Events

Throughout the year Connecting Bristol and our partner organisations run a range of events where you can learn more about our digital inclusion agenda, Green ICT and connectivity in Bristol.

Connecting Bristol will be at Innovate 2013 in London on 12 March

by Kevin 11/03/2013 in Bristol

We have a stand in the exhibition area, so if you are interested in our broadband infrastructure plans or our smart city programme come by and say hello. More information is available at Innovate 2013.

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Free Event “Making Transparency work for you” 12 March, M Shed, Bristol BS1 4RN

by Kevin 28/02/2013 in Bristol

Local government has broadcast meetings and published documents and open data for some time, but

Does transparency work for you?
Do local authorities, business and community groups make use of open data and reap the full benefits?

This seminar is being organised by the Local Government Association (LGA) and esd-toolkit and promotes the use of local [...]

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Event: Welfare Reform round-table, 1.30pm-4pm, 28 January, City Hall, Bristol, BS1 5TR

by Kevin 17/01/2013 in Bristol

Government reforms to welfare and benefits over the next 12 months will have a major impact on the advice and support needs of Bristol residents.
Bristol City Council, Voscur, and Advice Centres for Avon are running a round table event for all organisations and agencies working with people who may be affected by the changes.
Come and [...]

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Free Event: Digital Bristol Week, 26 January to 1 February.

by Kevin 16/01/2013 in Bristol

One of the largest free programmes of events, workshops and panels ever to be held in Bristol is taking place this January in the form of Digital Bristol Week.
The week-long schedule of networking, training and knowledge exchange for the creative industries is being hosted and produced by the BBC Bristol Partnership.
Each day has a [...]

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Free Event: Connecting Bristol Stakeholder Event, Watershed, 7 Dec, 230pm. Reserve a place now http://tinyurl.com/cqz6sjw

by Kevin 16/11/2012 in Bristol

It’s exciting times for Connecting Bristol. There are lots of major smart and digital initiatives  in the pipeline, such as Gigabit Bristol. This event will explore some of the progress that has been made since we established five years ago in 2007, and begin to set the out the direction for the next five.
Our [...]

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Free Lecture: Smart Grid – Hope or Hype?, 6pm, 29th November, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol University

by Kevin 15/11/2012 in Bristol

Jon Z Bentley, (Partner, Innovation, Energy & Environment and Leader, Smarter Energy, IBM Global Business Services UK & Ireland) will address the characteristics and constituent parts of a smart grid and offer a definition of what should – and should not – be considered.
The lecture will explore the role of smart grids [...]

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Free Event: Accessible Bristol Launch, Council House, Bristol, 615pm, 28th November

by Kevin 15/11/2012 in Bristol

Accessible Bristol is a friendly community of people and organisations who champion inclusion through technology; sharing knowledge, celebrating innovation, and helping to achieve accessibility best practice.
Whether you’re a designer or developer, practitioner or manager, student or professional, want to ask questions or share your knowledge, you’re welcome to attend the groups launch event. [...]

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Event: Air Quality Eggs arriving in Bristol, 22 & 23 October

by Kevin 19/10/2012 in Bristol

Joe Saavedra and Ed Borden founders of the amazing Air Quality Egg project will be in Bristol on Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 October to help deploy thirty “citizen owned” air quality monitors across the city. The Air Quality Egg is a low-cost environmental sensor that has been ‘crowd-funded’ on Kickstarter.
The data is realtime, open [...]

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Lunchtime talk (1pm to 2pm) today at Watershed “Crowd sourcing air quality”

by Kevin 05/10/2012 in Bristol

Damon Rand from Clean Energy Prospector will be introducing the amazing Air Quality Egg project. The Air Quality Egg is a low-cost environmental sensor capable of sensing NO2 and CO2 (and optionally O3, VOC and radiation). The data is realtime, open and published to the Internet for anyone to make use of [...]

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