• Scale South West Investor Day

    The Engine Shed Station Approach Temple Meads, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Join PwC, Business West and Engine Shed at their Investor Event for their Scale | South West Programme. This will be held as part of Online Influence Conference at Engine Shed. 12 of the South West's most disruptive late stage start-ups will be selected to join an intensive 12 week journey to accelerate and scale ... Read more

  • Preparing for exit, what should you be thinking about now?

    Ashfords LLC Tower Wharf, Cheese Lane, Bristol

    For many, selling their business might seem like a distance off, with more pressing needs to manage the business day-to-day. In this Threads we discuss how early groundwork can help achieve a better exit process, with key points for consideration being: - Where is the value in the business and how do you protect it? ... Read more

  • How to Make your Innovation Pay with R&D Tax Credits

    Future Space

    Future Space Members Only Are you developing or improving new products, processes or services in your business? You could get a cash payment to support your businesses’ exciting development plans using the government’s research and development (R&D) tax credit incentive. SMEs can recoup up to 33p of every £1 spent with R&D tax credits and ... Read more

  • Bristol Distinguished Address

    Bristol Business School UWE UWE, Bristol Business School, North Entrance, Frenchay, Filton Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Aligning Interests: Lessons from the world of Private Equity Tim Parker (@PostOffice), Chairman of the Post Office, will deliver a lecture as part of the Bristol Distinguished Address Series entitled 'Aligning Interests: Lessons from the world of Private Equity.' One of the advantages of the private equity model of ownership is that management team of ... Read more

  • Networking Over Pizza and Beer

    Future Space

    Future Space customers only networking. Thursday 12th April is the new date from our postponed March networking event. Spring will be upon us and the snow will be all but a distant memory. Join us for networking, beer and pizza. This is our quarterly networking event for the University Enterprise Zone, which is open to ... Read more

  • Entrepreneurial Wellness series

    Entrepreneurial Spark Avon Street, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Reducing Back Pain at work Work-related back pain is a major contributor to working days lost to musculoskeletal disorders in the UK. Official figures reveal that almost 3.5 million working days were lost to back pain in 2015/16, and a recent survey found that 38% of people in the UK claimed work caused their back ... Read more

  • Scale South West Showcase Evening

    The Loft @ PWC PwC Bristol, 2 Glass Wharf, Bristol

    Join PwC. Business West and Engine Shed at their Showcase Evening, Final Event for their Scale | South West Programme.

  • Is Artificial Intelligence Prone To Prejudice?

    The Chancellors' Building Lecture Theatre 1.11, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, United Kingdom

    Research conducted by Dr Joanna Bryson in collaboration with Aylin Caliskan and Arvind Narayanan from Princeton University has shown that applying machine learning to text taken from the Internet results in AI with human-like semantic biases. These biases can be morally neutral as toward insects or flowers, problematic as toward race or gender, or even ... Read more

  • General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) – It’s not all about consent!

    Future Space

    Future Space members only workshop. With GDPR coming into force next month, there’s been a lot of concern around being able to process personal data without express consent. Whilst consent is a key principle of GDPR, there are other lawful grounds for processing personal data, including legitimate interests. In this presentation, Rebecca Abercrombie of Stephenson ... Read more

  • SETsquared #Idea2Pitch

    SETsquared Engine Shed, Bristol

    SETsquared Bristol’s #Idea2Pitch Returns to Upskill High-Tech Start-Ups  #Idea2Pitch returns for its fourth bi-annual event, providing support for high-tech companies as they sharpen their ideas and pitches Previous attendees have been accepted into SETsquared Bristol’s incubator after honing their business ideas at #Idea2Pitch

  • West of England Robotics Network Launch

    Bristol Robotics Laboratory Coldharbour Lane, T-Block, Bristol, United Kingdom

    We welcome you to the launch of the new West of England Robotic Network. This is an open access, community network of roboticists in the West of England – for everyone interested in researching, developing or deploying Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) technologies, products and services. We organise meetings, events and networking for the region's ... Read more