Bristol Technology Festival to return in October

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Peter Davison

Bristol Technology Festival

The Bristol Technology Festival from techSPARK will return in October, organisers have confirmed.

The festival aims to showcase and support the thriving tech ecosystem in Bristol, which accounts for 36 per cent of the city’s high-growth businesses.

With a mix of tech giants and emerging startups, making it the city with the greatest number of high-growth technology companies in the South West of England, and one of the top 20 performing tech clusters in Europe.

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The event runs from October 9 to 13 over five themed days:

Monday - Science From healthcare and biotechnology to robotics and space exploration, science tech is transforming the way we live and work.
Tuesday - People The theme of people and talent focuses on the individuals who make up the tech industry, as well as the skills and knowledge required to succeed in this field.
Wednesday - Awareness Raising awareness of the risks to our cybersecurity, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of ensuring the security of our digital infrastructure.
Thursday - Resilience The theme of resilience focuses on ensuring the stability and strength of our sector. We will be highlighting risks and the importance of future-proofing our business.
Friday - Knowledge This day provides opportunities for attendees to connect with other professionals, learn about the latest developments and trends, and gain insights into the future of the industry.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.