I had hosted the author Dr Helen Fry as part of a Bournemouth book festival back in 2018, and it was a pleasure to see her again speaking at “re:connect lite” event at the BattleLab. Although she only spoke for 30 minutes, we could have sat engrossed for hours. This is just a little video […]
I’ve known of Cunning Running Software Ltd before the BattleLab was built at the Dorset Innovation Park and they were one of the first people I showed around when the workshop hangar was up. They were then onboarded into the D3IP ecosystem as partners, ready to gain sight of MOD client challenges as they come […]
Given some of the supporting work my business does for the Defence BattleLab on the Dorset Innovation Park, I had been looking to make a connection with NATO DIANA. In fact, the BattleLab is also a test centre for that programme. DIANA stands for Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic, and is an organisation […]
26 – 27 September 2024, London. We’re all Mission Partners in the resilience of our country. (This summary is more for those in my network that aren’t deep into the Defence and Intelligence space, so serves as my personal lightweight take on a recent event I went to. I found it useful to better understand […]
This was a slightly different interview in that I wasn’t interviewing one innovation centre, one manager of that place, I was speaking to Andrew Roughan, the CEO of Plexal. Plexal is a company that manages many innovation centres and co-working spaces around the UK, such as in London, Manchester and Cheltenham. In rewatching the video […]
A quick observation from my visit to Cambridge I’ve been to Cambridge twice previously. Once for a mini-break meeting friends and another time for a wedding that happened to be in one of the college halls. This visit, during Cambridge Tech Week, was the first time for anything work related. I had already been trying […]