Bath Digital Festival

Bath Digital Festival 2026 - Day 1 is almost here! 🎉 Day 1 is packed. We’re talking networking breakfasts, showcases, and bold talks asking the big questions shaping tech, business and creativity right now. From AI in the workplace to the forces rewriting our future. Tuesday sets the tone for three days of ideas, energy and real conversations across Bath. The South West’s digital community is coming together... Are you in? 👀 Every event is free. All you need to do is register! Register now and plan your perfect Bath Digital Festival!

Bath Digital Festival 2026 - Day 2, Wednesday 20 May! ✨ Day 1 set the tone. Day 2 keeps the momentum going. Another full day of talks, showcases and sessions bringing together the best of the South West’s digital community - with something for everyone, whatever your background or interest. The conversations get deeper, the connections grow, and the ideas keep flowing. Every event is free. Register now and plan your perfect Bath Digital Festival!

What’s happening on Day 3 of Bath Digital Festival 2026? 👀 Take a look at the programme, explore what’s on, and start planning your perfect festival experience 🤩 Whether you want to learn something new, meet the community, or discover fresh perspectives, there’s something waiting for you. Explore the Day 3 programme & register now!

By Thursday, something shifts. ☀️ New connections made. Big questions still spinning. The energy of a week well spent. Bath Digital Festival’s final day goes deep on tech, creativity and digital culture, and ends with a celebration at Newark Works. Here are the sessions we think you’ll enjoy! Start your festival morning right ☕🥐 Coffee, pastries and lively table discussions – our facilitated breakfast kicks off each day of Bath Digital Festival with curiosity and conversation. Rotate through groups, meet the tech community, and spark ideas before the day even begins. Open to anyone in or interested in tech. Sponsored by Fracteura. The final Showcase👀⚡ One last chance to explore what the South West is building - live demos, real innovations, and the people behind them. Don’t miss the closing chapter of Bath Digital Festival’s daily Showcase. Building a team that actually fits your business? There’s a better way. 💡 The traditional hiring model wasn’t designed for the reality most founders are navigating today. Kat Wellum-Kent from Fracteura is bringing the thinking behind The Fractional Revolution white paper into the room – exploring how fractional leadership across finance, HR, sales and marketing is changing the way smart teams are built. For founders ready to rethink the org chart.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ What if the problem isn’t the data? 💡 We have more information than ever, but Sam Knowles thinks we’re asking the wrong question. The founder of Insight Agents sits at the intersection of data, psychology and storytelling, and his argument is simple: it’s the emotional brain that makes decisions, while the rational brain catches up later. An interactive keynote on curiosity, insight, and what that means for the way we work. Bath Digital Festival.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ No GPS. No weather forecasts. No internet. 🛰️ It sounds extreme, but space systems expert Nick Howes thinks it’s more plausible than we’d like to admit. In this session, Nick explores Kessler Syndrome – the cascade of satellite collisions that could make Earth’s orbit unusable, and why it matters far beyond the space industry. Every great festival deserves a proper send-off. 🥂 techSPARK is taking

Bath Digital Festival 2026 is in 3 days!!! 🚀 From 19-21 May, Bath comes alive with ideas, innovation, and the South West tech community.✨ This year’s theme is “What If?” 💡 And we’re ready to explore it together! Talks, workshops, showcases, and conversations that challenge thinking and spark new ideas. It’s almost time… Don’t miss it!

Top Picks for Wednesday at Bath Digital Festival 🤩 Wednesday is the biggest day of the festival, packed with showcases, workshops, big conversations, and headline sessions exploring this year’s theme: What If? 💡 From AI and digital innovation to creativity, gaming, and future thinking, the programme brings together ideas for builders, founders, creatives, and curious minds alike. With so much happening across the day, we’ve rounded up the Wednesday sessions we think are worth adding to your calendar 👀 There’s no better way to start a festival day than over coffee and good conversation ☕🥐 Each morning at Bath Digital Festival, we bring together tech leaders, students and enthusiasts for a relaxed breakfast networking session. New faces, fresh ideas, great vibes. Sponsored by Script IP.​​​​​​ The second Bath Digital Festival Showcase brings together more of the South West’s startups, creatives and technologists to share what they’re building, live demos, early concepts, finished products and everything in between. A relaxed space to discover, connect, and be part of what’s coming next. All welcome.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​✨ The future looks scary. But is it? 🤔 AI taking jobs. Surveillance creeping in. Social media rewiring our brains. The headlines aren’t exactly reassuring. Applied futurist Tom Cheesewright thinks we’re missing the bigger picture, and at Bath Digital Festival, he’s going to show us what it actually looks like. What’s beyond the edge of your map? 🗺️ Most of us stick to what’s familiar, the routines, the rules, the safe patterns. But that’s exactly where Alex Barker from Be More Pirate wants to challenge you. Inspired by the real history of pirates who rewrote the rules of their time, this session is about stepping into the unknown, and what’s waiting on the other side. The South West’s best pitches. One room. 🚀 Silicon Gorge is back - the region’s most established investor pitching event, where early-stage and growth companies compete for their shot at the Showcase. Day two of the semi-finals. 12 spots up for grabs. Healthtech, fintech, VR, sportstech and more. Come watch the region’s best founders in action. Up to a quarter of your digital

Lucy gives us a glimpse into what Bath Digital Festival is all about ✨ From 19th–21st May, join us for 3 days of curiosity, exploration, creativity, and connection - with inspiring talks, interactive experiences, showcases, workshops, and conversations happening across the city. And the best part? All events are free and open to the community 🤩 Have you explored the programme yet?

Come and see us at the @bathdigital for our screening of ‘The Digital Scholar’! TICKETS ARE FREE! So don’t miss out! The film is 25 mins followed by a hosted conversation with Olly and Caroline and the film collaborators, @uniofbath and @universityofbristol Tuesday 19th May, 1.30pm-2.30pm at BRLSI, Queens Square, Bath

Top Picks for Tuesday at Bath Digital Festival 🤩 Tuesday will set the tone for everything that follows. The day moves from a facilitated breakfast designed to spark conversation, through to hands-on workshops, founder sessions, and an evening exploring the future of gaming. With so much happening across the day, we’ve picked out some of the sessions we think you shouldn’t miss 👀 Start your Bath Digital Festival mornings right ☕🥐 Kick off each day with great conversations, pastries, and coffee at our facilitated breakfast. Mix with tech leaders, students, and enthusiasts – rotate through groups, meet loads of people, and spark ideas before the day even begins. Open to anyone in or curious about tech. Tuesday’s breakfast is sponsored by VWV. See what’s being built right now. 👀⚡ The Bath Digital Festival Showcase brings together startups, creatives and technologists to share their latest work – live demos, real conversations, and ideas you won’t find anywhere else. From early concepts to finished products, it’s a front-row seat to the South West’s tech scene. Relaxed, welcoming, and genuinely exciting. What would you do differently if you could start over? 💭 These three founders don’t have to wonder – they’re actually doing it. After building and exiting their first companies, Ruben Portz, Tanya Larsen and Zara Nanu are back for round two, and sharing exactly what’s changed. A candid, must-attend session for anyone in the early stages of building.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Ever wondered what it actually takes to build a games studio? 🎮✨ James Parker did it – and his studio Ground Shatter earned a BAFTA nomination along the way. Join us at Bath Digital Festival as he sits down with Mike Ahyow for a candid conversation about the real journey behind indie game-making. For founders, developers, creatives, and anyone who loves games. Drinks and networking after.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Less than a week to go! Join us Tuesday 19th May at @tcnuk Newark Works as part of @bathdigital where we’ve organised two events 🗣️ Vibe Coding Roundtable Join a conversation about AI building tools, what’s real and what’s hype, and how it is impacting our roles 🛠️ Lovable Buildathon Get hands-on and build a working app or game with @lovable.dev No coding experience needed, and receive 100 free Lovable credits. Big thanks to @amdaris_group for sponsoring the Buildathon 💛 And to @tcnuk for hosting us again! Link to sign up is in bio! #BathDesignSociety #BDS #BathDigitalFestival #VibeCoding #Lovable

Bath Digital Festival is back at Newark Works! (check out our event picks for the week below 👇) We’re excited to be hosting BDF for the third year running, bringing together Bath’s creative, tech, and business communities for three days of ideas, conversations, and connections. Our top picks: 📅 Tuesday ☕ Tuesday Facilitated Breakfast - 8:30 💻 Vibe Coding Buildathon with Lovable - 5:30 📅 Wednesday 🚀 Wednesday Showcase - 9:30 🏆 Silicon Gorge Finals - 5:30 📅 Thursday 🥐 Thursday Facilitated Breakfast - 8:30 🍻 TCNUK x techSPARK Third Thursday Takeover - 5:30 (We’ll link all events in the comments!)

Good storytelling can make or break a business. A great story can change the world. But what on earth is "storytelling"? The latest marketing buzzword? Corporate jargon sprinkled into LinkedIn slop to make it feel like "thought leadership"? Ugh. Humans are lazy and forgetful (not you, of course) but most of all we are gossips. Psychologists call it ‘narrative information bias’: stories are how you get an audience to actually give a sh*t - and remember it later! In this free workshop we ask “What if you told your story, better?” The stories you tell whilst presenting, pitching, podcasting and posting online are the oils used to paint the picture of your business. The world is far more exciting when it’s filled with real stories of real people, tenaciously taking part in something bigger than themselves. In this session you'll learn how to navigate the Hero's Journey, cast your villain, plot a narrative on the 'innovation curve', go from rags to riches, kill God, and live happily ever after. If you’re an innovator, founder, marketer or creator, you’ll leave with a toolkit of tips and tactics to get people invested in the stories you want to tell. Bring a pen, you might want to write some stuff down 🖊️ *** Spaces are limited, book your seat via @bathdigital techspark.co/bdf