Reviving the BSides tradition in Manchester.

Manchester's technical communities are already strong. Groups like OWASP Manchester, 2600 Manchester, Cybrewery, and many others have been running meetups, talks, and gatherings for years.

The North West has not been short of community. It has been short of one specific thing: a recurring, cross-disciplinary format where adjacent disciplines can meet under one roof.

BSides Manchester is reviving the BSides tradition in this city while complementing the communities already active across it. We are not the missing thing. We are a connective layer, a place where security practitioners, software engineers, platform and infrastructure engineers, architects, product and operations teams, and researchers can learn from one another.

The previous BSides Manchester was a separate organisation that stopped hosting events in 2020. This is a new team and a new legal entity, building something modest, sustainable, and additive to the ecosystem that already exists.