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Get informed
Understand the national challenges shaping Gloucestershire's future and how publications such as the latest National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence Review show the landscape is changing.
Beyond the week
So what happens next?
Gloucestershire Tech Week is five days. The seven national challenges it explores will take much longer to address. The week exists to start something, not to be the something.
Get involved
Join the mission
Twelve ways to take part: From learning and connecting to building, investing and backing future talent.
Understand
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Come to an event
Attend sessions throughout GlosTechWeek and meet the people working across technology, cyber, AI, defence and digital innovation.
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Join the network
Connect with founders, employers, researchers, educators, investors, and public-sector partners across the regional ecosystem.
Activate
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Share a challenge
Bring a real problem or opportunity that technology, talent or collaboration could help solve.
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Collaborate
Work with partners across industry, academia, government and the wider community.
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Start a business
Explore how ideas, research or technical capability could become a new venture.
Scale
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Explore new markets
Find opportunities to apply your technology or expertise in defence, security, resilience and critical sectors.
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Strengthen resilience
Improve your organisation's ability to prepare for, withstand and recover from disruption.
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Invest
Support founders, ventures and technologies that could create future regional and national advantage.
Support
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Mentor
Share your experience with startups, students, emerging leaders or organisations developing new ideas.
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Build skills
Support placements, apprenticeships, student projects, training and future workforce development.
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Sponsor research or talent
Back the research, projects, scholarships and talent pathways that help turn potential into capability.
Start here
The week is where these begin.
Come and find the people to do them with.