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Women in Robotics: Headshots and Bots
2023-02-16 05:30 - 20:30 UTC | Future Space
Women in Robotics UK is very excited to invite you to our upcoming Headshots and Bots event on Thursday 16th January 2023 from 17:30-20:00 at the Future Space Bristol.

This event will bring together industry and academia to provide:

Free professional headshots
Opportunity to network, collaborate, and socialise
Hosted at the Future Space Bristol
Delicious food, drinks, and snacks!

We will have props available but please feel free to BYOB (Bring your own bots) if you have something specific in mind. The more creative the better!
There will also be an option to share your photos with us and our partners so we can improve (the very lacking) range of photos of inspiring and aspiring women in robotics.
SIGN UP HERE

This is a safe and empowering FREE in person event for people at all stages of their career (18+ only) who identify as women, non binary, transgender, or are allied to supporting the promotion of women in robotics.
Who we are: The UK Chapter of the International Women in Robotics Network. We are a safe and empowering community of those who identify as women, non-binary or transgender and those allied in the support and promotion of women in robotics.
What we do: We work across industry, academia, and the arts to provide engaging and inclusive events, mentoring and networking, and collaboration opportunities around the UK.
Join our LinkedIn group here!

Pitch Deck Workshop with Luna 9 Design
2022-12-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Future Space
Join Michael Green from Luna 9 Design, as he takes you through techniques for creating clear and engaging pitch decks.
In this workshop, Michael will talk about the importance of sharing a clear value proposition, considering your audience’s context,and how to connect with people through a compelling narrative.
Together we will go through the key sections of any good pitch deck, and then open the floor for a general discussion and Q&A about your own pitch deck experiences.

SIGN UP HERE

Luna 9 Design is a creative agency helping cutting-edge organisations better explain what they do and why it matters through crystal clear brand strategy, user experience and design.
🚀 Read their latest 3-minute blog post on how to recognise and tackle the ‘curse of knowledge’…
Luna 9
www.luna9design.com

Future Space Christmas Party
2022-12-01 16:00 - 19:00 | Future Space
Ho ho ho, it’s time to celebrate…
We hope you all agree, it is high time we had a proper Christmas party!
You are cordially invited to join us on 1st December at 4pm for the Future Space Christmas party. Fill your glasses, we’re going to have a cosy evening of festive fun.
There will be drinks and festive nibbles, and prizes up for grabs!
Book your place here!

The Christmas Quiz is back!
Teams of 4-6 people can enter – start forming teams now!

Dress code: Christmas jumpers and/or festive themed assessories

Festive wishes from,
The Future Space Team

R&D Tax Credits
2022-11-30 10:00 - 11:00 | Future Space
Corrigan cover all things R&D Tax Credits, including updates for April 2023

R&D Tax Relief – Overview of reliefs plus important changes from April 2023
Join Pete Edwards from Corrigan as he takes you through the money you should be claiming back as an SME working in research and development.
Time: 10am – 11am
Location: Future Space, Curie Meeting Room

This workshop will be an interactive session which will look to cover the following topics:
• What is R&D for tax purposes?
• Qualifying categories of expenditure
• RDEC and SME – what is the difference?
• Effect of grant funding on claims
• Subsidised and subcontracted R&D – HMRC’s view
• How to make a claim
• Important changes from April 2023

Sign up here.

ON THE SAME DAY:
Drop-in advisor sessions on accountancy and tax from Evelyn Partners. Look for them in the Future Space Networking Area and Hub Cafe.

Business Growth: Defining Success
2022-11-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Future Space
Sales, business development and brand strategy with Jack Thompson, founder of Ginkgo Business Development
Defining success: setting realistic targets, defining models, and agreeing KPIs before you start

Business development, sales and brand strategy with Jack Thompson, founder of Ginkgo Business Development
Time: 10am – 11.30am
Location: Future Space, Curie Meeting Room

Defining Success
• This is about setting realistic targets, defining models, and agreeing KPIs before you start.
• Sales success is numbers related, but I don’t just mean the £ numbers.
• Before you look at your sales strategy you should define what success looks like, so you know what you’re aiming for, and to break it into KPIs which you can monitor on a regular basis over time.
• By understanding the variables you can also look to improve your processes to affect the topline sales numbers.
Sign up here.

ON THE SAME DAY:
Drop-in advisor sessions on recruitment for start-ups and scaleups with ISL Talent. Look for them in the Future Space Networking Area and Hub Cafe.

Intellectual Property: IP Basics
2022-11-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Future Space
Interactive session on the basics of intellectual property, delivered by Greaves Brewster
Intellectual Property: what do I need to know?
Join Andy Evitt from Greaves Brewster as he covers the basics of Intellectual Property, and trademark attorney Corinna Hiscox covering information on trademarks.
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Location: Future Space, Curie Meeting Room
Interactive session covering the basics of IP and trademarks.
There will be a high-level overview of the ‘what, why, when and cost’ of the various forms of intellectual property and questions will be welcome throughout.
Refreshments and cake will also be provided!
Afterwards, there will be one-on-one drop-in sessions available, which you can book into on the day. Whether you just want to learn the basics or ask questions more specific to your business, please do come along.
Sign up here.

ON THE SAME DAY:
9am – 1pm
Drop-in advisor sessions on product design with The Product Partnership. Look for them in the Future Space Networking Area and Hub Cafe.

How to shape your people strategy before you raise venture funding
2022-11-09 11:00 - 12:30 | Future Space
Workshop with ISL Talent
Time: 11am – 12.30pm
Location: Future Space, Curie Meeting Room
Growth in startup teams is often driven by VC investment, and most founders would nod their head at the line “our people are our greatest asset”.
But the most successful ones have a plan for developing that key competitive advantage, rather than waiting for the funds to arrive and only then working out where to invest in their people strategy.
If you’ve got to the stage of seeking venture investment you should have the basics of your hiring process in place, but if not then we’ll check on that in this session. And if you really want to make a positive impact from your funding, we’ll cover the planning, storytelling, and data you’ll need to build the best team.
Join Alan Furley from ISL Talent as he takes you through this session on recruitment strategies to get the most out of your funding (and ultimately attract more).

The South Gloucestershire Business Show 2022
2022-11-09 10:00 - 2022-11-10 17:00 | Enterprise Park 1, ENTERPRISE PARK,, BRISTOL, BS34 8QZ
#SGBS22 – The South Gloucestershire Business Show 2022 Two days of great business discussion and thinking
A Festival of Business and Innovation
The festival offers speakers, panel discussions and forums. As well as informing and learning, it creates discussion in the areas most challenging to today’s business communities.
It is set in a live business exhibition that allows exhibitors and sponsors to promote their businesses, identify with the discussions and content of the show and to focus on business development delivering outcomes to support and grow their business.
“By engaging our audiences, our aim is to inform and create a momentum that will contribute to building a vibrant and engaged business community wherever you are and allow you to reach out and engage other business communities in joined up thinking. We believe passionately in collaboration and innovation.
“We embrace challenging thinking, and our aim is to create a space for new ideas and relationships that will lead to innovation, communication, business development and transactions.”
Follow the link to register.

Solid Solutions Introductory CAD Workshop
2022-11-08 10:00 - 13:00 | Future Space
This workshop offers an overview and demos of CAD software from Solid Solutions, covering areas such as:

CAD workflow in 2022 – designing an electro-mechanical assembly
Photo-realistic rendering
Instruction manuals/technical publications
What is the Entrepreneur Scheme?

Did you know that as an SME you can apply for one year of free CAD software from Solid Solutions?
If you are making a physical product which can be designed in CAD and will be manufactured, you can apply for free access and support to CAD software.
Entrepreneurs & Start-ups
The SOLIDWORKS for Entrepreneur Program provides new start-up companies and individuals the CAD software, support and guidance to succeed.
Through our experience, we can ensure you are using the best CAD tools to design, test, simulate, and create your ideas. With our extensive support and training, we provide an unrivalled partnership to help accelerate your route to market.

Taking place in the Hawking meeting room, 10am – 1pm with refreshments included.
Register your attendance on the Eventbrite page here.

Information on Solid Solutions and the CAD opportunities available:
SOLIDWORKS for Entrepreneurs, with case studies from start ups:
https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/solidworks-Industries/entrepreneurs-startups/alumni.aspx

Introduction to SOLIDWORKS CAD:
https://www.solidsolutions.co.uk/solidworks-videos/product-introduction-solidworks-3d-cad.aspx

Future Space Social: Beer & Pizza
2022-11-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Future Space
It’s time for a Future Space community get together!
Join us to meet, engage, eat and be merry. We’ll be providing beer and pizza – the ultimate combo for meeting your fellow Future Space members!
We have extended our invitation for this event to our in-residence advisors to kickstart our advisory programme and our University Enterprize Zone neighbours from Bristol Robotics Lab, Health Tech Hub and Centre for Print Research.
Bring your team, bring your interns, find out something new about your neighbours.
Please RSVP by 3pm Monday 31 October.

Location: Future Space Networking Area
Time: 4pm – 6pm

Thank you,
The Future Space Team

SYNERGIA Demonstration Event
2022-10-31 10:00 - 14:00 | Future Space
Demonstration event for the SYNERGIA consortium’s innovations in cyber security for Internet of Things (IoT) deployments and devices.

You have heard a lot about the rapid growth of Smart City technologies and about the cyber security issues with many Internet of Things deployments and devices.
The SYNERGIA project has developed several innovative solutions to address the common security issues found in conventional large scale IoT and Smart City networks.

distributed secure processing at the network edge & in the core to reduce latency and bandwidth,
network edge processing available to end-users to provide close control of organisations’ data flows,
intrusion detection using AI/ML at the network edge improves security, privacy, and speed of isolating intrusions and response to attacks,
secure configuration management of the network, authentication, and revocation of devices
improved security for low power resource-constrained endpoint devices

The SYNERGIA team invites you to a final demonstration of the innovative solutions we have developed, and how they secure Smart City & IoT systems against threats.
The demonstration is on Monday 31 October at Future Space Bristol close to the M32 & M4 motorways, and Bristol Parkway station.
Comprising a short presentation of the project, and individual breakout sessions for technical discussions on the individual technical innovations.
Sign up on the Eventbrite page here.

People, Place, Tech and beyond: innovation in communities and cities
2022-10-14 12:00 - 14:30 | Future Space
Experts discuss what makes Bristol a city of pioneering innovation. How do we ensure a fair, inclusive, and thriving innovation ecosystem?
This free event is being hosted by the Bristol Innovators’ Group (BIG), in partnership with Future Space.
This session will focus on how to make change happen in neighbourhoods, communities, and cities.
As of 2008, for the first time in human history on our planet, we have more people living in cities than rural areas. Sustainable urban living is a key challenge for our century, and this means residents working with city institutions.
We must work together to support pioneering innovation and experimentation. We’ll discuss international and local examples of action that makes lives better for people living and working in neighbourhoods and cities.

Panel

Robin Hambleton, author of Leading the Inclusive City, and of Cities and communities beyond COVID-19.
Knowle West Media Centre – home to Bristol’s Living Lab for creating and testing new ideas in the city – will be sharing examples of their current work.
(More speakers TBC)

We’ll be inviting questions and views from the audience, so please come along and share your interest with us.

Future Space
Future Space is a hub for science, technology, and innovation businesses, robotics and health technology. We are co-located with UWE Bristol.
All event attendees are invited to use the facilities at Future Space for free for the day including coworking facilities, access to the cafe, and networking space. Simply tick the box when you register for the event and fill in your car registration so we can organise free parking on-site.
If you would like to book a meeting room contact reception on 0117 428 0200.

Tours of Future Space
If you would be interested in a tour of Future Space, including the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, let us know when you register.

Find us
Located in the heart of the UWE Campus, close to the M4, M5 and M32 motorways and Bristol Parkway train station.
UWE North Gate,
Filton Road,
Stoke Gifford
BS34 8RB
0117 428 0200
info@futurespacebristol.co.uk

Getting to know Launch Space
2022-10-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Future Space
Talk to us about early-stage business incubation for your tech business. Hear from some of the latest entrepreneur success stories.
Come and talk to us about early-stage business incubation for your tech business. Find out more about the companies we have supported and hear first-hand from some of the latest entrepreneur success stories.
This free event is being hosted by the Launch Space Incubator Team at Future Space.
Based within the University Enterprise Zone (UEZ), Launch Space has supported more than 110 early-stage businesses. These businesses have raised over £50m and created more than 160 new jobs.
Drop by to hear from the Launch Space Team about the incubation programme and support on offer. There will also be a chance to hear from recent members, The Greener Greens Co and Target Student, with open Q&A.
We also welcome anyone who just wants to listen in, but no sales please.
What will happen on the day
• 10:00 – 11:00 – Drop-in and hear from Launch Space programme Manager, Aimee Skinner, as well as our Incubation Manager and expert Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mark Corderoy. The team will be discussing the next programme, how to get involved, and the support on offer.
• 11:00 – 12:00 – Entrepreneurs Guy Thurlow and Andy Francksen from Target Student will be talking about their experience, from Launch Space to their first investment raise. We will also be joined by Jamie Taylor from The Greener Greens Co to hear about their latest harvest.
*You are welcome to join us for further events in the afternoon – including:
• 12:00 – 13:30 – Join Bristol Innovators’ Group & Future Space for networking and discussion, as we talk about how Bristol is pioneering innovation.
• 13:30 – 14:30 – Tours of The University Enterprise Zone. See behind the scenes of the Robotic Innovation Facility, the Health Tech Hub, and Future Space*
*Tours of the University Enterprise Zone
If you are interested in joining our tour, let us know when you register. Spaces are limited.
Find us
Located in the heart of the UWE Campus, close to the M4, M5 and M32 motorways and Bristol Parkway train station.
Applications for Launch Space are open now: https://www.uwe.ac.uk/life/campus-and-facilities/careers-and-enterprise-facilities/launch-space/apply-to-launch-space

The Future of Health Care (Bristol Tech Festival)
2022-10-11 11:00 - 14:30 | Future Space
Join our health care cluster to discuss what healthcare will look like in 2040 and what trends shape new technology-enabled models of care.
Location: Future Space
Time: 11am – 2.30pm
This free event is part of Bristol Tech Festival, hosted by Future Space in partnership with WEAHSN and Engine Shed.
Our expectations for health care are rapidly changing, aided by the dominance of the pandemic over the last few years. We have seen the acceleration of technological solutions and adoption of new practices with a greater acceptance of telehealth, wearables and remote patient monitoring that might not have been possible before.
While we still have a long way to go, there are new ways for patients to procure and manage their health outside of traditional medical establishments and medical intervention moves from cure and prevention to predictive management.
Health care is an industry that is in prime position for improvement and transformation. We will meet pioneering businesses working on local innovations. We will explore how technological advances will change the way we approach health care in the future.
Format
11:00 – 11:15 – Arrive
11:15 – 11:30 – Introductions
11:30 – 12:15 – Panel Discussion
12:15 – 12:30 – Q&A
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch & networking
13:30- 14:30 – Tours of Bristol Robotics Lab and Health Tech Hub (please book – subject to space)
Chair:
Professor Richard Luxton – Director of Institute of Bio-sensing Technology and Chair of Medilink South West
Panel:
– Janina Cross – Chief Digital Transformation Officer West of England AHSN
– Zeke Steer – Founder & CEO MilBOTix
– Tim Morgan – COO Service Robotics
– Liam Cahill, Founder Together Digital
Future Space
Future Space is a hub for science, technology, and innovation businesses, robotics and health technology. We are co-located with UWE Bristol.
All event attendees are invited to use the facilities at Future Space for free for the day including lunch, coworking facilities, access to the cafe, and networking space. Simply tick the box when you register for the event and fill in your car registration so we can organise free parking on-site.
If you would like to book a meeting room contact reception on 0117 428 0200.
Tours of Future Space
If you would be interested in a tour of Future Space, including the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, let us know when you register.

Find us:
Located in the heart of the UWE Campus, close to the M4, M5 and M32 motorways and Bristol Parkway train station.
UWE North Gate,
Filton Road,
Stoke Gifford
BS34 8RB
0117 428 0200
info@futurespacebristol.co.uk

Advisor session: IP, patent & trademark
2022-10-11 09:00 - 13:00 | Future Space
Drop-ins with Withers & Rogers, 9am – 1pm, Tuesday 11 October
Elizabeth Swan from Withers & Rogers will be on site to help you with any aspect of intellectual property, from patents, trade marks, or designs, to freedom to operate and strategic advice.
Drop-ins welcome, or you can book a session here.

Future Space Birthday Party
2022-09-28 16:00 - 19:00 | Future Space
It’s party time!
We welcome you to join us for an exciting occasion in celebration of Future Space’s 6th birthday. Fingers crossed for a warm September day, so we can enjoy our new lawn!
Join us for introductory speeches from our new team members, mouth-watering Mexican tacos and plenty of beverages.
Please sign up to register your attendance and place your order.
We look forward to seeing you!
All the best,
The Future Space Team

Advisor session: accounting, tax and finance
2022-09-28 09:00 - 13:00 | Future Space
Drop-ins with Corrigan, 9am – 1pm, Wednesday 28 September
Pete Edwards from Corrigan will be at Future Space, offering specialist tax advice covering areas such as corporation tax compliance, R&D tax credits, SEIS/EIS and share options, to other areas of advice covering grant funding, year-end financial reporting and bookkeeping.
Drop-ins welcome, or you can book a session here.

People, Place, Tech and beyond: innovation in communities and cities (Bristol Tech Festival)
2022-09-28 08:00 - 17:00

AI & Data Science Workshop, with the Turing Institute and UWE Academics
2022-09-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Future Space
The Turing Institute is the national institute for Data Science & AI. UWE has been successful in securing one of the 24 prestigious Turing Institute Network Development Awards. It focusses on working with universities and the Turing Institute to get more value from existing networks and grow new opportunities.
The programme is focussed towards building an academic network across UWE so that local communities & businesses can access AI & Data Science innovation to solve problems. This network will also offer training & upskilling to businesses with the ultimate goal of solidifying our position as an impactful contributor within the AI & Data Science research, innovation & academic community.
Future Space will be hosting a workshop as part of this funded programme, which will aim to connect SMEs with academics in the areas of AI & Data Science.
Are you are working with data analytics and artificial intelligence? Are you looking for academic partners and access to funding to help you solve a specific industry challenge? The Turing Institute, UWE and Innovate UK, are running this workshop with leading academics in robotics, machine vision, data analytics and bio sensing. They are inviting 30 businesses from the region with an interest in exploring new research collaborations.
The aim is to engage businesses in small group discussions which will set out the data and AI challenges in your business applied to specific themes. This is an opportunity to influence and scope research and funding at an earlier stage. This workshop would suit businesses that are ready for funding rather than very early start up.
If you would like to attend, please sign up by following this link. There are limited spaces so sign up early before it goes out to a wider audience.

In-person Advisor Sessions: Insurance | Finance & Tax | Legal & IP
2022-07-20 09:00 - 17:00 | Future Space
Advisory_space in-person drop-in day, Wednesday 20 July
Hayes Parsons, Evelyn Partners and Ashfords are on-site to answer your questions
Hayes Parsons:
9am – 12pm
Ryan Legge
Insurance
Unsure what insurance you are required to have by law? Ryan is a Chartered broker, working closely with the regional tech & life science community.
• Are there any insurances we must have by law?
• What insurance covers should I consider?
• How has the pandemic affected the insurance market?
• I hold customer data – can I insure against my GDPR liabilities?

Evelyn Partners:
10am – 3pm
Dominic Gibbs & George Baker
Accounting and Tax
Dominic answers questions on financial considerations at each stage of your business, from compliance and payments to R&D tax credits. He is joined by George, who specialises in employing talent from overseas and all the considerations which come with it.
They would be delighted to discuss a wide range of accounting topics, including:
• How to automate your finance function
• How to attract and retain top tech talent
• How to manage tax risks as you grow as a business

Ashfords:
1.30pm – 4.30pm
Brett Lambe
Legal Advice – Commercial & IP
• Do you have contracts with customers and suppliers?
• Have your contracts been reviewed by a lawyer to ensure they offer you appropriate protection?
• Do you have standard terms and conditions of sale?
• Does your business own IP?
• Do you have contracts in place with employees, contractors and freelancers that confirm IP ownership?
• Is your brand protected in the UK and your international markets?

To book a 15 minute 1 on 1 with an advisor, please email Abi. They will also be in the Networking Area if you would like to just drop in.

Networking Social with the Centre For Print Research (CFPR)
2022-07-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Centre For Print Research, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Ln, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS16 1QY
Future Space members are invited to drinks, tours and networking with our neighbours at the Centre For Print Research.
About this event:
The CFPR is based in W Block, just next door to Future Space.
Meet at 4:00pm for a short introduction to the centre and a tour of the labs, equipment and the research they do, followed by a chance to network with their researchers and discuss any areas of interest with them.
And, of course, have a few drinks and nibbles as well.
Please sign up so we can predict numbers. We look forward to seeing you there!
Website: https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/
Newsletter: https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/contact/

Meet the CFPR Researchers:
Professor Carinna Parraman, Director of the CFPR
Dr Carinna Parraman is Professor of Colour, Design and Print, and Director of the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) City Campus, Bower Ashton. As Director of CFPR, she leads a cross-disciplinary research team comprising scientists and technologists, designers, artists, and researchers.
She is co-leader of an £7.7m Expanding Excellence in England (E3) fund, exploring the future of printing and fabrication, new ways of thinking and working, alongside traditional methods of making.
Professor Stephen Hoskins, Founder of CFPR
Professor of Fine Print and Founder of the Centre for Fine Print Research.
Apart from being a practicing printmaker, my primary areas of research are; the potential of 3D printing and related digital technologies for the arts, plus the tactile surface of the printed artefact and its consequences for digital technology.
Fabio D’Agnano, Associate Professor
His specialties as an architect are 3D design and digital manufacturing. Since 2009, He has taught at the Luav Architecture University of Venice, focusing on 3D modeling, deepened 3D printing, and electronic prototyping. In 2011, he founded the postgraduate master’s course in Digital Architecture – MADI.
In addition to his experience in design and 3D modeling, he has experience in design, electronic prototyping, 3D printing, coding, and digital craftsmanship.
Dr Sarah Bodman, Associate Professor and Programme Leader MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking
Sarah is Associate Professor for Artists’ Books at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), where she run projects investigating and promoting contemporary book arts. Sarah is also Programme Leader for MA Multi-disciplinary Printmaking at City Campus, Bower Ashton.
She is the editor of the Artist’s Book Yearbook a biennial reference publication on contemporary book arts, published here at UWE by Impact Press, and also edits the Book Arts Newsletter and The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books.
David Huson, Associate Professor
David undertakes research into 3D rapid prototyped ceramics, continuous tone photo-relief printing and materials development of ceramics. He collaborates with industrial partners including Denby, Wedgwood and Kohler.
Dr Tavs Jorgensen, Associate Professor and AHRC/RCUK Innovation Fellow
Tavs’s core research interests are focused on exploring the design and innovation potential presented by new digital fabrication technologies – particular with the glass and ceramics mediums. He is currently in receipt of Leadership Fellow grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) with a project investigating the use of digital tools to develop new approaches with the ceramic extrusion process for architectural applications.
Dr Nazmul Karim, Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor for Novel Print Processes and Materials (Graphene) at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), UWE Bristol (UK). With about 12 years of industry and academic experiences in graphene science and textile related technologies, and a passion for getting research out of the lab and into real world applications, currently investigating into graphene and other 2D materials-based technologies aimed at developing scalable and cost-effective next generation functional and wearable textiles.
Dr Susanne Klein, Associate Professor and EPSRC Manufacturing Fellow
Dr Susanne Klein FInstP has been appointed a 5 year EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship at the Centre for Fine Print Research starting January 2018. With her expertise in colloidal chemistry, optics and 3D printing, she is working on the reinvention of old printing technologies, such as Woodburytype and Lippmann photography, which will allow production of high quality prints for advertising, packaging, fashion and, at the same time, include fake-proof security features.

Future Space: Digital Skills Introductory Workshop
2022-06-30 09:45 - 13:00 | Future Space
Location: Hawking Meeting Room, Future Space
Join the Workforce of the Future (WftF) Digital Skills Team for an interactive workshop introducing you to the fully funded programme, which supports SMEs in the West of England region to develop their digital skills and capabilities.

The session will provide you with an opportunity to hear about the full range of support the programme can offer; experience one of our fully funded workshops from our suite of training you’d have access to; and work with the Digital skills Team to identify your challenges and future digital skills needs to set out further support options we can create for you.
“I have recently registered for the WtfF programme and gone through their initial digital health check process which has identified gaps in our knowledge and led to the development of a tailor-made action plan.I am confident that through this targeted approach the WtiF programme will equip us with the tools to drive forward with our business growth.
“The onboarding process could not have been more simple and the array of courses on offer makes this programme applicable to so many. A great experience so far and highly recommended.”
Jenny Bailey | Chief Executive Officer, Ferryx
Date: Thursday 30th June 2022
Time: 09:45– 12:30 (plus lunch and networking )
Agenda:
09:45 – Arrival and tea/coffee
10:00 – 10:15 – An introduction to the Workforce for the Future Programme and fully funded support you can access from UWE Bristol to support you digital agenda
10:15 – 11:45 – Growing your business through LinkedIn
– Experience one of our bitesize workshops available to any WftF businesses. This session will explore how you can maximise your customer engagement and develop your sales pipeline through LinkedIn, the session will help you gain clarity and confidence to plan, create, publish and promote content on LinkedIn, specifically:
• a framework that relates content to the customer journey approach to marketing & sales, and to your business development goals
• an understanding of how you can exploit the various types and formats of LinkedIn content
• a roadmap to guide your content journey; from entry-level, through intermediate to advanced
11:45 – 12:30 – Mapping out your future digital skills needs – in the final session we will look at what digital skills challenges you are facing to develop future workshops and support opportunities for you to address these.
12:30 – Lunch and networking

The Festival of Sustainable Business Exhibition
2022-06-23 09:30 - 16:00 | Paintworks, Bristol, Bath Rd, Arno's Vale,, Bristol, BS4 3EH
The Festival of Sustainable Business Exhibition will be the go-to place to find out what YOUR business can do to address the climate and ecological emergency.
Find out how sustainability can make business sense for you. Showcasing the innovative education, technologies and services available that will make the 2030 carbon neutrality goal a reality and celebrating businesses leading the way and inspiring the next generation.
The free day is jam-packed full of activities for you to develop your knowledge and network:

Register to attend our free exhibition showcasing interactive sustainability-related products and services at Paintworks
Get inspired by other organisations at the ‘COP Traction on Action’ Talks Stage with YTKO
Visit our interactive Transport Zones to meet transport solution providers and learn how to green your fleet or make your employees’ commute more sustainable.
Enjoy our sustainably sourced lunches in Future Leap’s food space
Refresh and connect with our free tea and coffee area within the City Leap networking zone, meet the leaders of the City Leap partnership who are transitioning Bristol to net zero
Meet Shire Leasing as part of the Festival’s official Sustainable Asset Finance Sponsor

The full event programme is available once you have registered.

Physical Human-Robot Interaction Symposium
2022-06-20 12:00 - 18:00 | Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Coldharbour Lane, T-Block, Bristol, BS16 1QY, United Kingdom
Research Talks and a Networking Lunch on Physical Human-Robot Interaction at BRL
Agenda
Lunch session
12:00 – 14:30 : Networking lunch (Venue TBD)
Afternoon session (BRL Seminar Room)
14:30 – 15:00 : Welcome and Introduction by Tactile Robotics group
15:00 – 15:40 : Invited talk + Q&A
15:40 – 15:55 : Coffee break
15:55 – 16:35 : Invited talk + Q&A
16:35 – 17:15 : Invited talk + Q&A
17:15 – 18:00 : Open discussion

Invited Talks:
Robot Learning for Intelligent Assistants – Georgia Chalvatzaki
Societal factors like the increase in the elderly population, the lack of nursing staff, the hectic rhythms of everyday life, and the Covid-19 pandemic, make the need for intelligent robotic assistants more urgent than ever. This talk covers human activity recognition and understanding; the combination of classical and machine learning methods for robot action planning and control; reinforcement learning methods for adaptive Human-Robot Interaction (HRI); and methods for learning to plan long-horizon tasks.
Control methods for physical human-robot interaction applications – Zoe Doulgeri
Over the last few decades, industrial robots have been widely deployed in the manufacturing industry, relieving workers from repetitive, unhealthy or arduous jobs with their workspace being strictly separated from that of humans for safety. Collaborative robots is a new generation of industrial robots that can work along side and with humans as co-workers or assistants.
Learning Adaptive Motor Skills for Dexterous Manipulation and Grasping – Zhibin (Alex) Li
This talk will focus on machine learning based approaches for achieving autonomous manipulation and grasping capabilities. I will cover the topics of (1) learning reactive reaching and grasping of flying objects; (2) learning bimanual manipulation with direct sim2real transfer; (3) learning from real data of a handful of human demonstrations; and (4) how novel tactile sensors with soft embodiment design can help learning dexterous and fine motor skills without the need of computationally intensive simulations.
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Georgia Chalvatzaki is an Assistant Professor and the research leader of the intelligent robotic systems for assistance (iROSA) group at TU Darmstadt. She received the Emmy Noether grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2021. In iROSA, her team researches the topic of “Robot Learning of Mobile Manipulation for Intelligent Assistance,” investigating novel methods for combined planning and learning to enable mobile manipulator robots to solve complex tasks in house-like environments with the human-in-the-loop of the interaction process.
Lab website: iROSA lab
Zoe Doulgeri is a Professor of Robotics and Control of Manufacturing Systems in the Automation and Robotics Lab of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). She teaches Control Systems and Robotics, and has authored more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.
Her current research interests include the topics of physical human robot interaction, robot teaching and learning by demonstration, bimanual mobile robots, object grasping and manipulation with analytical and data based learning methods and the control of uncertain robotic systems.
Lab website: Automation and Robotics Lab
Zhibin (Alex) Li is an Associate Professor at the University College London and leads the Advanced Robotics Intelligence Laboratory. His work in 2019-2020 – “multi-expert learning of adaptive legged locomotion” – is the first implementation of a multi-expert learning architecture for adaptive quadrupedal locomotion on a real robot (selected as the cover for December 2020 issue of Science Robotics).
His research interest covers dynamic motion skills of locomotion and manipulation, optimization-based motion planning and control, and deep reinforcement learning for robot motor learning including locomotion, manipulation and grasping.
Lab website: Advanced Intelligent Robotics Lab

Nuclear Robotics Symposium
2022-06-16 | Fenswood Farm, Fenswood Farm, Bristol, BS41 9AG
The NNUF Hot Robotics facility is having a symposium on the 16 June at University of Bristol’s Fenswood Farm.
It will be an excellent opportunity to hear about nuclear robotics research and projects, see equipment demonstrations and try out some robots.
Food and beverages will be provided and the symposium will be attended by members of industry, UoB and BRL roboticists and SMEs.
To register your interest and receive more information about the symposium, please sign up to the Hot Robotics mailing list.

Radix Big Tent Ideas Festival Bristol 2022
2022-06-11 | Queen Square, Bristol, Queen Square, Bristol, BS1 4LH
TRANSITIONS
Queen Square, Bristol, BS1 4LH
Sat 11th June 2022 9:30AM
Join conversations on regeneration, net zero, the future of the media and how big data can transform our public services at the annual Radix Big Tent Ideas Festival. Held this year in Bristol at the invitation of Mayor Marvin Rees, the Festival will give you the opportunity to contribute to policies in Bristol, the region and across the country.

Open debates and panel discussions
Dragon’s Den-style events to showcase the best of the West of England
A Speakers’ Corner to make yourself heard
Express yourself on our art wall
Visit our local community fayre
Food and Bar

Radix Big Tent is the platform for independent, constructive, political discussion, innovative and entrepreneurial ideas, and collaborative action to renew and regenerate the UK.
“Fed up with a politics that doesn’t speak for you? Passionate about having a say on the big issues of our times? The Big Tent Ideas Festival is for us.”
– Stephen Fry
Full programme can be found on the Big Tent website here.
Click here to book your tickets.

How can AWS help you increase your revenue?
2022-05-26 16:00 - 17:00
As you may know, being part of Future Space Bristol means you are eligible to exclusive free support from AWS.
You may be familiar with the free AWS credits, or the technical advice, but not that many people know about how AWS help their startup customers grow their revenue. This includes arranging introductions to potential customers via their network, industry networking events, sourcing of sales deals, support with your sales pipeline, among others.
Our point of contact in AWS, Jaime Noain, is running a 1-hour video call to go through the different ways that AWS can help your business grow. Session details:
• Title: How can AWS help you increase your revenue
• When: 26 May, 4pm
• Duration: 1 hour
• Who should attend: B2B startups
• How to join: Please send an email to jnoain@amazon.com with your name and company and he will send you the invite.
This is a fantastic free resource that you have thanks to our collaboration with AWS and it is worth take full advantage of it.
Please feel free to reach out directly to Jaime on jnoain@amazon.com if you have any questions.

Launch Space Welcome Drinks and Pitching Evening
2022-05-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Future Space
Pitches and networking, with Launch Space and Future Space
Agenda

16:00 – Welcome
16:15 – Pitches from Launch Space
17:00 – Open pitches
18:00 – Close

The Future Space community are invited to join for drinks and a chance to see pitches from the old and new cohort of Launch Space… followed by an open mic for anyone else who would like to pitch!
This is an event to welcome the latest cohort to the Launch Space incubator, wish good luck to the previous cohort and give our Future Space members a chance to network and meet the companies.
Please register to confirm your attendance: Launch Space Welcome Drinks and Pitching Evening

Data Science Conference & Career Fair
2022-04-28 09:30 - 16:00 | Watershed Bristol
Women’s Tech Hub is proud to present a one day conference in collaboration with UWE Bristol and a Tech Career fair

About this event

Women’s Tech Hub is proud to present a one day conference in collaboration with UWE Bristol. Rather than it being a conference for people in the field, this is a conference for people interested in Data Science and learning what it’s about, how to get into it and how to transfer into the field.
For Tickets you can choose morning, afternoon or all day for the conference. Please book separately for a dedicated slot to speak to the companies, we will mail you to discuss times. There will be a chance for people attending the conference without career tickets to take any free slots to speak to the companies where possible
The team will be running it on 15-minute intros so if you are looking for work it is worth bringing your CV for the companies – They’ll be introducing you by name and interest only. You get a chance to speak to them about opportunities. This is for anyone looking to get into/return to the industry, get a job, and people just interested in finding out more and speak directly to the companies. They will speak to you and you won’t get ignored which is common in other recruitment fairs.

Workshop: Aerospace and robotic technologies for the wind and solar energy sector
2022-04-28 09:30 - 14:00 | Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Coldharbour Lane, T-Block, Bristol, BS16 1QY, United Kingdom
The workshop “The use of drones and robots for Wind and Solar Operations and Maintenance” will demonstrate new robotic and aerospace technologies and concepts with potential application to Operation & Maintenance tasks of wind and solar energy
This is a singular event organized by the University of West of England (UWE) in collaboration with DURABLE partners. It focuses on novel technologies linked to aerial inspection and manipulation of wind and solar farms, additive manufacturing, non-destructive testing, remote control or augmented reality, which allows improving operation and maintenance technologies and increasing the efficiency and up-time of wind and solar farms.
This workshop will show onsite demonstrations of novel technologies developed in DURABLE, a collaborative European R&D project in which 12 partners have demonstrated improvements such as the automation of inspection and repair tasks or the rapid replacement of parts, reducing costs and improving the productivity of the new plants.
Agenda (Thursday April 28)

09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and introduction to the project (ESTIA: coordinator)
10:00 – 11:30 Presentation of the technologies developed by technical partners

VICE (Virtual Immersive Cockpit Environment): A versatile virtual cockpit to remotely supervise and control a multi-system of heterogeneous vehicles. Patxi Berard (ESTIA)
Non Destructive Inspection of wind turbine blade components and Solar panels based in thermography and electroluminescence. Pablo Lopez (LORTEK)
Trajectory planning for a formation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles inspecting wind turbine. Jesús Capitán (University of Seville)
Ground navigation technologies and ground support for aerial and terrestrial robots inspections. Alberto Vale (Instituto Superior Técnico IST)
Q&A session

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee and networking (location: Future Space Networking Area)
12:00 – 13:00 B2B meetings and end of workshop

Registration
You can secure your place in the event by using this link.
