Community & Events

You and your guests can network, socialise and share the events of the day whilst you enjoy either a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic beverage. All IoD Members are invited to attend and bring up to two guests to any meeting, on the condition that those guests are prospective members. Guests are allowed to ... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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