All this week on TechSPARK we’ll be highlighting a few of the events from this year’s all-digital Bristol Tech Festival – just in time for you to sign up for the next day. If you’d like to see all the event hosted each day head to the Bristol Tech Festival website.
Wednesday morning at Bristol Tech Festival
Adopting Space Technology Down Here on Earth: creating solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges
Join Deloitte for an interactive session on GRAVITY Challenge – our global technology innovation program for corporates, entrepreneurs and universities – to design and build solutions to solve real industry, social and environmental problems, using space data and capabilities.
Also on Wednesday morning:
Wednesday afternoon at Bristol Tech Festival
Employee Wellbeing: Now it’s time for it to become a business priority
Organisations can no longer afford to ignore the subject of their employee’s wellbeing. The rate at which people are experiencing burnout and other mental health issues is increasing dramatically.
Employers need to act fast to support their staff. Now more than ever before organisations have the opportunity to not just “do the right thing” but to lead the conversation and become actively engaged in supporting their employees’ wellbeing.
Also on Wednesday afternoon:
Wednesday evening at Bristol Tech Festival
Access to Investment: Raising Series A
In the session Freddie Kalfayan, who is an Associate at London based VC Smedvig Capital, will look at the following key themes around Raising Series A:
- Background on series A investments (size, valuations, timelines)
- Meeting VCs (how to meet, what to include in a deck, how to choose a VC)
- Example of how a series A fund thinks about opportunities
Also on Friday evening:

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