Gloucestershire Tech Week
Bringing founders, innovators, disruptors, leaders & learners together to turn the county's tech strengths into solutions for society's biggest challenges.
The county's call to action
We are living through an era of radical uncertainty, a world of confrontation, competition and cooperation, in which technology is more crucial than ever. Gloucestershire Tech Week exists to convene the people who can navigate this era: innovators, businesses, investors, universities and government, working side by side around the technologies that will shape both the UK's security and prosperity. Our role is to turn the challenges the country faces into shared opportunities here in Gloucestershire.
The challenges
National context
Seven national challenges drawn from the UK's National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence Review.
Programme
Five days. Seven national challenges. One regional response.
Each day takes a different theme and explores a selection of the national challenges through it.
Gloucestershire has answered national challenges before. This day looks at what that history can teach us now.
Resilience and sovereignty come down to deliberate choices about what we depend on and what happens when it is tested.
Breakthroughs come from approaching problems differently. This day looks at what that means in practice.
The practical questions around AI get far less attention than its potential. They are the ones that decide whether it delivers.
Opportunity is about who and what comes next: new talent, new founders and new ideas. This day looks at where they come from and how we back them.
A portion of all ticket sales will go towards empowering and inspiring the next generation of talent through EmPower, as part of day 5. Want to get involved on the day? Become an industry supporter.
BEYOND THE WEEK
The week is the start, not the point
Everything in the programme comes back to the seven national challenges. They will not be solved in five days. So we have set out twelve ways to act on them after the week ends, from mentoring and building skills to investing and starting something new.