Cloud Native Birmingham

Service Mesh Night Birmingham

Capacity: 100
in-person
Event date
Sep 24, 26
05:30 PM - 09:00 PM BST
Registration is open until Sep 24, 2026 at 4:30 PM BST.
Location
Bluetel Solutions, 4 Temple Row
Call for Speakers

🎤 Call for Speakers – Service Mesh Night Birmingham

We are opening the Call for Speakers for Service Mesh Night Birmingham, a community meetup focused on Service Mesh, Kubernetes networking, security, observability, traffic management, and real-world production experiences.

We are looking for speakers to share practical talks, lessons learned, case studies, demos, or hands-on experiences around:

🔹 Service Mesh 🔹 Istio, Linkerd, Consul, Envoy and related technologies 🔹 Kubernetes networking 🔹 mTLS and workload identity 🔹 Traffic management and routing 🔹 Service-to-service security 🔹 Observability and troubleshooting 🔹 Zero Trust architectures 🔹 Production Service Mesh experiences

Speakers from all experience levels are welcome. You do not need to be an expert — beginner-friendly sessions, practical demos, and real-world learning stories are highly valuable to the community.

Submit your talk and be part of Service Mesh Night Birmingham.

Let’s bring the Birmingham cloud native community together for an evening of learning, sharing, and networking.

Submissions open: Aug 13, 1:42 PM - Sep 18, 11:59 PM BST, 2026
About this event

Join us for Service Mesh Night Birmingham, an evening dedicated to Service Mesh, Kubernetes networking, security, observability, traffic management, and real-world cloud native engineering.

Service Mesh has become an important part of modern cloud native platforms, helping teams manage secure service-to-service communication, traffic routing, workload identity, reliability, and observability across Kubernetes and distributed environments.

This meetup is for Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers, SREs, Cloud Engineers, Kubernetes Engineers, Developers, Architects, students, and anyone interested in learning how Service Mesh technologies are being used in real-world environments.

Expect practical talks, community discussions, lessons from production implementations, and plenty of opportunities to connect with engineers from the Birmingham and West Midlands cloud native community.

Whether you are already working with technologies such as Linkerd, Istio, Envoy, Consul Service Mesh, or just beginning to explore Service Mesh, this session will help you understand the concepts, use cases, challenges, and how Service Mesh fits into modern cloud native platforms.

What to Expect

Real-world Service Mesh talks and demonstrations Kubernetes networking and service-to-service communication mTLS, workload identity, and zero-trust security Traffic management, routing, and reliability Observability and troubleshooting Lessons learned from production environments Networking with local engineers and community members Food, drinks, and community conversations

Agenda

17:30 – Doors Open, Networking, Food & Drinks Welcome attendees and allow time for informal networking.

18:15 – Welcome & Introductions Introduction to Cloud Native Birmingham, Service Mesh Night, speakers, sponsors, and the evening agenda.

18:30 – Talk 1: Speaker 1 Session details will be announced soon.

19:15 – Short Break Networking and refreshments.

19:30 – Talk 2: Speaker 2 Session details will be announced soon.

20:15 – Community Q&A and Open Discussion Interactive discussion with speakers and attendees around Service Mesh, Kubernetes networking, security, observability, and real-world implementation challenges.

20:30 – Networking Continues Continue conversations with speakers, sponsors, and community members.

21:30 – Close

Speakers

🎤 Speakers will be announced soon.

Stay tuned for speaker and session announcements.

Who Should Attend

This event is ideal for Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers, SREs, Cloud Engineers, Kubernetes Engineers, Developers, Security Engineers, Network Engineers, Architects, students, beginners, and anyone interested in cloud native technologies and Service Mesh.

Come and join us for an evening of learning, sharing, and networking with the Birmingham cloud native community.

Let’s explore how Service Mesh is helping teams build secure, observable, and reliable cloud native platforms together.

Tags
Service Mesh Istio Linkerd
Organizers