Tech Events by New Icon

A small, deliberately agenda-free breakfast discussion about innovation and technology as they actually land in a business. November's topic is the cost of postponing change: legacy systems, manual workarounds and technical debt, how to tell when a workaround has become a problem, why change stalls, and how to choose what to tackle first. Hosted by Dolo Miah for New Icon, who guides the conversation rather than presenting. The group is capped at eight people. Doors at 08:00, discussion 08:30 to 09:30, with optional networking until 10:00. Breakfast and coffee are provided, at Runway East Bristol Bridge on Victoria Street. Free, with eight places. The organiser states explicitly that there is no presentation and no sales pitch. Why go: eight people around one table is a genuinely different conversation from a room of fifty, and the topic is the unglamorous one most teams avoid. Good for technical leaders and operators carrying old systems.

A monthly drop-in conversation about innovation and technology, built around the business problems people in the room are actually stuck on rather than a talk from the front. The October edition runs under the title The AI Reality Check: what businesses have learned from trying AI, and what has not worked. Dolo Miah of New Icon guides the discussion. Doors open at 8am, the conversation runs 8:30 to 9:30, and there is optional networking until 10am. Breakfast and coffee are provided. No presentation, no sales pitch, and nothing to prepare. It is capped at eight places, at Runway East, 1 Victoria Street, Redcliffe, BS1 6AA. Paid parking nearby. Why go: eight people and an hour is small enough to put a real problem on the table and get useful pushback, which a breakfast format rarely allows. Best for founders and technical leads mid-way through an AI project and unsure whether it is working.

An hour of open conversation about innovation, technology and whatever business problem you walked in with. Drop-in format.