SPARK Skills Festival & Tech Showcase

SPARK Skills Festival & Tech Showcase is a one-day event gathering large and small technology & digital businesses that are currently recruiting for Tech, Engineering, Digital & Creative roles in the South West of England.

As well as welcoming students and graduates, the event is open to more experienced employees and freelancers including developers, engineers, designers and product managers who are interested to hear what companies are up to in the digital tech cluster.

These companies will be showcasing the latest technologies and available careers, plus the event offers the chance to get hands-on with the amazing tech being produced in the region including Virtual Reality, Robotics and Gaming and to hear talks about emerging tech from experts in their field.

Thanks to our brilliant sponsors JUST EAT (https://www.just-eat.com/)and Actual Experience (https://www.actual-experience.com/), the festival will take place at the Watershed in Bristol city centre with over 40 fantastic Tech & Digital companies taking part.

Some of the companies and organisations exhibiting include Dyson (http://www.dyson.co.uk/community/aboutdyson.aspx), OVO Energy (http://ovoenergy.com/), (https://www.oracle.com/uk/index.html)Ultrahaptics (http://www.ultrahaptics.com/), Altran (http://www.altran.co.uk/), Scott Logic (http://www.scottlogic.com/), Softwire (http://www.softwire.com/landing/bespoke-software-development), Cognisess (http://www.cognisess.com/), Sonocent (https://www.sonocent.com/en/), Develop.Me (https://developme.training/), Playwest (http://playwe.st/), Pervasive Media Studio (http://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/), VRgo (http://www.vrgochair.com/), Wazoku (https://www.wazoku.com/), Cloudfind (https://cloudfindhq.com/), Immediate Media (http://www.immediate.co.uk/), QA Training (https://www.qa.com/), Sword Apak, (http://www.sword-apak.com/) Aviva (http://www.aviva.co.uk/), Cookpad (https://cookpad.com/uk?via=jp), Felinesoft (http://www.felinesoft.com/), Creditcall (https://www.creditcall.com/), Mayden (http://www.mayden.co.uk/), Webgains UK (http://www.webgains.com/), Cloud Heroes (https://www.cloudheroes.com/), Helm 360 (http://www.helm360.com/) and many others.

The exhibition is drop in, so feel free to pop by anytime from 11-4pm to check out what's going on in the cluster - and there are some great talks on Tech and job roles, from the likes of Oracle, (https://www.oracle.com/uk/index.html) JUST EAT, Open Bionics (https://www.openbionics.com/), Memberoo (https://www.memberoo.net/), Yellowdog (https://yellowdog.co/) and more.. so check out the line up here (https://techspark.co/spark-skills-festival/spark-skills-festival-line/).

You will also get the chance to play with some of the great technology coming from the area, including haptic technology, the HTC Vive, Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Hololens, plus the chance to win an Amazon Dot!

TICKETS : To attend the Festival you can grab your Eventbrite ticket here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spark-skills-festival-tickets-27935019395).