Bristol and the South West
Business networking events in Bristol
Aerospace and defence engineering on one side, a large creative and technology scene on the other, and surprisingly little traffic between them. Which half you are in decides which events are worth your time.
The networking scene here
Temple Quay and the Harbourside carry most of the professional and creative activity, while the engineering employers sit north around Filton and Aztec West. The Bath connection is real and two-way, so the practical catchment is larger than the city, and the better rooms often have people in them who have travelled from the other side of it.
Where business gets done: Temple Quay, Harbourside, Aztec West, Filton and Bristol and Bath Science Park.
Rooms listed here open 14 days before the event, so you can read who is going and decide who you want to meet before you commit the morning. Also covers Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Newport and Chippenham.
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The sectors that show up here
Bristol concentrates these enough that a local room is worth travelling for. Each one networks differently, and the page says how.
Technology and software
Technology is the one sector that largely built its own networking rather than joining anyone else’s. The rooms are communities first, and the…
How these rooms runProfessional and business services
Accountants, consultants, HR, IT support, insurance and advisers of every kind. This is the heartland of structured business networking, and the…
How these rooms runReal estate and property
Property is the most event-heavy sector in British business and the one where the deal flow most obviously travels through personal relationships.…
How these rooms runMarketing, advertising and communications
A sector with unusually high personal mobility, which changes what the network is for. People move agencies every two or three years, so the…
How these rooms runLegal services
A sector that networks mostly with itself, and does so for a specific reason: a firm that does not do a thing needs somewhere to send the work.…
How these rooms runRetail and e-commerce
More founder-led and less regional than most sectors, because a large part of the community formed online and only later started meeting in person.…
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