An inspiring close to two incredible days!
#BTLeaderLab #BDFI #Leadership #AI #Innovation @bristoluni.bsky.social
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Today’s presentations bring all that learning together, as they plan ahead for the finale in February 2026.
Excited to see how these pitches capture the innovation and creativity that the BT Leader Lab is all about.
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The team’s pitches have been taken shape since receiving their Challenges in April this year. With inspiration from expert talks and team sessions held with academics at University College London; the University of Cambridge and here at the University of Bristol's BDFI.
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Today, the cohort is pitching their projects to our academic advisory group - showcasing how their ideas have evolved through every session, discussion, and experience.
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🎯 The Grand Finale: Team Pitches at the BT Leader Lab
After two days packed with insight and collaboration, we’ve reached the moment where it all comes together.
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A huge thank you to everyone who joined us - looking forward to an exciting final day!
#BTLeaderLab #BT #BDFI #UniversityofBristol #Leadership #AI @bristoluni.bsky.social
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🌟 BT Leader Lab Dinner! 🌟
Day 1 of BT Leaders Lab wrapped up in style at the iconic M Shed! We were treated to a thought-provoking keynote from Professor Sue Turner, exploring the concept of “leadership by deletion” and how clarity and focus can transform leadership in the age of AI.
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We’re incredibly excited to collaborate with BT on this programme, helping shape the next generation of leaders in digital futures.
Follow along for updates and highlights from the event!
#BTLeaderLab #BT #BDFI #AI #UniversityofBristol #Leadership
20.11.2025 16:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re thrilled to host the BT Leaders Lab here at the Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI), University of Bristol.
Over the next two days, the cohort will:
✅ Hear thought-provoking talks
✅ Tour BDFI’s unique facilities
✅ Dive into team sessions
✅ Pitch their projects to academic experts
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📢 The July newsletter is out! 📢
Read about:
🌍 International Digital Futures Network summer symposium
🏆 Our new building award
🎥 Our new short film
🤖 An update on an aerial robots project
....and much more besides!
Read here 👉 bit.ly/40n0VzJ
17.07.2025 13:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Collage of images from the AI for Good showcase during Bristol Data Week 2025
Highlights from our latest newsletter:
👩💻 Summary of Bristol Data Week 2025
🌦️@gw4alliance.bsky.social AI and Data Science: Climate, Adaption and Net Zero
🤖 Guest seminar by Vassilis Galanos: AI & Hype Studies at @bdfi.bsky.social
Read more here: tinyurl.com/3ysdbsep
13.06.2025 12:01 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Designing EdTech for Equity: a workshop for teachers and developers
📆 Friday 4 July
📍BDFI, 65 Avon Street, Bristol
Open to teachers and EdTech colleagues.
Lunch, certificates of participation and teaching supply cover provided.
Find out more and secure your place 👇
bit.ly/40q5XLz
26.06.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text graphic: Festival of Digital Health, South West England and Wales. 30 June - 4 July 2025
📢 Bookings are now open for the Festival of Digital Health!
The Festival will run from Monday 30 June - Friday 4 July with events taking place in Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. View the full programme here: leap-digital-health-hub.github.io/festival/
Keep reading for some regional highlights 👇
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The image shows two female postgraduate researchers from the Global Majority sitting and discussing topics at a table.The text says:GW4 Connect - Peer Support Programme for Global Majority Postgraduate ResearchersApply by 9 July 2025
Are you a Global Majority postgraduate researcher at a GW4 university?
Applications are now open for the second GW4 Connect Peer Support Programme — a 10-month initiative offering coaching, peer support and space to explore identity, race and research culture.
Apply by 9 July: lnkd.in/e5aAEugt
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Bristol Digital Futures Institute - join us in our mission to disrupt digital futures
Listen directly from our academics, see inside our facilities, and find out what BDFI can do for you.
📽️ Hot off the press! 📽️
Check out the new BDFI short film - hear from our academics about what's happening behind the scenes, and enjoy a peek at our incredible facilities
Watch here 👉 bit.ly/4kqqJ6m
06.03.2025 11:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎨 check out our artworks!
The outcomes of the @bdfi.bsky.social project "Against Digital Fatalism" are now on our website! Together, we've created
* Unwind: a short film about VR hype
* Hololand: a VR game about metaverse and democracy
* Cozy Cloud: a playful prototype crip infrastructure
04.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Our March newsletter is out!
Read more about:
👨🏫 our new academic co-director
📽️ a blog on video streams and sustainability
🌱 seedcorn project outcomes
📢 upcoming events
...and much more besides 👀
Read here 👉 bit.ly/4iH2HCz
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Turing Seminar Series
The Jean Golding Institute's Turing Liaison team are coordinating the 2024-2025 Turing Seminar Series.
Anyone at a loose end on the afternoon of 26th Feb, do come along and talk to me about humanlike AI. @jgibristol.bsky.social @bdfi.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/golding/turi...
13.02.2025 10:02 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
People standing in BDFI’s Reality Emulator - an interactive wrap-around digital space.
Person wearing a tethered augmented reality headset, stood in front of a screen displaying a skeleton.
Our team visited @bdfi.bsky.social to get inspired, dream big and reflect on the future of KWMC! 🤖
We’re so excited to explore how this cutting-edge tech can be shaped with and for local communities... What would you use these facilities for? 👀
18.02.2025 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to our latest joiners! 👏
Raul Santos-Rodriguez has started as new academic co-director at BDFI.
Ning Wang joins BDFI as Professor of Energy Efficient Telecommunication Networks.
Great to have you both on board!
Read more: bit.ly/417WXeQ
10.02.2025 13:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌟 Welcome to CHET!
We are thrilled to welcome Daniel Neyland as a new Associate.
Daniel is co-director of the @bdfi.bsky.social Bristol Digital Futures Institute.
🔗Explore his profile: chet.bristol.ac.uk/our-people/a...
07.02.2025 10:31 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Hear from BDFI's @melgregg.bsky.social in her guest article for @bristol-innov.bsky.social, about her time at Intel and the impact of culture on innovation 🤔
30.01.2025 11:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hello Bluesky 👋 we have joined the movement! Like many others, here at BDFI we have chosen to leave X and seek pastures new. We look forward to interacting here in a more positive and constructive community 🌍
27.01.2025 10:30 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Top 10 UK Uni 📚 Leading research 🔬 World-class teaching 👩🎓 Vibrant city 🙌 Ranked 51st in the 🌍 (World University Rankings 2026) #WeAreBristolUni
bristol.ac.uk
Interdisciplinary health research institute at the University of Bristol. We drive innovation in research to improve health for all.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/blackwell/
An University of Bristol Institute for creativity, compassion, and co-created research.
Nurturing transformative partnerships from ideas to impact.
https://linktr.ee/hellobrigstow
Interdisciplinary Professor and Director of Brigstow Institute, Bristol: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/ championing co-produced, arts-based research. Sociodigital futures of care: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/centres/sociodigital-futures/
Professor of World Politics, University of Bristol. Research and practice on locally led sustainable development. Honoured by my Somali nickname 'Warsame'
We are the University of Bristol's catalyst for innovation. We offer innovation-led businesses access to cutting edge research, technology and talent and help our researchers translate discoveries into real-world impact. bristol.ac.uk/bristol-innovations
Lecturer in Education and Digital Technologies, School of Education, University of Bristol https://t.co/QnySq9lAPt
Interdisciplinary environmental research and education community at the University of Bristol. Food security, water, low carbon energy, city futures, environmental change, natural hazards & disaster risk, climate change & health. www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot
Lecturer in Digital Futures @Bristol Digital Futures Institute // Sociology @University of Bristol. Socio-tech takes on #webarchives, data+society is my jam. I guess I'm on Bluesky now too.
Professor of European Politics at University of Bristol |
#EUForeignPolicy #security #conflict #peacebuilding #diplomacy | Editor, Journal of European Integration | Vice-Chair of SGEU | RTs ≠ endorsement | views mine not employer's
Lecturer in Digital Futures at the University of Bristol (Bristol Digital Futures Institute) and co-director of the #BristolDigitalGameLab
Senior Lecturer Policy Studies, University of Bristol, co-editor @policy-politics.bsky.social, Co-President UCU Bristol, research climate change activism, criminalisation of protest, civil disobedience, critical political economy
Lecturer in Law. Co-Director, Centre for Law at Work, University of Bristol School of Law. 🇨🇱 en 🇬🇧
Papá, marido. Views my own.
Head of Selva lab at the University of Bristol: https://www.selvalab.org
Inordinate fondness for trees and lasers 🌳 🛰️
Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance, University of Bristol. Interested in sustainability and law and the interactions between corporate law and employment and labour law. Also interested in politics, art, music, science - everything really 😊
Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work.
some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Professor of Climate Science | University of Bristol | Joint Met Office Chair | Alan Turing Fellow | Leading the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment on Health and Wellbeing | IPCC AR6 | extreme weather & impacts
Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own.
Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my!
Video games on easy mode.
Eclectic music tastes.
He/Him, cishet, jaded.
Punch up, not down. Bigots begone.
