BathSpark #002- Another successful networking evening

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Tom Lewis No Comments

When I first arrived in Bath last year I decided to get to know the local tech community by throwing my own networking evening.  I soon heard that someone else had had the same idea, so we joined forces and the outcome was BathSpark.

We’ve just run our second event on the 24th May, and we had around 100 people turn up, a healthy mix of coders, marketers, entrepreneurs and many others who found it tough to pigeonhole themselves.  This time we hired out upstairs at Revolution Bar, and managed to get sponsorship from the University Innovation Centre, and Gradwells, with which we were able to supply food and drink all evening.

After feedback from our last event that people wanted a little more structure to the evening, we welcomed two speakers- Ryan from Carsonified, and the guys from Lovehoney, two local tech businesses that are success stories in very different ways.  The night went well- I met a ton of new people, the speakers were both enlightening (Ryan) and bonkers (Lovehoney), and due to some cosnervative projections, we ended up with a ton of spare drinks tokens, which meant those who chose to stay late were tasked with drinking heavily to drain the pre-paid bar.

Last I heard, everyone was hitting the cocktails.  I had to leave early unfortuanately, due to baby duties, but I’m pretty sure everyone had a good time, and we’re all looking forward to BathSpark #003, which will be in the Summer (a BBQ possibly?)