The Pitch is one of the UK’s biggest startup competitions, giving startups the support to grow and the platform to raise investment.
Attend the Bristol regional final and watch the region’s most exciting startups pitch their idea to a team of top investors. Startups have just 90 seconds to pitch, then our panel of investors will follow up with questions and feedback.
The pitches will be followed by an evening of networking – accompanied by food and drink.
If you’re a local business owner or interested in the city’s startup scene, this event will help you:
– Network with other startups and your local business community
– Meet investors, and learn what they look out for
– Get inspired by awesome founders
Back for another takeover weekend, Cables & Cameras present: INSPIRED – a packed programme of VR workshops, keynote speakers and short film screenings and previews to celebrate home-grown filmmakers of colour from across the country, hosted by Watershed.
With contributions from one of the UK’s most empowering creative teams, Anthony and Teanne Andrews of the award-winning We Are Parable, guiding audiences on how to engage with international events in Black cinema and Somali feminist art collective dhaqan collective presenting the premiere of the acclaimed Somali film The Gravedigger’s Wife; we’ll be hearing from a plethora of exciting names in a packed schedule across a weekend set to explore Black / POC culture and talent both in front of and behind the camera.
Whether you’re an aspiring filmmaker trying to find your path into the industry, a more established creative interested in finding ways to develop your practice or just interested in discovering films by some of the most exciting creative talent out there, there’s something for everyone.
We’re collaborating with market-leading employee wellbeing platform, Loopin, on our very first event in the South West region!
Whether you’re a seasoned tech veteran or just starting out, you are more than welcome to join us.
For this event we’ve got some incredible speakers lined-up who are renowned in the South West tech scene. They will be discussing a range of topics under the theme ‘Humans vs Tech: Building meaningful connections in today’s hybrid world.’ – (check out the full bios below). This includes interactive discussions around building emotionally and physically diverse tech teams, the importance of connecting beyond the screen, the role of tech in today’s hybrid world, and how tech is supporting employee mental health.
The SocialCode events provide a great opportunity to learn and network with like-minded local techies with complimentary drinks and goodies. Loopin has also lined up the local’s favourite Pizzeria, Flour and Ash, so you can enjoy FREE pizza too! What’s more, if you can’t attend this event in person, you can watch it via a Zoom live stream.
Loopin’s Slack-integrated tool helps support employee wellbeing and mental health, through social connection. Loopin aims to prevent trends of stress and burnout by encouraging employees to check-in with their daily mood and emotions, without fear of judgement.
Loopin is generously holding this event at their headquarters in Bristol City Centre, ideally located just a few minutes walk from Bristol Temple Meads.
Doors will be open, and drinks will be available from 5:30pm.
THIS IS A HYBRID INSTALMENT OF THE SOCIALCODE! THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD BOTH IN PERSON AT RUNWAY EAST AND ALSO LIVE STREAMED FOR ANYBODY WHO CHOOSES NOT TO ATTEND THE EVENT IN PERSON.
EVENT LIVESTREAM LINK CONFIRMED 24 HOURS BEFORE EVENT.
Ben Williams and Antony Thompson (He / Him) – Founders of Loopin – From a new era of work to a new age of wellbeing: The importance of sharing emotions.
During this insightful talk, former Royal Marine Commandos, Leadership Coaches, and Loopin Co-Founders, Ben and Antony, will answer questions around:
Julie Main – Master Principal Solution Architect at Qlik – The Importance of Storytelling with Data
From caveman drawings to silent movies, visual storytelling has been used to educate, engage, and motivate audiences for centuries. The digital age, however, has ushered in a new set of tools and technologies that can be used for visual storytelling.
So what makes a ‘good’ story? Julie will be showing you how you can get your insight into your data, collaborate, get the engagement from others and help to support and prompt decision making.
Amy Lobé (She / Her) – Senior Product Designer at Seccl – Empathy – The Access Tool to Accessibility
Amy will be holding an interactive session all about accessibility. In this talk, you will find out how empathy is the most powerful tool and how to build with accessibility in mind.
Using your own devices, you will be allowing yourselves to experience temporary access needs. You’ll be leaving this talk with a new appreciation for how situational, temporary and permanent access needs impact people’s use of your digital products.
This month’s free online Enterprise Nation meet-up for small businesses in Bristol and surrounding areas is on 31 August at 10am.
Come along ready to share a business challenge or need and the always friendly group of founders will come up with solutions!
The event is hosted by freelance journalist Dan Martin, Enterprise Nation’s local leader for Bristol.
‘Discover SETsquared’ is SETsquared Bristol’s open event where you can find out about their award winning business support programme and meet the team. The next event is Wednesday 28 September from 4 – 5 pm and includes a talk from SETsquared Director, Marty Reid, Entrepreneur in Residence, Rick Chapman and a SETsquared alumni company.
Tech founders or aspiring tech entrepreneurs of all levels and backgrounds are welcome to attend.
Would your team benefit from a commitment to learning about and seeding new ways of organising? If so, join my online course 🤗 The first eight cohorts have been full houses, the feedback has been fantastic (NPS score of 90! Over 70 is ‘world class’), and I can’t wait to go again. The feedback scores (out of five) are:
4.9 – I would recommend the course to my colleagues.
4.5 – I better understand psychological safety & what helps to make a great team.
4.5 – I better understand how to give and receive “brain-friendly“ feedback.
4.6 – I better understand the alternatives to traditional decision-making.
4.7 – I feel more comfortable experimenting with new ways of working in my team.
The next New Ways of Working online course starts on October 19 2022 and the sessions run every Wednesday, 14.25 – 16.35 for five weeks, so wrapping up on November 16.
The course objectives are for you to enjoy your job more and to be an even better member of your team. You’ll learn collaboration and leadership skills, how to hold meetings that don’t feel like a chore, and how to make better decisions by quickly seeking and integrating the wisdom of the group. You’ll learn how to give ‘brain-friendly’ feedback, recognise what’s getting in the way of being a great team, and understand the mindset and power dynamics that help or hinder change.
To do this we’ll borrow from the best sources. These include agile, self-management, organisational psychology, and the most progressive companies on the planet. There’s more detail below in the ‘Course overview’ section.
It’s been incredible to be able to help so many people to experiment with new ways of working in so many diverse organisations, which have so far included: The United Nations, universities, Xero, Accenture, BJSS (tech consultancy), Mencap (UK charity), Shelter (UK charity), Haringey Council in London, Mercedes-Benz, Ofwat (UK government department), The Co-operative Group, The Soil Association, Klarna (fintech company), Jetstack (cloud tech company), Sport Wales, plus a US teaching organisation, an Italian marketing consultancy, a US digital consultancy, a UK AI and machine learning company, a digital studio in Belgium, a UK accountancy firm, and a lovely non-profit organisation in Bristol, my home.
– By far one of the most useful, practical, engaging, interesting courses I’ve been on. Hats off to you, super well thought out, from a practical, mental and emotional perspective.
– The experimenting methodology gives me the opportunity to not only “take a course” but actually practising in the “real world”.
– The benefits to the business have been tangible and resulted in me thinking about work in a very different way.
– I loved having another colleague on the course and would totally recommend others try to do the same… I loved the organisation of the course, it all felt incredibly “slick.” … I loved Marks humble approach, he listened to us all intently and was patient with us when we needed more time on certain things.
– The experiments each week really helped me grow my comfort towards experimenting further. They gave me the perspective of how much needs to be a done, and an eye for what might be ‘bite-size’.
– I loved Marks generosity, he clearly spends a lot of time preparing and introduced me to very cool tools that we are now using in the organisation.
– The depth of experience and further research Mark has done to curate bite sized resource for us to cover weekly, in a No. of mediums, was incredibly satisfying to absorb and kept me engaged over the 5 weeks.
– As a facilitator, you do add quite a bit of magic sauce to holding the space, and your curation of materials is unbeatable.
The course is led by me, Mark Eddleston. I’m a new ways of working consultant, coach, facilitator and Founder of Reinventing Work. Since 2015 I’ve been practising new ways of working and synthesising the mountain of information that’s out there. The New Ways of Working course is something of a greatest hits. We’ll fast forward to the trusted, tried and tested patterns that are found in some of the world’s most progressive organisations.
On this course, you’ll be practising and learning all the way. You’ll get better at listening, teamwork, and self-organising. There will be plenty of required pre-work ahead of each weekly meet online when we’ll reflect on this content together. Throughout the course, you will have the chance to ask questions and form a community on Slack. You’ll become familiar with Notion, where course content is shared, and with Focusmate which will help you to get through the content. You’ll also experience Mural and Liberating Structures.
Crucially, each week you will design an experiment that will be implemented in your own team.
You’ll form partnerships with classmates who will help you, hold you accountable to your experiment and be depending on you to do the same for them. Throughout, you’ll be experiencing some of the best collaboration tools and practises out there.
Week 1: Challenges – identify what gets in the way of great work in your team.
Week 2: Teamwork – we’ll uncover the research into what makes a great team.
Week 3: Mindset & Power – this work requires mindset shifts and clarity around power.
Week 4: Feedback – we’ll learn how to give and get more feedback.
Week 5: Decision-making – we explore alternatives to top-down & consensus.
Throughout the course, you will learn progressive meeting structures that you can pop in your pocket, take back to work and use immediately.
Expect practical, interactive and participatory. This isn’t easy work and it isn’t an easy workload. Each week the format looks like this:
Course materials: Before each live session on Wednesday you’ll use Focusmate to work through the course materials (articles, podcasts, talks and tools) shared via Notion. 2-3 hours.
Live session: We’ll discuss and reflect on what stood out from your pre-work, dive deeper into the topic, and figure out how you’ll apply it at work. 2 hours.
Experiment: At the end of each session you’ll have designed an experiment to try out at work that week. This takes place in your workday so timing is your call.
Accountability partnership: Having committed to an experiment you’ll catch up with a course peer to help each other out and hold each other to account. 1 hour.
Retrospection: Each week you’ll be invited to write a quick reflection. 5-10 mins.
So it’s a weekly commitment of at least 6 hours over five weeks. Some, ideally all, of which will take place during work time.
The five-week course begins on Wednesday, 19 October 2022. We meet every Wednesday from 14.25 – 16.35 GMT, wrapping up on 16 November 2022.
*Please note there is also two hours of pre-course work required before our first live session.
This course is for you if you are:
Dissatisfied with traditional ways of working and know that there’s a better way!
A member of a team – the course design is not suitable for those who are not in a team (sorry solo consultants).
Able to attend all five live sessions.
Prepared to experiment with new ways of working each week in your team each week.
Choosing to attend – and haven’t been sent by your boss!
Open-minded – willing to embrace new and uncomfortable ideas.
Committed and ready for a challenge! This is an intensive course – your hard work and active participation are baked into the course design.
Absolutely clear that there is no one size fits all approach for this work.
£1,000 plus VAT – attending alone.
£700 plus VAT – attending with one (or more) colleague/s.
Your New Ways of Working journey will be more impactful if you have colleagues along for the ride, so you are advised (and incentivised) to bring one or two along.
To secure your place double-check the eligibility criteria ☝️ then send a note to confirm ([email protected]) and that’s it, you’re enrolled!
Please note that cohorts are limited to 14 places.
Understanding the psychological drivers of human behaviour is a vast and growing area of academic research, broadly referred to as behavioural science. During this full day workshop we will explore some of the latest research in this area and introduce some of the psychology underpinning customer behaviour in a modern, online world. Whether you have a passion for a specific area of digital marketing, or whether you just want to find out why you prefer Nike trainers to any other brand, there will be something in this session for you.
Areas we intend to cover include:
Join Dr Tom Bowden-Green and colleagues from Bristol Business School for this fully funded (free) introduction to marketing and behavioural science, exclusively for BCI members. Your place at this workshop includes refreshments, lunch and car parking.
This workshop is being delivered by Dr Tom Bowden-Green and colleagues from Bristol Business School UWE Bristol as part of the Digital Skills Project, funded through the West of England Combine Authority’s Workforce for the Future (WftF) programme for eligible businesses*. This taster session for BCI members will introduce you to the type of support you can access to develop your digital skills and provide details on how you can register to attend further digital marketing and digital skills workshops and access the wider programme support available.
*Workforce for the Future is free for small to medium sized businesses and their employees with less than 250 employees, based in the West of England. This includes Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
PLEASE NOTE – this event is now fully booked, however you can still register to be added to the waiting list.
People are bombarded with communications every day. But how do you create memorable comms that cut through the clutter in a world jam-packed with information?
Join Jodi Speight, Founder of The Culture Club, as she shares her top tips for making your communications stand out. Whether it’s your team, your clients or even your colleagues, Jodi will share a few simple and practical tips you can use to make sure your communications will be remembered.
About Jodi
Full of energy and happiest arm-waving in front of a flip chart, The Culture Club’s relationship director Jodi has an in-depth understanding of people and how to motivate them. She loves to get your people engaged and inspired, whether that be working with leadership teams to develop skills or partnering with clients to cut through the noise, stay focused and deliver impactful communications.
> See The Culture Club’s member profile here
> Connect with Jodi on LinkedIn
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
The Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re interested in becoming a member with BCI, you can read about the membership perks here.
Since July 2019 I have been organising a monthly Meetup for BD people in Bristol… it’s a great mix of in-house BD people, business owners responsible for BD, independent consultants, and suppliers of BD related services.
It all started as a solution to the problem of BD being quite a lonely profession, but has become a great resource for learning and collaborating too.
The format is a ’round table’ type discussion, where everyone can contribute, with a maximum number of 15 people attending any given event.
The subject matter is always BD related, and based on the format there is no ‘selling’ or ‘presenting’, just honest discussion and debate and sharing of knowledge.
The events are held online at 9am on the second Wednesday of the month (follow the Eventbrite link below to see more dates).
Since July 2019 I have been organising a monthly Meetup for BD people in Bristol… it’s a great mix of in-house BD people, business owners responsible for BD, independent consultants, and suppliers of BD related services.
It all started as a solution to the problem of BD being quite a lonely profession, but has become a great resource for learning and collaborating too.
The format is a ’round table’ type discussion, where everyone can contribute, with a maximum number of 15 people attending any given event.
The subject matter is always BD related, and based on the format there is no ‘selling’ or ‘presenting’, just honest discussion and debate and sharing of knowledge.
The events are held online at 9am on the second Wednesday of the month (follow the Eventbrite link below to see more dates).
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