What's happening: Week of 20 April 2026
Monthly drinks and networking for Bristol’s freelance creative and digital community, hosted by Bristol Creative Industries. Free for BCI members; £5 + VAT for non-members. One of the best recurring…
A free lunch-and-learn at Engine Shed for founders and innovators navigating intellectual property. Patent Attorneys Oliver Leason and Michael Blake cover how to protect, manage, and commercialise your IP —…
Bristol’s leading AI networking meetup returns to Origin Workspace. Three talks cover building with LLMs, AI productivity tools, and AI’s broader societal impact — followed by pizza, drinks, and genuine…
CodeHub Bristol's twice-monthly hack night — bring a personal project or new idea and code alongside Bristol's developer community at DeskLodge House. All levels welcome; pizza and conversation.
A free lunch-and-learn at Engine Shed for founders and innovators navigating intellectual property. Patent Attorneys Oliver Leason and Michael Blake cover how to protect, manage, and commercialise your IP — practical and actionable for any tech startup or scale-up.
Monthly relaxed co-working jam night for Bristol's indie game and app developers at Replay, a board-game bar on Cheltenham Road. Three hours of pure jam time on personal projects with the community alongside — bring your own laptop.
with Artemis Bear (Researcher, TBC)
Researcher Artemis Bear presents a lunchtime talk on why society should move away from major tech corporations and what realistic alternatives might look like. In-person at Pervasive Media Studio at Watershed, with a simultaneous YouTube livestream. A rare critical-lens event for Bristol's tech community.
The flagship Bristol ecosystem event of the week. A curated after-hours gathering for founders, operators and active investors from across the South West, held immediately after the Britain's Got Startups…
Carl Sargunar (Independent)
Bristol's Umbraco community meet. This month Carl Sargunar brings his 'DDoS My Desk' talk — building a live load-balanced mini-cluster on stage and stress-testing it in real time. Hosted at…
Bristol's Databricks community meet — the first outing of this group at iO Associates in central Bristol. Practical Databricks chat, networking, drinks and pizza for data engineers, analysts, scientists and…
with Carl Sargunar (Speaker, Independent)
Bristol's Umbraco community meet. This month Carl Sargunar brings his 'DDoS My Desk' talk — building a live load-balanced mini-cluster on stage and stress-testing it in real time. Hosted at Gibe Digital in Paintworks, with food and drink. A specific developer niche but a reliable, well-run room with named speakers.
Drop-in clinic at the NatWest Accelerator with Daisy Eckett of the West of England Growth Hub — fully funded regional business support covering planning, finance, marketing, mentor-matching and access to grants. Informal conversation over a cup of tea rather than a pitch-deck session; genuine founder value if you qualify for Growth Hub support.
In-person return of CodeHub Bristol's Python Code Dojo. Teams of 2–4 pair on a community-chosen exercise with more experienced developers supporting newer ones. A friendly, low-pressure way to keep Python skills sharp with the Bristol developer community.