorth celebrate all things Cybersecurity within our region, and have plenty more similar events you can check out here.Smart Threats, Smarter Defense: How AI
is improving malware, and how secure AI is
fighting back (Annie Wilkinson - Student at Northumbria University)
As AI rapidly evolves, so does the threat of intelligent malware. From vibe coding
to data cleaning, explore how modern cyber attacks leverage artificial intelligence,
and how cyber security teams are fighting back to combat it.
Join us to discover how you can stay one step ahead in the battle between secure,
defensive AI and AI-powered threats.Securing the BBC's Recommender Systems (Kira Green - BBC)
Learn how we are securing data and ML / AI workloads at scale in the cloud to enable rapid acceleration of Personalisation across the BBC. Take away some practical ideas you can put into practice.TBC
Our last speaker is still TBC, keep an eye on this page and we'll update it once we've confirmed!50 attendees
Past events
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