Bristol — Week of 14 Sep 2026

First in the NatWest Accelerator's funding series: how to finance growth without handing over control of your company. Practical workshop for founders weighing their options.

Full-day practical training on Amazon PPC advertising and marketplace SEO from Online Seller UK, aimed at e-commerce operators and digital marketers.

Generalist World's Bristol edition of International Generalist Day — a day of talks and open networking for multi-skilled professionals whose careers span several disciplines.

The Marketing Meetup brings its deliberately low-pressure format to Bristol — talks from 18:30, open networking from 19:15, refreshments throughout. Pay what you like, £5 to £50.

A panel on raising money as a neurodivergent founder — how investors read you, and which parts of the process quietly filter people out. Part of the accelerator's Catalyst series.

Three talks on applied AI — building with LLMs, AI for personal productivity, and where the whole thing is heading — then pizza, drinks and networking. Part of the international Mindstone network.

Bristol's Umbraco user group meets for talks including headless publishing with Umbraco, hosted this month by agency Bump. Free — ignore any upsells at registration.

Noel Tovey-Grindlay on orchestrating multi-agent AI systems and the harness he built for it, Project Clyde, plus a walkthrough of WebMCP. Demo-led, for people actually shipping agents.

Women's Tech Hub's fortnightly open session — study, work through a tutorial, or talk careers with people further along. All levels, male allies welcome.

The group picks an ML topic and builds a proof of concept together on the night. Hands-on rather than lecture format, and genuinely open to beginners.

Adam Coburn, Art Director at Brain Rack Games, on how large 3D environments actually get built — drawing on Human Fall Flat, I Am Dead and Dangerous Golf.

Blueqix masterclass taking founders from an AI product idea through to launch. Venue is confirmed to ticket-holders.

Bristol life-sciences evening: Dr Stephen Falk on new cancer outcomes, followed by Andrew Wibberley on ISLA, an AI tool for improving application quality.

Two decades of creative and brand strategy distilled into a lunchtime talk, aimed at agency and in-house creative teams.

Two talks from the Bristol Fabric & Power BI user group — “Who's downloading your data?” on tenant auditing, and “BI Buddy”, an AI assistant for report users. Hosted at Ecosurety.

Three ways to give Copilot in Excel persistent context — personalisation, skills and rules — so you stop retyping the same prompts. Online session, not in person.

The South West chapter of the UK Dynamics 365 and Power Platform user group. Opens with Adrian Cole and Neil Rowlands on what architects and consultants are still for once AI gathers requirements and writes the code. Food provided.

A practical run through the threats that actually hit small South West businesses and the baseline controls that stop most of them. Vendor-hosted briefing.

No talks, no agenda — a straightforward drinks social for Bristol tech people. Drinks provided by the organiser.

Informal evening networking for Bristol's audio, music-tech and media production community at WILDHeart on Stokes Croft.

Google trainers run a free drop-in pop-up on using AI day to day at work — practical prompts, tools and time-savers for small businesses.