Bristol Tech Fair presents ..

Technotopia

As the excitement is growing, we want to share the activities our fantastic exhibitors are preparing, including a creative workshop and 5G Demos with the University of Bristol, A Virtual Reality launchpad with our friends at Rocketmakers, Consequential robotics and Miro-E, a programable Robot Dog, Eco-Bot II a robot powered by dead flies developed by the Bristol BioEnergy Centre, Lego Mindstorm with The Institute of Physics, Thymio robots and Virtual Reality experiences with the University of West of England team and a Cybersecurity workshop with Cybersecurity Associates. More surprises to come!

WISE mini-conference

1100-1200 Session 1: Schools: My Skills App and Role Models by Women in Science and Engineering + The Flying Challenge – Ablaze and Airbus

1200-1300 Session 2: Universities and Colleges: What it means to be BAME in STEM and what it means to be an Ally – University of Bristol Lara Lalemi and Fred

1330-1430 Session 3: Industry and entry: Women Like Me and mentoring Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers, Senior Lecturer – Science Communication Unit and Engineering Design and Mathematics 

 + Frank Water – safe water charity – From networks in UK to Engineers without Borders + RNLI Royal National Lifeboat Institution An historical network of volunteers + designing and engineering lifeboats 

1430-1530 Session 4: Senior Management and Boardrooms: The Women’s Tech Hub Networks and Stories – a community and connector – Helen Farmer/ Serrie Chapman + UWE – Women’s Networks in STEM Dr. Vanda Papafilippou’s Research + Reflection Session Helen Farmer

Tech3Shed Careers Fair

We are almost full now and will start announcing some of the jobs that the companies are looking to fill and a little more on what the sponsors do if you are considering a career in Tech – so keep an eye out for the posts! Check out our JobsBoard to see some of the great Jobs they are looking to discuss – contact us in advance if you want an introduction on info@wthub.org

Workshop Wednesdays

Our Next workshop is this Wednesday the 23rd October and is always open to companies wishing to run workshops and engage in exchange for pizzas!

If you want to practice a talk on an audience, want support to learn, want to run workshops yourselves or want to work on an online course then please mail us on info@wthub.org or speak to us on the evening. Currently, we have the following but are also in talks with another couple of workshop/talk offerings (details are on out networking page) :

Project Rainbow – WTH Supporting Non Profits. 

JavaScript Self-Led Study Group

Python Self-Led Study Group

Self-Study/Co-working

Ceri Newton – Agile in a (pistachio) nutshell: a brief introduction to Agile ways of working

Other Stuff

Bristol + Bath Creative R&D – Digital Placemaking R&D Production Brief

We’re really excited to announce that Bristol+Bath Creative R+D has just launched its first funding round and we are looking to invest £235k in R&D prototypes that demonstrate the potential of new technologies and the future internet to expand and shape our understanding of Digital Placemaking. We are expecting to make two or three awards that could be up to £100k with some smaller investments in response to ideas.

We are looking to fund the research and development of creative products, future platforms, services, large scale production, content or market-ready applications. 

Full details of the brief here: https://bristolbathcreative.org/take-part

The deadline is Mon 18 Nov, 10am. 

If you have any questions about the brief, please do ask the team info@bristolbathcreative.org

Conferences

We advertise any conference details we spot on our conference page – we’ll give you highlights here (our events and ones with offers come first and loudest obviously!)

Bath Digital Festival is on this week – lots of great stuff going on so check out their website for events

Bristol Tech Fair 2019 November the 9th

The ‘networked self’ final dissemination event: Building a network of gende… December the 4th

This Week’s happenings

District 1 – Bristol

Monday the 21st

• Co-Working at Illustrate by Bristol Co-Workers
• The New Western Frontier
• Special Launch Event – ‘The Women Who Built Bristol’
• STEM Accord: linking up STEMLearning, Smallpeice, WISE, D&TA and ERAF

Tuesday the 22nd

• WebDev101 by CodeHub Bristol
• Casual co-working at the Tobacco Factory by Bristol Co-Workers
• Accelerate Digital Marketing Meetup Bristol by Accelerate Digital Marketing Meetup Bristol
• Go(ctober) – OpenAPI and Go 1.13 by golang Bristol++
• DBBUG Autumn Technical Talks and Social by Python DBBUG
• October SW Java Meetup by South West Java & JVM User Group
• Come and have a drink with others interested in Bitcoin! by Bristol Bitcoin: Bristol and South West Bitcoin meetup

Wednesday the 23rd

• Workshop Wednesdays by Women’s Tech Hub ~ Bristol
• Techie Brekkie #11 // Serverless Computing : What are the challenges? by Techie Brekkie Bristol
• Casual Co-working At Prince Street Social by Bristol Co-Workers
• Early success is a terrible teacher – Emyr Williams by ACCU Bristol
• Clojure Study Group by Bristol Clojurians
• Business Showcase South West: 10th Anniversary Event
• The Art of Statistics
• Apollo 50 years on…
• BSSW Workshop: Social Media Strategy – from Google’s Digital Garage
• Scott Logic // AI Coding Challenge (at University of Bristol)
• Bristol Data Science Seminar
• Crash course in causal graphs and causal inference
• RAF LIVE PRESENTATION – University of West England
• IT for Beginners Course

Thursday the 24th

• The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood; Cod by Mark Kurlansky by The Bristol Book Club (sorry – couldn’t resist metioning this as its teh great margaret atwood!)
• Head in the Cloud – The Launch by Head in the Cloud – South West

Friday the 25th

• Silicon Drinkabout Bristol – October by Silicon Drinkabout Bristol
• In:Motion 2019 / 25 years of Bugged Out! with Four Tet by Bristol Electronic Music Meetup

Saturday the 26th

• DAWTA ” A one woman musical exploring identity.”

District 2 – Bath

Wednesday the 23rd

• Professor Richard Joiner: Are we in touch with reality?

Thursday the 24th

• Dept for Health Physiological Society Seminar – Dr Gareth Wallis

Friday the 25th

• The Mysterious Science of Icicles

Did we miss anything?

If you have any events that you want us to mention on our next Blogpost contact us on info@wthub.org. We do try to keep it to free or funded items that our members might relate to.