They say good things come in threes and Venturefest Bristol and Bath is no exception. For the third time in as many years, Focal Point has been chosen as the delivery partner for this flagship event; bringing together over 500 businesses, investors and entrepreneurs. Taking place on 17 October, the [...]
Great news! Venturefest Bristol and Bath will be back with a bang in 2017 - and we've been asked to deliver the launch event! Taking place at the brand new Future Space at UWE on February 3, the invitation-only launch will include a seminar programme, investor showcase, Smart City marketplace [...]
Wow - what a few of months it's been. With three events for three clients, including three months working in-house for TSB, it's been a busy time at Focal Point (and a time of lots of threes...). We've been floor planning exhibition layouts for the Business Showcase South West, managing [...]
Its been a busy couple of days for us here. The Business Showcase South West has just finished and by all accounts it was a great event. All 161 exhibition stands were sold, which makes it, I think, the biggest exhibition yet at Ashton Gate Stadium, and the biggest business show [...]
Exciting news! We've been appointed Operations Director for Business Showcase South West 2016! Now in it's third year the showcase has moved to a new venue (Ashton Gate Stadium) and is THE major business event for the South West of England; an event celebrating the best in commerce, innovation, creativity, enterprise and sustainability. The [...]
Check out the promo video from Bristech 2015. A sell-out first year event for the Bristol tech community. Focal Point were employed as freelance event managers for the show and will be supporting their second event in October 2016! The video was produced by Woven Films Bristol. To keep up to [...]
Focal Point were employed as freelance event managers for the first Bristech conference in 2015. It was a sell out event with more than 250 delegates, 18 speakers across 3 streams, and sponsors including IMDb, IBM Cloudant, Scott Logic and others. You can read about the project here. We're really pleased [...]
After a long journey we've made it to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP21 in Paris. We're working on a freelance event management project for Bristol City Council at COP21. Security, as you might imagine, is tight. I've never worked on an event site where security consists of private soldiers in full body armour, [...]