Sheffield Collective is an inclusive meetup for anyone in the Sheffield City Region working on their own. Whilst most attendees do work in the digital industries, it is open to all professions and throughout lockdown the virtual monthly meetups have helped people to make friends and to chat about what COVID-19 has meant for their

Why did you start the ShfWiT meetup? Emma: Mel and I attended an “overly pink” women’s meetup that we felt didn’t empower or represent the women we saw in tech every day. We wanted something that spotlighted the positivity we could see, so Mel gathered an initial group of amazing Sheff women and we started

What made you start the ProductTank meetup in Sheffield? We ultimately think there’s a product-related community in the city that’s yet to be fully unearthed. Our aim is to diversify that in two key areas; one is to make sure that people from non-product backgrounds are welcome (whether you work with/alongside product, or just have

What made you want to start an immersive technologies meetup? Immersive Tech is an exciting new frontier in digital and there was a growing number of people and businesses exploring the technology. All of us have worked with it separately and wanted a space to talk about all the exciting stuff we were seeing happening