2026
We work closely with entrepreneurs, investors, and high-growth businesses, offering a tailored mix of expertise to help you build a strong foundation for long-term success.
Lifecycle
For ambitious entrepreneurs setting up your own business, our emerging companies team provide comprehensive legal services designed to support high growth businesses and their founders at every stage of their journey. We work closely with entrepreneurs, investors, and high-growth businesses, offering a tailored mix of expertise to help you build a strong foundation for long-term success, from inception to exit.
As your business evolves, our private wealth team often advise founders on the wider family and wealth considerations of business ownership including tax efficient structuring before and after an exit event. We support you with planning what happens after a sale, should you choose philanthropy, or to make the most of new commercial opportunities.
We have the depth of knowledge and flexibility to work with you through mission critical funding rounds, the inevitable regulatory, tax, employment and commercial challenges that come with scaling your business and the expertise that you will need to protect the value that you have created when the time comes to exit.
GREG INGHAM Founder, EntreConf greg.ingham@mediaclash.co.uk
THIS IS ENTRECONF
Entrepreneurs get to define what success means to them.
For some it’s creating societally important products and services. For others it’s about building a business to sell, aiming for a big pay day.
Or doing cool tech stuff. Working with friends or great people. Or solving a problem, or taking on a dozy, legacy competitor. Possibly testing yourself.
Perhaps [pagingMrFreud!] wanting to prove to doubting parents that you really can create something successful.
Or simply wanting personal agency, of not having a boss or, quite possibly, any limiting structure.
Maybe even shoot-for-the-impossible dreaming, like Milton, of “Things unattemptedyetinproseorrhyme”.
Whatever your motivation, we’re sure you’ll find kinship, inspiration and advice at EntreConf.
Welcome to the mindspa…
INSPIRATION AWAITS... KEYNOTES
RICHARD BROWNING
Gravity Industries
Jetpack sci-fi reality
June 17, 10:00-10:40
Taking on gravity. As big as that. Sci-fi becomes reality: jaw-drop, fastgrowth, well-funded Gravity Industries is pioneering jetpack travel.
GUY SINGH-WATSON
Riverford
Pioneering visionary
June 18, 10:55-11:40
Guy Singh-Watson is a pioneer: created one of earliest organic food businesses and B Corps, then sold it to his team. An EntreConf deepdive into values and vision of Riverford.
HELENA HILLS
TrueStart
Dynamic growth
June 17, 14:00-14:30
For clear vision, great values and just blow-away dynamism, come and hear co-founder Helena Hills’ remarkable, inspiring story…
MAXINE LACEBY
Absolute Collagen
From kitchen table to market leader
June 18, 09:30-10:00
Absolute Collagen has become the market leader in a rapidly-growing sector. How? What’s next?
CHLOË LUXTON Bramley
Founder’s clarity in purpose-led brand
June 18, 15:00-15:30
Chloe Luxton has created a purpose-led brand in Bramley and has pioneered sustainability in the retail and hospitality sectors.
ALEX REILLEY Loungers
From £10k to 300+ outlets
June 18, 12:30-13:00
Loungers started with just £10k and a small place in Bris. Now has 300+ sites. How so? Driving force founder
View full bios on the website
ENTREPRENEURS
AMBER PROBYN
Peequal
Female founded, female purpose
BIANCA JONES
EDP Training
Building my own seat at the table
CHRISTIAN SAMUEL
Roots Allotment
Investors as advisors
ED JACKSON & OLLY BARKLEY
Vapoura Rum
Creating a new brand: how, why?
EDDIE BUSTON
Clifton Coffee Roasters
Advice on scaling your company
GRAHAM MACVOY
Wake The Tiger
How to fund ambition
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GRAHAM PATERSON
Jitty
Property start-up backed by Google
RIC HILL
Ghyston
AI: we need to think differently
NATHAN BARANOWSKI
Digital Wonderlab
AI: time to think responsibly
FUNDING PANEL
CATHERINE BEDFORD
Dashel Helmets
JENNIFER WAGNER
LAYBL MARINA TRAVERSARI
Chilled Squirrels
ADVISORS
BURGES SALMON
Claire Withers
Elena Visser Adams
How to incentivise your team
ALBERT GOODMAN
Chris Lewis
Advice on scaling your company
GROWTH PANEL
LUCY COLLINS
Web Usability
MILLY WILSON
Canned Wine Group
ROSE SELLMAN-LEAVA
Inclusive Futures
DOYLE CLAYTON
Akshay Vaghela Garry Karch
Owner’s legacy: EOT considerations
LINK STONE ADVISORY
Richard Spilsbury
Equity vs debt: funding routes
S&W
Iain Lownes Who will buy your business?
UNIVERSITY OF BATH SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Dan Daly Rethinking business for growth
Absolute Collagen
Albert Goodman Alliance Anthem
Apoyo Courses
Arc Global B
Bashra Aesthetics
The Better Brain Company
Bishop Fleming blubolt
The BookCellar
Bramley
Bristol Aztecs
Bristol Creative Industries
Burges Salmon
Business On Purpose C
CAB IT
Canned Wine Company
Cazenove Capital
Charm2Inspire
Chilled Squirrels
Circe
Claritas Tax
Classroom Exit Coach
Clifton Coffee Roasters
Construct D
Dandad
Dashel Helmets
Data Cubed
DAWTA Consultancy
Digital Wonderlab
Doyle Clayton E
Eat a Pitta
The Ecosystem Studio
Edgie Eats
EDP
EDP TRAINING F
FACE IT. FAIR BITE Floresco Floresco Media for the FOUNDERS
Fourth Floor Creative Freelance G
The Gather Co Ghyston
Good Crowd Media
Gravity Industries
Great Western Credit Union
Greaves Brewster
Greenwood Capital H
Hapticity Architects
Harbourside
Corporate Finance
Hazlewoods
Helen Gormley
Wellbeing Coaching and Consultancy
KEY CONTACTS
CONCEPT: greg.ingham@mediaclash.co.uk A
CONTENT: claudia.butler@mediaclash.co.uk
Image Angel
Inclusive Futures
Ink Copywriters
Isio Group
Isio Private Office
Jitty
KASK
Kerr Office Group
Kinrise KPMG
Kudos Performance Consulting L
LAYBL Leadership Together
Let’s Go Wellbeing
Letterbox Parties
Link Stone Advisory Little Green Rooms
Loungers
Lync Wealth Management
MediaClash
Milsted Langdon
Mint. HS
Minuteman Press
Moai Wealth
Mode Consult
MTVA & Co
Mytton Williams
Queen Charlotte of Bath
Quilter Cheviot
Rathbones Group
RBC Brewin Dolphin
Real World Studios
Rengen House
Riverford Organics
Rocketmakers
Nando’s Grocery
Narrated Framed
NatWest
Accelerator
Origin Workspace
Osborne Clarke
Our Media
Ovation Finance
Oxford Summer Courses
PANDEK
PEEQUAL
PerformWell
Performance
PKF Francis Clark
Roots Allotments
S&W
Sage & Elder
Sawbridge Consulting School of Management, University of Bath
SETsquared Partnership
shotGlass Marketing Signable
Splinterworks
Square Works
Stratagem IPM
Strike
Communications
Surveyr
Suzy Slemen
Photography
Talk Club
Tell ‘em Mo
Theatre Royal Bath
Tickd
Translate Cyber
Triodos Bank UK
TrueStart Coffee
Tumelo U
University of Bath
University of Bath, School of Management
Wake The Tiger
WCS Agency
Web Usability
West Country Water Park
The Women’s Wellbeing Club
Yangu Media
Your Eco
Your Future Space
YTL Developments
ZiaBia Events Consultancy
Vapoura Rum
Varn Media
Venner Shipley
Verticular
Verus IT Solutions
Veysel
JUNE 17
09:00 - 09:30 EntreConversations...
09:30 - 09:40 Entrepreneurial thinking
09:40 - 10:00 Provocation: time to think differently
Ric Hill • Ghyston
10:00 - 10:40 Keynote: They promised us jetpacks
Richard Browning • Gravity Industries
10:40 - 11:10 Funder’s story: Galvanising the tiger
Graham MacVoy • Wake The Tiger
11:10 - 11:40 Equity vs debt: which is right for you?
Richard Spilsbury • Link Stone Advisory, Catherine Bedford • Dashel Helmets, Jennifer Wagner • LAYBL, Marina Traversari • Chilled Squirrels
11:40 - 12:00 EntreConversations...
12:00 - 12:30 Do you know who will buy your business?
Iain Lownes • S&W
12:30 - 13:00 Rethinking business for growth
Dan Daly • University of Bath School of Management, Milly Wilson • Canned Wine Group, Rose Sellman-Leava • Inclusive Futures, Lucy Collins • Web Usability
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Keynote: How we created the UK’s fastest-growing coffee brand
Helena Hills • TrueStart Coffee
14:30 - 15:15
Practical advice: How to incentivise your teams?
Claire Withers • Burges Salmon, Elena Visser Adams • Burges Salmon
15:15 - 15:35 Provocation: AI – time to think responsibly
Nathan Baranowski • Digital Wonderlab
15:35 - 16:00 EntreConversations...
16:00 - 16:30 Entrepreneurs’ Tales: A Rum do...
Ed Jackson • Vapoura Rum, Olly Barkley • Vapoura Rum
16:30 - 16:50 Think differently: More than money –investors as advisors
Christian Samuel • Roots Allotments
JUNE 18
09:00 - 09:30 EntreConversations...
09:30 - 10:00
Keynote: From Kitchen table to multi-million pound brand
Maxine Laceby • Absolute Collagen
10:00 - 10:30 Owner’s legacy, Employee Ownership Trusts
Akshay Vaghela • Doyle Clayton, Garry Karch • Doyle Clayton
10:30 - 10:55
10:55 - 11:40
Female founded, female purpose: scaling fast
Amber Probyn • Peequal
Keynote: Visionary entrepreneur, Riverford
Guy Singh-Watson • Riverford
11:40 - 12:05 EntreConversations...
12:05 - 12:30 Entrepreneurs’ Tales: The man taking on Rightmove (and he’s backed by Google)
12:30 - 13:00
Graham Paterson • Jitty
Keynote: From one Bristol café-bar to massive national success
Alex Reilley • Loungers
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Entrepreneurs’ Tales: Building My Own Seat at the Table
Bianca Jones • EDP Training
14:30 - 15:00 Practical advice: How to scale your company
Chris Lewis • Albert Goodman and Eddie Buston • Clifton Coffee Roasters
15:00 - 15:30
Entrepreneurs’ Tales: A clear sense of purpose
Chloë Luxton • Bramley
15:30 - 15:35 EntreConf Awards 2026 Launch
15:35 - 16:00 EntreConversations...
Bringing together deep expertise across strategy, design, technology and AI to guide you through every stage of your digital evolution.
Let’s start the conversation
01225 220 155 hello@digitalwonderlab.com digitalwonderlab.com
After 13 years enabling the Bristol Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, innovation hub Engine Shed will close in December 2026. Join us for the ultimate send-off:
ENGINE SHED
EXTRAVAGANZA
FRIDAY 10 JULY, 14:00 - 20:00
WITH THANKS TO OUR SUPPLIERS...
Absolute Collagen
Bramley
Eat a Pitta
Edgie Eats
The Granary
Loungers
MatterPay
Minuteman Press Bath
Mytton Williams
Narrated Frames
Neuhaus
Red Rocko
shotGlass Marketing
SLX
The Granary
The Positive Planner
TrueStart Coffee
Watershed
Willy’s Apple Cider Vinegar
Summer Dinner
Christian Samuel Founder and CEO - Roots Allotments
Tonight hear the remarkable inside story of CHRISTIAN SAMUEL at a special EntreConf Dinner
Unique, bespoke evening for entrepreneurs: continue the EntreConf conversations
Dinner Partner
HEADLINE PARTNER
DISTINCTIVENESS MATTERS
NOT MUCH POINT IN replicating what’s already out there, just aping standard approaches. (Well, there may be a point. But it’s not very interesting or stretching, is it?)
No, what we try to do with the EntreConf Awards is to reflect the spirit of entrepreneurialism. Of having a go. Of saying, ‘We think this matters
and we hope you do too.”
It’s the biggest single gathering of entrepreneurs in the region – bigger even than a single EntreConf day like today. Some coming in the hope of winning, that most public recognition from respected peers. It’s one thing to believe what you do is good: quite another to have that recognised publicly.
Some are there for the vibe, the kinetic power of being around bright entrepreneurs, as with today.
Others are there for commercial reasons. Entrepreneurs benefit from great advice: it’s a key tenet of EntreConf. (Closely followed by, ‘Advice should be sought early – always’.)
So to have helpful, smart advisers in the
room meeting founders in a unique setting is directly beneficial to both entrepreneurs and professional services. Getting to know new potential clients, building trust, making connections over a convivial dinner in a cool place: few ways finer of developing business. Whether for recognition, connections, value, new relationships or much else, come and join us on October 1…
NOW: Nominations are open NOW II (THE SEQUEL): Commercial opportunities are available NOW III: Tables and tickets are also available JULY 3: Noms close September: Reception for finalists and sponsors (it’s free, too)
OCTOBER 1: EntreConf Awards at Aerospace Museum OCTOBER 1 AT ABOUT 9.03PM ONWARDS: Glory looms… entreconf.com/awards
CONFERENCE PARTNERS
HEADLINE PARTNER
BURGES SALMON is an ambitious, sustainable and inclusive law firm that ensures its clients, people and wider communities flourish. burges-salmon.com
CONTENT PARTNERS
ALBERT GOODMAN has supported businesses for over a century by putting people first. We partner with clients across the South West, offering accountancy, tax, and advisory services to foster growth and opportunity. albertgoodman.co.uk
CAZENOVE CAPITAL is a high-net-worth wealth management division of Schroders, the global investment firm, in the UK. We work with individuals, families, financial advisers, family offices and charities. cazenovecapital.com/en-gb/uk/ wealth-management
DOYLE CLAYTON is an employee-owned workplace law firm offering expert, multidisciplinary advice. Combining specialist knowledge with commercial acumen, it provides clear, pragmatic
ASSOCIATE PARTNERS
Bristol Creative Industries
Claritas Tax
Creative Bath
Digital Wonderlab
Eat a Pitta Floresco
solutions that empower businesses and executives to manage workplace issues confidently and effectively. doyleclayton.co.uk
S&W is a top 10 UK accountancy and advisory firm, supporting entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses nationwide with expert guidance, practical solutions, and deep expertise through every stage of growth. www.swgroup.com
UNIVERSITY OF BATH, SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT is a leading business school delivering innovative research, impactful education and industry engagement, developing responsible leaders and driving positive change in organisations, economies and society.
www.bath.ac.uk/schools/school-ofmanagement
PANEL PARTNER
LINK STONE ADVISORY supports entrepreneurs and business leaders to drive value. It delivers integrated support that draws on senior executive experience and professional expertise with a flexible and collegiate approach. linkstoneadvisory.com
The Founders Playground Legal Tech in the South West
Loudd MatterPay MediaClash
Minuteman Press, Bath
Mytton Williams
Origin Workspace
shotGlass Marketing
Square Works WCS Agency
LEADERSHIP DIALOGUES
@BATH IS READY TO HOST EXCEPTIONAL LINE-UP OF SPEAKERS
Forum
LEADERSHIP DIALOGUES returns to The Forum in Bath for its third consecutive year on Wednesday 1st July 2026
Rooted in the principle of using Leadership as a Force for Good, the event brings together delegates from diverse backgrounds to explore how each of us leads in our own way. Through the five pillars of intentional leadership, attendees will discover practical approaches to driving positive change in everyday situationscreating impact through personal accountability that benefits communities, organisations and society as a whole.
An inspiring line-up of speakers has already been confirmed, including Charles Mindenhall, Co-Founder and CEO of Blenheim Chalcott; Minnie Moll, Chief Executive of the Design Council; Neil Pearse, Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Leadership Practice; Deborah Hale MBE, Founder of Start a Fire and former Head of International Marketing for London; Dr Krish Kandiah OBE, social entrepreneur and broadcaster; Joanne Dewar, fintech social entrepreneur; Victoria Humphries,
“ THROUGH THE FIVE PILLARS OF INTENTIONAL LEADERSHIP, ATTENDEES WILL DISCOVER PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO DRIVING POSITIVE CHANGE IN EVERYDAY SITUATIONS”
adventurer and CEO of the Royal Photographic Society; and host Professor Steve Wyatt. The event provides a dynamic platform for meaningful connection and thoughtprovoking discussion, featuring keynote addresses, expert talks and interactive workshop sessions. Leadership Dialogues 2026 offers a valuable opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and be inspired by a shared vision of purposedriven, values-led leadership. Designed for 300+ delegates, the day combines powerful, story-led presentations from experienced leaders with afternoon breakout workshops. These smaller sessions enable participants to collaborate with peers and, guided by expert facilitators, explore practical ways to create greater impact within their own sectors.
Join us at Leadership Dialogues on Wednesday 1st July 2026 at The Forum in Bath! Individual delegate passes are now available with an add-on option which gives access to a delicious networking lunch catered by Bath Community Kitchen. To learn more and book now, visit www.leadershipdialogues.co.uk.
Scan the QR code or use promo code ENTRECONF10 to receive 10% off your delegate pass’
Wednesday 1st July 2026
Venue: The Bath Forum, Bath, U.K. www.leadershipdialogues.co.uk
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From the EntreConf brand to the brands behind ambitious start-ups and scale-ups, we create identities and communications that help businesses stand out and move forward.
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THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN...
16-17 JUNE, 2027
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