A working session on the hire that breaks a founder's network: the first commercial lead into a technical business, or a specialist role whose title barely exists. Most of the…
Date & Time
Thursday 22 October 2026
8:30am
Price
Free
NI
Organiser
New Icon
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About this event
A monthly drop-in conversation about innovation and technology, built around the business problems people in the room are actually stuck on rather than a talk from the front. The October edition runs under the title The AI Reality Check: what businesses have learned from trying AI, and what has not worked.
Dolo Miah of New Icon guides the discussion. Doors open at 8am, the conversation runs 8:30 to 9:30, and there is optional networking until 10am. Breakfast and coffee are provided. No presentation, no sales pitch, and nothing to prepare.
It is capped at eight places, at Runway East, 1 Victoria Street, Redcliffe, BS1 6AA. Paid parking nearby.
Why go: eight people and an hour is small enough to put a real problem on the table and get useful pushback, which a breakfast format rarely allows. Best for founders and technical leads mid-way through an AI project and unsure whether it is working.
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