Connect Lancaster — Lancaster's Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Community
Founder · Community initiative

Connecting Lancaster's people, ideas and innovation.

Connect Lancaster is a community platform connecting students, graduates, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses and technology professionals across Lancaster — showcasing talent, creating opportunities and strengthening connections across the city and beyond.

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Our mission

Showcase talent. Create opportunities. Strengthen connections.

Our mission is to strengthen the connections between Lancaster's technology, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and the wider UK technology landscape — giving individuals and organisations a platform to share ideas, build relationships and celebrate innovation.

A platform for the whole ecosystem

Students & graduates

Emerging talent looking to be seen, build networks and find their first opportunities.

Entrepreneurs & innovators

Founders and creators building new ideas and ventures in and around Lancaster.

Businesses & tech professionals

Organisations and practitioners shaping the region's technology and innovation scene.

What we do

Spotlights, interviews, events and initiatives.

Through founder spotlights, interviews, networking events and community initiatives, Connect Lancaster gives individuals and organisations a platform to share ideas, build relationships and celebrate innovation.

Programme

Student & graduate spotlights

Spotlight programmes that showcase emerging talent across Lancaster and help connect it with opportunities.

Series

Founder interviews

Conversations with founders sharing their stories, lessons and ideas with the wider community.

Community

Networking & engagement

Networking events and community engagement initiatives that bring the ecosystem together to build relationships.

NationalUK Tech Week

National programmes

Participation in national technology programmes such as UK Tech Week, linking Lancaster to the wider UK landscape.

Tom Mason, founder of Connect Lancaster, talking with attendees at a networking event
From the founder

Built to celebrate the people behind the ideas.

Lancaster has remarkable talent and ambition. Connect Lancaster exists to make that visible — to give students, founders and businesses a place to be seen, to meet each other, and to plug into the wider UK technology community.

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Common questions

About Connect Lancaster.

What is Connect Lancaster?

Connect Lancaster is a community platform connecting students, graduates, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses and technology professionals across Lancaster. It was founded by Tom Mason to showcase talent, create opportunities and strengthen connections.

Who is Connect Lancaster for?

It is for everyone in Lancaster's technology, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem — from students and graduates to founders, established businesses and tech professionals looking to connect with the wider UK technology landscape.

What does Connect Lancaster do?

Through founder spotlights, interviews, networking events and community initiatives — and participation in national programmes such as UK Tech Week — Connect Lancaster gives individuals and organisations a platform to share ideas, build relationships and celebrate innovation.

Be part of the community.

Explore spotlights, interviews and events, or get involved with Lancaster's growing technology and innovation community.

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