Leicester Startup Week is a week long celebration of start-ups across the city with events including: ideas workshops to help you find and test a business idea, expert panels with experienced business leaders sharing their tips for success and opportunities to meet investors and learn what it takes to get investment ready.
The third Leicester Startup Week commences on January 25th with a packed diary of events to help startups at all stages of their journey.
If you’re working on or have an idea for an innovative, potentially-scalable business and would like support and advice from other local entrepreneurs then sign-up to some of the events listed below.
Vibe Code Social is a relaxed, practical meetup for people using AI tools
to build apps, websites, automations, workflows, prototypes, side projects,
or ideas they are still figuring out.
https://www.meetup.com/vibecodesocial/events/314703992/?_xtd=gqFyqTIwOTIxMDMzN6Fwo2FwaQ%253D%253D&from=ref
Jonathan O’Brien is the founder of Obrioxia and has been building his own AI agent system to support founder operations, research, planning and business development. Join us as he shares a practical introduction to setting up AI agents that can help founders work more effectively.
Building practical AI agents for founders
Jonathan will introduce how founders can use AI agents to support everyday business tasks, from research and planning to reminders, lead tracking, market scanning and structured decision-making. This session is not about AI hype. It is about showing founders how AI agents can become useful operating support systems when they are given clear roles, boundaries, schedules and repeatable tasks.
Who is this for?
Founders, freelancers and early-stage teams who want to understand how AI agents can support their work.
What is it?
A practical workshop on setting up AI agents for founder productivity, research, automation and daily business operations.
Why are we hosting this?
So founders can move beyond one-off AI prompts and start thinking about repeatable systems that help them save time, stay organised and act on better information.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of what AI agents are, what they can realistically do, where they can go wrong, and how to start designing simple agent workflows for their own business.
Register here - https://AIAgentMasterClass.eventbrite.co.uk
Read MoreAre you a business owner/CEO who’s AI curious, AI hungry, but also a little AI confused?
This 60-minute seminar is your starting point.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/your-blueprint-for-ai-adoption-tickets-1987320865205?aff=oddtdtcreator
Read MoreOur guest speaker is Ian Kerr. He sold his cricket travel company Howzat in 2022 after 17 years in the trade. He's now building Follow On Tours, a specialist sports-travel brokerage designed for a world where AI automates most of the functions.
You'll see 3 founders pitch their startups and network with ~60 of our community members - founders, investors, advisors, etc
We're very grateful to the British Business Bank for supporting this event
The talk starts at 6:30pm, but you're welcome to join us from 5pm
Register here https://SummerMixerIanKerr.eventbrite.co.uk
Read MoreCheck out Leicester Startups new home ground at Canopy, and hear about Leya Luhar's startup journey
Hear Leya Luhar's story as a newly qualified doctor, entrepreneur, and founder of OSCE Toolbox. It's a nationally recognised healthcare education platform used by thousands of UK pharmacy students.