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Dr. Markas Gilmartin

Dr. Markas Gilmartin, BSC MSC PH.D. CCHEM CBIOL CSCI FRSA FPFS CHARTERED FCSI | CHARTERED FINANCIAL PLANNER | CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER | CHARTERED WEALTH ADVISER – Brewin Dolphin

I started as a scientist, moving through the ranks: BSc, Ph.D., postdoc, and writing peer-reviewed papers. Commerce called, and I began writing patent, grant, and funding propositions for a biotech firm before moving into personal financial planning in 1997. Science and finance are the same thing to me—both aiming to solve complex, real-time problems. Bristol […]

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Sandeep Roy

Sandeep Roy, Advisor & Mentor: Disruptive Growth, Strategic Digital & Business Model Innovation – Innovate2Grow

The current pace of new technology-led change has left classic economy companies vulnerable, but disruption is also a huge borderless opportunity in a world where ultrafast digital connectivity and the information superhighway has democratized innovation. We have a choice. We can view Airbnb as strangling the hotel industry or see it as helping the hospitality

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Briony Phillips

Briony Phillips, Associate Director – Engine Shed

Briony is Associate Director and West of England Scaleup Enabler at Engine Shed. Briony champions the scaleup business ecosystem and helps overcome challenges faced by fast-growth companies such as access to investment. She runs a variety of organisational development projects for Engine Shed. Briony’s career has spanned Deloitte Consulting, Teach First, the Open Data Institute

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Women's Tech Hub - A Social Enterprise Working On Increasing Gender Diversity In The Tech Sector

Women’s Tech Hub – A Social Enterprise Working On Increasing Gender Diversity In The Tech Sector

Women’s Tech Hub is a social enterprise working on increasing gender diversity in the tech sector. We believe there is a want in the industry to ensure there are the skills to enable the industry to thrive, and for that, we believe that diversity is the key. We have over 1000 members in our local

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Watershed - Championing Independent Media Creativity And Emergent Art Forms

Watershed – Championing Independent Media Creativity And Emergent Art Forms

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Watershed opened as ‘Britain’s first Media Centre’ on 7th June 1982 on the first floor of two refurbished Grade II listed sheds on Bristol’s historic harbourside – the same year that Channel 4, the Commodore 64 and Sony’s first CD player also launched. Our aim was to champion independent media creativity and emergent art forms

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The University of Bristol - At the cutting edge of global research

The University of Bristol – At the cutting edge of global research, tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues.

The University of Bristol is at the heart of a rapidly developing innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Bristol. With six faculties and ten research institutes housing 1,800 research staff supporting 25,000 students, the University is at the cutting edge of global research, tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues. Our research creates a positive

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Triple Co Roast - Providing Bristol with sweet coffee with a push to contribute to the community

Triple Co Roast – Providing Bristol with sweet coffee with a push to contribute to the community

Triple Co Roast is an open-access speciality coffee roastery in the heart of the city of Bristol, England. It was founded by local Bristol boy Jo Thompson in early 2015 after he spent two years studying out in California, learning coffee and roasting at home. The mission is triple and always has been. To roast

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Alberto Carvalho

Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent – Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Innovation in education takes the form of rich, powerful, explosive choice. Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools class=”img-responsive”> In education, innovation is about ensuring that today’s students emerge from the educational process with a critical skill set that empowers them to work in diverse teams, enables them to reason through complex issues, and imparts

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Mayor Francis X. Suarez - If we want to create a Miami that’s here forever

Mayor Francis X. Suarez – If we want to create a Miami that’s here forever, and that’s here for everyone, then we’ve got to invest in the kinds of industries that will be around for tomorrow.

Innovation and a knowledge-based economy have to be at the forefront of industry in every city in the world. In Miami, we’re doing as much as possible to foster innovation, starting with the government itself. In the U.S., we’re number one for job creation, for startups, and for small-business growth. We’re number five in the

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Sun & Moon Studio - Producing High-Quality Character Animation

Sun & Moon Studio – Producing High-Quality Character Animation

Sun & Moon is a creative-led, full-service animation studio producing high-quality character animation for broadcast, commercials, games and online. Established 11 years ago by traditionally trained 2D animators Dylan Shipley and Louis Jones, the story of the studio starts with their friendship, when the pair first met at university over 18 years ago. Talented 2D

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Mr B & Friends - Transforming

Mr B & Friends – Transforming, growing and improving businesses through strategic and creative consulting

Mr B & Friends is a brand expertise consultancy. We help our ambitious companies from a range of sectors to transform, grow and improve their businesses through strategic and creative consulting. Mr B & Friends was started by CEO Simon Barbato in 2006. Simon had previously spent two decades working for renowned advertising and marketing

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Innovate2Grow - Hypercharge Growth With Business Model Innovation And Strategic Digital

Innovate2Grow – Hypercharge Growth With Business Model Innovation And Strategic Digital

If you aren’t growing, you are dying. Attention: Progressive businesses, startups & scaleups. Hypercharge growth with business model innovation and strategic digital.   Recently, a social enterprise shop in Sandeep’s hometown just outside Bristol had to shut down. Sharon, the owner, had sold locally sourced arts and crafts from local craftsmen for nearly a decade,

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Cytoseek - Developing Its Artificial Membrane-Binding Protein Technology To Address The Unmet Needs In The Cell Therapy Industry

Cytoseek – Developing Its Artificial Membrane-Binding Protein Technology To Address The Unmet Needs In The Cell Therapy Industry

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Cell therapies represent a new era of living medicines. Stem cells are able to remodel and regenerate tissues, and your immune cells regularly fight-off disease. Current cell therapies face 3 major challenges, though: delivery efficiency, survival, and maintaining function. CytoSeek is developing its artificial membrane-binding protein (AMBP) technology to address the unmet needs in the

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Colston Hall - Completing The Largest Capital Redevelopment Ever To Take Place In The South West Arts Sector

Colston Hall – Completing The Largest Capital Redevelopment Ever To Take Place In The South West Arts Sector

Colston Hall is the largest concert hall in the South West and Bristol’s home of music. Run by the charity, Bristol Music Trust, our audience has been enjoying music here since 1867 and the building remains at the heart of cultural life in the city and wider region. Now we’re breathing new life into the

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Fundsurfer -Tackling The Lack Of Access To Finance For Small To Medium-Sized Companies

Fundsurfer -Tackling The Lack Of Access To Finance For Small To Medium-Sized Companies

In 2014, crowdfunding and alternative finance were at an early stage and it was almost impossible for new businesses to raise funding to start-up, grow, and scale as bank lending had dried up. Oliver Mochizuki, Derek Ahmedzai, and Baraka Zahabian co-founded Fundsurfer as a new crowdfunding and fundraising company to tackle the lack of access

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