ChipStart UK @ Bristol: Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing for UK Semiconductor Startups

​ChipStart UK's Q4 2025 semiconductor industry networking event is taking place in Bristol on Thursday 16th October

​We are bringing together the South-West's brightest and best entrepreneurs, industry leaders, investors and startups in Bristol for an afternoon of networking, presentations and discussion. Join us and you will:

• ​Hear from leading UK semiconductor companies

• ​Meet the latest ChipStart UK cohort companies

• ​Be inspired by successful existing chip startups

• ​Learn how new startups can reshape global industries

• ​Meet industry peers from around the country

​Doors open at 1.30pm, with presentations starting at 2.00pm and ending at 5.30pm, followed by networking over drinks.

​Our venue has limited capacity, so numbers are limited. Prior confirmation of registration is essential.

​Event Programme

• ​Cohort #3's twelve hyper-exciting startups

• ​Caroline O'Brien, CEO, ChipStart CSA Catapult

• ​Josh Silverstone, CEO, Hartley Ultrafast

• ​Walter Goodwin, CEO, Fractile

• ​University of Bristol

• ​REWIRE

• ​Further Bristol/South West startups to be announced shortly

• ​Lots of networking