Celebrate the launch of Innovation@Bath and hear what’s next for innovation along Bath’s riverside.

Innovation@Bath brings together two of Bath’s established business networks: the University of Bath’s Business@Breakfast and SETsquared’s First Thursday. It’s one community now, and it meets at Newark Works in Bath Quays.

Whether you joined us last time or this is your first Innovation@Bath, come along to meet people working on new ideas in the city and find your next useful connection.

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Bath already has what most cities are chasing. World-class research, ambitious companies, a steady flow of talent, and a place people choose to live and work. The question now is how those pieces connect, and what that could mean for businesses of every size.

Work is now under way to bring those strengths together along the riverside, so that businesses, researchers, investors and students can work side by side.

Our panel brings together leaders from business, the built environment, new ventures and tech to explore what Bath needs to thrive over the next decade:

Talent: how the city keeps and attracts the people businesses need

Space: where growing companies will work, meet and make things

Connections: what happens when businesses, researchers and investors work side by side

Opportunity: what’s already under way along the riverside, and where your business fits in

Then the floor is yours. Stay for drinks, nibbles, and networking meet the panel and the people developing the plans, and tell us what would make Bath a better place to grow your business.

Whether you run a start-up, lead an established firm, invest, research, or simply care about the city’s economy, this is the room to be in.

AGENDA

17:30 Arrival and drinks

18:00 Introduction to Innovation@Bath and the evening and welcome from our sponsor, Mogers Drewett LLP

18:10 Building Bath's Innovation District

18:20 From Partnership to Place: Buro Happold × University of Bath with:

Claire Smith, Partner, Buro Happold Engineering

Jon Hunt, Executive Director of Innovation and Enterprise

18:40 Building an Innovation District: The Bigger Opportunity with:

Douglas Ure, CEO, Business West

Claire Smith, Partner, Buro Happold Engineering

Babak Ahmadzadeh, Co-founder, Forma

Richard Pearce, CEO, TCN

Simon Bond. Innovation District, University of Bath

19:00 Q&A

19:15 Nibbles, drinks and time to meet the panel and the people developing the plans.

Please be aware: Places are limited, please apply to attend sooner rather than later to secure your spot.

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