Tech Events at Runway East Bristol Bridge, Bristol

with Elena Hensinger Schien (Speaker, Data Bristol)

Data Bristol and Girl Geek Dinners run a joint evening at Runway East, with talks, pizza and a pub afterwards. Dr Elena Hensinger Schien speaks on data governance in practice inside an SME: the version of governance that has to work without a dedicated team behind it. A second talk at 19:45 was still to be confirmed at the time of listing, as were full speaker bios. Meet and greet from 18:00, first talk from 18:25, pizza and networking at 19:15, social from 20:30. Free. Sponsors include Snap Analytics, Advancing Analytics, Amdaris and iO Associates. The organisers ask attendees not to photograph each other. Why go: governance talks are usually given by people at organisations big enough to have a policy for it, and hearing it from the SME end is more use to most of Bristol. Best for data engineers, analysts and anyone who has been handed data governance as a side task.

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.

with Carl Sargunar (Speaker, umBristol)

Two technical talks for people who build on Umbraco CMS. Carl Sargunar on observability, using telemetry to catch problems before release and to give AI coding agents enough signal to test and diagnose their own work. Busra Sengul compares three approaches to search in Umbraco, putting Examine, Algolia and a custom Azure AI Search integration side by side with live demos. Hosted by the team at Manifesto at Runway East Bristol Bridge on Victoria Street, with Gibe Digital and Rock Solid Knowledge sponsoring. Doors at six, food and drink from 6:15, welcome and news at 6:30, talks from 6:45, finishing at nine. Organised by Nurhak K. and Cat T. Free, and food and drink are provided. Why go: Narrow by design, since this is a CMS-specific room, but the observability talk travels well beyond Umbraco, and it is a reliable way to meet the agencies doing .NET and content platform work in Bristol.

Coffee and co-working for founders and small business owners in Runway East's Bristol startup space. Low-key drop-in format.

Runway East's relaxed monthly morning meet-up at their Bristol Bridge space, bringing together local founders, freelancers and creatives to connect over coffee, share ideas and find new collaborators. A low-key, welcoming way to plug into Bristol's startup community at the start of the day.

Monthly morning meet-up at Runway East's Bristol Bridge location for founders, freelancers, and early-stage operators. A friendly, relaxed way to plug into Bristol's founder community over coffee at one of the city's leading startup coworking spaces.