On 6th December the ever popular Bristech conference returns to Watershed for a one-day celebration of technology. The “by developers for developers” conference, organised by the people behind the Bristech Meetup group, is looking for people to get involved and speak about tech they’re passionate about.
The conference will be returning with 400+ delegates and 18 speakers. The conference has three streams of technical talks tailored to each of their three tribes; Polyglots, Innovators and The Tech Curious. Ideal talks would be from a relevant and interesting technical topic brought to life by the enthusiasm and knowledge of the speaker through a blend of both theoretical context and hands-on practice.
Nic Hemley (left), one of the organisers said “As engineers, they want to understand better ways of doing things and are adept at sharing knowledge, critiquing differing approaches and team-based collaboration.”
Last time Bristech had a wide range of speakers which included Dyson speaking on their experience of scaling IoT solutions, Dan Fairs’ story of his acquisition by Twitter, Daniel Drozdzewski taking the hype out of Big Data and Tim Kindberg talking about Blockchain for Sceptics. Check out the video below of some of the previous highlights or, for the talks in full, look at the Bristech Youtube channel.
Tim Perry who spoke at the last Bristech conference said “Bristech brings together an amazing community of brilliant speakers and attendees with a top-notch team and a fascinating program. Speaking at Bristech is always a joy, and every talk teaches me something new.”
If you’d like to speak at Bristech 2018 you only have until Sunday September 16th to submit your idea here. You can keep up with all thing Bristech 2018 by following @bristech and checking out #bristech2018 on Twitter.

Ben Shorrock
Ben has been working to help grow tech and digital business for the last decade. He is currently the MD of TechSPARK the Southwest’s network for tech startups and scale ups working with 25,000 people a month to help them recruit, network and raise capital in the UK’s most productive Tech cluster (TechNation 2019). He sits on the boards of the UK Tech Cluster Group, Bristol’s ONce City Economy Board, Tech Swindon, Tech Southwest and is a co-founder of Bristol Tech Festival.
Prior to working for TechSPARK, Ben worked in consultancy with businesses opening new sites internationally. In this role, he helped set up Invest Bristol & Bath and the Netherlands consulate for the north of England.