Sponsors

At Deloitte Digital we’re focused on delivering the positive impact of digital technology to our clients' business. 

Our journey is one of business, technology and creativity that today enables us to imagine, deliver and run the future. We’re proven, and trusted to do this at scale, in partnership with the biggest businesses and brands in the world today. 

And yet, for all we talk about technology and transformation, we know that it’s people who really make it happen. We’re a dedicated team of professionals who are passionate about all things digital.

Deloitte Digital is a bold and innovative part of Deloitte, a professional services and technology consultancy firm delivering audit, tax, risk, financial advisory, and consulting services to all types of businesses and public bodies. Deloitte’s South West team works in the heart of Bristol. Our clients include fast-growing privately owned businesses, multi-nationals, UK corporates, private individuals and the public sector.

At Equal Experts, we help organisations achieve great things – processing millions of transactions per day in government; building top-5 mobile apps for iOS and Android; launching startups with lean, elegant technology and much, much more.

We’re a community of more than 800 experienced consultants (across eight countries, five continents), comprising user researchers, designers, strategic thinkers, product people, BAs, developers, architects, QAs, devops and more – all bound by our shared set of values.

Our network model means experienced, pragmatic people are always invited to join us (even if you’re not looking for an imminent move). Once in the network, you’re part of our community and we’ll keep you informed of new developments and opportunities. When the time is right, we’ll work quickly to find you new challenges – always working with experienced, like-minded practitioners, and helping us achieve even greater things.

IOP Publishing Limited is a society-owned scientific publisher. We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing with a mission to deliver impact, recognition and value to the scientific community. Our digital portfolio includes the IOPscience journals platform and Physics World news site.

We have a 50+ team of engineers and IT professionals of all flavours who are mostly based in our modern offices in central Bristol. Quality of work and life is important to us, so we support a variety of flexible and remote working arrangements. Our technology portfolio is broad covering software development, QA, DevOps, application support and end user computing. There is always something new and interesting going on.

IOPP staff are passionate about technology and delivering excellent services for our customers and each employee. We are committed to building empowered teams, focused on rewarding work in a learning environment.

Made better. Potato designs, develops and launches purposeful and effective digital products. Using rapid validation and iterative product development techniques, our studios in Bristol, London and San Francisco help stop time and energy being wasted while creating happier teams and stakeholders. We work with partners who want to deliver products people will love, and they just happen to be some of the best brands in the world, including Google, Mozilla, Royal Bank of Scotland, Cambridge Audio and the BBC. Potato is part of the AKQA network.

The University of Bristol was founded in 1876 as University College, Bristol. It was the first higher education institution in England to admit women on an equal basis to men.

It is now one of the most popular and successful universities in the UK and was ranked within the top 5% of universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2019.

The University has had a reputation for innovation since its founding. Our research tackles some of the world's most pressing issues in areas as diverse as infection and immunity, human rights, climate change, and cryptography and information security.

We are Quality Without A Name, an initiative of pragmatic practitioners. We train and mentor teams, coach individuals and carry out bespoke development projects. We specialise in agile and lean software development.

Our mission is to bring success to our customers by improving their system development practice. We advise, coach and train management, product owners, project leaders and developers. And we develop software ourselves - above all, we are software developers.