Bristol — Week of 28 Sep 2026

A networking walk for purpose-led small business owners, founders and freelancers who value nature and meaningful human connection.

The inaugural meeting of the Bristol SME Defence Network at Future Space — a new forum for regional SMEs working in defence and dual-use technology.

We Are Doc Women Bristol session on unconventional routes to getting documentary projects commissioned.

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).

Loans, revenue-based finance and asset finance — what each actually costs, and when debt beats giving away equity.

BESS are increasingly being discussed as part of the transition to low-carbon, resilient and flexible buildings.

A facilitated dinner for female founders on fundraising — smaller and more candid than a panel, by design.

The Clifton Club Business Breakfast series is a Networking Event comprise breakfast, networking and short industry led presentations.

Join us in person for the Elite Club: Q4 Strategic Planning Summit to map out big moves and win the next quarter!

Demo stations, breakfast and coffee, with a demo from PostHog. Deliberately pitched so you can turn up knowing nothing about AI and still get something out of it.

Fortnightly business networking group meeting at The Swan in Thornbury. £10 includes breakfast.

Join a bunch of friendly agency folk for a cuppa and chinwag in Bristol. Come to connect, collaborate and celebrate together.

No speeches, no presentations, no selling — the hosts make introductions and get out of the way. £15 includes a coworking day pass; registration needs host approval.

Genuine networking events in Bristol - no pitches, no speeches. Real coffee, real conversations for founders & small business owners.

Free 60-minute one-to-one with a Business & IP Centre information specialist on your business idea or an intellectual-property question. Held at Bristol Central Library.

Weekly open day in Pervasive Media Studio for producers and people in producing roles — a hot desk, the Studio community and other producers to compare notes with.

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

Meet friendly, ambitious professionals in Bristol over a welcome drink, nibbles and games at Lane7.

Open Space format with Sam Griffiths and Mattsi Jansky: attendees set the agenda and argue out what engineering quality means when AI writes a lot of the code.

UX talks and networking for people improving the experience of technical products and services — the part of design that gets least attention in engineering-led organisations. Hosted at Ghyston.

Bristol's official AWS user group. Agenda still TBC at time of listing — the organisers are calling for speakers.

Women's Tech Hub's fortnightly open study and careers session. All levels, male allies welcome.

Informal evening for indie developers, makers, freelancers and founders — formerly Flutter Bristol, now broader. No fixed talk schedule.

UX for the domains where your users are engineers and specialists, not consumers — industrial systems, scientific software, engineering tools.

Three parts: a spotlight on a free DS/ML course, a project roundtable where members bring their blockers, and member tool demos. Contributors wanted for each slot.

Professor Tilo Burghardt on what happens when computer vision and machine learning are turned on the natural world — wildlife monitoring, what the models actually see, and the questions that follow.

Yours Sincerely on why brands disappear from AI-generated search answers and what to do about it, over brunch at Temple Studios.

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.

Morning business networking in central Bristol run by Network B2B — introductions, idea-sharing and referrals.

Bristol Latte Networking's morning meeting at DeskLodge House — coffee, pastries, best-practice sharing and referrals. £20.

Join us for the South West Expo (Bristol) on 1st October 2026 @ Leigh Court Business Centre, to network, connect & grow!

Open Rights Group Bristol and the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition on how AI and predictive-policing tools are being used by Avon and Somerset Police, the risks as they scale, and what councils and communities can do about it.

Bristol Games Hub expert talk on building an audience for a game beyond the game itself — community, platforms and the long tail.

The group's flagship monthly showcase: local developers bring prototype games and the public plays them and says what is wrong. 18+, bring your own hardware.

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.

A super chill Friday for enjoying a little help, advice or support on your small business website.

Weekly open day in Pervasive Media Studio — grab a hot desk, catch the Lunchtime Talk and get to know the creative-technologies community built around Watershed, UWE and the University of Bristol.

Bristol-based immersive storyteller Dominique Vyborna on building believable characters for immersive work — how a character is written, performed and inhabited when the audience is inside the story.

The Pervasive Media Studio's monthly social and showcase evening, open to anyone: residents show what they are working on and the wider Bristol creative-technology community turns up to talk about it. First Friday of every month.

Lloyds Banking Group's Bristol skills festival for early-career talent, held at its Harbourside hub.

Women-only networking evening for Bristol's creative community at the Tobacco Factory.

Google Developer Group Bristol runs an architecture-first deep dive into production-grade autonomous AI agents, led by Mohammad Alamin. Covers single- vs multi-agent and deterministic orchestration trade-offs, state and memory management, secure enterprise integration with backend APIs and databases, and the production engineering that keeps agents observable, affordable and free of runaway execution loops. Aimed at engineering teams moving past conversational bots.