Events

Our Business Clinics can help you with the barriers you face, whether it’s marketing, finance, technology, skills, or anything else.

This free workshop will provide practical tools, proven strategies, and key insights to help businesses strengthen their Innovate UK grant applications and improve their chances of securing funding.

Come and join OVIC at the region’s biggest business to business exhibition
taking place at the Southampton Football Club on Thursday 7th May 2026

Write content with the help of AI. This workshop is ideal for small business owners and their teams.

Are your probation processes ready?
With upcoming changes to unfair dismissal protection, employers need to ensure probation reviews are fair, consistent, and well documented from day one.

Anthony Bostock Wellness is pleased to introduce a professional nurse-led workplace health screening service now available at the Ocean Village Innovation Centre (OVIC), helping employees and business professionals gain valuable insight into their cardiovascular health and wellbeing. 

free Monthly Networking for Start Ups and Small Businesses in Southampton.
We are excited to launch a brand- new monthly Wednesday morning networking group here at OVIC.
If you are  growing a business in or around Southampton we would love to welcome you.

Let's build a stronger local business community together.

Our Business Clinics can help you with the barriers you face, whether it’s marketing, finance, technology, skills, or anything else.

FREE TO ATTEND, X3AI event with the University of Southampton Business School, - a day where research meets the real world, and businesses discover what AI can genuinely do for them.

Free Monthly Networking for Start Ups and Small Businesses in Southampton.

A monthly Wednesday morning networking group here at OVIC.

THIS ISN'T A SECTOR SPECIFIC GROUP.

It is designed for start-ups, founders and small business owners