Qi3 is affiliated to several local business networks. Many of these groupings provide useful contacts although there is no need for you to join all of them. Most organisations tend to overlap in their areas of business interest.

Cambridge Network
They hold good events and provide an informative web site.

Cambridge High-tech Association of Small Enterprise
These are small and friendly meetings for start-up companies, micro-businesses and one-man bands. Invited talks every month and a pub meet at the Free Press.

Great Eastern Investment Forum
For serious investors and sharp suits - a place to raise funds.

Enterprise Link
Oriented around high-tech start-ups at St. John's Innovation Centre. Good telephone advice line and links into the Innovation Relay Centre etc.

Cambridge Europe and Technology Club
They hold occasional but good talks.

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
I don't belong to this one, but friends swear by it.

Institute of Physics

Society for Information Displays

International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

Chartered Institute of Marketing