SETsquared Tech-Xpo 2026

Ten SETsquared Bristol startups pitch live and compete for a Best Elevator Pitch award voted on by the audience, with a further eight companies exhibiting around the room. Pitching companies include Attacus Acoustics, Heddle, Hidden Signals, MindsetOS, Nimbus Agri-Tech, Novi and Visible Data; exhibitors include Altrix Labs, Builders AI, GlimpseML and Surveyr. Sectors span healthtech to greentech. Published agenda: 18:00 welcome drinks, exhibition and networking; 18:45 welcome speech; 19:00 elevator pitch competition; 19:30 audience voting and interval; 19:40 Best Elevator Pitch award; 19:45 closing remarks and networking; 20:30 close. Organised by SETsquared Bristol, part of Bristol Innovations at the University of Bristol, and sponsored by law firm VWV and IP firm Stratagem. Free, at the Sloane Robinson Building on the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus. Registration closes 30 October. Why go: eighteen named companies in one room with a structured pitch slot is unusually high signal for a free event. Go if you invest, advise or want a current read on what Bristol's incubator pipeline is building.