Who is it for?
Bath Digital Festival brings together a mix of people who don’t usually end up in the same room, and that’s the point. Whether you’re building something new, looking for fresh thinking, testing an idea, or just curious about what’s next, BDF is a platform you can use.
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Events
8:30 AM · Tuesday Breakfast
Sponsored by VWV. Start the day with curiosity and conversation. Coffee, pastries and lively table discussions to spark ideas and connections.
9:30 AM · Tuesday Showcase
Join us at the first Showcase of Bath Digital Festival and explore how technology is shaping the way we think, create, and connect.
10:30 AM · What If We Could Hack the Future of Wellbeing at Work?
This workshop focuses on providing strategies to prevent burnout and increase productivity, creativity and innovation
11:30 AM · What If Every Department Used AI Deliberately?
AI adoption is uneven, informal, and often limited to the more tech-savvy. This session is a practical shift in how everyday work gets done.
1:00 PM · What If We Could Make Sense of the Megatrends?
A session focused on understanding the larger forces shaping technology, business and society.
1:30 PM · What If Teachers Were Replaced With Avatars?!
This includes the screening of a new film, The Digital Scholar (2025), & a hosted conversation with the makers.
2:00 PM · Creating with AI: What Changes, What Stays the Same?
A practical, honest, and highly visual account of three distinct projects.
2:15 PM · What If Finance Powered More Than Money?
How Financial Services Are Enabling Innovation and Regional Growth.
3:00 PM · What If I’d Known That the First Time?
Lessons from Founders Building Again.
3:00 PM · Vibe Coding Roundtable
Join fellow vibe-coders to discuss creative process to move projects past the "wow" factor and bring them to real life products.
3:00 PM · How AI Really Works
There are many mishaps in perceptions people have about AI. This course will show you how AI really works.
3:30 PM · What If You Could Slay a Dragon?
Become a better storyteller in this interactive workshop with Ross & Mac from Watch & Learn Productions
5:30 PM · Vibe coding Buildathlon with Lovable
All you need is an idea. Join us and build and app or game in 3 hours thanks to Lovable's amazing AI coding platform.
6:00 PM · What If You Built an Indie Games Studio?
Challenges, Choices, and Side Quests with Ground Shatter’s James Parker.
Monday - 3:00 PM · AI Skills For Your Future
Bath Digital Festival with Salesforce and University of Bath.
8:30 AM · Wednesday Breakfast
Sponsored by Script IP. Start the day with curiosity and conversation. Coffee, pastries and lively table discussions to spark ideas and connections.
9:30 AM · Wednesday Showcase
Join us at the second Showcase of Bath Digital Festival and explore how technology is shaping the way we think, create, and connect.
11:30 AM · What If Digital Technology Could Open Up Our Heritage?
What role can digital technology play in supporting heritage organisations to extend access to their spaces, collections, and knowledge.
11:30 AM · What If a Quantum Computer Actually Works?
A session exploring what quantum computing could mean in practice and why it matters now.
1:00 PM · Improving Data for Real People in 12 Digits
What If Customer Data was just easier?
1:00 PM · What If the Future Isn't as Grim as the Headlines Suggest?
Applied futurist Tom Cheesewright will take a step back from the daily noise to look at how technology actually evolves.
2:15 PM · What If You Explored the Edges of Your Map?
Just beyond the edges of our map lies freedom, adventure, and new possibility.
2:15 PM · What If You Could Have a Conversation With Your Data?
Most organisations don’t lack data—they lack timely, clear answers when someone asks “what happened?”, “why?”, and “what should we try next?
3:30 PM · What If Gaming Isn't Just Gaming?
A keynote and discussion exploring how esports is structured, how teams develop, and how people perform in competitive digital environments.
3:30 PM · Notes from Your Universe
Join David Sloly for a talk and listening session exploring how sound can reveal hidden patterns and musicality within data drawn from space phenomena.
5:30 PM · Bath Digital Festival Silicon Gorge Finals
Silicon Gorge shines a light on some of the most promising tech businesses in the region.
6:00 PM · Riding The Next Wave of Digital Innovation
Global technology pioneer Dr Jacky Wright explores how we can build a digital future that is responsible, inclusive, and accessible to all.
6:30 PM · What If We Built Digital Experiences that Truly Include Everyone?
A panel on using creative technology to prioritise inclusive design,
Multiple Sessions · Ghost Orchid - immersive audio play
Set in a close-knit rural community in the West of England, Ghost Orchid explores how trauma echoes down the generations of a farming family.
8:30 AM · Thursday Breakfast
Sponsored by Fracteura. Start the day with curiosity and conversation. Coffee, pastries and lively table discussions to spark ideas and connections.
9:30 AM · Thursday Showcase
Join us at the final Showcase of Bath Digital Festival and explore how technology is shaping the way we think, create, and connect.
11:30 AM · What If Your Next Hire Wasn’t a Hire?
Rethinking Team Design with Fractional Leadership.
12:00 AM · Hack Sprint: What If Data Could Speak for Us?
A 180-minute Creative Technology Sprint
1:00 PM · What If Presence Doesn’t Create Collaboration?
What if simply asking people to show up isn’t enough to produce the outcomes you’re expecting?
1:00 PM · What If We Could Make Better Decisions?
A session exploring how data, insight and human judgement combine to shape better decisions.
1:30 PM · What If the Skills Gap Is Actually a Storytelling Gap?
How clearer communication turns expertise into opportunity.
2:15 PM · What If We Lost Access to Space?
Nick Howes explores a scenario many space experts now see as increasingly plausible: The so called "Kessler Syndrome".
2:30 PM · What If the Rules of Gaming Weren’t Just in the Code?
This interactive session explores how law quietly shapes the way games are created, played and experienced.
2:30 PM · What If Accessibility Powered Digital Innovation?
An interactive workshop which challenges that approach and reframes accessibility as a powerful driver of better digital experiences.
3:45 PM · What If We Took Back Control of Tech?
If technology is reshaping how we think, who gets to decide the rules? A TED-style talk and live interview with Jim Morrison.
4:00 PM · Good Journeys: What If the Messy Moments Are the Ones That Matter?
A reflection on user journeys, real experiences and why the imperfect moments often matter most.
5:30 PM · Third Thursday Social: Bath Digital Festival Celebration
Celebrate the festival with the community — drinks, connections and a chance to reflect on the week.
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