Bristol — Week of 12 Oct 2026

Online Seller UK's full-day Amazon FBA training for professional sellers, in central Bristol.

Join our experts as they share with you their practical knowledge and experience of how to understand DMX and how it works.

Full-afternoon Amazon marketplace masterclass from Online Seller UK — listing optimisation, advertising and international expansion. £300.

A week of introductory quantum computing sessions at the University of Bristol's School of Physics, run by students with IBM Quantum's Qiskit programme. Four sessions: Quantum and Qiskit 101 with Daniel Sierra-Sosa (Catholic University of America), Monday 12 October, 17:00 to 18:00 in the Frank lecture theatre, no prior knowledge assumed; a careers panel with Riverlane, Phasecraft and the Quantum Engineering CDT plus networking, Tuesday 13 October, 17:00 to 19:00; a board games social, Sunday 18 October, 13:00 to 15:00; and a coding workshop, Monday 19 October, 13:00 to 16:00. Free, but the organiser states you must be a University of Bristol student to attend. Why go: Bristol is one of the UK's quantum clusters, and a careers panel with Riverlane and Phasecraft is a direct look at who is hiring. Strictly for UoB students considering quantum.

How do you regulate a ship with no crew? Safeguard Engineering's Jess Morris and Ian Groom MBE walk through current and emerging regulation, legislation and guidance for remotely controlled and autonomous maritime systems, and propose a way to assure their safety without slowing iterative development. Jess Morris is a Graduate Safety Engineer working on large uncrewed surface vessels and subsea programmes; Ian Groom is a former Defence Maritime Regulator. Part of the IMarEST and RINA Western Joint Branch lecture series, 18:15 to 20:30 aboard MV Balmoral, Wapping Road. Free. Why go: autonomy regulation from someone who has sat on the regulator's side, delivered on a working ship in the harbour. Best for robotics, autonomy and defence-tech engineers and founders who will one day have to make a safety case.

Honest, Uplifting, Motivational, Aspirational, Nourishment for the Soul - Join some incredible HUM4NS for an evening of inspiration. Monday 12 October, 19:00 to 22:00, at The Square Club, 15 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HB. Free.

Freelance Mum Netwalk - at Greville Smyth Park and Tobacco Factory, Bristol. Child-friendly networking, for mums in business.

Valuation, cap tables, investor types and dilution — the equity mechanics founders usually learn too late.

Explore your business banking options with a NatWest Business Development Manager. Limited 1:1 appointments available.

This free drop-in session offers a supportive co-working environment, your first drink on us, and access to free business support.

Hi all, This is a free coworking session intended to alleviate the isolation of remote work/WFH! We are a group of freelancers, remote workers and business owners who get together for a chat over coffee, work on our respective projects for a few hours, and then enjoy some more social time at lunch (we will head to St. Nick's food market at 13:00).

A practical workshop on equity funding: the types available, how each works, how to value your business and what investors look for, with real founder case studies and hands-on exercises. Part of NatWest Accelerator's six-part Funding Accelerator series; speaker bios are still to follow. Welcome from 09:30, workshop 10:00 to 12:00, then a break until 12:30, at the NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator, 2 Avon Street. The organiser asks attendees to download the NatWest Accelerator app beforehand and join its Funding group. Free. Why go: a no-cost primer on equity for founders who want to understand the trade-offs before they start a raise. Best for early-stage Bristol founders considering angel or venture investment.

Friday Solved founder Ryan Hall returns to Bristol Creative Industries after a packed-out March keynote, with an end-to-end blueprint for a go-to-market engine. The argument: most founders have a pile of disconnected activity - some outbound, a content push, an inbound trickle - rather than a system. Covers positioning, demand, nurture and closing wired together so each stage makes the next one easier. For founders and anyone with new-business responsibility.

A lunchtime workshop on what investors expect a business to have in place before funding talks begin: the legal and commercial basics, the due-diligence process, and how to prepare at each stage of an investment timeline. Led by Laura Guest and Amelia Roe as part of Future Space's Innovation Forum. Arrival and networking 12:45, information session 13:00, Q&A and practical discussion 13:40, then sandwiches and networking from 14:00. In the Hawking meeting room at Future Space, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford. Free. Why go: diligence is where raises slow down, and this is a focused hour on getting ahead of it. Best for founders planning a raise in the next year, especially those based around Future Space and the UWE campus.

Short one-to-one with an IP barrister on copyright and musicians' rights, at Bristol Central Library.

ISEP and People Planet Pint's Bristol sustainability meetup at the Watershed cafe bar — free, informal, no pitches.

Join us for our Entrepreneurs Circle Local Meeting, where local business owners come together to network, share ideas and support each other

The South West Data community's monthly evening for people who use, learn about or are discovering data technologies, held on the second Tuesday of every month. No talks or agenda, just conversation. Hosted by Gary, 19:00 to 22:00 at the Watershed, 1 Canon's Road: head upstairs to the cafe-bar and look for the group clustered around the peninsula bar, immediately on your right. Free. Why go: a long-running, reliably informal place to meet Bristol's data engineers, analysts and scientists without sitting through slides. Best for newcomers to the city's data scene and anyone hiring or job-hunting in it.

ChamSys one-day MagicQ basic training course on lighting-control software, hosted at Enlightened in Brislington.

Roland DG Intermediate Digital Print Course. Unlock the potential of your Roland printers with our Intermediate Digital Print Course

The Audacity Collective's networking and business workshop with Jo Hodge on winning clients without living in your inbox. £45.

Digital Skills Course Digital Skills Course welcomes Beginners to Improvers, topics include Online, Ai, Emailing, Social Media and Online Safety. 8 Weeks Break for Half Term

Discover a no-pressure, no-hassle, no-egos way to network in Bristol at the SS Great Britain over a fantastic lunch!

October's guided tour of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute and MyWorld facilities.

BioUK and Future Space present the South West Health and Life Sciences Cluster Report, with a panel on what its findings mean for the region and what comes next. Richard Seabrook and Sarah George lead the report showcase and panel Q&A at 18:05; Julian Hamilton-Shield and Gemma Taylor speak for the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre at 18:30; Tom Draper presents the South West Healthcare Centre of Digital Excellence at 18:40; then ten quickfire showcases from emerging entrepreneurs. Arrival from 17:30, drinks, pizza and networking from 19:00, close at 20:00. At Future Space, North Gate, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford. Free for BioUK members, with a nominal fee for non-members. Entrepreneurs can email BioUK to request a quickfire slot. Why go: the region's life-sciences numbers and ten early-stage companies in a single evening. Best for health-tech and biotech founders, and investors mapping the South West cluster.

THE DEVELOPERS NETWORK BRISTOL — hosted by Fairholm Developments Ltd at The Clifton Club in Bristol.

**A brand new initiative from Rebellious Co – a run club for founders, freelancers, and professional rebels.** Established in Bristol in 2013, Rebellious Co has since grown into a global impact organisation, creating initiatives that enable entrepreneurial individuals to connect, share, learn, grow and ultimately enjoy the journey of building something outside the status quo. Community is at the heart of everything we do. And sometimes rebels just gotta run it out.

The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications' 2026 presidential address, delivered by IMA president Dr Heather Tewkesbury to the Southwest and Wales branch, at the University of Bristol's Temple Quarter campus.

Women's Tech Hub's fortnightly open study and careers session.

Two talks on modern BI practice. Microsoft MVP Prathy Kamasani (Data Nova) shows an AI agent building a real Power BI semantic model and report in Microsoft Fabric from a written spec, including a mistake it made, and explains how to brief an agent, set a quality bar and review its output before trusting it. Johnny Winter (Greyskull Analytics) then covers designing star schemas collaboratively with business users so models are fit for self-service. Meet and greet from 18:00, talks at 18:30 and 19:45 with pizza and networking in between, then the pub from 20:30. Hosted and sponsored by recruiter iO Associates at St Bartholomew's House. Free. No photos of attendees. Why go: an honest look at where agentic BI still needs a human, from someone who runs the London Fabric user group. Best for Power BI developers, analytics engineers and data leads.

A hands-on evening on getting real work out of Anthropic's Claude, from Bristol AI Automations' monthly series on what is working in AI automation right now. Drue, who has used Claude day to day for more than three years, gives a practical live demo rather than theory, followed by more examples and Q&A. Arrive and mingle from 18:00, demo from 18:20, break at 18:50, Q&A at 19:30, networking from 20:00. No technical knowledge needed. At DeskLodge House, 2 Redcliffe Way: press the buzzer and ask reception for the AI Automations meetup, as other groups meet there the same night. Free. Why go: a practitioner showing workflows, not slides, for people who use AI tools but suspect they are only scratching the surface. Best for operators, founders and non-developers.

Course spotlight, project roundtable and member tool demos for the Bristol DS/ML study group.

with Oliver Davies (Speaker, PHPSW)

Oliver Davies introduces jj (Jujutsu), a version-control system that works on top of your existing Git repositories and forges but makes rewriting history, splitting commits and undoing mistakes far less painful. He'll show how to work without branches, reshape commits and undo anything, comparing each idea with its Git equivalent so you know where your existing knowledge still applies. The usual PHPSW format: arrive from 18:30 for free food, welcome and community announcements at 19:00, the talk from about 19:05, finish at 20:30, then drinks. Hosted with help from Lamp Bristol at DeskLodge House, Redcliffe Way. Free. Why go: a concrete, Git-literate introduction to a tool many developers are quietly switching to. Best for any developer, PHP or not, who has fought a rebase and lost.

FREE monthly networking group for property investors in Bristol who want to be active in property PDN

ChamSys one-day intermediate MagicQ training course on lighting-control software, hosted at Enlightened in Brislington.

The fourth Durham–Bristol Banking Policy Forum at the University of Bristol Business School — academics and practitioners on where banking regulation is heading.

Knightstone AI masterclass on putting AI to work in a small business, at Almondsbury Interchange.

Half-day for talent and hiring leaders on building teams for what is coming, including how AI is reshaping skills and recruitment.

Hi all, Hi all, This is a free coworking session intended to alleviate the isolation of remote work/WFH! We are a group of freelancers, remote workers and business owners who get together for a chat over coffee, work on our respective projects for a few hours, and then enjoy some more social time at lunch. No obligation to show up at the start of the appointed session time, either - feel free to join whenever, even if just for lunch :) Beacon Loaf is a spacious, airy cafe with good WiFi that makes great coffee, pastries and lunch options.

TALiNT Partners' Bristol lunch and learn for talent leaders on building a future-ready workforce — hiring, skills and the tooling underneath both.

Roland VersaStudio BN-20A, BN2-20/30 Series Course — hosted by Roland DG UK at Dominions House in Bristol.

Thrive Biz Network's supportive morning networking at Goldney House, Chipping Sodbury. £9.50.

eBay Seller Meetups UK's Q4 Bristol session — platform updates, seller tactics and peer troubleshooting for people running marketplace businesses.

Your Partnerships' Connector event at Dings Crusaders RFC — structured introductions across a wide room of local businesses. £6.

Science Creates opens its autumn Deep Tech training series with Alan Furley of ISL Talent on the hire that breaks the founder network: the first commercial lead into a technical business, or a specialist role whose title barely exists. A working session rather than a talk - you leave with a one-page plan covering the capabilities the business needs over the next twelve months and the next significant hire defined properly. Free and open to non-members; a Deep Tech Mixer follows at Bar 1023.

The first of Science Creates' six-weekly Deep Tech Mixers, opening the Old Market incubator's 1023 Bar to founders, early-career researchers, postgraduates and service-sector specialists working across biotech, quantum, materials and AI. Registration is approved by the Science Creates team.

for the FOUNDERS runs a structured business speed-networking evening for Bristol founders and operators.

Repair Acts session at Bristol City Hall on using digital tools and records in the maintenance of cultural and heritage buildings.

Sales Academy's full-day business training at Goldney House on growing a company from startup to scale without the usual sales theatre.

We're an informal meetup group of people who wish to reduce the solitary nature of remote working by gathering at cafes and having casual work sessions together over a cup of tea/coffee. We welcome a diverse range of individuals, including writers, software engineers, designers, students, freelancers and anyone equipped with a laptop to join us. The Watershed cafe bar is a spacious, airy cafe with good WiFi and decent lunch options.

British Somali artist, researcher and Pervasive Media Studio resident Fozia Ismail discusses her work on the multi-sensory installation A Song for the Xeedho - The Knot Makers. Free hybrid Lunchtime Talk at the Studio.

Conversation about electronic waste and emerging approaches to its reduction and management.

A relaxed networking afternoon for Bristol creatives working across film, photography, music, production, events and digital media.

Knowle West Media Centre marks 30 years of community-led digital and creative work with live music, food and a look at the next 30.

For lovers of the urban music icon, the Ghetto blaster: workshop sharing repair research and modifications