Tech Events by Future Space

A free startup-focused SOLIDWORKS session at Future Space: a full mechanical design workflow demo, an overview of CAD data management and simulation, a hands-on session, Q&A with the technical team and lunch, plus the SOLIDWORKS for Startups programme for eligible companies. Hawking meeting room, 09:00 to 14:00. Places limited.

An hour with IAAPS, the University of Bath's propulsion and automotive research centre, on using simulation and system modelling to test an idea before building the hardware. The pitch is evaluating concepts earlier, cutting development risk, and having evidence for funders and customers that does not depend on a physical prototype existing yet. Worked examples of comparing concepts, understanding real-world performance and building a case for investment. Aimed at founders and technology businesses developing new products, systems or technologies. In the Hawking meeting room at Future Space, UWE North Gate, Filton Road. Free. Why go: digital engineering is the kind of capability regional manufacturers are entitled to use and mostly do not know is there. Worth an hour if you are building anything physical and burning money on prototypes.

Future Space puts one resident company on stage per edition, with founder insight, the behind-the-scenes story and a live product demo. This one spotlights Ferryx, a health-tech company developing a next generation of probiotics for chronic gut conditions. Its product Ferrocalm is described as the first probiotic designed to work during stress or an IBS flare-up, when conventional probiotics struggle; Future Space cites consumer trials in which 76 percent reported improvement in key IBS symptoms within eight weeks and 88 percent would take it again. Run by Future Space, the high-tech incubator on the UWE Bristol campus, as the evolution of its Beer and Pizza nights. 16:00 to 18:00, deliberately relaxed, with beer, pizza and networking around the talk. No individual speakers are named beyond the Ferryx team. Free to attend. Why go: a rare chance to hear a research-born life sciences company explain the commercial path out of the lab, demo included. Best for deeptech and health founders, and for anyone tracking what comes out of UWE.

A one-hour working session on AI Optimisation and Generative Engine Optimisation: how models such as ChatGPT and Google's AI Overview decide what to say about a company, what part earned media plays in that, and what you can change. You audit your own AI visibility in the room, find gaps and quick wins, and leave with three actions. Part of Future Space's Innovation Forum series, 12:00 to 13:00, face to face and interactive. The listing frames the content around media coverage, thought leadership, content structure and digital PR, and carries a profile of Purplefish, a Bristol technology PR agency; no individual presenter is named. Free, at Future Space, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, BS34 8RB, on the UWE campus north of the city. Why go: a short, practical slot for marketers and founders who have watched organic search traffic fall and want to see where they actually stand inside AI answers. Read the PR framing as a point of view, not neutral ground.

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.

Future Space's agri-tech cluster meetup — regional growers, researchers and startups working on technology for food and farming.